Trenching

You can utilize the edger’s optional trenching feature in order to create a wider cutting path for such things as laying wire for landscape lighting.

WARNING! Disconnect the spark plug wire and ground against the engine before performing the following steps.

WARNING! The edger blade is sharp. Wear leather work gloves to protect your hands when working around the edger blade.

1.Use two wrenches (one wrench to prevent hex bolt head from spinning and the other to unthread the flange nut) to remove flange nut that secures edger blade, leaving the edger blade in place. See Fig. 5–4.

Tri-Star Blade

Flange Nut

Edger Blade

Flat Washer

Figure 5-4

2.Install the additional edger blade supplied with your machine and the flat washer. See Fig. 5–4.

3.Secure with the flange nut removed earlier. Use a torque wrench to tighten the flange nut to between 37 foot-lbs. and 50 foot-lbs.

NOTE: Make certain that drive belt is seated correctly on blade spindle and that it is riding smoothly on spindle sheaves and is not pinched between them. Repeat first three steps if belt is pinched.

Section 5 — Operation

 

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