Maschio GASPARDO AIRONE, Use And Maintenance

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USE AND MAINTENANCE
5.3.5 LOADING THE MACHINE'S HOPPER
It is very important to check the stability of the fertilizer spreader after coupling to the tractor.
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Load the hopper by a mechanic loader or a crane only.
• Fill the hopper to the required level, making sure to distribute the fertilizer homogeneously inside to a
flat level on top.
• Never load the hopper above its maximum acceptable loading level – See Table 1 Technical
Data.
Remember that the product to be spread must be clean, and that stones and scraps of metal can both cre-
ate risk and irreparably damage the machine's moving parts.
5.3.6 DISTRIBUTION
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Operate the tractor power take off.
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Operate the hydraulic system controls in order to open (close) the chute gate and put in operation (and
stop) the transmission of the belt that feeds the spreading discs.
In this way the fertilizer drops on the spreading disc and, by the centrifugal force, is thrown outward by the
vanes.
5.3.7 OPERATOR'S DRIVING TECHNIQUE
The quality of spreading depends greatly on the operator's driving technique.
• During spreading, adopt evenly-distanced spreading passages in order to maintain constant distance
from all previous spreading passages.
• Near the headlands and during the manoeuvres, stop the spreading and disengage the power take-off
(PTO). In order to avoid spreading fertilizer outside the edges of the field, switch spreading back on
again only after approaching the end of the field at a distance equal to the maximum rear spreading
length (see the spreading tables).
• Grains of fertilizer are very lightweight and their trajectory of movement varies with the amount of wind.
For this reason, stop spreading when wind speed is too high, otherwise the distribution of the fertilizer
spread over the soil will be irregular.
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