Komatsu — OPERATION

. SAFETY PRECAUTIONS FOR OPERATION PRECAUTIONS WHEN OPERATING PROHIBITED OPERATIONS 2 - 25 Be careful not to approach too cl dropping soil over a cliff, dump on e pile, then use the next pile of soil to p ush the first p ile. The load suddenly becomes lighte r when the soil is pushed over a cliff o r when th e machine reach es the top of a slope. When this happens, there is danger that the travel speed will su ddenly i ncrease, so be su re to reduce the speed. If the machine moves with only eit her side of the blade loaded, its tail ma y swing.

Take To make it easier to escape if ther e is any problem, set the tracks at right angles t o the r oad should er or cliff w ith the sprocket at the rear when carr When using the machine, to preve nt personal injury caused by damage to the wor k equipment or by the machine overturning due to overloading, d permitted load for the structure of METHOD OF USING BRAKES When the machine is traveling, do not rest your foot on the brake pedal. If you trav el wit h your foot r esting on the pedal, the brake will always be ap plied, and this will cause the brakes to overhea t and fail.

Do not depress the brake pedal re When traveling downhill, use the b TRAVELING ON SNOW-COVERED OR FROZEN SURFACES Snow-covered or frozen surfaces are slippery, so be extremely careful wh en traveling o r operating t he machine, and do not operate the levers sud denly. Even a slight slope may cause the machine to slip, so be particularly ground becomes soft when the temperature rises, and this may cause the ossible for the machine to escape. careful when working on slopes. With frozen ground surfaces, the machine to tip over or make it imp ossible for the machine to escape. If the machine enters deep snow, t here is a hazard that it may tip over or become burie d in the sno w.

Be careful not to leave the road shoulder or t o get trapped in a snow drift. When clearing snow, the road sho ulder and objects placed beside the roa d are buried in the snow a nd cannot be seen. There is a hazard of the ma carefully. When traveling on snow-covered chine tipping over or hitting covered objects, so always carry out operations slopes, never apply the foot brake suddenly. Reduce the speed and use the t operations denly. R educ e th the engine as a brake while applying t he foot brake intermittently (depress th e brake intermittently sev eral times ). If necessary, lower the work equipm ent to the ground to stop the machine.