UL 62841-4-4 Ed. 1-2021

Electric Motor-Operated Hand-Held Tools, Transportable Tools and Lawn and Garden Machinery - Safety - Part 4-4: Particular Requirements for Lawn Trimmers, Lawn Edge Trimmers, Grass Trimmers, Brush Cutters and Brush Saws - Published Date: August 2, 2024

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.