Rauch MDS 8.2 - Setting the Application Rate

Preparation
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Install the machine at the tractor: 49
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Close the metering slide.
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Pre-set the mounting height: 53
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Pour in fertilizer: 61
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Carry out the calibration test: 63
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Set the spreading vane:75
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Set the application rate:73
Spreading
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Travel to the spreading location
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Check the mounting height: 53
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Activate the PTO.
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Open the metering slide and starting spreading.
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Finish spreading operations and close the metering slide
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Disengage the PTO shaft.
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Empty residual quantity in hopper: 104
Cleaning/maintenance
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The metering slides open.
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Remove the machine from the tractor: 105
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Clean and maintain the machine: 111
9.3 Setting the application rate
WARNING!
Risk of injury from rotating spreading discs
The distribution unit (spreading discs, spreading vanes) may catch and pull in body parts or
objects. Contact with the distribution unit may injure, crush or cut off body parts.
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Maximum admissible mounting heights at front (V) and rear (H) are to be complied with at all
times.
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Ensure that nobody is present in the hazard zone of the machine.
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Do not remove deflectors mounted on the hopper.
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Versions K/D (Mono)/C
For the versions K/R/D/C, the application rate is set using stop in the adjustment segment. To this end,
the operator sets the stop, with the metering slide closed, to the position which they have previously
determined from the fertilizer chart or by a calibration test.
9. Spreading operation
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