Brazil, a country that has over 40 million hectares with pasture of brachiaria (Brachiaria sp.), is the second largest bovine breeder in the world. For the maintenance of this pasture, the most important item to be developed is its cleanness. In this context the goal of the present report was to study the active parts of a rotor mower, evaluating the types of actuating forces in the machine: new sharpened blade with deflector, new sharpened blade without a deflector, new blade not sharpened without deflector, used blade not sharpened with deflector, used blade not sharpened without a deflector, and chains with and without deflectors, replacing the blades. The experiment was outlined in randomized complete blocks with eight treatments and six replicates. The treatments were not statistically different in relation to the analyzed values: performance and energetic use.
mechanization; rotary mowers; blade; energetic use
