Appendix d - accessory installation, Side dress installation, Conventional liquid side dress – Great Plains NP3000A Operator Manual User Manual
Page 168: Installing / changing to side dress, Prepare implement

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2014-04-22
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NP3000 and NP3000A
Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc.
Appendix D - Accessory Installation
Side Dress Installation
Side Dress accessory kits provide a left wing extension
to support an additional (13th) forward single coulter and
forward boom drop line. The kit is user-installed, and
conversion between pre-emergence and side dress
modes requires user re-configuration of the implement.
See page 140 for ordering information.
407-636A Liquid, no coulter, for NP3000-1230 ..........164
407-609A Liquid, fluted, for NP3000-1230 .................164
407-626A Liquid, turbo, for NP3000-1230..................164
417-124A Anhydrous for NP3000A-12C30 ................170
Conventional Liquid Side Dress
Installing / Changing to Side Dress
For reverting to pre-emergence, continue at page 174.
Resources required:
• Stands or blocks support the rear frame
• Hoist or lift for supporting casters during shift
• one fertilizer orifice plate, sized to
1
⁄
2
of the rate
intended, or a 829-144C VeriFlow nozzle (if 829-143C
nozzles are used on the main rows)
• three dozen cable ties
• one poly bag or sheet of polyethylene per rear row,
plus a rubber band or cable tie per row.
• all-purpose grease and grease gun
• basic hand tools
Prepare Implement
1.
Discharge NH
3
system (page 108), if the applicator
is also equipped for anhydrous.
2.
Move implement to a level clear surface with
adequate illumination.
3.
Raise implement.
4.
Unfold wings.
5.
Fully extend wing gauge wheels.
6.
Install parking stands.
7.
Place stands or blocks under the rear frame.
8.
Retract the lift-assist cylinders to lift the caster tires
off the ground.
9.
Lower implement onto stands.
10. Unhitch tractor.
Figure 86
Side Dress Installed
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