Operator Manual User guide

14 1007NT Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc.
150-290M 10/06/2010
Hitching Tractor to Drill
In lowered (field) position, with the drill frame set at the
desired height via depth control valve (see page 29), the
tongue must be level.
When hitching for the first time:
• it is necessary to adjust hitch height (page 74), and
• it may be necessary to change the position of the cle-
vis or pintle hitch in the tongue weldment (page 75).
Either Hitch
1. Back tractor close to hitch, and use parking jack to
match heights between tractor hitch/drawbar and drill
hitch.
2. For pintle hitch, skip to step 7.
Ball Hitch
Refer to Figure 3
3. Remove hitch bottom plate:
177-589D BALL SWIVEL MOUNT BOTTOM PLATE
by removing:
two 803-148C NUT HEX NYLOCK 5/8-11 PLT
four 804-019C WASHER FLAT 5/8 USS PLT
two 802-060C HHCS 5/8-11X4 GR5
4. Remove hitch bolt:
802-098C HHCS 1-8X4 1/2 GR5
804-028C WASHER FLAT 1 USS PLT
803-038C NUT HEX 1-8 NYLON INSERT PLT
5. Back tractor drawbar under swivel top plate .
Position bottom plate under drawbar, and secure
with bolts, washers and nuts.
6. Skip to step 10.
Pintle Hitch
7. Use the jack stand crank to raise the hitch strap
slightly. Back the tractor so that its drawbar is aligned
with the strap hole.
8. Shut off the tractor and set the parking brake.
9. Insert and secure the hitch pin.
Safety Chain
10. Connect the safety chain around a suitable anchor
location on the tractor. Take up enough chain slack
so that no part of the chain touches the ground.
11. Retract foot of jackstand. Un-pin stand, remove and
re-pin on storage stob on top of tongue.
Figure 3
Ball Hitch
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You may be severely injured or killed by being crushe
d
between the tractor and drill. Do not stand or place any part o
f
your body between drill and moving tractor. Stop tracto
r
engine and set park brake before installing hitch pin or assem-
bling hitch plates to drawbar.
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