Cub Cadet 59A40003727 manual dismounting and mounting the loader, Dismounting the Loader

section 9: dismounting and mounting the loader

Dismounting the Loader	• Continue raising the boom until center points of the support
	plates on the bottom of the loader hitch bracket are resting
WARNING: A stored loader can fall and cause	on the ground, the loader hitch arms and bucket are support-
serious injury or death. Securely store loader and	ing the weight of the loader, and the bottom of the RH and
attachments on a hard level surface to prevent	LH masts have lifted off the tubular bars of the RH and LH
falling.	mounts. Refer to Figure 13.
	• Stop the tractor engine and engage the parking brake.
WARNING: To provide necessary balance, the	• Disconnect the loader hoses from the tractor’s hydraulic
loader bucket must be installed before attaching	couplers by pushing inward the locking collar on each female
or detaching from tractor, or when loader is in	coupler of the tractor. Leave the hoses in the hose retainer
stored position.	rod.
IMPORTANT: The bucket must be installed to remove and	• Re-install the protective plugs in the tractor’s hydraulic cou-
re-mount the loader.	plers, and push the protective caps onto the male couplers of
Move the tractor and loader to a firm, level storage site.	the loader hoses.
	• Re-start the tractor and carefully back the tractor away from
• Using the implement control lever, level the bucket and lower
	the front loader.
it to the ground to take the weight off the mounting pins
	• Re-install the mounting pins in the front mount receiver and
securing the loader hitch bracket in the front mount receiver.
Set the tractor’s parking brake.	secure with the two lynch pins.
• Remove the two lynch pins and withdraw the two mounting	WARNING: Do not climb or lean on the loader
pins that secure the loader hitch bracket in the front receiver.
	while it’s in a stored position. Keep children and
Refer to Figure 13.
	bystanders away from the stored loader.
• Carefully use the control lever to raise the boom and lower the
loader hitch bracket out of the front receiver.

LH Mast

Front Mount

Receiver

Mounting

Pin

LH Mount

Lynch Pin

Loader Hitch

Bracket

Center of

Support

Plate

Figure 13

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