How to grind roots and herbs?

What is interesting about the herb chopper?

The chopping unit is an electric mechanism with a commutator type motor, which, with the help of a strong elastic fishing line, quickly turns greens and foliage into a substance useful for the household.

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The device effectively chops greenery and foliage using a fishing line. The resulting plant mixture is used beneficially in the garden and in livestock farming for:

preparing compost and mulch;
feeding domestic animals: rabbits, pigs, sheep, cows, all types of poultry.

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Methods for making a unit yourself Option #1 - a drill to help you!
Option #2 - for owners of the Typhoon vacuum cleaner
Option #3 - grass cutter from what was on hand
Option #4 - homemade straw cutter

A Few Safety Warnings

The choice of finished equipment largely depends on the volume of raw materials to be ground. After all, ground grass is needed not only to fertilize the soil. It is also useful for those who have a subsidiary farm: chopped greens are added to the feed of livestock and poultry. A small amount of work can be easily handled with a regular saw. This is the name given to a triangular plate equipped with a durable and sharply sharpened lower edge.

A chopper is a basic tool for chopping grass. If the amount of work is small, then you don’t have to buy or build a gasoline or electric grass cutter. Place the cutting on the cutting and get to work

To work, the chaff is placed on a long stalk. It allows you to avoid bending over while doing work. The raw material to be chopped must be spread on the ground in a layer of 10-15 cm. The surface should not be hard, and the layer of grass should not be too large. Then the cut will not become dull and will not spring back. When the chopper hits from top to bottom, the grass is cut into small pieces.

If the volume of greenery being processed is large enough, you need a solid unit, which this video will help you choose.

How does a grass and branch chopper work?

An effective device - a grass chopper, the price of which is indicated in the catalog - has a simple design:

A loading hopper into which grass waste, leaves and small branches are placed for subsequent processing.
An electric motor located at the bottom of the housing under the loading container.
Reliable support on metal legs that withstands vibration and protects the unit from tipping over.
A shredding system in the form of a flexible line (3 mm) that grinds garden waste, turning it into a porridge-like product, so useful as mulch for the garden.

Question answer

How to grind roots, herbs, mushrooms, seeds.

Why grind roots, mushrooms, herbs, seeds and fruits.

When crushing plants, their area of contact with water increases when preparing an infusion or decoction, thereby, they better and more release the beneficial substances they contain.

Degrees of grinding.

1. Coarse grinding. Pieces of root and mushroom ranging in size from 1-2 cm. Optimal grinding. If desired, you can grind it even finer at home. The structure of the plant is visible.

2. Pharmacopoeial grinding. The particle size of the root or fungus is 5-7 mm. The optimal size for preparing an infusion, decoction or vodka tincture. You can almost see the structure of the plant. The optimal grinding size for making herbal teas at home.

Safety precautions when working with a chopper and during its manufacture

Since the design of the garden shredder includes piercing and cutting elements driven by a powerful engine, in order to avoid injuries you should follow the safety rules when working with it:

Before starting work, it is necessary to protect your face, eyes and head from wood chips, which can fly in different directions during the grinding process. This point is especially relevant when processing large branches. To do this, it is recommended to wear special safety glasses, a hat and a mask. You also need to select protective gloves that are sized so that they do not fall off your hands while loading raw materials.
The garden shredder must be installed on a flat surface to avoid it being thrown over during the working process. It is strictly forbidden to operate electric grass cutters in rainy or windy weather.
You can push and straighten the branches located in the funnel of the device only with a special pusher, but not with your hands.
Breaking branches should be of the recommended thickness, which will help avoid equipment breakdown.
Before loading the grass into the grinder, it is recommended to first sort it out, removing foreign objects from it (stones, metal, glass, plastic, etc.).
It is recommended to use only fresh branches for crushing. To avoid short circuits, do not use units with a damaged wire or socket, or allow moisture to come into contact with the cable. When refueling a petrol shredder, do not use an open fire near it, or smoke.
Before cleaning the device, you must wait until all units have completely stopped and disconnect the chopper from the power supply.

A garden shredder is an indispensable and useful thing for gardeners and farmers, which can be easily purchased at markets or made with your own hands. The main thing is to follow safety precautions and properly maintain the unit.

Grass cutter from trimmer

A garden shredder can be made using a gasoline or electric trimmer. In this case, the tool will work in an upside-down position. To create equipment designed to chop grass and thin twigs, you will need, in addition to a brush cutter with cutting attachments, the following materials:

• plastic or metal container with a volume of at least 50 liters;

• approximately 1 sq.m. steel mesh with small mesh size;

• about 3 meters of metal tube (aluminum or steel) half an inch in diameter;

• a piece of board or moisture-resistant chipboard, plywood of such width that the trimmer fits on it;

• clamps that will attach the brush cutter to the wooden base;

• self-tapping screws, bolts, nuts, washers;

• wooden blocks (5 by 5 cm is enough).

To assemble a chopping mechanism from a trimmer, you will need to use the following tools and devices:

• a screwdriver or screwdriver with bits;

• electric drill with a set of drills for wood and metal;

• an electric jigsaw with files for cutting metal or its manual equivalent;

• hammer;

• open-end or socket wrenches;

• punch;

• an anvil or a flat iron plate.

A punch is needed to make it convenient to drill holes with an electric drill. This tool is pointed at the point where the metal needs to be drilled. Then it is hit with a hammer. The drill does not slip out of the resulting recess when drilling a metal part.

Hole punch set

Preparatory activities

A grass cutter from a brush cutter is manufactured in a number of stages. Initially, they are prepared in a container where the grass and branches will be ground:

• make markings on the bottom (along the perimeter) for four trapezoidal holes with rounded corners;

• drill holes with a cross section of 1 cm in each drawn segment;

• a jigsaw file is inserted into them and trapezoids are cut out;

• process the cuts with a file or sandpaper;

• drill a hole in the center of the bottom for the chopper shaft;

• a circle is cut out of steel mesh with dimensions according to the diameter of the bottom;

• using small scraps of boards or blocks, the prepared mesh fragment is secured to the container from below;

• legs for the container are made from metal tubes, attaching them to the tank using bolts.

The wooden pieces are fixed with self-tapping screws, twisting them from the inside of the tank into metal jumpers between the cut trapezoids. In this way, the mesh is securely attached to the bottom of the container.

The legs are made in the following way:

• bend the tubes in a vice or using a pipe bender in the shape of the letter “P”;

• the ends of future supports are flattened with a hammer;

• 2 holes are drilled into them on each side (6.5 or 8.5 mm cross-section);

• fit the workpieces to the bottom of the container and mark the points of bolted connections;

• drill according to the hole mark;

• using bolts with washers and nuts, attach to the footrest casing.

After preparing the casing, in order to reduce the dimensions of the created mechanism, the following operations are performed:

• disassemble the trimmer, disconnecting the motor, rod and cutting attachment from each other;

• cut off a fragment approximately 20-40 centimeters long from the rod with the cable;

Operating principle of the device

The design of the grass and extra branches shredder itself is quite simple. This will include several basic elements:

Protective cover.
A special working shaft, which is equipped with additional knives.
Engine.
Reception box.
Pulley with additional belt.
Metal frame.

To make it quite simple and comfortable to move such a device around the entire site, it should be placed on a specialized two-wheeled base. The operating principle of the device is considered quite simple. So, the shaft, with the help of a special motor and an additional belt or chains, begins the process of rotation. At this time, branches and excess grass enter the box, which are quickly chopped using sharp and small knives. In general, this resembles the operation of a simple meat grinder.

Such grass cutters are often used by summer residents themselves. In addition to all this, you can find industrial devices on sale that can easily cope with very thick branches. Of course, such devices are distinguished by a particularly complex design and increased productivity.