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Section II: Operation
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5. Wearing gloves, unhook the wire
ropes from their stored position.
Moving the boom head with the
wire rope locked can result in
damage to both the wire ropes
and the boom.
6. If you are going to be making a
lift or pull off the corners or sides
of the truck, use the controls to
unlock the slew pin to allow the
wrecker boom to rotate .
DANGER:
Do not swing the wrecker boom
without extending the outrigger/
stabilizers.
7. Using the winch control levers, unwind some wire rope from the winches
to relieve the pressure on the winch free-spool device.
8. Pull the winch free-spool knobs to the “out” position to set both boom
winches into the “free spool” mode.
9. Position the boom head by using
the boom up, down, in, out and
slew left and right levers as
necessary.
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