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• Please adjust the driving speed depending on the person and the terrain. Increase speed gradually until you have
reached a suitable driving speed, switch the motor drive off if necessary.
• Use care when approaching blind corners, shrubs, trees, or other obstacles that may obscure vision.
• Do not move too closely to compound steps, trenches and banks. The equipment can suddenly topple over when a
wheel suddenly gives way over the edge of a cliff or trench or when an edge suddenly yields.
• Please be careful when mowing underneath playground equipment (e.g. swings). The equipment could get into an
unsafe position. This may result in risk of injury.
• Do not operate the equipment when you are sick, tired or under the influence of alcohol, medicine or drugs.
• Avoid using the machine if possible on wet grass, in order to avoid the danger of slipping.
• Always make sure that you are standing securely whilst mowing slopes. Always mow at right angles to the slope, never
mow straight up or down. Please be especially careful when you change direction when mowing on a slope.
• Do not mow excessively steep slopes! Mowing slopes always means additional risks. Your lawnmower is so powerful
that it can mow slopes with a gradient of up to 30°. For safety reasons, however, we urgently recommend you not to
exploit this theoretical performance potential. Always make sure you have a firm stance. Manually guided lawnmowers
should never be used for slopes of more than 15°. Stability may be lost.
• Please be especially careful when turning the machine or pulling it towards yourself.
• If you walk backwards whilst using the machine, you can easily stumble so this should be avoided. Avoid unnatural body
positions. Ensure that you are standing securely and keep your balance at all times.
• Always observe the safety distance to the machine which is maintained by the handlebar.
• In order to avoid the machine slipping when being carried, always hold the machine by the grip devices provided (carrying handle,
housing, handlebar ends or transverse bar of the lower handlebar section). Do not grasp the machine by the ejection flap!
• Note the weight of the machine before lifting or carrying it (see technical data). Lifting heavy weights can lead to health problems.
• Never lift or carry the machine when the engine is running.
• Never operate the machine with damaged or missing safety or protective devices.
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Safety devices include:
– Safety control handle (1)
Release the blade brake control handle when in danger: The blade bar must come to standstill within three
seconds. The function of the safety control bar may not be put out of operation.
It is important to make sure that the safety switch holder functions properly. If it does not, let it be repaired
by an authorized specialist workshop.
To ensure proper operation of the safety equipment, the control bar, the control housing with throttle cable
and the blade brake must be checked regularly - at least once per mowing season - by an authorized
professional workshop.
Protective devices include:
– Housing, grass collecting bag, ejection flap (
The protective devices protect the user against objects being ejected at high speed.
The machine must not be operated with a damaged housing or without a properly fitted collecting bag or
deflector plate, or ejection flap on the housing.
– Housing
This protection unit protects against injuries through contact with the rotating cutting blade bar.
The equipment must not be operated with a damaged housing. Please make sure that hands and feet are
not placed underneath the housing.
– Belt drive covers (
These protection units protect against injuries through moving parts.
The equipment must not be operated with damaged covers or without correctly attached covers.
– Exhaust protection grill (
The engine/exhaust becomes very hot. The protection grill protects the user against burns.
Do not operate the machine without the exhaust protection grill.
The safety devices must not be modified.
• Do not change the basic settings of the engine or operate the engine at excessive speed.
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