Improved toothed sickles
1988
Ojha, T.P. | Mandikar, S.S. (Central Inst. of Agricultural Engineering, Bhopal (India))
M/s Dev Agro Tools Pvt. Ltd., a smallscale manufacturer in Bangalore, India has developed improved toothed (serrated) harvesting sickles out of forged medium carbon, high manganese steel. The sickles are toothed with fine, medium and rough types of edges to meet the harvesting requirements of different crops and are self-whetting. The sickles are fixed with standard wooden handles which offer convenience, good grip and safety to the user. The improved metallurgy and manufacturing technology employed by the manufacturer, D.H. Jayadeva, result in high quality sickles produced. There is no need to whet the sickles' cutting edge. Its bottom surface offers also greater advantage in separating the stalks. At present the firm has a manufacturing capacity of 600,000 sickles annually. The manufacturer is planning to undertake the production of hand tools for harvesting pigeon pea, cotton, sugarcane, safflower and other crops with hard vines and stems. The firm has plans to manufacture horticultural tools for local and foreign markets especially in Southeast Asian countries. Using higher quality steel, M/s Dev Agro Tools Pvt. Ltd. has been fabricating machines based on designs of the Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, the National Institute of RNAM [Regional Network for Agricultural Machinery] in India.
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