Rabe Albatros Variant, Operating Instructions Manual

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11 05.2013
Albatros / Super-Albatros
Subject to technical modifications
2. General notes on safety and accident prevention rules
• Check the implement and the tractor for traffic and operational safety prior to every operation!
• Follow the generally applicable safety and accident prevention rules!
• The warn and information signs fixed at the implement inform about safe operation; Following these signs
ensures your safety!
• When using public roads follow the relevant regulations!
• Prior to starting work, familiarize yourself with all facilities and actuating elements and their functions.
During operation of the implement it is too late for this!
• Wear tight-fitting clothes. Avoid wearing loosely-fitting clothes!
• Keep the implement clean to avoid fire hazards!
• Check near zone prior to start-up and operation! (Children!) Ensure sufficient range of vision;
• Riding on the implement during operation and transport is prohibited!
• Couple the implements properly and attach them only to the specified fixtures!
• Special care is required for coupling and uncoupling implements to and from the tractor!
• Position the support equipment properly for mounting and unmounting! (Stability!)
• Always attach weights properly at the fixing points provided for this!
• Comply with the admissible axle loads, total weights and transport dimensions!
• Check and install transport equipment - lighting, warning equipment and necessary protection implements!
• Triggering cables for rapid action couplings must hang loosely and must not trigger in low position
• Never leave the operator‘s cab when driving!
• The driving behaviour, steering and braking performance are affected by mounted and semi-mounted
implements and ballast weights. Therefore, pay attention to sufficient steering and breaking performance!
• When manoeuvring bends pay attention to the wide working radius and the centrifugal mass of the
implement!
• Operate the implement only if all protection implements are installed and in protective position!
• Staying in the working area is prohibited!
• Do not stay in the turning and slewing range of the implement!
• Power-operated parts (e.g. hydraulic parts) contain crunching and shearing zones!
• Prior to leaving the tractor, lower the implement on the ground, switch off the engine and take out the
ignition key!
• No person may stand between the tractor and the implement without the vehicle being protected against
rolling away with the arresting brake and/or with wheel chocks!
• Protect folded away frames and excavation facilities in transport position!
2.1 Mounted implements
• Prior to mounting and dismounting implements at the three-point linkage: Position the operating implement
so that involuntary lifting or lowering is impossible!
• For three-point linkage the linkage categories of tractor and implement must agree or must be adjusted!
• In the area of the three-point linkage beware of the hazards of crunching and shearing zones!
• Also do not step between between the tractor and the implement when operating the external three-point
linkage control!
• Always pay attention to sufficient side locking of the tractor three-point linkage in the transport position of
the implement!
• When driving on roads with lifted implement, the operating lever must be bolted against lowering!