Farm Star RB-880 - Manual (Page 19)

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S A F E T Y I N S T R U C T I O N S (continued)
Safety is a primary concern in the design and manufacture of our products. Unfortunately, our efforts to pro-
vide safe equipment can be wiped out by a single careless act of an operator. It is the operator’s responsibility
to read and understand ALL Safety and Operating instructions in the manual and to follow these. Accidents
can be avoided.
Know your controls and how to stop tractor, engine, and implement quickly in an emergency. Read this manual
and the one provided with your tractor.
In addition to the design and configuration of equipment, hazard control and accident prevention are depen-
dent upon the awareness, concern, prudence and proper training of personnel involved in the operation, trans-
port, maintenance and storage of equipment.
Train all new personnel and review instructions frequently with existing workers. A person who has not read
and understood all operating and safety instructions is not qualified to operate the machine. An untrained oper-
ator exposes himself and bystanders to possible serious injury or death.
Working with unfamiliar equipment can lead to careless injuries. Read this manual, and the manual for your
tractor, before assembly or operating, to acquaint yourself with the machines. It is the implement owner’s
responsibility, if this machine is used by any person other than yourself, is loaned or rented, to make certain
that the operator, prior to operating:
1. Reads and understands the operator’s manuals.
2. Is instructed in safe and proper use.
SAFETY TRAINING
Do not allow children to operate this machine.
Operate only in daylight or good artificial light.
Personal protection equipment including hard hat, safety glasses, safety shoes, and gloves are recommended
during assembly, installation, operation, adjustment, maintaining, repairing, removal, or moving the implement.
Do not allow long hair, loose fitting clothing or jewelry to be around moving parts.
Operate the blade only with a tractor equipped with an approved Roll-Over Protective System (ROPS). Always
wear your seat belt on tractors equipped with a ROPS. Serious injury or even death could result from falling
off the tractor ---particularly during a turnover when the operator could be pinned under the ROPS or the
tractor.
PROLONGED EXPOSURE TO LOUD NOISE MAY CAUSE PERMANENT HEARING LOSS!
Tractors with or without implements attached can often be noisy enough to cause permanent, partial hearing
loss. We recommend that you wear hearing protection on a full-time basis if the noise in the Operator’s posi-
tion exceeds 80db. Noise over 85db on a long-term basis can cause severe hearing loss. Noise over 90db
adjacent to the Operator over a long-term basis may cause permanent, total hearing loss. NOTE: Hearing loss
from loud noise (from tractors, chain saws, radios, and other such sources close to the ear) is cumulative over
a lifetime without hope of natural recovery.
T R O U B L E S H O O T I N G G U I D E
P R O B L E M P O S S I B L E C A U S E P O S S I B L E R E M E D Y
Blade will not penetrate
soil. 1. Cutting edge dull.
2. Blade set too straight.
3. Soil too hard.
Replace cutting edge.
Increase 3 pt. hitch toplink length.
Loosen soil with scarifiers or disk.
Wait for rain.
Moldboard digging in
too much. 1. Blade pitch excessive.
2. Soft ground.
Adjust toplink (shorten).
Install skid shoes.
Wait for dryer soil.
3 Pt. hitch frame bent. 1. Hitting hidden objects in backfill
position or ramming backwards at
high speed into hard piles of soil.
2. Using too large of tractor.
Use slow speed when in unknown
soil conditions.
Always backfill at slow speed.
Preferably use tractor of recom-
mended horsepower.
Slow down and use extra care.
Unable to hold level
grade. 1. Tractor draft control lifting blade.
2. Soil too hard.
Set tractor draft control.
Use scarifiers.
Bent moldboard. 1. Small curve is normal from welding.
2. Hitting hidden objects.
3. Using too large of tractor or one that
is heavily weighted and has four
wheel drive.
Can be removed, but will not effect
blade operation.
Know soil conditions. Use slow
speed when soil conditions
unknown.
Preferably use tractor of recom-
mended horsepower.
Slow down and use extra care.