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depending onhow badly the unit is flooded. If
the unit still doesn’t start, refer to the TROU-
BLESHOOTING TABLE.
OPERATING POSITION
Boots
Heavy,
Long Pants
Eye Protection
ALWAYS WEAR:
Cut from your left to your right.
Hearing
Protection
Safety Helmet
When operating unit, clip shoulder harness
ontoclamp, standasshownandcheck forthe
following:
S Wear eye protection and heavy clothing.
S Extend your left arm and hold handlebar
grip with your left hand.
S Hold throttle grip with your right hand with
finger on throttle trigger.
S Keep unit below waist level.
S Maintain full weight of toolon bothshoulders.
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 line will cut efficiently
when the engine is run at less than full throttle.
Atlower speeds, there is less engine noiseand
vibration.Thecutting line will last longer and will
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 Move the ON/STOP switch to the STOP
position.
TRIMMER LINE ADVANCE
Advancelineby tappingthebottomofthecut-
tingheadlightly onthe groundwhile engineis
running at full speed. The metal line limiter
blade attached tothe guardwill cut the lineto
the proper length.
WARNING: Useonly2,4mmdiameter
line.Othersizes oflinewillnotadvanceproperly
and can cause serious injury. Do not use other
materials such as wire, string, rope, etc. Wire
can break off duringcutting andbecome a dan-
gerous missile that can cause serious injury.
CUTTING METHODS
WARNING: Useminimumspeedand
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 does the cutting. You 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 below.
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
throttletoincreaselinelifeand decreasehead
wear, especially:
S During light duty cutting.
S Near objects around which the line can
wrap such as small posts, trees or fence
wire.
S Formowingor sweeping,use fullthrottle fora
good clean job.
TRIMMING -- Hold the bottom of the trimmer
head about 8 cm above the ground and at an
angle. Allow only the tip of the line to make
contact. Do not force trimmer line into work
area.
Trimming
80mm 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, monuments, etc. This
technique increases line wear.