Cub Cadet 59A40003727 - Manual (Page 15)

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• Continue raising the boom until center points of the support
plates on the bottom of the loader hitch bracket are resting
on the ground, the loader hitch arms and bucket are support-
ing the weight of the loader, and the bottom of the RH and
LH masts have lifted off the tubular bars of the RH and LH
mounts. Refer to Figure 13.
• Stop the tractor engine and engage the parking brake.
• Disconnect the loader hoses from the tractor’s hydraulic
couplers by pushing inward the locking collar on each female
coupler of the tractor. Leave the hoses in the hose retainer
rod.
• Re-install the protective plugs in the tractor’s hydraulic cou-
plers, and push the protective caps onto the male couplers of
the loader hoses.
• Re-start the tractor and carefully back the tractor away from
the front loader.
• Re-install the mounting pins in the front mount receiver and
secure with the two lynch pins.
Warning: Do not climb or lean on the loader
while it’s in a stored position. Keep children and
bystanders away from the stored loader.
disMounTing THe loader
Warning: a stored loader can fall and cause
serious injury or death. Securely store loader and
attachments on a hard level surface to prevent
falling.
Warning: To provide necessary balance, the
loader bucket must be installed before attaching
or detaching from tractor, or when loader is in
stored position.
iMPOrTanT: the bucket must be installed to remove and
re-mount the loader.
Move the tractor and loader to a firm, level storage site.
• Using the implement control lever, level the bucket and lower
it to the ground to take the weight off the mounting pins
securing the loader hitch bracket in the front mount receiver.
Set the tractor’s parking brake.
• Remove the two lynch pins and withdraw the two mounting
pins that secure the loader hitch bracket in the front receiver.
Refer to Figure 13.
• Carefully use the control lever to raise the boom and lower the
loader hitch bracket out of the front receiver.
seCTion 9: disMounTing and MounTing THe loader
Lynch Pin
Mounting
Pin
Front Mount
Receiver
Loader Hitch
Bracket
LH Mount
LH Mast
Center of
Support
Plate
figure 13