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13:05 Nov 4, 2011
Italian to English translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Agriculture
Italian term or phrase:trinciasarmenti
Il termine rientra in una lista di macchinari agricoli.
Ne ho trovato una descrizione in wiki: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinciasarmenti, ma non ho idea di quale sia l'equivalente inglese.
Explanation: "Sarmento" is a cane, in other words a mature grapevine shoot after the bark becomes tan-coloured. Canes are thinned (pruned) in winter and used to make mulch or, increasingly nowadays, pellets for sale or on-site energy production. "Vine chopper/shredder" is OK, although it is actually a hypernym.
"Stalk" can refer to the bunchstem ("peduncolo") of the cluster or the pedicel ("pedicello") of an individual berry but these generally end up as pomace, the fruit waste left behind after the grapes are crushed.
If you are googling "cane shredder", then you are likely to come up with results that involve sugar cane. Try googling "cane shredder" with "vine" as a separate word to exclude the sugar cane occurrences.
pacciamatrici - Hortechwww.hortech.it/portal/default.asp?lang=eng&sez=intro&id...Cached
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pacciamatrici · raccoglitrici · macchine per aiuole ... well – finished and high- quality products that's why an Hortech machine means safety and reliability. ...
Chiara Martini Local time: 02:36 Native speaker of: Italian
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Flailers
Explanation: Flailers: mathewscompany.com, WebDetailwebdetail.org/tag/flailersCached
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O. Box 70 Crystal Lake Illinois 60039-0070 Mathews, Mathews Company, Farm Equipment, Grain dryers, flailers, scythes, farm equipment parts, farming, ...
[Farmer's lung (synonyms: thresher's lung, flailer's sickness ...www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/5328861You +1'd this publicly. Undo
by F Cardis - 1966
[Farmer's lung (synonyms: thresher's lung, flailer's sickness, threshing sickness, corn thresher's disease, agricultural worker's lung)]. [Article in French]. Cardis F. ...
Construction/agriculture - HSE Web Communitieswebcommunities.hse.gov.uk/.../messageshowthread?...Cached
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(and I like this one) the attachment (hedge flailer, a lethal bit of .... Certainly on our construction projects and opn the wider farm, ...
Explanation: "Sarmento" is a cane, in other words a mature grapevine shoot after the bark becomes tan-coloured. Canes are thinned (pruned) in winter and used to make mulch or, increasingly nowadays, pellets for sale or on-site energy production. "Vine chopper/shredder" is OK, although it is actually a hypernym.
"Stalk" can refer to the bunchstem ("peduncolo") of the cluster or the pedicel ("pedicello") of an individual berry but these generally end up as pomace, the fruit waste left behind after the grapes are crushed.
HTH
Giles Watson Local time: 02:36 Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 64
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Thanks, you were very informative!
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Asker: I seem to find cane shredders only used for sugarcane fields; when it comes to fruit farming vine shredder is more prevalent. What are your thoughts on this? Thanks!
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