HONDA ENGINE POWERS 'MONSTER' TRIMMER Looking after Dutch shrubs
A 5.5-horsepower Honda engine helps power a giant hedge trimmer that maintains the form of shrubs at nurseries in the Netherlands.
Built by Dutch agriculturist Gebroeders Ezendam BV, the 'Globus' is designed to work in plant nurseries maintaining individual hedge shapes until they reach maturity, are dug up, and shipped to local home improvement centres.
The Globus consists of a tractor-towed or man-towed wheeled platform that accommodates a series of modular shrub shaving implements — offset bar trimmers to create cones and horseshoe-shaped trimmers for making orbs. A 5.5HP Honda gas engine drives a hydraulic pump which in turn drives the trimmers themselves and can shave up to 600 shrubs per hour.
Larger versions of the Globus are not only capable of tearing through as many as 5000 evergreens per hour, they require neither tractors nor human oversight, as they are both self propelled and GPS-enabled. Farm hands simply input which field and row the machine should start on.
