Follow Safe Operating Procedures

TS265-UN-23AUG88

E44342-UN-19AUG97

1. CAUTION: To help prevent severe injury or death to you or someone else:

   • Never operate mower when other people are in the area. Stones and other objects can be thrown great distances by rotating cutting blades
   • Keep cover in place to reduce potential for thrown objects
   • Do not lean against, sit, or stand on cover or framework
   • Operate mower only with a tractor equipped with a complete operator enclosure
   • Before starting machine, lower cutterbar to ground, engage tractor PTO and gradually increase speed
   • Operate machine from tractor seat only
   • Never adjust machine while in motion
   • Allow rotating disks to stop before leaving tractor
   • Do not attempt to remove material from mower while in operation
   • Slow down when turning or traveling over rough ground
   
   

   IMPORTANT: Operate tractor at rated PTO speed. If engine speed is too slow or too fast, machine does not perform properly.

   Where conditions make it necessary to slow ground speed, shift to a lower gear rather than reducing engine speed.

   Never operate mower without caps on top of end cones.

   Reduce oil quantity in cutterbar by 25% when operating at angles in excess of +20° or -10° from horizontal for long periods of time.

   Do not operate cutterbar more than +40° or -35° horizontal.

   Place cutterbar in horizontal position for a few minutes every 1/2 hour for proper lubrication.

   Allow for a few minutes oil to spread in cutterbar before engaging PTO when moving cutterbar from transport to operating position.

2. Always operate tractor at rated (540 rpm) PTO speed.

3. Regulate ground speed according to crop conditions. Use slower ground speed in heavy or down crop.

4. Open fields by cutting back swath first.

5. Continue mowing around field in a clockwise direction. Slow down ground speed to turn corners.

6. Turn or replace knives before they become excessively worn. (See Replacing Knives in the Service section.)