Cultivator you need if you want get rid of severe mechanical work on your own plot of land. Ease of use, versatility, compactness and low price - thanks to these advantages, the cultivator has become indispensable in a small private farm or in the country.
With the help of a cultivator you can easily and quickly cultivate small area land, cultivate hard to reach places (alpine slides, land near the fence and others). Cultivators are widely available in stores garden equipment.
You can make a cultivator yourself from simple materials.
The cost of a homemade cultivator will be several times lower than a store-bought one.
Types of cultivators
Let's consider kinds cultivators. The main parameters that you need to pay attention to are the weight of the mechanism and its power.
Heavy
Heavy mechanisms weigh up to 60 kg, and power reaches 6 hp. Such cultivators are equipped with their own engine, or are attached to a walk-behind tractor.
For more information about the operation of a heavy cultivator, watch the video:
Average
Medium mechanisms are the most common type in private households. Their weight is 45-60 kg, power is from 4 to 6 hp. The soil is cultivated to a depth of 25-28 cm.
Lungs
Lightweight mechanisms – characterized by reduced weight (up to 40 kg). They cultivate the soil to a shallower depth - up to 18 cm.
Medium and light mechanisms can be assembled with your own hands using minimal technical knowledge.
Device
Select the power of the cultivator. Power is perhaps the most important parameter. The larger it is, the higher the speed of work and the greater the depth of plowing. But along with power, the weight of the unit and its price also increase.
A lot depends on the material for the knives. How better material, the longer the service life, the better quality work.
Used in subsidiary farming hand cultivators, they are the easiest to make, as well as repair or replace. For their manufacture, parts and materials from other failed mechanisms are often used, which allows saving on materials.
The cultivator can be used not only by itself, but also in conjunction with a walk-behind tractor - then the cultivator is used as a replaceable attachment.
How to do it yourself?
Before making a cultivator, treat metal parts against corrosion. If this treatment is not carried out, metal parts will quickly rust from frequent contact with the soil. If you treat it with a special anti-corrosion compound, then the device will last you much longer.
To make the working part, square steel plates are taken. The size may be different, for a walk-behind tractor it is 150*150 mm. For cutters, plates of 25*4 cm are taken.
Drill a hole in each plate. Connect both plates (square and rectangular) together in pairs so that they look like a cutter.
Bolts are used for fastening.
If you use welding, the product will not be as reliable.
Once you have connected the plates, make another hole and secure them to steel pipe. We will need two pipes fastened together with cutters. After that the pipe can be attached to the walk-behind tractor shaft.
In this case, you can use such walk-behind tractors as: Cayman Vario, Cayman 320, Patriot Ural, Texas, Foreman, Crosser, Viking, Forza, Sadko, Don, Huter, Profi, Plowman, Champion, Carver and other models.
Simple models of cultivators can be made without a drawing, especially if you have engineering and technical experience. It is advisable to assemble more complex models of cultivators for a walk-behind tractor with your own hands according to drawings indicating all the required dimensions.
Weeding
A do-it-yourself weeding cultivator for a walk-behind tractor is used not only for loosening, but also for weeding. The design of the weeding cultivator has some unique features.
A hanging frame is used as a base. On one side the frame is attached to the walk-behind tractor, and on the other side it rests on one or more wheels. Special paws are installed on the frame, which cut weeds at the root, and can also loosen the soil to a shallow depth.
Let's look at several types simple cultivators that you can do yourself.
This is one of the most simple ways. The cultivator consists of a horizontal handle, a rod and a plowing device. Used as a basis regular pitchforks. The teeth are bent like a corkscrew, then the forks are mounted on the handle. To bend the teeth, a regular hammer is enough.
You can use a shovel handle or any other analogue as a handle. You can use electrical tape to secure the handle to the nozzle.
From a bicycle
It's more complex type. But with its help you can do more agricultural work.
Let's take it bicycle frame with one wheel. To control the device, use a steering wheel or plastic handle. Installed between two parts of the bicycle frame transverse part(steel rod attached by welding or bolts).
It is best to take a medium-diameter wheel, this will make it more convenient to operate the device.
Then we attach the head to the cross section and the cultivator is ready.
Video on how to make a cultivator from a bicycle.
Serrated
To operate, several disks are used that rotate along an axis. Can take 3-5 discs.
For example, we take 5 steel disks (diameter 16-30 cm), a rod (diameter 10 mm), an axle (length 32 cm, diameter 15 mm) and a holder (wooden or plastic).
Since the discs are difficult to remove from any broken mechanism, they will have to be manufactured.
To make discs you need the simplest lathe, and if you don’t have a machine, you’ll have to order discs.
Holes for the teeth are drilled in the disks (but not in all disks, but in 3 out of 5 or 2 out of 3). Teeth are attached to each hole. Then the disks are mounted on the axle according to the principle - one disk with teeth, one disk without teeth. Trunnions and bearings are installed along the edges of the axle.
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Suitable as a pen shovel handle or plastic - your choice. When using such a cultivator, the earth is well saturated with oxygen, and weeds are pulled out by their roots.
This cultivator can not only loosen the soil, but also level the surface, and also rid the soil of large particles of soil.
As a work surface disks are used. The discs are welded to the surface of the bushings, which, in turn, are put on the axle. To secure the axle, staples are used. In the largest of the brackets, it is necessary to provide a protrusion through which the pipe will pass.
A handle must be attached to the surface of the pipe, which will be used to control the cultivator. The main thing that needs to be taken into account during manufacturing is the problem of disc deformation. To avoid this problem, use special nuts that will allow you to adjust the discs during operation.
It must be remembered that the discs should not be flat, their shape should be convex. The shape of the workpiece can be changed using a hammer.
As you can see, to make such a necessary thing on the farm as a cultivator, not very difficult. Sometimes a cultivator can be made only from scrap materials. But even if you have something, you will have to buy something; the costs will not be very high.
The first thoughts of making homemade devices for a walk-behind tractor appear after the need to transport cargo, so my epic began with useful devices for a walk-behind tractor and was the first to make a homemade trailer cart.
We make homemade products for the walk-behind tractor with our own hands
For quick and high-quality processing soil, you need to make homemade “crow’s feet” cutters for a walk-behind tractor, which will mix the soil to a sufficient depth and break up hard clods.
Homemade rakes for walk-behind tractors are also useful attachment. It is best to have several of these different types of rakes.
Every gardener will also need a homemade hiller for a walk-behind tractor. The hiller will allow you to form smooth and high ridges in all beds with root crops.
A homemade blade for a walk-behind tractor will make it easier to remove snow and sand from land plot, will create good conditions for further tillage.
Homemade rake for walk-behind tractor
If you wish, you can easily make a homemade rake for a walk-behind tractor. For wide-grip hay rakes, you can use regular ones. water pipes, differing in their diameters. You will need to put a special bushing on the round rod, then tap its surface, turning it slightly.
When making, a round rod is best suited. Most parts of the rake are held together by electric welding, since this method simple, and yet a reliable design is obtained.
Greater design simplicity can be achieved if the rotating parts on the axes are fixed without rolling bearings.
It is better to make the hay rake for the walk-behind tractor foldable, as this will simplify their transportation.
How to make a homemade blade for a walk-behind tractor
The walk-behind tractor can serve as a bulldozer for leveling soil, clearing sidewalks or roads from dirt and snow. To do this, you need to make a homemade blade on a walk-behind tractor, which is usually used sheet metal 1-2 mm thick. Four steel ribs (stiffeners) from a sheet 3-4 mm thick are welded inside the blade.
Holes are drilled into them locally to fasten the blade with the rods in a strictly vertical position in relation to the front of the walk-behind tractor. It is also better to sheathe the bottom of the blade with tin so that it does not bury itself in the ground.
- 1 – dump sheet (tin);
- 2 – 4 pcs stand (stiffening ribs);
- 3 – bottom sheet of the dump (tin);
- 4 – knife; 5 – linkage mounting eye.
Convenient homemade seeder for walk-behind tractor
Conventionally, seeders for walk-behind tractors are divided according to the number of simultaneously sown rows - from 1 to 5; vegetable seeders and precision seeders are also distinguished.
Vegetable seeders are used for dotted sowing of vegetables: carrots, onions, beets. The device for feeding seeds is driven by the support-drive wheels of the sections. In addition, the rotation speed of the device is regulated by replaceable sprockets.
Precision seeding vegetable seeders have a brush sowing device. In such a device, a rotating brush agitates the layer of seeds in the hopper so that they fall out into the hole located in its back wall. The hole is closed by a rotating disk having holes various diameters. By turning the disk, you can change the size of the holes and thus change the seed sowing rate.
A homemade seeder for a walk-behind tractor is usually connected to the walk-behind tractor using a universal hitch, thanks to which the walk-behind tractor can be equipped with two-row and four-row seeders.
Homemade shovel for walk-behind tractor
The walk-behind tractor often acts as a bulldozer, leveling the soil and also clearing sidewalks or roads of dirt and snow. It is equipped with a blade shovel.
You can make a homemade shovel for a walk-behind tractor without any difficulty if you have a grinder, a drill and a welding machine on your farm.
It takes a long time to search suitable metal you don’t have to, since an ordinary two-hundred-liter steel barrel is suitable for making a dump shovel. By carefully cutting it into three parts, you will get three curved segments for a shovel. By welding two of them along the contour, you will get a blade shovel with a metal thickness of 3 mm, which is quite enough for the required rigidity of the blade blade.
Making a homemade disc hiller for a walk-behind tractor
We begin to make a homemade disk hiller for a walk-behind tractor by searching for lids from steel pans that are unnecessary on the farm (preferably not enameled, but simply metal). The required diameter is approximately 40-50 cm, taking into account the fact that the depth of germination of potato roots into the ground is no more than 15-20 cm. Next, we sharpen the blades of the lids, and in our case they are already hiller discs, on grinding machine. If the lids are flat, then they are slightly bent to one side with a hammer.
Next, in order to make a convenient hiller, you need to make a cart to which the disks that move the soil will be attached. This can be a structure made of pipes and bushings; we attach small support wheels to its lower frame.
After this, you can proceed to testing such a hiller directly in the potato plot of the garden.
How to make a homemade plow for a walk-behind tractor
Is it necessary to make a plow for a walk-behind tractor if you don’t have any special metalworking skills? Yes, it's worth it. The design of this agricultural implement is quite simple and therefore it should be done correctly homemade plow Anyone can use a walk-behind tractor.
Before you begin to implement your plan, you need to look through the previous posts on our website, where we described the manufacturing process in detail with drawings.
Professional tools are best suited for the job; they will allow you to perform all technological operations with your own hands at the required level and at the same time maintain their quality. An amateur tool is unsuitable for such work because its level of strength is insufficient to perform some of the operations.
Homemade crow's feet cutter for walk-behind tractor
This is an all-welded, non-dismountable steel cutter, which gives it significantly greater strength than conventional cultivator cutters. A homemade crow's foot cutter for a walk-behind tractor shows great efficiency and is successfully used when plowing hard soil. It can be aggregated with almost any walk-behind tractor or cultivator with a suitable axle diameter.
The “crow’s feet” cutter is very good to use when plowing the land for planting potatoes, especially if the soil is hard with large clods of earth, or when, to prevent the Colorado potato beetle, wireworms and other garden pests, you need to quickly plow the garden “in the winter.”
“Crow’s feet” are usually sold unsharpened, and many gardeners who have already tested these cutters recommend sharpening them for easier and faster plowing.
Below are drawings of a homemade crow's feet milling cutter with a diameter of 520 mm, a grip of 1250 mm, and a total number of beams of 30 pcs. 3 pcs. per section. The beam is bolted to the coils.
When plowing the soil with such a cutter, it loosens and rises to a depth of an average of 40 to 100 mm, depending on humidity.
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1. Do-it-yourself potato planter for a walk-behind tractor
Potato planter from Ildar Sunagatullin
How to make a potato planter for a walk-behind tractor (beginning)
How to make a potato planter for walk-behind tractor 2
How to make a potato planter for walk-behind tractor 3
How to make a potato planter for walk-behind tractor 4
How to make a potato planter for walk-behind tractor 5 (dimensions)
Homemade POTATO PLANTER (tests)
Homemade potato planter. I plow and plant potatoes.
2. Homemade cultivators for walk-behind tractors
Homemade hedgehog cultivators for walk-behind tractors
Homemade cultivator for a mini tractor from a walk-behind tractor
Homemade inter-row cultivator for walk-behind tractor
Quick weeding cultivator
3. Homemade flat cutters for walk-behind tractors
Do-it-yourself potato row weeder for a walk-behind tractor. Flat cutter for walk-behind tractor
Flat cutter for walk-behind tractor. Capture 1 meter
2-row weeder cultivator for walk-behind tractor
4. Homemade hiller for walk-behind tractor
DIY disc hiller for walk-behind tractor
Do-it-yourself disk hiller for a walk-behind tractor. Dimensions
Hillers for planting potatoes. Great option!
Disc hillers with cultivator tines for hilling potatoes
Photo review of the creation of a disk hiller for a walk-behind tractor
5. Homemade mowers for walk-behind tractors
Homemade rotary mower for a walk-behind tractor paired with an adapter
The knives are located 1 cm higher one in relation to the other. The rotors are made of metal 3 millimeters. An additional paper air filter, half of a passenger car, is mounted in the air intake.
DO-IT-OUR-HANDS MOTOR-BLOCK MOWER (Neva MB 3 walk-behind tractor)
In this video, I will show how a rotary mower on a walk-behind tractor made from scrap metal works. The working width of the homemade mower is 45 cm, the cutting height is 3.5 cm. The rotary mower is made for the Neva MB 3 walk-behind tractor; it mows grass well at any height, both low and high.
6. Homemade lugs for walk-behind tractors
How to make lugs for a walk-behind tractor. Manufacturing process.
Mini-video about making homemade lugs for a walk-behind tractor with your own hands.
7. Homemade potato digger for walk-behind tractor
The potato digger is designed for digging up root crops in a summer cottage or garden plot. By aggregating your walk-behind tractor with a vibrating potato digger, you will greatly facilitate the process of digging up potatoes, which previously took a day of your time and will turn into an hour. In this model of potato digger, the manufacturer took into account all the shortcomings of previously released copies. In accordance with the requests of customers who previously purchased this model, changes were made to the design of the digger. Today the Poltava vibrating potato digger is the most popular model in its class, as evidenced by search queries in Yandex and Google. Manufacturer's price and delivery to any region of Ukraine will be a pleasant end to the purchase of a digger.
Characteristics of a potato digger for a walk-behind tractor:
Working width: up to 390 mm
- processing depth: up to 180 mm
- drive: belt
- soil separator: adjustable by engine speed
- dimensions, LxWxH: 900x670x570 mm
- weight: 34 kg
The simplest homemade potato digger for a fan-type walk-behind tractor. In this video I show a potato digger I made, which I have been using to dig potatoes for more than 3 years on my plot.
The potato digger is made from scrap materials for the Neva walk-behind tractor, without the use of a screen. Lightweight, simple, reliable and at minimal cost.
8. Homemade wood splitter for walk-behind tractor
Screw cleaver for walk-behind tractor
Branch chopper + wood splitter for walk-behind tractor
How to make a wood splitter
Rack splitter
9. Homemade snow blower for walk-behind tractor
Homemade auger snow blower for a walk-behind tractor with your own hands
10. Homemade seeder for walk-behind tractor
Corn seeder for walk-behind tractor
11. Homemade trailer to the walk-behind tractor
The trailer can be attached to a car, mini tractor and walk-behind tractor
Do-it-yourself walk-behind tractor trailer
Dimensions of a trailer for a walk-behind tractor and a mini tractor with your own hands
Technical support in the farm of a modern farmer certainly includes means for cultivating the land. For this purpose, cultivators and walk-behind tractors are used, which, depending on the model, can perform the tasks of loosening, leveling, cutting weeds and other operations. Since the design of the working body is technically elementary, for a skilled home handyman It won’t be difficult to make such a device with your own hands. As a rule, they are not inferior in efficiency to factory analogues, but it is important to calculate how to install them on a walk-behind tractor or tractor. However, today manual models are also common, the operation of which does not require connection to other equipment.
General information about cultivators
Many people associate the concept of “cultivators” with mini tractors and walk-behind tractors that perform soil cultivation functions. However, if you delve deeper into the terminology, it turns out that the cultivator is only part technical means directly involved in processing. Depending on the design, homemade cultivators can perform several work operations. They can be universal both in processing and in combination with additional equipment. Before you begin manufacturing such a tool, you should evaluate the nature of the work and the need to connect it to a tractor or other equipment.
DIY hand cultivator
The simplest option for making a cultivator at home. This is a small design, the capabilities of which are enough to grip a strip 20 cm wide. The basis of the device will be a handle in the form metal pipe with a diameter of 2.4 cm. The length of the element is selected specifically for the user’s height. A strong wooden axle must be installed on the bottom of the pipe. The processing organs will be attached to it. Despite the simplicity of the design, homemade hand cultivators can be equipped with wheels. They can be cut from metal sheet 0.3 cm thick and secure with nuts.
There is another design option, which involves a base in the form of a strip of springy metal. In this case, the workpiece parameters should be as follows: length - 5 cm, width - 2 cm, and thickness - approximately 2 mm. Attached to this part wooden handle, through which processing will be carried out. The tape is folded, so it can be shaped into a loop, and then the edges can be turned on both sides with a file. The diameter of the loop can be any; this parameter is calculated based on the area of the garden.
Rotary disc cultivator
This is a more serious unit, with the help of which you can perform loosening, leveling the soil, and hilling. In its design, a homemade hiller cultivator assumes the presence of the following elements: a disk, an axle, a rod and bushings, large and small brackets, a handle and a pipe. The functions of the working components are performed by discs welded to the bushings. The latter, in turn, are placed on the axis of the cultivator. The axial ends are secured in the brackets using a cotter pin. A pipe with a crossbar and a handle is installed in a large bracket in special grooves. A rod 25 cm long and 2.4 cm in diameter is installed on the smaller bracket (by welding).
A 1.6 cm thick rod is also screwed into the rod, which should protrude slightly above the level of the crossbar. The most difficult thing in making this model is giving the disks a spherical shape. In general, this is a common question among gardeners and summer residents who are interested in how to make homemade cultivator with reliable working elements. Without special equipment, there can be only one way - to change the shape of the disks with a hammer, forming a bowl in the central part. Next, it is important to calculate the angle of fixation of the spherical disks in relation to the processing direction. This parameter must be adjusted using thumbscrews installed on the crossbar.
Chainsaw cultivator
This type of homemade cultivator is also suitable for larger-scale work. In terms of power, the device is not inferior to some versions of mini tractors. In addition, you can make a homemade cultivator for a walk-behind tractor from a chainsaw, providing appropriate joints in the design. But a more profitable solution is a fully mechanized unit with a chainsaw engine.
The basis will be a cubic frame welded from corners. The power plant will be located on the transverse corners in the upper area of the body. The fuel tank can be installed even lower using brackets. The front struts will act as a supporting frame for the middle shaft. To fix the bearings of the running structure, the struts should be attached to the longitudinal elements. The result will be homemade walk-behind tractor, whose center of gravity will be above the surface with the wheelbase. A rubberized roller can be used as wheels, and the handles can be made from pipes.
Cultivator from an electric meat grinder
In this case, the power unit is borrowed from the meat grinder, but otherwise the concept remains the same. The frame from which homemade cultivators for a tractor or walk-behind tractor are made can also become the basis for autonomous equipment. A special feature of this design is the ability to quickly break soil layers into large clods. If operation is expected at low speed, then the processing will be delicate and will provide a loose cover.
It is necessary to weld two corners to the crankcase of the gearbox removed from the meat grinder. Two pipes are also installed on them, the ends of which must first be bent - in the future they will become handles. The wheel axles are also attached to the base using corners. You should not choose excessively large wheels, as they will cause unnecessary trouble during the processing process. But small ones are also undesirable, as they sink into the soil. Respectively, best option- medium wheels with a diameter of 20 cm. A shaft should be machined from mounting scrap. Using a sledgehammer or a large hammer, it is necessary to break off the nozzle of the meat grinder, which will allow you to remove the bushing, which will take the shaft with the lug screw into the structure.
Do-it-yourself rotary cutter
This unit is a cross between manual models and a full-fledged walk-behind tractor. If you want to get a homemade cultivator, the cutter of which carries out processing without a third-party drive, then this option will be optimal. Any installation with a displacement of 50 cm 3 will fit in place of the engine. The tasks of the cutters can be transferred to a structure assembled from parameters 0.5 x 4 cm. For one cutter you will need 8 elements. Next, the strips need to be shaped like the letter L and connected to each other in the center with bolts so that four crosses are formed.
The supporting base will be a metal box, which should also house the gearbox deceleration. Such a frame can be made from plates 0.4 cm thick and To pass the intermediate shaft, two holes should be made at the top of the formed box. The shaft will rotate in two bearings installed in two housings welded from plates. To adjust the positions, homemade cultivators with this design are equipped with them. They can be welded to a base made of plates.
Lancet cultivator
The unit has a simple design and does not require combination with other equipment, but at the same time produces good results in cultivating the land. The output is a lancet equipment with five working arms. The basis of the structure will be formed by a rocker-shaped frame, also made of lancet-type flat-cutting paws that are installed on it. You can get such elements from the factory walk-behind tractor KPN-4A. It is necessary to fix the cutting components so that one middle and two outer legs are installed in a checkerboard pattern. Their connection should be provided by an articulated frame on springs. The estimated working width with these paws is 33 cm.
for cultivation
A disc harrow can be constructed from a battery formed by 8 discs that are spherical in shape. According to the type of work, it will be a homemade one, the width between the cutting elements will be 15 cm. The harrow interacts with the frame according to the hinge principle. The length of the base can reach 130-140 cm, and the width - 65 cm. In this case, corners with a section of 45 x 45 cm are used for the frame. The depth of penetration into the soil is up to 10 cm, and the approximate working width is 120 cm. The advantages of such a harrow It is also worth mentioning the ability to adjust the angle - up to 17 degrees.
Single body plow
One of best solutions for the manufacture of auxiliary equipment for the tractor there will be a single-hull plow. With its help, in an hour of work you can plow from 0.12 to 0.2 hectares. The processing depth is small - only 22 cm, and the width reaches 35 cm. Homemade cultivators for mini tractors are made from a metal frame base. The plow can be made from channels, and the body can be borrowed from trailed attachments such as a hoe, but with a shortened blade.
Conclusion
There are many design solutions for developing cultivators, and the choice of a specific one is determined by the needs of the future user. Material costs for the manufacture of land-cultivating devices are minimal, and this despite the fact that factory analogues are sometimes valued at tens of thousands of rubles. This largely explains the fact that homemade cultivators are increasingly used not only in private farms, but also in professional farming organizations. In terms of reliability, they are slightly inferior to branded units, and in terms of the quality of tillage they can be superior. You can make a cultivator with your own hands from scrap metal blanks, but the main advantage of such devices is the ability to diversify the designs and, if necessary, make technical adjustments without the help of specialists.
Any summer resident knows how labor-intensive the process of digging up a vegetable garden is. Every time spring comes, we are horrified to imagine how much effort we will have to spend to process a rather large plot of land.
However, modern technology can make our task much easier. And here we're talking about of course about such a tool as a garden cultivator.
In this article we will look at what this unit is, what it is used for, what types of this garden tools There are also ways to make a cultivator with your own hands.
Motor cultivator – This is a tool for agricultural work.
Designed for soil cultivation, namely for cultivating, loosening, plowing, hilling, cutting furrows, harrowing, digging up root crops or weeds.
How to choose a cultivator?
Presented today great amount these devices from various manufacturers. The best proven manufacturers are DDE, Champion, MTD, Elitech, Texas and others.
When choosing a particular model, it is important to be guided by parameters such as relief, area, quality and composition of the soil, as well as the tasks that you set for yourself. You can find a wide variety of soil tillage devices at your gardening store.
Thus, according to their intended purpose, the following types of cultivators are distinguished:
- For continuous tillage - used for pre-sowing tillage with simultaneous harrowing.
- For inter-row tillage— designed for inter-row tillage with simultaneous feeding mineral fertilizers.
- For pre-sowing tillage – used for loosening with layer-by-layer crumbling of the soil, including for the destruction of weeds, leveling and compacting the soil.
Motor cultivators are also divided depending on the mechanisms that operate the device:
- Electrical. Typically used on small personal plots area up to 6 acres. Such cultivators operate via an electrical cable from an electrical outlet. Such models are characterized by light weight, compactness and the absence of harmful emissions into the atmosphere. At the same time they have low power and are practically immobile (only within the length of the cord).
- Rechargeable. Like electric ones, these units are also designed to handle small area soil. They differ only greater mobility while maintaining other characteristics similar to electric cultivators.
- Gasoline. This is the most popular type of this product. Powerful, mobile, high performance. Disadvantages include air emissions and the need for regular maintenance.
Another type of garden tool, which has also found wide use among owners suburban areas- This is a manual cultivator for the garden. Represents a very simple design, namely, curved finger hooks or metal stars on the base, attached to a long metal holder. This device allows the summer resident to quickly work the soil without bending: loosen it and remove stones and weeds.
Which cultivator is better?
There are a number of factors to consider here:
- Types of work to be carried out
- Area of cultivated land
- Features of the landscape (are there beds, flower beds)
- Financial opportunities
Attachments. When choosing one type of cultivator or another, you must take into account that there are additional structures that can be installed on a garden unit. This could be a plow, potato digger, aerator, rake, lugs, running wheels, etc.
The ability to work with one or another depends on the cultivator model. attachments. Therefore, at the time of purchase, check which equipment can be used with the model you choose.
Homemade cultivator
Of course, this unit is not a cheap pleasure. And if funds do not allow you to purchase this useful tool, but at the same time you don’t want to wield a shovel all day long, you can try making a cultivator with your own hands.
There are many ways to create a homemade cultivator. You can make it from a bicycle, a chainsaw, or a Minsk motorcycle. Let's consider the simplest option - a manual cultivator made from a wheel and the frame of a children's bicycle. In fact, such a tool can be made from any scrap metal that you have at your dacha.
We will need the frame and wheel of a children's bicycle, the pointed arm of a cultivator (you can also find it among unnecessary rubbish at the dacha or buy it for pennies in garden store). Such a device will allow you to dig up 5 acres potato field in just 40 minutes.
What is this design?
Homemade cultivator: 1 - support wheel; 2 — pointed cultivator paw; 3 — bicycle frame.
The design of this mechanical assistant is so clear and simple that it allows you to complex circuits understand its structure and create exactly the same unit.
Here's a video about the simplest option hand cultivator, but at the same time very convenient for a small amount of work: