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Section 1 Assembly and Setup
11/16/00
RC35120 RCM35120 Rotary Cutter 312-301M
Land Pride
Pull-Type Cutter
Refer to Figure 1-10:1. Back off leveling rod jam nut, (#16) and leveling tube
nut (#15) on levelingrod.
2. Raise tongue off the ground manually and suppor t
tongue with screw jack.
3. Back the tractor up to the tongue until holes in drawbar
and cutter hitch are aligned.
4. Attach cutter with 1 1/4” hitch pin and secure with lock
pin. Alwaysuse a pin that contains a safety locking de-
vice to prevent it from fallingout.
5. Place tongue jack in a horizontal position on the jack
mount located on the left front of cutter deck.
6. Tighten leveling tube nut until it bottoms out on trun-
nion. Turnnut additional 2 or 3 turns and tighten jam
nut.
7. Connect cylinder hoses to tractor remote outlets.
8. Attach safety chain on tongue hitch to tractor and lock
hooksecurely on chain. Adjust chain length to remove
all slack exceptwhat is necessar y to permit turning of
the cutter.
9. Slide PTO shaft over tractor’s splined shaft and secure
with locking device of PTOshaft.
10. Secure chain on PTO around cutter tongue to restrict
outer shield of PTO from rotating. Leaveadequate
length of chain loose for turning.
11. PTO should now be moved back and forth to insure
that it is secured on the shaft of the tractor and stub
shaft on the cutter.
12. Should the PTO shaft require shortening:
Refer back to Figure 1-8:a. Hold the shafts next to each other in the shor test
working position and mark them.
b. Shor ten inner and outer guard tubes equally.
c. Shorten inner and outer sliding profiles by the
same length as the guard tubes.
d. Proper overlap is a minimum of one-half the
lengthof each tube, with both tubes being of equal
length.
e. Round off all shar p edges and removeburrs.
Grease sliding profiles.
NOTE: Chain should be attached to PTO at imple-
ment end of shaft.
Pull-Type Tractor Hook-Up
Figure 1-10
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