Ribimex Ribiland PR4EN1ELEC Manuel D'instructions Et D'utilisation page 41

SCYTHING WEEDS: This is cutting by swinging the blade in a level arc.
This method quickly allows to clear areas of field grass and weeds.
Scything should not be used to cut large, tough weeds or woody growths.
Scything can be done in both directions (warning! Debris may be thrown towards user's direction),
or just in one direction (which results in the debris being thrown away from user).
For that, use the side of the blade that is rotating away from you and tilt down the blade slightly on
this same side.
If kickback occurs, the blade may be dull, or the material so thick and hard that you should use
other tool instead of this machine.
Do not force the blade to cut.
Do not change the angle of cut during operation.
Avoid using any pressure or leverage which could cause the blade to bind or crack.
- Never use the trimmer in the blade angle between 12-and-2 o'clock.
- Never use such a blade angle for cutting solid materials such as bushes, roots etc whose diameter
is greater than 3cm, because the trimmer could then be violently projected to the side and may
cause injury.
- This uncontrolled kickback of the blade is more likely to occur when the user cannot see the
material being cut.
- This uncontrolled kickback can cause serious injury or even death, to the user or other people or
animals. Always keep people and animals at least 15m away from the machine.
b) Cutting with a Nylon head
TRIMMING: This is feeding the trimmer carefully into the material you wish to cut.
Tilt the head slowly to direct debris away from you.
If cutting up to a barrier such as fence, wall or tree, approach from an angle where any debris
ricocheting off the barrier will fly away from you, Move the line head slowly until the grass is cut
right up the barrier, but do not jam (overfeed) the line into the barrier.
If trimming up to a wire mesh or chain linked fence be careful to feed only up to wire. If you go to
far the line will snap off around the wire. Trimming can be done to cut through weed stems one at a
time. Place the trimmer line head near the bottom of the weed-never high up which could cause the
weed to chatter and catch the line. Rather than cut the weed right through, just use the very end of
the line to wear through the stem slowly
SCALPING AND EDGING: Both of these are done with the line head tilted at a steep angle.
Scalping is removing top growth, including roots, leaving the earth bare.
Edging is trimming the grass back where it has spread over a sidewalk or drive way.
During both edging and scalping, hold the unit a steep angle and in a position where the debris and
any dislodged dirt and stones, will not come back towards you even if it ricochets off any hard
surface.
Although the figures show examples of how to edge and scalp, every operator must find for himself
the angles which suits his body size and cutting situation
WARNING! Do not to use a steel blade for edging or scalping
Do not trim in any area where there are strands of fencing wire.
Do not cut where you cannot see what the cutting device is cutting
Adjusting the line length
Kickback
An uncontrolled kickback of the blade may occur when using the brush
cutter.
- This kickback phenomenon occurs in particular when performing cuts in
the critical angle of the blade, i.e. the angle between 12-and-2 O'clock.
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