Odisha engineering college students devise guide grass-cutter to make sure cleaner environment with out vitality consumption
2 min read By Express News Service
ROURKELA: Offering a low-cost answer to the nagging drawback of grass progress and weeds, a bunch of 10 diploma engineering college students of SK DAV Polytechnic Institute have devised a guide grass-cutter to make sure cleaner environment with out vitality consumption.
The college students, who’re of their closing yr of Mechanical Engineering, conceived the system as a part of their challenge task. It took them 10 days to design the grass-cutter utilizing easy equipment. Group members, Jitendra Mahanta and Jagdish Parida stated utilizing bi-cycle wheels, iron frames, cycle chain, pedals and different tools, they managed to provide the guide grass-cutter as a substitute for different garden mowers most of which run on petrol. “It took us 10 days to ready the machine which requires further modifications to boost its efficacy,” they stated hopefully.
The easy and efficient machine, which rests on a four-wheeled construction, is operated with a foot pedal. The blade features when the operator exerts power on pedals hooked up to gears. Head of the Mechanical Engineering division Reena Ray stated the guide grass-cutter has two primary mechanisms of steering and equipment. The current machine has solely ahead motion and desires few adjustments to facilitate reverse motion. “The grass-cutter can also be converted into a bush-cutter with change of attachments,” she stated, including that even a layman with out coaching can simply function the garden mower. Students could be suggested to make some needed adjustments to make it extra helpful, Ray stated.
Other staff members Amit Soreng, Santosh Oram, Nikhlesh Soreng, Maheswar Majhi, Akash Samal, Kuna Ray, Manisha Majhi and G Nagma Reddy expressed their satisfaction at innovating a machine which may show to be a super selection in face of rising gasoline prices and may be operated by anybody.
