Weeds and grasses pose a major problem to farmers. Similarly in maintaining lawns, the grasses are to be cut above the ground level. The commercially available machines for lawn mowing are costly and as such no machine is available for bush clearing.

A power tiller rotovator has been modified as bush cutting machine for cutting grass and clearing bushes. The machine requires only one operator to perform the operation.

Rotational speed

The sprockets and chain transmitting power to the rotovator shaft are replaced with belt and pulleys to increase the rotational speed of the rotary shaft for cutting the grass and bushes by impact.

The modified machine has 15 numbers of mild steel circular plates of 60 mm diameter welded at the end of 6 mm size mild steel chains of 150 mm length. Each chain is attached to the rotovator shaft after removing the rotovator blades............Read More

Source Web Page: The Hindu