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Section 1: Assembly & Set-up
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DANGER
To avoid serious injury or death:
A crushing hazard exists while hooking-up and unhooking
implement. Keep people and animals away while backing-up
to implement or pulling away from implement. Do not operate
hydraulic controls while a person or animal is directly behind
the power machine or near the implement.
!
WARNING
To avoid serious injury or death:
The ball detent pin must be fully inserted into the park jack
with ball visible and popped out on the far side of the jack
before working on or around an unhooked cutter.
Refer to Figure 1-12:
NOTE: Hitch pin (#1) and hairpin cotter (#2) are
customer-supplied.
1.
Make certain park jack (#3) is properly attached to
cutter hitch and secured with ball detent pin (#8).
2. If clevis hitch (#9) is not already supported
horizontal, rotate clevis horizontal and flip hitch
holder (#12) up so that its holes are on top as shown.
3. Insert customer-supplied hitch pin (#1) through holes
in hitch holder (#12) as shown in detail A. Secure with
hairpin cotter (#2).
4. Store center 3-point link in its storage hook.
5. Start tractor, raise 3-point arms fully up, and carefully
back tractor within close proximity of clevis (#9).
6. Shut tractor down properly before dismounting. Refer
to "Tractor Shutdown Procedure" on page 17.
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Figure 1-12
7.
Verify tractor drawbar is adjusted correctly. Refer to
"Drawbar Set-up" dimensions on page 13.
8. Raise or lower park jack (#3) to align clevis (#9) with
tractor drawbar. Drawbar should fit between lower
and upper plates of clevis.
9. Restart tractor and continue to back tractor up to
cutter hitch until hitch holes in tractor drawbar and
hitch clevis (#9) are aligned.
10. Shut tractor down properly before dismounting.
11. Remove bushings in clevis if customer supplied hitch
pin diameter is larger than 1". See "LP Performance
Hitch Pin Diameter" on page 28 for instructions.
12. Remove hairpin cotter (2) and hitch pin (#1) from
hitch holder (#12) and rotate hitch holder down.
13. Attach cutter to tractor drawbar with hitch pin (#1) and
hairpin cotter (#2) as shown in detail B.
14. Lower park jack (#3) until cutter hitch weight is
supported by tractor drawbar.
IMPORTANT: Protect park jack by storing it on the
left wing deck before moving the cutter. Make sure
jack is stored with its base level or lower than the
head to prevent water and freeze damage.
15. Remove park jack (#3) from hitch and attach it to the
left-hand wing storage base with ball detent pin (#8).
Make sure base is level with or lower than the head
especially after the wings are folded up. See cover
picture for correct positioning.
16. Attach hitch safety chain (#4) to the tractor. Adjust
chain length to remove all slack except what is
necessary to permit turning. Lock chain hook
securely to the safety chain.
17. Continue with "Driveline Hook-up" on page 20.
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