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How to adjust the dam former:
Adjust the front tins (optional) concentric to the driving track of the tractor.
Adjust the backside dam forming plates approximately to the dimensions desired:
Adjust the desired height of the dam by the spindle (image 3, pos.:6).
Adjust the desired upper dam width by moving the fulcrum, if necessary. (image 3,
pos.: 1).
Adjust the bottom dam width. You should pay attention to the sides of the dam not
to be adjusted too steep.
Now build with the dam former a dam of 5 m length, the dam should not be filled
fully. If this is not the result, you should adjust the supporting wheels longer, until
the result is satisfactory.
When the machine is adjusted in this way, you should turn the supporting wheels
now each one turn higher.
Now you should check the form of the dam again.
A further modification of the dam height has now to happen simultaneously at the
adjustment for the wheels (image 3, pos.:5) and at the spindle for the aperture
(image 3, pos.: 6).
Please mind that an overcrowding inside the machine leads to a higher need of
power and a quicker obsolescence of the sticks.
In this way you build now the dam above the first asparagus line, then the one
above the third asparagus line, then the fifth, and so on: you leave every second
line. After having done like that, you can start to work on the left over lines. (By this
working method you will avoid having different quantities of soil on both sides of
each dam.)
Adjustment for the dams between the ones you made at first:
For the building of the dams between the ones you made first, it might be necessary to
correct the adjustments a few for to get the same height of the dam.
