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Design and Fabrication of Electric Weeder

Machine
H. B. Pansambal1, K. M. Salunke2, P. G. Salunke3, G. S. Sansare4 and Dr. L. B. Abhang5
UG Students, Department of Mechanical Engineering1,2,3,4
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering5
Pravara Rural Engineering College, Loni, India

Abstract: Weed is a plant that is considered undesirable in a particular situation, it is basically “a plant in
the wrong place”. Weeds are needed to be controlled because it reduces crop quality by contaminating the
commodity. Weeds reduce farm productivity, they invade crops, smother pastures and in some cases can be
harmful for the livestock. They aggressively compete for water, nutrients and sunlight, resulting in reduced
crop yield and poor crop quality. Weed control is one of the most difficult tasks on an agricultural farm.
Mechanical weed control is easily adopted by farmers once they get convinced of its advantages. Motorized
agriculture weeding machine not only uproots the weeds between the crops rows but also keeps the soil
surface loose, ensuring better soil aeration and water intake capacity. Weeding by motorized Weeder
reduces the cost of labour and also saves time. In human operated Weeder, muscle power is required and
so it cannot be operated for long time. The traditional method of hand weeding is time consuming. In this
Battery drive motorized weeder we use motorized system, which is powered by battery.

Keywords: Weeder, Motor, Battery, blade

I. INTRODUCTION
Weed control is one of the most difficult tasks in agriculture that accounts for a considerable share of the cost involved
in agriculture production. Farmers generally expressed their concern for the effective weed control measures to arrest
the growth and propagation of weeds. In Indian agriculture, it’s a very difficult task to weed out unwanted plants
manually as well as using bullock operated equipment which may further lead to damage of main crops. More than 33
percent of the cost incurred in cultivation is diverted to weeding operations there by reducing the profit share of
farmers. A weed is essentially any plant which grows where it is unwanted. A weed can be thought of as any plant
growing in the wrong place at the wrong time and doing more harm than good (Parish, 1990). It is a plant that competes
with crops for water, nutrients and light. This can reduce crop production. Some weeds have beneficial uses but not
usually when they are growing among crops.

1.1 Types of Weeder

Power weeders are used in farming activities to remove the weeds and control the plant from degrading the top fertile
layer of the soil or say the fertility of the soil.
 Front tine
 Rear Tine
 Mini Cultivator

Front Tine:
Front tine tillers are designed for breaking up light soils, weeding, and general garden maintenance. They have several
features that make them ideal for use in small-to-medium-size gardens with soft soil conditions.

Advantages:
1. Adjustable tine width.
2. It can narrow gaps between plants to rows up to two feet wide.
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Disadvantages:
1. Require more effort and potentially multiple passes.
2. A rear tine tiller on small patches of garden and maintenance is overkill

Rear Tine:
Rear tine tillers break up hard ground and till it into soft garden soil that can easily be cultivated and sowed. They allow
you to loosen soil effortlessly without the exhausting labour. As the powerhouses of the tiller family, rear tine tillers are
the tool to choose when you're working with large plots of soil that's hard and rocky or heavy with high clay content.

Advantages:
1. Rear tine tillers are considered stronger, can turn the soil deeper.
2. Rear tine tillers are considered stronger, can turn the soil deeper.

Disadvantages:
1. It tends to be more difficult to use.

Mini Cultivator:
Mini tillers might be useful for home gardeners because their narrow size and increased maneuverability often makes
them more practical for working around shrubs, trees, and perennial plants.

Advantages:
1. The mini cultivator reduces a lot of manual labor and time.
2. It also helps in pumping water, harvesting, threshing & transporting crops.

Disadvantages:
1. Low productivity
2. It need to replace discs in manual rotary cultivators

II. LITERATURE REVIEW AND OBJECTIVE

2.1 Objectives
The objective of the project is to design, construct and test battery operated weeder, to provide the best opportunity to
farmer’s to easily control and removing the weed fromfarm. Weeding with the use of tools like cutlass and hoe requires
high labor force in a commercial farming system hence mechanical weeder is necessary to reduce the labor force.
Environmental degradation and pollution caused by chemical is reduced by the use of Mechanical weeder. Low
effective operation, high work effort and high time requirement for different types of hoe or cutlass, can be over come
with the use of mechanical weeder.

2.2 Literature Review

For the project we studied reviews having Authors namely R. Mangesh Kumar,M.Mayakannan :Design and
fabrication of battery operated weeder machine.
Pream Kumar, Sumit A : Battery Powered Weeder
Akash Singh , Kartik shriwastav : Desing and Fabrication of Battery Operated Agriculture Weeder
Mr Sanket Desai , Shuham Joshilkar : Design and Fabrication of Battery Operated Multicrop Weeder Machine.And so
many other reviews

Summary
Weed control is one of the most difficult tasks in agriculture that accounts for a considerable share of the cost involved
in agriculture production. Farmers generally expressed their concern for the effective weed control measures to arrest
the growth and propagation of weeds In can agriculture, it's a very difficult task to weed out unwanted plants manually
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as well as using bullock operated equipment which may further lead to damage of main crops. More than 33 percent of
the cost incurred in cultivation is diverted to weeding operations there by reducing the profit share of farmers.

III. WORKING PRINCIPLE

An electric weeder is a piece of garden machinery that is powered using a battery or mains electricity, used to improve
soil quality and drainage by breaking up compacted soil ready for planting. Electric weeder are used in small to
medium-sized gardens to break down hard ground and compact soil. They get the earth nicely loosen up so that it's
ready for planting. The tines on an electric weeder work at a rapid rate and get deep into the ground, so it'll save you
from hours of manual labour with a garden fork.

IV. CONCLUSION
Agricultural development plays important role as a driver of rural poverty reduction. The effort required to develop a
weeder will meet the demand of farmers. The efficiency of weeder should be satisfactory and it is easy to operate. It
was faster than the traditional method of removing weed. Less labor needed and it is more economical than hand
weeding. Here do not use any fuel and power. Hence maintenance cost is very less. Cost of weeding by this machine
comes to only one-third of the corresponding cost by manual laborers. The fabrication of Low cost Weeder is done with
locally available material. The overall performance of the weeder was satisfactory.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT
It gives us great pleasure to present a project phase-II report on “Design and Fabrication of Electric Weeder Machine ”.
In preparation of this report number of hands helped us directly or in directly. Therefore, it become our duty to express
our gratitude towards them Foremost we would like to express our sincere gratitude to our Project guide.Dr .L.B.
Abhang, Assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering Department for his continuous support for our study. His
Encouragement, Patience, Guidance and Supervision of our work led us to this achievement. We are very much obliged
to head of Mechanical Engineering Department Prof. S. B. Belkar, for helping and giving proper guidance. His timely
suggestions made it possible to complete this report for us.

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[5] Development and Evaluation of a Rotary Power Weeder by Olaoye. JO and TA Adekanye, university of Ilorin

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