Scheppach HL2550GM Original Bedienungsanleitung Seite 26

• Ensure that the tractor unit's speed does not ex-
ceed the number on the rating plate, max. 540 per
min.
• Before maintenance work or if the riving knife is
jammed, first disconnect the machine from the trac-
tor unit, after turning off the tractor unit.
Attaching the splitter to the tractor unit, Fig. 13 + 14
1. Reverse the tractor unit to the wood splitter. Posi-
tion the lower support arms close enough to the
kindling splitter's fixing pins.
2. Activate the tractor unit's parking brake and turn
off the motor. Block the back wheels on both sides
with wedges or other suitable objects.
3. Remove the dust cover (1) and attach it to the
drive shaft protective cap (2).
4. Lower the bottom support arms onto the kindling
splitter's fixing pins and secure them with the
locking pins (3).
5. Position the top support arm in the bracket and
align it with the bracket holes. Insert the hitch pin
to lock the top support arm in place.
• The transmission drive shaft end has a diam-
eter of 34.8 mm and a connection with 6 teeth
(Standard Category 1 PTO).
6. Push the drive shaft over the drive shaft end on
the transmission and tractor unit. Push down
the spring pins located on both ends of the drive
shaft. Push the drive shaft further over the drive
shaft ends until the spring pins jump out and the
teeth of the drive shaft end lock.
7. Aligning the drive shaft
Viewed from the top and the side of the shaft, the
drive shaft end on the kindling splitter (15) and the
drive shaft end on the tractor unit (16) have to be
aligned in parallel. The angle of the drive shaft
joints (α) must be as small as possible.
8. Secure the safety chain of the shaft drive on a
fixed part of the kindling splitter and tractor unit to
prevent the safety device turning.
Check the running direction of the tractor unit's drive
shaft. If the splitting arm is not in the top position,
bring the splitting blade in the top position, using the
return bracket or handles. If the splitting arm is al-
ready in the top position, activate the splitting mecha-
nism by moving both levers down. This will move the
splitting arm down.
If the splitting blade does not move despite activation
of the handles or return bracket, stop the shaft drive
and change its direction.
Never let the shaft drive run in the wrong direc-
tion! This will inevitably destroy the pump sys-
tem and no warranty claim can be made.
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Using the safety arm (Fig. 15)
The safety arm can be set at different height posi-
tions, depending on the length of the wood.
Splitting (Fig. 16 + 17)
• If the outside temperature is below 5°C, let the ma-
chine run idle for about 5 minutes so the hydraulic
system reaches its operating temperature. Place
the log under the splitting blade vertically.
Caution: The splitting blade is very sharp. Risk
of injury!
• When you push both operating levers down, the
splitting blade goes down and splits the wood.
• Only ever split logs that have been sawn off straight.
• Split the log vertically.
Never split it lying down or diagonally to the grain!
•
Wear suitable gloves and safety boots when split-
•
ting wood.
Split very misshapen logs from the edge.
•
Caution: During splitting, some logs can be un-
der significant tension and suddenly break.
Force jammed logs out by applying pressure in
•
the splitting direction or by raising the riving
knife. In this case, only push the handles up,
do not use the return bracket. Caution: Risk of
injury
Operating the log lifter (6)
General information about the log lifter:
• For safety reasons, the log lifter chain may only be
hung on the splitting blade with the last link.
• Ensure that nobody else is within the working envi-
ronment of the log lifter.
Operating the log lifter:
• Loosen the log lifter restraining hook so the lifting
tube can move freely.
• Move the splitting blade so far down that the log
lifter lifting tube lies on the ground.
• In this position, you can roll the log to be split onto
the lifting tube. (The log has to be between the two
fixing tips.)
• Push the return bracket down or the handles up
so the splitting blade moves up. (Caution! Do not
stand in the working environment of the log lifter!
Risk of injury!)
• Now align the log, push it against the retention
thorn and split it (see: Operating instructions).
• Then remove the split wood and move the riving
knife and therefore the log lifter back down.
• Now you can roll a new log onto the log lifter.
Resetting the log lifter
This is used as a second guard arm when not using
the trunk lifter. For this, the arm is moved up until it
locks in position in the hook.