scope:

Specifies safety requirements and their verification for design and construction of self-propelled, mounted or semi-mounted vine shoot tipping machines. These mobile machines are used for trimming vineyard and other fruit trees that grow in the same way (trellising plants) and similar applications. Their cutting tools are either: - high speed rotative blades (which cut by impact), or - rotative blade and counter blade (which cut by shearing), or - reciprocating cutting bar (which cuts by shearing). This standard does not apply to: - tipping machines for free standing fruit bushes, - walk-behind pedestrian controlled machines, - machines intended to be mounted on walk-behind pedestrian controlled machines, - hand-held machines.