Mini agriculture shovel with cutter / Muhammad Izzat Shamsul Bahri

• Main Author: Shamsul Bahri, Muhammad Izzat
• Format: Student Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Agricultural machinery. Farm machinery; Machine design and drawing
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/73241/1/73241.pdf; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/73241/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Mara

The project will help people to spend less on agriculture tools as this mini agriculture shovel with cutter is a multipurpose tool and it will not be a problem to store as the product is compact and portable. The objectives of the project are to design a mini agriculture shovel with cutter and to analyze the mechanical systems involve in the product. The product was designed firstly with a concept design sketch and later on proceeded to be finalized using SolidWorks software. After researching on how to fabricate the finalized design, the material of the product was then chosen as well as the price of raw materials were surveyed. Then, the product was fabricated using grinding, drilling, hammering and other machining techniques. The fabricated working prototype was able to do two task which are shovelings work and cutting work. After a few testing of its functions, the product has its advantages as well as disadvantages. The advantages of the product is that it is a multipurpose product, user friendly and cost saving. Meanwhile, the disadvantages are it requires force to do cutting work and its only able to do light shovelings work. The design of the product plays a big role for the mechanical systems of the product to work properly. This is why there are optimum parameters that needed to be considered when designing the product. After considering all the parameters, the product was fabricated and it achieved the objectives of the project. Some improvement can be applied to the design of the product to increase the quality such as make the shaft cylindrical instead of flat and add spring to the design of the product.