Unquestionably, Ethiopia is still taking the primary place in its livestock resource impending compared African countries. Nonetheless, due to numerous motives the nation has yet subjugated from its commercial likely for years. Although, much of the forage produced in the country is harvested directly by grazing animals, a small portion is manually harvested and carried to the animal. The main of the work was developing and evaluating performance of an engine operated mower which is pushed manually in field. The developed rotary mower has three wheels, two front wheels and one rear wheel. The rear wheel was used for steering at the end of farm land. The pulley on an engine was connected to the pulley shaft carrying blade and the vertical rotation on the engine converted in to horizontal on the blade by twisting the belt. This mower is used to reduce the charge and power requirement for domestic perseverance. This mower is fabricated using locally obtainable material and spare parts and thus, it is effortlessly maintained. This mower might be the way out to the difficulties faced by a small scale farmer regarding price and labor requirement. Earlier this machine was tested in farm and was found that the price of mowing using this mower is widely fewer comparing to labor-intensive mowing.
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