BE-PHDLG USER MANUAL
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IMPORTANT SAFETY MESSAGE
TO OWNER/ OPERATORS OF POST HOLE DIGGER
Safety is a primary concern in the deign, manufacture, sale and use of Post Hole Diggers. As manufacturers
of Post Hole Diggers, we want to confirm to you, our customers, our concern for safety. We also want to
remind you about the simple, basic and common-sense rules of safety when using a Post Hole Digger. Failure
to follow these rules can result in severe injury or death to operators or bystanders.
It is essential that everyone involved in the assembly, operation, transport, maintenance and storage of this
equipment be aware, concerned and properly trained in safety. The majority accidents involve entanglement
on the driveline or auger. This entanglement risk becomes greater when you replace our shear bolts with
bolts longer than those specified by the manufacturer. This improper replacement occurs most often on
machines that are loaned or rented to someone who has not read the owner’s manual and is not familiar with
a Post Hole Digger.
Our current production machines include, as standard equipment, guards or shields for auger adapters,
drivelines, input shafts and safety signs. Older machines can be retrofitted to add these new guards
or shields and safety signs. If you have an older machine which does not have current standard safety
equipment, please contact your dealer about bringing your machine up to the current level safety.
Below are some of the most important safety rules to be understood and followed by anyone who works
with Post Hold Diggers:
• Before operating a Post Hole Digger, an operator must read and understand all the information in the
owner’s manual and in the safety signs attached to the product. A person who has not read or understood
the owner’s manual or current production safety signs, contact your local dealer immediately.
• Post Hole Diggers are designed for one-man operation. You must always dig holes while sitting in the
tractor seat. Never operate the Digger with anyone near or in contact with any part of the implement, PTO
driveline or auger. Accidents have occurred when more than one person is in the immediate area of the
operating equipment. Be sure no one else, including bystanders, is near you when you operate this product.
• Do not operate the Digger unless all shields and guards are in place.
• Never replace the shear bolt or auger retaining bolt with one longer than those supplied and specified by
the manufacturer. See your owner’s manual.
• Do not use Digger unless auger point and cutting edges are intact and in good working order.
Following these simple, basic safety rules as well as others identified in the owner’s manual and in product
safety signs will help minimize the possibility of accidents and increase your productivity in using this
product.
Be careful and make sure that everyone who operates the Digger knows and understands that it is a
very powerful piece of machinery, and if used improperly, serious injury or death may result. The final
responsibility for safety rests with the operator of this machine.
