Patent ID: 8857137

Claim:
A vegetation cutting apparatus comprising: a movable carriage having a conveyance system configured to convey the carriage over ground, the conveyance system including conveyance members; and a cutting system mounted to the carriage for cutting vegetation, the cutting system including cutting blades which are laterally drivable around the periphery of all of the conveyance members for cutting of vegetation laterally around the conveyance members, the cutting system comprising a rotary member rotatably mounted about a rotary member rotational axis which rotates the cutting blades laterally around the conveyance members, the rotary member having two rotary arms extending away from the rotary member rotational axis, each rotary arm for rotating about the rotary member rotational axis for rotating a respective cutting blade around all of the conveyance members, each cutting blade also being drivably rotatable by a motor relative to its respective rotary arm about a respective cutting blade rotational axis.