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Handheld grass cutter is an electronic or petrol-powered machine which is used to cut the grass. Since everyone likes their houses, offices, buildings, etc. surrounded by natural beauty, they grow plants, garden around houses. But they are also careful about maintaining it, so grass cutter plays important role in it. Traditional cutters available in the market are heavy and do not have any supports so it requires many human efforts during grass cutting. Here, we basically modified traditional hand grass cutter by providing wheel supports and rod support at the front end and middle of the cutter. The study was carried out with two subjective measures such as discomfort rating and Borg category ratio. Total 20 participants were examined with a group of 10 people performed a task on traditional and another group of 10 people on modified hand-held grass cutter. Results of both grass cutters were obtained and compared with each other.
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Mhamunkar, M., Bagane, S., Kolhe, L., Singh, V., Ahuja, M., Li, Y. (2020). Handheld Grass Cutter Machine with Supporting Wheel. In: Goossens, R., Murata, A. (eds) Advances in Social and Occupational Ergonomics. AHFE 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 970. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20145-6_22
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