Komatsu — OPERATION

. SAFETY PRECAUTIONS FOR OPERATION maximum or when particularly the use the 2 - 26 TRAVELING ON SLOPES ing over or slipping to the side, always do as follows. ox. 20 to 30 cm (8 to 12 in) above ncy, lower the work equipment to p stop the machine. wn a slope. Traveling at an angle ly dangerous. across slopes. Always go down sition of the machine, then travel s, or wet steel plates with low es there is a hazard that the ever shift gear or place the angerous not to use the braking ce the transmission in a low gear ill. braking effect of the engine as To prevent the machine from tipp ing over or slipping to the side, always do as fo Keep the work equipment appr the ground.

In case of emerge the ground immediately to hel Always travel straight up or do or across the slope is extreme Do not turn on slopes or travel to a flat place to change the po on to the slope again. Travel on grass, fallen leave speed. Even with slight slop machine may slip. When traveling downhill, n transmission at neutral. It is d force of the engine. Always pla before starting to travel downh Depress the brake or use the necessary.

PRECAUTIONS WHEN OPERATIN G When using the machine, to pr event personal injury caused by damage to the work equipment or by the overturning due to overloadin permitted load for the structure g, do not exceed the permitted performance of the machine or the m of the machine. o close to the edge of cliffs. When making embankments or landfills, one pile, then use the next pile of soil to push the first pile. Be careful not to approach to mbankments dropping soil over a cliff, dump one pile, then use the next pile of soil to push the first pile. The load suddenly becomes li ghter when the soil is pushed over a cliff or whe n the machine reaches th a slope. When this happens, t the speed.

here is danger that the travel speed will sudden ly increase, so be sure to y either side of the blade loaded, its tail may swing. Take care. If the machine moves with onl y either side of the blade loaded, its tail may sw TRAVELING ON SNOW-COVERED OR FROZEN SURFACES Snow-covered or frozen surfac es are slippery, so be extremely careful when tr aveling or operating the m and do not operate the levers careful when working on slop suddenly. Even a slight slope may cause the machine to slip, so be par es. the ground becomes soft when the temperature rises, and this may ca impossible for the machine to escape.

With frozen ground surfaces, machine to tip over or make it impossible for the machine to escape. If the machine enters deep sno w, there is a hazard that it may tip over or beco me buried in the snow. Be not to leave the road shoulder or to get trapped in a snow drift. When clearing snow, the road shoulder and objects placed beside the road are buried in the snow and ca seen. There is a hazard of the carefully. When traveling on snow-cove machine tipping over or hitting covered objects, so always carry out op red slopes, never apply the foot brake suddenly. Reduce the speed and y.

Reduce th engine as a brake while applyi necessary, lower the work equ ng the foot brake intermittently (depress the bra ke intermittently several t ipment to the ground to stop the machine.