Gardena 370 SM operating instructions Maintenance, Assembly, Operation, Storage

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If you come into contact with an obstruction during mowing:

Pay attention to the working environment

Take special care when moving backwards and when pulling the lawn mower. Danger of stumbling!

Never place your hands or feet on or under moving parts.

If the cutting tools or the lawn mower should run into an obstruc- tion and/or solid objects, the lawn mower should be properly and thoroughly inspected.

Only work when visibility is good.

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Mowing with a	With the use of the GARDENA Grass Catcher, Art. No. 2491,
grass catcher (Fig. F)	you save yourself the trouble of raking up the mowed grass.
	Good grass catching results can be obtained by cutting the grass
	when it is dry and pushing the mower at a fast walking speed.

5. Maintenance

	Clean the mower after use and lubricate with an oil of low viscosity
	(e.g. spray-oil). Grease the cutting blades.
Adjusting the cutting gear	The cutting gear of your lawn mower was optimally adjusted be-
(Fig. D):	fore leaving our company. If, after longer use, a clean cut of the
	grass is no longer possible or the blade roller contacts the lower

3. Assembly

blade, then the lower blade should be adjusted as follows:

v Push the supplied thickness gauge 5 on the left side between

Assembling the rod yoke (Fig. A):

4. Operation

The rod yoke is mounted with the bolts supplied. The rod on the left side 1 with the bore hole Is pushed over the rod bolt.

This can only be performed when the yoke is in the vertical posi- tion, since the groove in the bore hole and the safety peg have to fit exactly.

On the right aide 2, the yoke borehole is pushed downwards and over the second rod bolt by applying slight pressure.

	a blade of the blade roller and the tower blade.
	v Turn the hexagonal bolt 6 to the right using a 10 mm fork
	wrench until the thickness gauge is slightly contacted.
	v Repeat this procedure on the right side of the mower.
	v Now turn the blade roller as a test; it should not touch any of
	the five cutters on the lower blade.
	Handling the cutting gear should be carried out with special
	care (danger of Injury by cutting).
Cutting test with
	After you have adjusted the cutting gear, carry out a cutting test

How to cut correctly

Adjusting the cutting height (Fig. B, C):

The GARDENA Hand Lawn Mower is able to mow grass up to 14 cm length.

However, if the lawn is supposed to be well kept, the grass should always be kept shorter.

At the beginning of the cutting phase and on newly laid lawns, a relatively high cutting height should be chosen. With subsequent cuts, the height should be made gradually lower. In order to obtain a well-kept lawn, the cutting height should be adjusted to approx. 2 cm.

Try to cut your grass weekly, if possible. A cropped blade of grass grows well when cut frequently.

Only cut the grass when It Is relatively dry.

In order to obtain a clean cut, push the mower in tracks as straight as possible at walking speed. The cutting tracks should always overlap by several centimetres with this so that a grass strip is not left behind.

For this, position the lawn mower on solid, level ground.

vStand behind the lawn mower so that you can put a foot on the roller 1 (Fig. B/C).

vLoosen both set-screws 2. Now you can adjust the desired cut- ting height with both hands using the adjusting depressions 3 (Fig. C).

Highest cut:40 mm Lowest cut: 20 mm

newspaper (Fig. E):	with newspaper.
Sharpening of the blades /	If you take proper care of the cutting blade it will remain sharp for
Repairs	many years. When it comes time to change the blade, however,
	please contact GARDENA Customer Service.
	Repairs of the lawn mower and installation of the blades can be
	carried out by a suitable workshop.
	Have your lawn mower checked in autumn, if possible, so that it is
	immediately ready for use for the next mowing season.
	For safety reasons, only use original GARDENA spare parts or
	parts approved of by the manufacturer.

6. Storage

Store the mower in a dry room. Lubricate with machine oil.

vMake sure that the cutting height markers 4 Indicate the same cutting height on the scales on both sides.

Now the two set-screws 2 should be tightened again.

The mower may only be adjusted to a depth in which the lower blade does not touch the ground when it is uneven.

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