Transport Safely

CAUTION: Keep away from overhead power lines to avoid serious injury or death to yourself or someone else. Know the transport height of your machine.

CAUTION: To avoid severe injury or death to you or someone else:

• Keep all persons away from machine when raising and lowering wings. Always locate machine on level ground when raising and lowering wings. Never raise or lower wings when moving.
• To improve stability when traveling through the field, wings are unfolded from transport position as soon as possible after leaving the roadway.

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CAUTION: Prevent collisions between motorists and slow moving equipment on public roads. Frequently check for traffic from the rear, especially in turns, and use the turn signals. Always use the flashing warning lights, day, and night, when transporting on a public roadway. Keep reflective material and the SMV emblem clean and visible.

CAUTION: Towing with an underweight tractor can result in loss of control during transport or braking, resulting in serious injury or death. (Refer to CALCULATING MINIMUM TRACTOR WEIGHT FOR SAFE TRANSPORT in Preparing the Tractor—general section.)

CAUTION: Transporting at speeds greater than 32 km/h (20 mph) can result in loss of control and serious injury or death. Always travel at a reasonable and safe speed. Use additional caution when transporting under adverse surface conditions when turning and when on inclines.

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CAUTION: Follow all recommended transport procedures.

• Never transport with any tank more than half full.
• Never transport cart with air seeder fan running or meters engaged. Always lock auger in storage position.
• Always fold wings fully. If wing-fold cylinders are removed, chain wings together to prevent accidental lowering.
• Install transport lockups on depth control cylinders or close hydraulic lock-up valve.
• Shift the tractor into a lower gear when transporting down steep slopes or hills.
• Avoid holes, ditches and obstructions which can cause tractor, cart or seeding tool to roll over, especially on hillsides.
• The construction of this implement may not meet all local or national requirements for transport on a public roadway. In regions or countries that have national certification requirements for roadway transport, it may be impossible for this implement to be approved for such roadway transport. The customer is responsible for understanding and complying with all local, regional, and national requirements regarding roadway transport.
• Avoid sharp turns on hillsides.
• Never drive near the edge of a ditch, creek, gully, or steep embankment.
• Latch the tractor brakes together. Stop slowly.

If necessary, add ballast as described in your tractor operator's manual.

CAUTION: Avoid loss of control due to decreased braking ability when transporting down sloped roadways, wet or muddy roadways or roadways with loose gravel or sand.

• Avoid steep slopes. Some slopes exceed tractor braking capability.
• Transport only with a properly sized tractor. (Refer to CALCULATING MINIMUM TRACTOR WEIGHT FOR SAFE TRANSPORT in Preparing the Tractor—General section.)
• Before transporting down a hill, shift tractor to a lower gear and travel at a reduced speed. Reducing speed maximizes the tractor braking capability.
• Use engine braking to reduce speed.
• Avoid sharp turns or rapid steering corrections on slopes.

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