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ADDING WATER, continued
Your Forage Blower may be equipped with a sec-
ondary water coupling (Figure 15) attached to the
blower band. This location can be used for adding
water to prevent gum buildup inside blower. Al-
though it is available it is not the preferred location
for adding water.
To use this coupling drill a 1/4 inch hole into the
band and attach a water hose with shutoff to inject
water into the blower housing.
Note
Surfaces can be checked between loads, after
making sure tractor is shut off and Forage
Blower has completely stopped turning.
Figure 15. Water Inlet Connection
To reduce friction heat when blowing an excessively
dry crop, water can be added.
An increase in crop moisture content due to this
addition of water is very small. For example, if a
total of 5 gallons of water is added while blowing a 4
ton load of a 50 percent moisture crop, the increase
in average moisture content will be only 1/4 of one
percent.
Begin feeding crop into hopper before turning water
on and turn water off before unloading of box is
complete. Plugging of pipe can occur if water
enters before crop.
While water is generally added for removing plant
gum, it has been found that water can also be
added to improve blowing performance when work-
ing with a difficult crop, even though there are no
visible gum deposits.
AIR CONTROL BAFFLE
When blowing shelled or ground ear corn, high back
pressure in blower pipe may cause some crop to
discharge out transition air inlet. If this happens,
close the air inlet by sliding the baffle cover down to
cover the air inlet slot. (Figure 16).
Figure 16. Air Control Baffle
SHUTDOWN OF BLOWER
Shut off water, if being used, and disengage auger
control lever (Figure 14). Shut down Forage Blower
as gradually as it was started by reducing power
take-off RPM.
UNPLUGGING OF BLOWER OR PIPES
If the blower pipes or blower become plugged use
care when removing pipes from blower to avoid crop
from falling from the pipe and into your face.
DO NOT remove crop through the blower throat.
Blower fan could move unexpectedly pinching
hands or fingers, Always remove the throat to
remove crop.
DO NOT operate blower unless the blower pipes are
securely attached to blower.
Secondary coupling
WARNING
DO NOT perform any unplugging or pipe
removal on this machine unless the
POWER SOURCE SHUTDOWN PROCE-
DURE (page 10) has been exercised.
