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STALK SHREDDER [1 record]

Record 1 2006-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cultivating and Tilling Equipment
  • Silviculture
  • Forestry Operations
DEF

A power-driven machine, with cutting blades or chains rotating in a horizontal plane to cut and pulverise vegetation. [It is] attached to a horizontal rotating cylindrical rotor, usually mounted with its axis at right angles to the direction of travel. An implement comprising a transverse cylinder with deep metal cleats for cutting and breaking weeds or light scrub (or heavy scrub).

Key term(s)
  • bush cutter

French

Domaine(s)
  • Motoculteurs et motobineuses
  • Sylviculture
  • Exploitation forestière
DEF

Matériel permettant la destruction des végétations indésirables en particulier des broussailles.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Motocultores y motobinadoras
  • Silvicultura
  • Explotación forestal
DEF

Máquina provista de dos potentes cuchillas que se deslizan una contra otra con movimiento alternativo para cortar la broza y la maleza.

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