Leveling Front Roller - Toro 5 Operator's Manual

7. Adjust the front roller to your desired cutting
unit attitude:
Bedknife Angle (step 2)
– Gauge Bar Angle (step 6)
= Cutting Unit Attitude (degrees)
Note: Moving the front roller down will
decrease your cutting unit attitude,
while moving the front roller up will
increase cutting unit attitude (Fig. 10).
C. Leveling Front Roller
IMPORTANT: Toro strongly recommends the
use of a leveling plate when setting–up or
adjusting any reel type cutting unit. The
leveling plate will help to ensure accurate and
consistent adjustments. Contact your local
Toro Distributor for ordering a leveling plate.
1. Position cutting unit on a flat surface.
2. Position a 1" (25 mm) or thicker bar (for higher
heights-of-cut) under the reel blades and against
the front edge of the bedknife (Fig. 11). Make
sure bar covers the full length of the reel
blades.
3. Rock cutting unit forward (on reel blades and
steel bar) until front roller contacts flat surface.
Reel blades and bedknife must maintain contact
with bar. Rear roller should not contact surface
(Fig. 11).
Contact along full length of front roller and reel blade
levels front roller to reel.
Ref. flat surface
(1" x 20 x 30" flat
stock suggested)
Figure 11
4. Use a piece of newspaper or visually check to
see if any gap exists between front roller ends
and flat surface (Fig. 12). If needed, adjust
front height-of-cut rods until both ends of
roller are in contact with level surface.
Setting Height-of-Cut
Bar stock (1" x 3/4"
stock suggested)
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