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Section 4: Maintenance & Lubrication
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Helpful Operating Hints
The following hints will help protect against a plugged
discharge chute, plugged rotor housing, sheared
driveline bolt, and help keep the chipper running.
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Be careful not to feed too much product at once, feed
oversize product, feed wet product, or feed product too
fast. Doing so can plug the Wood Chipper.
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Alternate leafy material with a non leafy hardwood
piece. Hard wood pieces help clean out leafy material.
Keep alternating leafy material with hardwood pieces
until leafy material is processed.
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Let leafy branches dry for a couple weeks before
chipping them. Dry leaves will process better.
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Maintaining 1/32" gap between ledger knife and rotor
knives will keep rotor knives wiped off, prevent
plugging, allow product to feed better, and keep wood
chipping.
Plugged Chutes & Rotor
Refer to Figure 4-7:
Clear plugged chutes and rotor as follows:
1.
Shut tractor down properly before dismounting. Refer
to "Tractor Shutdown Procedure" on page 15.
2. Disconnect driveline from tractor power take-off
shaft.
3. Unplug feed chute, discharge chute, and rotor as
follows:
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Accessing Rotor Knives
Figure 4-7
Unplug Feed Chute (#4)
a. Be sure to complete steps 1 & 2 on this page.
b. Pull all material out of feed chute. Make sure
nothing is jammed between inlet opening and
rotor at bottom of feed chute.
c. Loosen product jammed at the bottom with a stick
or board by prying it up and to the right.
d. If prying on product does not free it, then access
rotor housing. See "Unplug Rotor (#1)" below for
detailed instructions.
Unplug Rotor (#1)
a. Be sure to complete steps 1 & 2 on this page.
b. Remove hex flange screw (#6).
c. Rotate upper rotor housing (#2) up until locking
strap (#5) supports the housing.
d. Clean rotor housing of debris.
e. Manually rotate rotor to make sure all debris is
removed and rotor is not jammed.
f. Rotate rotor housing (#2) down and secure with
existing 3/8"-16 hex flange serrated screw (#6).
Tighten serrated screw to the correct torque.
Unplug Discharge Chute (#3)
a. Be sure to complete steps 1 & 2 on this page.
b. Make certain discharge chute (#3) is clean. Pull all
material out of the discharge chute. If necessary,
use a stick to unplug a jam.
4. Reattach driveline to tractor power take-off shaft.
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