2.3     SAFETY TRAINING
              
            
            
              1.
            
            
              Safety is a primary concern in the design and
            
            
              manufacture of our products.  Unfortunately,
            
            
              our efforts to provide safe equipment can
            
            
              be wiped out by a single careless act of an
            
            
              operator or bystander.
            
            
              2. In addition to the design and confguration of
            
            
              equipment, hazard control and accident pre-
            
            
              vention are dependent upon the awareness,
            
            
              concern, prudence and proper training of
            
            
              personnel involved in the operation, transport,
            
            
              maintenance and storage of this equipment.
            
            
              3. It has been said, "The best safety feature is
            
            
              an informed, careful opera-
            
            
              tor."  We ask you to be that
            
            
              kind of an operator.  It is
            
            
              the operator's responsibil-
            
            
              ity to read and understand
            
            
              ALL Safety and Operating instructions in the
            
            
              manual and to follow these.  Accidents can be
            
            
              avoided.
            
            
              4. 
            
            
              
                Working with unfamiliar equipment can
              
            
            
              
                lead to careless injuries.  Read this
              
            
            
              
                manual, and the manual for your auxiliary
              
            
            
              
                equipment, before assembly or operating,
              
            
            
              
                to acquaint yourself with the machines.  If
              
            
            
              
                this machine is used by any person other
              
            
            
              
                than yourself.  It is the machine owner's re-
              
            
            
              
                sponsibility to make certain that the opera-
              
            
            
              
                tor, prior to operating:
              
            
            
              
                a.   Reads and understands the operator's
              
            
            
              
                manuals.
              
            
            
              
                b.   Is instructed in safe and proper use.
              
            
            
              5.
            
            
              Know your controls and how to stop augers,
            
            
              PTO, hydraulic system and any other auxiliary
            
            
              equipment quickly in an emergency.  Read
            
            
              this manual and the one provided with your
            
            
              other equipment.
            
            
              6. Train all new personnel and review instruc-
            
            
              tions frequently with existing workers.  Be
            
            
              certain only a properly trained and physically
            
            
              able person will operate the machinery.  A
            
            
              person who has not read and understood all
            
            
              operating and safety instructions is not quali-
            
            
              fed to operate the machine.  An untrained
            
            
              operator exposes himself and bystanders to
            
            
              possible serious injury or death.  If the elderly
            
            
              are assisting with farm work, their physical
            
            
              limitations need to be recognized and accom-
            
            
              modated.
            
            
              
                2.4     SAFETY SIGNS
              
            
            
              1. Keep safety signs clean and legible at all
            
            
              times.
            
            
              2. Replace safety signs that are missing or have
            
            
              become illegible.
            
            
              3. Replaced parts that displayed a safety sign
            
            
              should also display the current sign.
            
            
              4. Safety signs displayed in Section 3 each have
            
            
              a part number in the lower right hand corner.
            
            
              Use this part number when ordering replace-
            
            
              ment parts.
            
            
              5. Safety signs are available from your author-
            
            
              ized Distributor or Dealer Parts Department or
            
            
              the factory.
            
            
              
                How to Install Safety Signs:
              
            
            
              • Be sure that the installation area is clean and
            
            
              dry.
            
            
              • Be sure temperature is above 50° F (10° C).
            
            
              • Determine exact position before you remove
            
            
              the backing paper.  (See Section 3).
            
            
              • Remove the smallest portion of the split back-
            
            
              ing paper.
            
            
              • Align the sign over the specifed area and
            
            
              carefully press the small portion with the ex-
            
            
              posed sticky backing in place.
            
            
              • Slowly peel back the remaining paper and
            
            
              carefully smooth the remaining portion of the
            
            
              sign in place.
            
            
              • Small air pockets can be pierced with a pin
            
            
              and smoothed out using the piece of sign
            
            
              backing paper.