PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cultivator/weeder suitable for operating circumstances with low branch heights and narrow distances between trees, good in operability and low in a relevant operators burden.SOLUTION: The cultivator/weeder is such that: a body includes front and rear cultivating tine wheels and their movement control section thus, even in operating circumstances with low branch heights and narrow distances between trees, by selecting one of the cultivating tine wheels to be used among the front and rear cultivating tine wheels by the movement control section, the advancing speed of the weeder and its advancing and retreating directions can be made easy to control thereby improving the operability of this weeder and mitigating the burden on relevant operator.COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT【課題】枝の高さが低く、樹木間の距離が狭い作業環境に好適で、操作性が良好で、作業者の負担が小さな中耕除草機を提供する。【解決手段】中耕除草機の本体に、前後の中耕爪輪と移動制御部とを設け、枝の高さが低く、樹木間の距離が狭い作業環境であっても、移動制御部によって、前後の中耕爪輪において使用する中耕爪輪を選択することによって、中耕除草機の前進速度の制御、前進後退の進行方向の制御を容易とし、これによって、中耕除草機の操作性を向上させ、作業者の負担を軽減する。【選択図】図1
