12
ADJUSTMENTS��
A) Operating guidelines
1-
Use tractor with the following features:
2-
Work speed - 6/8 km/h.
3-
Clean quick attach couplings terminals before
connecting to tractor.
4-
Never ride backwards or turn with opener disks in
contact with the ground.
5-
Start moving forward before lowering opener disks.
6-
Handle and use chemical-treated seeds, and
agrochemicals in general, as specified by manufacturer.
7-
Check seed and fertilizer rates.
8-
Check machine periodically. Whenever soil conditions
determine a change in planting depth and seed covering,
readjust if necessary.
9-
Seeds setting is determined by considering the
combination of the following adjustments:
a)
Depth adjustment of front no-till coulters.
b)
Adjustment of gauge wheels of the openers disk set.
c)
Openers down-pressure force.
d)
Ridge-shaping closing wheels down-pressure force.
B) Operating machine:
1-
Place the machine on level ground with enough room
to move the machine from transport to work position.
Moving the equipment will be very difficult, unless one, or
more, wheel is oriented and locked to the direction
desired to ride forward.
2-
Connect work hitch cylinder to tractor hydraulic system.
3-
Remove pin from safety bar.
4-
Operate cylinder to lower hitch.
5-
Open out the tip found in the hitch rod to tractor and fix
with its pin.
6-
Keep lowering machine to level with tractor drawbar
and couple by locking with a pin.
7-
Finish closing cylinders completely, disconnect and
place hoses in planter.
8-
Connect work hitch to tractor.
9-
Place machine on flat steady ground.
10-
Unlock all wheels.
11-
Keeping hydraulic system connected to tractor, raise
machine to release cylinder locks.
12-
Remove locks from hydraulic cylinders
(Picture 11-A)
,
which can be placed at the holding tubes
(Picture 12 and
Picture 13)
.
13-
Check that machine is lowering and raising according
to operator´s needs.
14-
In working position: lower machine fully – till cylinders
are operated to full stroke. Leave 1 or 2 cm of visible
threading
(Picture 14-A)
in each cylinder.
15-
Place front wheels in work position and lock them up.
16-
Before loading the box with seeds or fertilizer, adjust
opener disks depth and furrow closing.
17-
Fill boxes with seeds or fertilizer, accordingly.
18-
Select gearboxes speed according to chosen applica-
tion rates.
CHAPTER III
Features
Minimum power required (approx.) PTO
Hydraulic circuit minimum flow-considering
average revolutions at work
Hydraulic circuit pressure
(maximum accepted)
Models
150 - 170 bars.
55 liters/minute
TD21-18
TD21-30
TD21-24
TD21-36
TD21-48
85 - 95 hp 100 - 120 hp 130 - 150 hp 165 - 180 hp 200 - 240 hp
For a proper planter operation,
always operate hydraulic cylinders
at full strokes, either when lowering
or raising the machine.
WARNING
WARNING
WHEN ATTACHING SEEDER TO TRACTOR
Tractor should be
in oblique angle to
seeder to favor
unlocked wheels
alignment.
