SR EN 786:2003

Garden equipment . Electrically powered walk-behing and hand-held lawn trimmers and edge trimmers - Mechanical safety

This European Standard specifies mechanical safety requirements and testing for design and construction of electrically powered walk-behind and hand-held lawn trimmers and lawn edge trimmers, with cutting element(s) of non-metallic filament line or freely pivoting non-metallic cutter(s) with a kinetic energy of not more than 10 J each, and used by a standing operator primarily for cutting grass. This standards is not applicable to: a) scissor type or lawn trimmers and lawn edge trimmers with cutting means other than those described above; b) self-propelled lawn trimmers or lawn edge trimmers; c) lawn trimmers or lawn edge trimmers which do not have a distance of at least 600 mm between the cutting means control and the cutting head. The electrical aspects of electrically powered lawn trimmers and lawn edge trimmers are not covered by this standard. The list of significant hazards dealt with in this standard is given in Annex A. Annex A also indicates the hazards which have not been dealt with. Environmental aspects have not been considered in this standard. This Europe

General information

Status : Withdrawn
Approval date : 11/28/2003
Publish date : 11/29/2003
Withdrawal date : 5/31/2010
Number of pages : 26
ICS : 65.060.70 Horticultural equipment
Technical Committee : 77 - Machinery for agriculture and forestry, tractors and irrigation techniques

Relations with other standards:

Normative reference SR ISO 3789-1:2000
Replaced by SR EN 786+A2:2010
Amended by SR EN 786:2003/A1:2003
Amended by SR EN 786:2003/AC:2004