PURPOSE: To provide a bush cutter capable of readily cutting grasses and small trees and safely and smoothly performing the cutting of the grasses and the small trees by disposing a gathering member for the grasses, the small trees, etc., at the tip of a shaft.

CONSTITUTION: In this bush cutter, a saw blade 2 rotated by the driving of a driving device 3 disposed at the rear end of a shaft 1 is disposed at the tip of the shaft 1, and a gathering member 5 for gathering cut grasses and small trees is disposed at the tip of the shaft 1. A commercial electric source or a battery such as a secondary battery is preferably used as the driving source, and the driving device is preferably an engine using a liquid fuel or a gas fuel.