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About Chaff Cutter machine

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Chaff cutter is one of the effective machines used for cutting fodder like straw or hay into small pieces for mixing together with forage. In general Processing includes the operation that improves the quality of farm products. 

Based on cutting mechanism chaff cutter is divided into two types: 

  • Cylinder type  
  • Flywheel type 

Cylinder type: It has knives which are spirally arranged on a revolving cylinder. The cutting head of a lawn mower is somewhat like this arrangement. Usually four knives are spirally fixed. It is mostly used on power chaff cutters. Blades are easily sharpened with a grinder. 

Flywheel type: Flywheel type cutting unit has a number of knives. These knives are arranged radially on the side of a big flywheel which is usually made of cast iron. Straight knives are used on power chaff cutters and curved knives are used on hand chaff cutters. There are usually two knives on hand chaff cutters, whereas two to six knives on power chaff cutters. 

Based on the dropping position of cut chaff, this machine may be of three types: Let-Fall type, Throw-Away type and Blow-up type.  

In Left-Fall type, the cut fodder is dropped down to the bottom of the chaff cutter. In throw-away type the cut fodder is stored at the front ward of the chaff cutter and in blow-up type the cut fodder is blown up through the blow-up pipe.  

Based on the source of power it may be: Manually operated, Animal operated and power operated machine. 

KisanKraft has power operated chaff cutter, you can watch the demo video of chaff cutter:

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