Patent ID: 7798243

Claim:
A vegetation cutter intended to mechanically separate undesired crops or vegetation from desired crops or vegetation on a land surface, wherein the vegetation cutter during use is movable in a direction through the vegetation, the vegetation cutter comprising: a plurality of knife devices each formed as a long and narrow body with elongated sides and arranged in a distance from each other, each knife device having a cutting blade on a first elongated side working in or towards said distance and a non-cutting surface on a second elongated side, said plurality of knife devices being arranged such that each of the respective first sides of said knife devices are facing the same direction, said plurality of knife devices affixed to a supporting structure at an angle relative the moving direction such that the first sides of said plurality of knife devices are trailing their respective second sides; where the vegetation cutter works, so that when the vegetation cutter is moved through the vegetation, vegetation contacts and brushes along the non-cutting surface, and when it reaches the gap formed by the distance between the knife devices, vegetation with a larger thickness is cut off or damaged, so that they fade, while vegetation with a smaller thickness mainly can pass through a gap formed by the distance between the knives without being damaged, so that they remain undamaged and can grow on further.