Electric motor-operated hand-held tools, transportable tools and lawn and garden machinery - Safety - Part 4-11: Particular requirements for edgers

IEC 62841-4-11:2026 applies to the following types of edgers

- hand-held edgers having at least one ground-support;

- walk-behind edgers and walk-beside edgers, where the plane of the blade-tip circle is designed to operate at not more than 15° from the vertical.

The edgers to which this document applies have a blade-tip circle diameter of not more than 305 mm, and are equipped with a

- cutting accessory; or

- cutting means with one or more cutting elements pivotally mounted on a generally circular drive unit and have a kinetic energy for each single cutting element of greater than 10 J.

NOTE 101？Machines having cutting elements with a kinetic energy not exceeding 10 J are considered to be lawn edge trimmers and are covered by IEC 62841-4-4.

This document does not apply to

- lawn trimmers, lawn edge trimmers, grass trimmers, brush cutters and brush saws;

- scissor type edgers and brush cutters; and

- machines equipped with metallic cutting accessories consisting of more than one piece, e.g. pivoting chains or flail blades.

NOTE 102？Lawn trimmers, lawn edge trimmers, brush cutters and brush saws are covered by IEC 62841-4-4.

NOTE 103？Scissor type edgers and brush cutters