Setting the machine for mulching

REQUIREMENTS

  • The PTO shaft drive is switched off.

  • The grass collector is completely empty.

  1. Open the drawbar hydraulic valve 1.
  2. Open the cutting deck hydraulic valve 2.
NOTE

The hydraulic cylinder of the drawbar and the hydraulic cylinder of the cutting deck are connected in parallel. When both hydraulic valves are open, the hydraulic cylinders of the drawbar and cutting deck are actuated simultaneously.

  1. Completely lift the machine at the front with cutting deck.
  1. Close the drawbar hydraulic valve 1.

The drawbar is secured against lowering.

The cover flap of the rotor normally opens automatically when lowering the grass collector. When mulching, however, the cover flap must be closed.

  1. Completely raise the rear machine 1.
  2. Completely lower the cutting deck 2.
  1. Completely raise the grass collector 1.
  2. Completely lower the grass collector again.
  1. Completely lower the rear machine.

In doing so, the carrier 1 slides over the flap lever 2.

The cover flap 3 for the rotor remains closed and the mowed material is no longer transported into the grass collector.

  1. Open the drawbar hydraulic valve 1.

The machine is prepared for mulching.

  1. To stop mulching:

    Completely raise the grass collector.
  2. Completely lower the grass collector again.

The mulch flap is open again and the mowed material is conveyed into the grass collector again.