Stanley FATMAX SFMCMW2651 - Mowing Operations and Tips; Starting the Mower; Mowing Tips; Carrying and Storage

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Carrying the Mower (Fig.A)

DANGER: Rotating blades can cause serious injury.
To prevent serious injury, remove safety key and
battery pack when unattended, or when charging,
cleaning, servicing, transporting, lifting, or
storingmower.
The mower can be carried using the convenient carry
handle
12
. DO NOT attempt to lift the mower by grasping the
main handle
4
.
the safety key and battery packs. Remove the catcher and
shake the grass down to the back end of the bag. Also clean
out any grass or debris which may be packed around the
discharge opening. Replace the grasscatcher.
• If mower should start to vibrate abnormally, release bail
handle to turn mower off, remove the safety key and battery
packs. Check immediately for cause. Vibration is a warning
of trouble. Do not operate mower until a service check has
beenmade.
• For best cutting results, keep blade sharpened andbalanced.
• Inspect and thoroughly clean mower after each use as a
deck with caked grass will degradeperformance.
• Always release bail handle to turn mower off, remove safety
key and battery packs when leaving it unattended even for a
short period oftime.
The following suggestions will help you to obtain
optimum run time from your cordless mower:
• Slow down in areas where the grass is especially long
orthick.
• Avoid mowing when the grass is wet from rain or
dew-soaked.
• Cut your lawn frequently, especially during high
growthperiods.
NOTE: It is recommended that your battery packs be recharged
after use to prolong the battery pack life. Frequent charging will
not harm your battery pack, and will ensure that the battery pack
is fully charged and ready for its next use. Storing battery pack
not fully charged will shorten itslife.
Mower Overload
To prevent damage due to overload conditions, do not try to
remove too much grass at one time. Slow down your cutting
pace, or raise the cutheight.
Starting Mower (Fig.I–K)

DANGER: Sharp moving blade. Never attempt to
override the operation of the switch box and safety
key system as serious injury couldresult.
NOTE: Mower is operational when battery packs and safety key
areinstalled.
1. Lift and hold the battery port cover
7
up to expose the
battery port
24
.
2. Slide a battery pack
21
into the battery port
24
until an
audible click is heard. Repeat this process for the second
batteryport.
NOTE: Ensure the battery packs are fully seated and fully
latched intoposition before startingmower.
3. Close the battery port cover. Ensure the cover is fully closed
before startingmower.
4. Insert safety key
3
into the ONOFF switch box
1
until it is
fully seated inside housing. The mower is nowoperational.
5. Your mower is equipped with a special ONOFF switch
box
1
. To operate the mower, push and hold the ONOFF
button
2
on the ONOFF switch box
1
, then pull the bail
handle
6
to the main handle
4
.
NOTE: Once the mower starts you can release
theONOFFbutton, but you must continue to hold the bail
handle to themain handle for the mower torun.
6. To turn the mower OFF, release the bailhandle
6
.
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WARNING: Never attempt to lock a switch or bail handle
in the ONposition.
NOTE: Once the bail handle has returned to the original position
it will activate the “Automatic Braking Mechanism”. The motor is
braked and the mower blade will stop rotating in three seconds
orless. If mower blade rotates longer than three seconds,
discontinue using mower and have itserviced.
Mowing Tips (Fig.A)
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WARNING: ALWAYS INSPECT AREA WHERE MOWER
IS TO BE USED AND REMOVE ALL STONES, STICKS,
WIRE, BONES, AND OTHER DEBRIS WHICH MIGHT BE
THROWN BY THE ROTATINGBLADE.
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WARNING: Mow across the face of slopes, never
up‑and‑down. Exercise extreme caution when changing
direction on slopes. Do not mow excessively (greater than
15 °) steep slopes. Always maintain goodfooting.
• Release bail handle to turn mower “OFF” when crossing any
gravel area (stones can be thrown by theblade).
• Set mower at highest cutting height when mowing in rough
ground or in tall weeds. Removing too much grass at one time
can cause the motor to be overloaded and to stop.
• If a grass collection bag
10
is used during the fast growing
season, the grass may tend to clog up at the discharge
opening. Release bail handle to turn mower off, remove
Storage (Fig.C, D)

DANGER: Rotating blade can cause serious injury.
Release bail handle to turn mower off, remove safety key,
and remove battery packs before lifting, transporting, or
storing the mower. Store in a dryplace.
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CAUTION: Pinch point. To avoid being pinched, keep
fingers away from area around handle brackets when
folding downhandles.
The handle of the mower can be easily folded down for quick
and convenientstorage.
1. Open the handle lock levers
16
securing the upperhandle.
2. Rotate the upper handle towards the front of themower.
3. Open the handle height adjust levers
15
.
4. Rotate
the lower handle to the storageposition.
5. Close the handle height adjust levers
15
, securing the
lower handle into the storageposition.