An emerging method of designing the Flail Mower

In case of cutting of weeds, a system of forces acts upon the material in such a manner as to cause to fail in shear. This shear failure is almost invariably accompanied by some deformation in bending and compression, which increases the amount of work, required for the cutting operation. An impact cutter has a single, high-speed cutting element and relies primarily upon the inertia of the material being cut to furnish the opposing force required for shear. The impact cutting principle is applied in an implement named FLAIL MOWER. The flail mower has knives rotating in vertical planes parallel with the direction of travel. The flail mower includes a cutting member which contains a cutting head named flail knives. The cutting head defines a cutting edge which acts upon material to be comminuted during operation of the rotary impact mechanism. The cutting edge is made wear-resistant by having affixed thereto a plural number of wear-resistant parts made of mild steel metal. The need for development of effective and economic weed management practices, a research work is carried out in the Designing of a flail mower by an emerging way with the following prime objectives:

  To design cutting mechanism of flail mower
 To develop walking type flail mower
 To evaluate performance of cutting mechanism of walking type flail mower.