Technical specification. Kongskilde Profiline

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Contents

1. Generally

Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Technical specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Safety precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

2. Mounting and adjustment

Commissioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Tyre pressures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Coupling the tractor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Disengagement from the tractor (parking) . . . . 8

Row distance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Marker shifter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Mounting the following harrow. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

3. Setting up the drill

Generally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Calibration of the drill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Agitator shaft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Bottom flaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Seed housing shutters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Lowering the seed funnels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Calibration tray(s) to horizontal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Scale setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Filling of sowing material. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Starting the seed flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Turning the test sowing handle . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Weighing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Calculation of the sowing rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Adjusting the sowing rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Sowing tray(s) closed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Raising the seed funnels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Discrepancies in the sowing rate . . . . . . . . . . 15

Special crops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Sowing of grass seed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Sowing of amall round seeds . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Sowing of peas, beans, maize etc. . . . . . . . . 16

Coulter pressure/sowing depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Coulter tightening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Wheel track eradicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Adjustment of markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Centre marking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Front wheel marking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Marking track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Adjustment of following harrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

4. Attendance

Generally. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Driving speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Emptying of seed hopper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

5. Maintenance and lubricating

Fine adjustment of bottom flaps . . . . . . . . . . 22

Cleaning of seed outlets and sowing rollers . 22

Lubrication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Winter storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

6. Sowing table

Sowing table Barley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Sowing table Wheat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Sowing table Peas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Sowing table Rape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

7. Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28-29

Foreword

KONGSKILDE would like to congratulate you on your new ProfiLine seed drill which we are convinced will serve you well in your work.

In order to use the machine correctly and safely, we recommend that you familiarise yourself with it by studying this instruction manual.

The correct use of the machine, along with careful maintenance, lubrication and storage, will help to keep it in good working order.

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