The Tornado cultivator is a Russian invention that has no analogues in the whole world. This is an agricultural tool that can replace all conventional soil cultivation tools in the country. With him, gardening work significantly benefits in quality and speed.

Description of the cultivator Tornado

A cultivator is a garden technique designed to cultivate soil before sowing, as well as after harvesting. There are electric, gasoline and manual varieties. The inventor of the Tornado cultivator is VN Krivulin. Official manufacturer - LLC "Intermetall" in Bryansk, produces a variety of models.

Tornado cultivator

The multi-tool weighs no more than 2 kg, making it easy to carry. The basis of the cultivator design is represented by a metal rod. At the top of the rod is a horizontal T-handle with curved handles, similar to a bicycle handlebar. In the lower part there are sharp teeth, turned counterclockwise like a corkscrew. All parts of the cultivator are bolted together.

Important! The central rod is equipped with a length adjustment, which is convenient for a person of any height. A series of holes located on the tube allows you to select the appropriate height and fix the bar in the desired position.

The sharp teeth in the lower part of the rod are spiral-shaped, curved counterclockwise. The material is hardened steel, so no sharpening is required. In order for the teeth to enter the ground, it is necessary to set the rod in a vertical position and scroll it clockwise. Working with a cultivator is simple and convenient due to the special parameters of the teeth (length, diameter), sharpness, and a special type of hardening.

Functions

Mini cultivator

The Tornado garden cultivator is used to cultivate a small to medium-sized plot. The main functions of the Tornado cultivator:

  • removal of weeds and wild plants;
  • loosening the soil;
  • harrowing;
  • delicate soil processing near trees and bushes;
  • digging the earth;
  • aeration of the lawn;
  • harvesting grass, dry leaves.

Reference. The depth of tillage during digging is about 20 cm, which corresponds to the bayonet of a shovel. The Tornado tool for weeds is especially effective, for which the cultivator received another name - the cultivator root remover, since during its use weed grass is weeded with pulling out the roots entirely.

Advantages of the Tornado cultivator

Tornado Ultrasonic Mouse Repeller

The invention of this tool greatly facilitates the work of the gardener, as it has a lot of advantages. The main advantages of the cultivator:

  1. Improving soil management. When digging the soil, there is no turning over of fertile layers, which allows you to work the soil while preserving the natural microflora, earthworms, soil moisture.
  2. Unlike deep plowing, there is no danger of perennial weeds lying at a depth on the surface.
  3. Weeds are pulled out as a whole, without being cut into pieces.
  4. The tool is made of glued strong steel, which allows working with different types of soil.
  5. Possibility of processing hard-to-reach places. They can work on flower beds, beds, arable land, aisles, near tree-trunk areas.
  6. Competent uniform distribution of the load on the shoulders, arms, spine, legs and torso allows you to relieve tension from the back and reduce the complexity of the process.There is no need to bend over many times, injuring the lumbar region.
  7. One of the important features of the tool is the ability to model the bar by its own height.
  8. High labor productivity, saving time and effort. In one hour, you can process up to 2 acres.
  9. Compactness, light weight, ease of assembly and disassembly, ease of use.
  10. Inexpensive.

Note! The Tornado cultivator can be used by people of any physique, even adolescents, women or the elderly. Spinal diseases with such a tool are no longer a hindrance to gardening and horticulture.

Principle of operation

The working part of the cultivator is placed on the ground surface

Cultivator "Cayman"

The Tornado hand cultivator is quite simple to use:

  • the working part of the cultivator is installed on the ground surface;
  • the handle is turned to the right, while the teeth are deepened by 20 cm;
  • the tool is pulled out of the soil, not allowing it to reverse;
  • shake off the soil and continue to work on the same principle.

On a note. When cultivating virgin or soddy soil with a mechanical cultivator, it is recommended to divide the plot by drawing squares measuring 25x25 cm. If work with the soil takes place in a greenhouse or greenhouse, then the handles are placed at a slight angle to the surface of the earth.

There is a range of novelties for the Tornado hand cultivator:

  • cultivator Tornado-mini;
  • cultivator potato digger Tornado;
  • miracle shovel Tornado;
  • super drill;
  • garden pitchfork;
  • hand cultivator with lever pedal;
  • cultivator Tornado "New".

The mini-version of the Tornado cultivator is a reduced model of the tool. The light weight allows you to operate the unit with one hand, making it a pivot movement. Main functions: loosening the soil in the aisle, weeding, digging holes for planting, soil cultivation near shrubs and trees. The mini-device allows you to loosen the soil around the berries, for example, strawberries, flower beds. With its help, garbage is removed.

The manual cultivator potato digger Tornado, in addition to its basic functions, is also capable of digging out root crops. Digging up the soil, the tool picks up the tubers and raises them to the surface. To do this, it is installed vertically and rotated around an axis. A specially designed row of 4 tines is screwed under the potato bush and throws the potatoes up. The Tornado potato digger is used to dig up any root crops. Time-consuming work turns into a fun process. The speed of work is noticeably increased. The manual Tornado potato digger can dig up three times more root crops than a conventional shovel.

Cultivator potato digger Tornado

Miracle shovel Tornado - a tool for soil cultivation. The design of the Tornado miracle shovel practically does not differ from similar tools, the Plowman or the Mole. The tool consists of a working fork, a fixed frame equipped with forks, front and rear stops, and a handle. The soil is lifted by the teeth of the movable segment of the forks, loosening is carried out on the pins of the fixed part.

When digging with an ordinary shovel, the back suffers most of all, especially the lower back, since the effort is directed upward. The advantage of the Tornado miracle shovel is the competent distribution of the load. The force is directed downward, which relieves the load on the lumbar spine. Requires 10 times less energy consumption. The tool can handle even dry and hard soil, the working depth is 23 cm. The miracle shovel pulls out weeds with roots, like a cultivator.

Homemade Tornado Cultivator

An analogue of the Tornado cultivator can be made independently. You will need a few materials and tools:

  • shovel handle;
  • steel tape or pitchfork;
  • plastic pipe (length - from 0.5 m);
  • hammer;
  • insulating tape.

You can make a ripper in a day or a couple of hours, depending on the model and your own skills.No special skill is required, since the cultivator design is simple and consists of several movable joints working on the corkscrew principle. A home-made tool is convenient in that if any part breaks down, it is easy to replace it with a new one.

Homemade Tornado Cultivator

The lever will need a plastic pipe at least 0.5 m long. It will allow you to do heavy work with minimal effort. The pipe should be attached to the handle, its diameter should be slightly larger than the handle. A shovel shaft is suitable for the handle.

Handle making:

  • a longitudinal cut is made in a pipe made of metal or plastic;
  • the workpiece is put on a wooden handle and wound, you can use electrical tape;
  • the handle from the pipe is attached to the nozzle in order to avoid its displacement.

The edges of the handle should protrude 25 cm on either side of the handle. To make the main part, consisting of teeth, you need a springy steel tape:

  • length - 50 cm;
  • width - 2 cm;
  • thickness - 1.5 mm.

The tape is folded into a loop and attached to a wooden shank. The diameter of the loop should be about 20 cm, slightly narrower than the row spacing. The ends of the spirally curved tape need to be filed into a long cone with a point at the top.

A long transverse handle is attached to the handle, like in finished models. You can adapt the handlebars from the bike. The length of the rack is made according to your own height. You can make it adjustable with the holes in the sliding part.

On a note. Homemade cultivator teeth can be made from conventional forks.

This requires a hammer. To make bending the teeth easier, the metal is preheated by welding. But you should not overdo it, as the metal can lose its properties and break. It is better to sharpen the teeth in three planes at once. They must exactly follow the corkscrew shape characteristic of the Tornado factory cultivator. It remains to put the attachment with the handle on the twisted forks and you can start using the tool.

Many technologies have been invented for making different designs of the Tornado cultivator with their own hands. A homemade or store-bought helper will prepare the ground before planting, make seed harrows, and kill weeds. On the girldiary website (GIRLDIARY.RU) you can find more information about the Tornado cultivators.