628410-000040-0000401 Scope
This clause of Part 1 is applicable, except as follows:
Addition:
This document applies to hand-held and
walk-behind lawn trimmers
and lawn edge trimmers
, used by a standing operator for cutting grass, weeds or similar soft vegetation, and grass trimmers
, brush cutters
and brush saws
used by a standing operator for cutting grass, weeds, brush, bushes, saplings and similar vegetation. This document does not apply to
– hand-held machines having a mass of 18 kg or greater;
– self-propelled
lawn trimmers
or lawn edge trimmers
; – scissors type
lawn trimmers
and lawn edge trimmers
; – machines equipped with metallic
cutting accessories
consisting of more than one piece, e.g. pivoting chains or flail blades; – edgers with rigid and/or metallic cutting devices.
NOTE 101 Freely pivoting non-metallic
cutting elements
are considered not to be rigid cutting devices. NOTE 102 Edgers with rigid or metal cutting devices will be covered by a future part of IEC 62841-4.
NOTE 103 Annex EE provides an informative summary of characteristics for
lawn trimmers
, lawn edge trimmers
, grass trimmers
, brush cutters
and brush saws
.
Brush cutters
and brush saws
covered by this document are designed only to be operated with the machine to the right of the operator.