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2.6 Danger zone and danger points
The danger zone is the area within and / or surrounding a machine
where the safety and health of any person can be endangered.
No person may remain in the danger zone:
• if the tractor motor is running with the universal drive shaft /
hydraulic- / electronic systems connected.
• if the tractor and machine have not been secured against
unintentional starting or rolling.
Only if there is no-one in the danger zone of the machine, may the
operator:
• move the machine,
• transfer moving machine parts from transport to working position
and from working to transport position,
• actuate work tools.
In the danger zone, the danger comes from hazards that cannot be
completely eliminated for reasons of machine performance reliability.
These hazards are ever-present and can occur without warning.
Warning signs mark these danger spots on the machine. The danger
signs give warning of existing dangers.
In this manual safety information concerning handling draws attention
to the ever-present remaining dangers.
Danger can arise:
• by operation movements of the machine and its tools,
• from materials or foreign objects being slung out of the machine,
• through unintentional lowering of the raised machine / raised
parts of the machine,
• through unintentional starting and rolling of tractor and machine.
The hazard points are located:
• in the vicinity of the drawbar between tractor and machine,
• in the vicinity of the active PTO drive shaft,
• in the vicinity of the discharge openings,
• within the area of the powered discharge conveyor, crossover
conveyor or extension conveyor,
• in the mixing container with the machine powered or not
powered,
• around the discharge pipe and in ejection direction in case of
machines equipped with a straw blower.
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