WARNING: Failure to follow these safety precautions may lead to a serious accident. 7. PRECAUTIONS DURING OPERATION 7.5 TOWING PC130/150LGP-6K ENG 1-21 WHEN TOWING • Injury or death could result if a disabled machine is towed incorrectly or if there is a mistake in the selection of the wire rope, so always do as follows. • Do not tow in a different way from the method given in the section "16.2 METHOD OF TOWING MACHINE". • Always wear leather gloves when handling wire rope. • When carrying out the preparation for towing with another worker, agree on signals before starting the operation.
• If the engine on the problem machine will not start of there is a failure in the brake system, please contact your Komatsu distributor for repairs. • It is dangerous to tow a machine on a slope, so choose a place where there is a gradual slope. If there is no place with a gradual slope, carry out work to make the slope as small as possible. • If a problem machine is towed by another machine, ALWAYS use a wire rope with a sufficient towing capac- ity for the weight of the problem machine. • Do not uwe a wire rope which has cut strands , kinks , or reduced diameter . WHEN TOWING