How to make a cultivator for a power tiller

Tow bar for power tiller with his own hands

Cultivator is necessary for you, if you want to get rid of heavy mechanical work on your land plot. Ease of use, versatility, compactness and low price. these advantages have made the cultivator indispensable in a small private farm or cottage.

With the help of a cultivator you can easily and quickly process a small area of land, conduct treatment of remote places (alpine hills, the earth around the fence and others). Cultivators are widely available in garden equipment stores.

Cultivator can be made yourself from simple materials.

Hedgehogs for weeding: purpose and types

This is what the hedgehogs for treating potatoes look like

Devices for removing weeds, in addition to their direct function, help to solve several related problems:

• They loosen the soil near the potato bush;
• They reduce the loss of moisture;
• They favor a better tuber formation;
• Thanks to timely cultivation, potatoes of any kind are less affected by pests and diseases.

On large plots it is difficult for dacha owners and farmers to do without primitive tools: hoes and rakes. Hand tools in the fields are being replaced by a single axle tractor for cultivation and a hedgehog for mechanized potato weeding.

There are two types of hedgehogs. This is a rotary hedgehog (used for weeding, loosening the soil, loosening and hoeing of potato plants). Cone hedgehog is good for working in the field before and during the sprouting period.

Thanks to these functions potatoes can be ploughed quickly, with minimum effort. This is the advantage of any type of hedgehog. It is not difficult to buy them today. But there is one big disadvantage with readymade tools. they are not cheap. It is possible to reduce the cost of purchasing equipment by constructing them with your own hands.

Homemade implements are available, simple and reliable. It is possible to make them from improvised materials and those that are sold in any hardware department of hardware store.

Commissioning

Before you immediately perform any agricultural work with your own improved power tiller, you must perform a few final checks:

• Make sure the seat is securely installed;
• Check the quality of all welds and secure bolts and screws;
• start the single-axle tractor and make sure that the engine runs smoothly and normally;
• Install, if necessary, attached gardening implements and try them in action;
• be sure to check the brakes and make sure they work.

If all of these simple jobs don’t cause any problems with your power tiller, you need to get it looking its best. To do this, the adapter created by your own hands is primed and painted in any color you want. This stage allows not only to give the crabapple a beautiful appearance, but also protects the metal from corrosion.

Creating an adapter with your own hands is a responsible matter that requires time, experience and extreme care. Therefore, only those masters who already have similar experience should take on this work. In other cases, it is better to either buy a ready-made adapter, or ask for help from a specialist.

Needed materials and tools

To always be able to make some necessary products in the countryside, it is necessary to prepare in advance the most sought-after materials.

First of all it is necessary to have a large amount of steel. It should be in every workshop. The number of different strips, profiles and pipes determines how much of the necessary tools you can make yourself.

Many people do not know where to start when assembling a hand cultivator with their own hands. Blueprints are the first thing a novice landlord should have. You also need to have the following set of tools and materials:

• Profile of steel, pipe or rebar. This material will vary depending on the chosen model.
• A wheel and its fixture. As an alternative, you should take the frame from a bicycle.
• Handle. For this part you can use both metal pipes and handles from a shovel.
• Welding. You can connect the parts with welding, and you can also use bolts, but it is desirable to have a welding.
• Drill with a set of drill bits.
• An angle grinder with cutting wheel.

Your own construction

So, the first thing you will need to pay attention to when independently creating a fieldhouse, is the material of which it will be constructed.

In order to make the most ordinary propolnik, it is necessary to understand the manufacturing process and properly implement all its stages. Used in the production of this type of equipment, such as planers for power tiller, tool steel.

Speaking about the form of this piece of equipment, you need to pay attention to the fact that you do not have to choose from a large Spectra, as the requirements here for quality and convenient work are the same: it must resemble a ridge, whether it is a single axle tractor or minitractor with a field tiller.

So, if you have decided what type of tool to create, and if you want to make everything with your own hands, then it’s time to move on to the purchase of steel. Depending on the size of the planer for the power tiller you intend to create, you will need tool steel with a thickness of 3-5 mm.

It all starts with the ploughshare. This part should be mounted on the machine. In other words, the share must be detachable. This part can be made from a normal disk, which is used in a circular saw. For this purpose it will be necessary to remove the cutting part of the part. You can do this with the usual hammer and any chisel or chisel. Once all excess is removed, it will be necessary to sharpen the entire machined area of the disk under the ploughshare for the power tiller.

Next you will need to make a moldboard. In this case you need a pipe of a sufficiently large size. Its diameter should be at least half a meter. As for the thickness of its walls, it should be about 0.5 cm. Then, with the help of gas welding, you create a template for the mouldboard on the mini-tractor. And after that you need to grind it.

After the blade blanks are ready, it will be necessary to assemble the body of the planter. Now you can mount the ground planter on a tractor or other equipment. Once everything is secured, you can begin processing.

About the device

In the fields cultivation is done with the special equipment, but as for the small farms and plots it is possible to use light motorized equipment for their treatment, such as: electric stubble cultivator, mini stubble cultivator, Loplosh or manual stubble cultivators.

If we talk about homemade hand cultivator for dacha with their own hands, to make it is quite real.

It can be made without any special materials and tools, and you can do it in a day or two hours, depending on what exactly will be a future product. a simple hedgehog with a handle, or a modification of an old bicycle.

But the benefit of such a product you will get unambiguously. It will be a well-tended vegetable garden, where a variety of crops grow equally well, clean of weeds with soil that is easy to work.

Function such products exclusively with the help of muscular force, so there will be no costs for electricity and fuel, much less for the maintenance of engines and replacement of parts.

All mechanical parts are extremely reliable, thanks to their simplicity, and if they do break down, replacing anything is very easy. just make a new part from the materials already available.

Also, the manufacture of cultivators requires little or no experience in design or engineering, since they consist mainly of only a few movable joints.

For more information on our hand cultivator, see

What kinds of hoes there are

The tool for dipping beds can be purchased at a store of agricultural equipment or make your own hands.

Single-row

This type of hoe is often used for light types of soil. Furrows can be made after previously loosening the soil with the cultivator.

Two-row

A couple of furrows are cut before the crop is planted. It is also used for loosening and tilling the soil. The device includes a frame on which two furrows are attached at the same time. Due to this feature, the processing of such a tool significantly saves time. Can be attached to a single-axle tractor with a hitch. However, this type of mower needs a lot of resistance to work. This is why it is often used in combination with a weeder.

Propeller

These riders work with special propellers. They are used to dig into the soil and remove weeds, before the beds can be loosened. This option is used for front-drive tractors with two speeds. The reason for this is that the power increases to almost 200 rpm on the last speed.

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Rotary

With this tool the wheels are replaced by spiral tine rotors. In practice, the potato riders have shown an impressive level of performance in furrowing, loosening the soil, and potato hoeing. Can be used on a three-speed power tiller (two speeds and reverse). At the slowest speed, the tool perches the planting, and at the next one, the tool tilts the soil from the space between the rows.

Disk

For soil cultivation it is universal. The working part is the steel concave discs. Plunging into the soil at a given distance, they loosen it, so forming the ridge. To make the use more efficient, you need to angle the discs vertically and in relation to the direction of the equipment.

How to make a disk hoe for a power tiller with your hands is described below. Drawings and dimensions, along with a photo, are included with a description of how to make the tool.

Lister

Has a fixed width of cultivation. It is often used on rather weak power tillers, whose power does not exceed four horsepower. It can work on seedbeds up to 30 cm wide. Has a thin stand and a pair of side wings. The stand protects the tool from overloading and mechanical damage. This type of okuchnik can only be used on dry soil. the sticking of soil will strongly interfere with the work of the moving parts of the design.

You can also find lister nozzles, on which you can control the width of cultivation. They are designed for more powerful power tillers. from four horsepower. Such a tool can also be used to work with moist soil.

Best models ranking

Today’s power tiller market is rich with a wide range of offerings. That said, from the rich list, there are a few options that are most in demand with buyers, to which most of the perches fit.

• “Type. 2”. disc sliding model, which fits “Celina MB”, “Cascade”, “Kadvi”, “Neva”. Perfectly ploughed, weeded and buried potatoes in the created hollows. The model can be adjusted in height, width, and working angle. Needs a hitch.
• “Celina 010417” fits on “Neva”, “Celina”, “Oka”, “Favorit”, “Salut” power tillers (including “Salut 100”). This is a two-row header without a coupler, which must be purchased separately. Adjustable version of plough, adjusted according to soil specifics and cultivation technology.
• Hillers for power tillers Kipor (including the diesel version Kipor KDT 610) are made to order. These models have an adjustable angle of opening, the tool itself has a wheel. In addition to the Kipor KDT, they are suitable for KAMA power tillers.
• Forma 2/4 is a shaper with adjustable row spacing, available in widths of 70 and 75 cm. Equipped with an adjustable slope of the shaping device. Allows for soil cultivation after the planting.
• STV NPD weeder is designed for power tillers VRMZ, Neva, Kaskad, Oka. Requires pre-loosening of the soil before drilling for maximum effectiveness. Single row model, without coupler, sold separately.

Homemade planter on a single-axle tractor. Simple and inexpensive

Tools and materials:.Plywood;-Steel spring wire;-Aluminum tube;-Four bushings with cotter pins;-Uninsulated copper wire;-Aerosol paint;-Lubricant;-Drill;-Hammers;-Snips for metal;-Angle grinder;-Cable;-Trimmer wire for grass trimmer;

Step one: the tube To install the tines of the weed trimmer, some base is necessary. The craftsman used an aluminum tube as the base. The inner diameter of the tube is slightly larger than the diameter of the trimmer shaft. The tubes are attached to the shaft with pins. It is necessary to drill holes in the tube at a certain distance. To ensure their symmetrical position, the craftsman made a special wooden template. Plywood wheels are mounted on the ends of the tubes.

Step two: the rope and line for the trimmer First, the craftsman tried to install cut rope and line for the grass trimmer as tines. The line for the trimmer did not work at all. just lightly smoothing the grass. The cable worked better, but it was still not rigid enough.

Step three: the wire After unsuccessful experiments with rope and fishing line, the master decided to use spring steel wire as tines. Such wire is installed in the grids on the plants that sift the ground.

The wire is cut from the grid and cut into pieces of equal length. After installation, the tines should be about 6-7 mm higher than the wheels.

Step Four: Assembly The tines then fit into the holes in the tube. To fix the teeth uses copper wire. You can try fixing the tines with clamps.

All done. The attachments turned out to be even better and more functional. With his help, he weeds grass, flattens the gravel on the path, loosens the soil, puts lawn grass seeds into the ground.

According to him, the main condition for making such equipment is the wire, which would not bend, but spring.