Maintaining The Machine; Maintenance - Fort MECH 35 Bedienungs- Und Wartungsanleitung

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2.3 SAFETY WHILE OPERATING AND

MAINTAINING THE MACHINE

WARNING
- Use suitable clothes. Do not wear large or loose clothes:
they may get entangled in the rotating parts. Long hair
must be tied. Moreover, the operator shall not carry out
sharp tools in his pockets.
- During the maintenance and repair operations, the
operator shall wear protective clothes, cut proof gloves,
non slip and anti-crash shoes.
- Comply with the laws of the Country where the machine
is being used, concerning the use and the disposal of
the products employed for cleaning and maintenance.
Dispose all waste, if any, through the special companies
authorized to this purpose with the issuing of the receipt
for the goods disposal.
- It is absolutely forbidden to operate or have the machine
operated by someone who has not read and understood
what is written in this manual, or by unskilled personnel
or by personnel in poor physichophysical conditions
and, anyhow, by persons less than 18 years old.
- Before starting the machine, check that the safety
devices are perfectly intact.
- Before starting to work for the first time, know and be
familiar with the control devices and their functions.
- The area where the machine is used is to be considered
"dangerous area", above all for the people that are not
trained to use the machine itself. Before starting the
machine, make sure that all around the working are
there are not persons or animals or impediments of
any kind.
- When a person is exposed, that is within the "dangerous
area", the operator shall immediately intervene and stop
the machine to send away the above person.
- Never leave the machine while it is running.
- Periodically check the integrity of the machine on the
whole and the protection devices.
- Before carrying out any repair or maintenance operation
on the machine, stop the machine and shut the engine
off.
- In case the guards were removed, make sure to fix them
in place before using the machine again.
- Comply with the suggested oils. Keep the lubricants
away from children. Carefully read the warnings and the
precautions listed in the lubricant containers. After using
them, wash your hands thoroughly. Dispose of the used
lubricants according to the antipollution regulations.
- At the end of the maintenance and repair operations,
make sure that all operations are completed, that the
safety devices and the guards are back in place before
starting the machine again.
- The spare parts must correspond to the needs estab-
lished by the Manufacturer. Use only genuine spare
parts
- When working on yielding grounds, near slopes,
ditches or steep grounds, operate with the utmost
care at low speed to prevent the machine from over-
turning; it is moreover suggested, in these cases,
to arrange the load as further down as possible to
give the machine more balance
- In case the machine is meant to work on raised
grounds or near precipices, before starting to work,
it is compulsory to suitably put barriers around all
tracts that may involve the fall of the machine from
above due to a possible wrong maneuver by the
operator.
- It is forbidden to transport loads weighing higher than
the machine max. carrying capacity.
- It is absolutely forbidden to touch the running parts or
to come between them. (in particular the crawlers) by
keeping at a safety distance.
- It is absolutely forbidden to have foreign persons stand
within the machine working area.
- Avoid parking the machine on a slope. If necessary,
block the machine with logs or suitable stones to be
placed between the ground and the crawlers.
- During the maintenance operations, do not operate the
machine in poorly ventilated rooms: the exhaust gases
are harmful to the health.
- Periodically check the tightening of the screws, nuts
and couplings, if any.
- It is absolutely forbidden to remove or tamper the safety
devices.
- The maintenance of the machine shall be performed
by skilled personnel only after shutting the engine off,
by following the instructions of this manual and of the
engine manual
- Before refueling or topping up with oil, stop the engine
and to let it cool down.
While refueling, do not smoke and do not get near free
flames. Be sure to thoroughly wipe the spilled gasoline
before starting the engine.
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