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S Wear eye protection and heavy clothing.
S Extend your left arm and hold loop handle
with your left hand.
S Hold throttle grip with your right hand with
finger on throttle trigger.
S Keep unit below waist level.
S Keep shoulder strap pad centered on your
left shoulder.
S Maintain full weight of tool on your left
shoulder.
S Without bending over, keep the blade or
trimmer head near and parallel to the ground
and not crowded into material being cut.
OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS FOR
USE WITH TRIMMER HEAD
WARNING: Always wear eye protec-
tion. Never lean over the trimmer head. Rocks
or debris can ricochet or be thrown into eyes
and face and cause blindness or other serious
injury.
Beforetrimming,bringenginetoaspeedsuffi-
cient to cut material to be trimmed.
Do not run the engine at a higher speed than
necessary . The cutting li ne will cut efficiently
when the engine is run at less than full throttle.
At lower speeds, there is less engine noise and
vibration. The cutting line will last lo nger andwill
be less likely to “weld” onto the spool.
Always release the throttle trigger and allow the
engine to return to idle speed when not cutting.
To stop engine:
S Release the throttle trigger .
S Push and hold the ON/STOP switch in the
STOP position until the engine stops.
TRIMMER LINE ADVANCE
Advancelineby tappingthebottomofthecut-
ting head lightlyon t hegroundwhile engineis
running at full speed. The metal line limiter
blade attached tothe guard will cutthe lineto
the proper length.
WARNING: Use only 2,4 mmdiame-
ter line. Other sizes of line will not advance
properly and will result in improper cutting
headfunction orcan cause seriousinjury.Do
not use other materials such as wire, string,
rope, etc. Wire can break off during cutting
and become a dangerous missile that can
cause serious injury.
CUTTING MET HODS
WARNING: Useminimum speedand
do not crowd the line when cutting around
hard objects (rock, gravel, fence posts, etc.),
whichcandamagethetrimmerhead,become
entangled in the line, or be thrown causing a
serious hazard.
S The tip of the line doe s the cutting. Y ou will
achieve the best performance and minimum
line wear by not crowding the line into the
cutting area. The right and wrong ways are
shown b elow.
Right Wrong
Tip o
f
line does
the cutting.
L
ine crowded into
work area.
S The line will easily remove grass and weeds
from around walls, fences, trees and flower
beds, but it also can cut the tender bark of
trees or shrubs and scar fences.
S For trimming or scalping, use less than full
throttle t oincreaseline lifeand d ecreasehead
wear, especially:
S During light duty cutting.
S Near objects around which the line can
wrap such as small pos ts, trees or fence
wire.
S For mowing o r sweeping, use f ullthrottle fora
good clean job.
TRIMMING -- Hold the bottomof the trimmer
head about8 cm above theground andat an
angle. Allow only the tip of the line to make
contact. Do not force trimmer line into work
area.
Trimming
8 cm above
ground
SCALPING -- The scalping technique re-
moves unwanted vegetation down to the
ground. Hold the bottom of the trimmer head
about8cmabovethegroundandat anangle.
Allow the tip of the line to strike the ground
around trees, posts, monum ents, etc. This
technique increases line wear.
Scalping
MOWING -- Your trimmer is ideal for mowing
in places conventional lawn mowers cannot
reach. In the mowing position, keep the line
parallel to the ground. Avoid pressing the
head into the ground as this can scalp the
ground and damage the tool.