Equipment Safety Guidelines, Lighting And Marking; Safety Sign Care - Demco Gravity Flow 550 User Manual

equIPMeNT sAfeTy GuIdelINes
Every year many accidents occur which could have been avoided by a few seconds of thought and a more careful approach
to handling equipment. You, the operator, can avoid many accidents by observing the following precautions in this section.
To avoid personal injury, study the following precautions and insist those working with you, or you yourself, follow them.
In order to provide a better view, certain illustrations in your owners manual may show an assembly with a safety shield
removed. However, equipment should never be operated in this condition. Keep all shields in place. If shield removal
becomes necessary for repairs, replace shield prior to use.
Replace any caution, warning, danger or instruction safety decal that is not readable or is missing.
Do not attempt to operate this equipment under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
Review safety instructions with all users annually.
Operator should be a responsible adult. DO NOT ALLOW PERSONS TO OPERATE OR ASSEMBLE THIS UNIT UNTIL
THEY HAvE DEvELOPED A THOROUGH UNDERSTANDING OF SAFETY PRECAUTIONS AND HOW IT WORKS.
To prevent injury or death, use a tractor equipped with a roll over protective system (ROPS). Do not paint over, remove,
or deface any safety signs or warning decals on your equipment. Observe all safety signs and practice instructions on
them.
Never exceed limits of a piece of machinery. If its ability to do a job, or to do so safely is in question DON'T TRY IT.
lIGhTING ANd MARKING
It is the responsibility of customer to know lighting and marking requirements of local highway authorities and to install
and maintain equipment to provide compliance with regulations. Add extra lights when transporting at night or during
periods of limited visibility.
Lighting kits are available from your dealer or from manufacturer
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Your best assurance against accidents is a careful and responsible operator. If there is any portion of this manual or
function you do not understand, contact your local authorized dealer or manufacturer.

sAfeTy sIGN cARe

• Keep safety signs clean and legible at all times.
• Replace safety signs that are missing or have become illegible.
• Replacement parts that displayed a safety sign should also display current sign.
• Safety signs are available from your distributor, dealer parts department, or factory.
How to install safety signs:
• Be sure that installation area is clean and dry.
• Decide on exact position before you remove backing paper.
• Remove smallest portion of split backing paper.
• Align decal over specified area and carefully press small portion with exposed sticky backing in place.
• Slowly peel back remaining paper and carefully smooth remaining portion of decal into place.
• Small air pockets can be pierced with a pin and smoothed out using piece of decal backing paper.
sAfeTy...you cAN lIve WITh IT
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