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OPERATION:
4.
4.1
BEFORE STARTING YOUR EQUIPMENT
- Visually examine your fertilizer spreader to make sure that it is in good condition and complete, and that the nuts and bolts are in place and
tightened.
- Make sure the agitator is properly situated at the bottom of the hopper.
- Make sure that the dispensing levers can be manually lifted and lowered; if they cannot, lubricate the exit hatches at the bottom of the
hopper.
- Verify that the dispensing disc rotates freely. This is checked manually.
4.3 3 START-UP PROCEDURE
1. Attach your equipment to the tractor’s 3-point hitch.
2. Align the hopper in two planes, using the first and second hitch point on the tractor for one plane and the third point for the other plane. The
hopper should be leveled so that the ground and the bottom of the blades are 70cm apart.
3. Connect the PTO and make sure that the PTO is adequately sized for you to raise and lower the equipment. If it is not the proper size, cut
the telescoping tubes and protective shielding so that you can raise and lower the equipment freely. (Remember that the overlap must be 1/3
of the tube.)
4.2 CUTTING THE CARDAN SHAFT TO THE CORRECT SIZE
- Separate the cardan shaft into two parts.
- Mount half the shaft onto the tractor and the other half of the shaft onto the implement.
- Connect the fertilizer spreader to the tractor 3-point hitch.
- Align the implement so that the two half shafts are at the same height.
- Place one half-cardan shaft next to the other half-cardan shaft.
- Measure 40mm from the start of the plastic shielding tube.
- Cut the plastic shielding (cut the same length for both half shafts).
- Cut the male and female shafts the same length that the protective shielding was cut.
- Round off the cutting edges and clean up the filings carefully.
- Grease the PTO driveline shaft and the plastic shielding
1/3
Ideal overlap
MINIMUM
2/3
Ideal overlap
COUPLING JOB LENGTH APPROX. 2/3 Lu2/3
NOTA:
Identify which side goes to the tractor and which side goes to the equipment (according to the
label on the PTO). Remember that the female tube of the cardan shaft always goes to the tractor.
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