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Many landowners use agricultural machinery on their plots. For work on small land plots, a mini tractor will be the most convenient in terms of size and price. With its help, you can plow the land even where there are plantations and beds. If you buy a ready-made car for your site, then it will not justify the costs even for decades of operation. Therefore, the best option would be to make a mini-tractor with your own hands from a walk-behind tractor.
Why from a walk-behind tractor? The fact is that almost every farmer has this very convenient and necessary unit on the farm. But it often happens that outdated models are written off and simply gather dust in the sheds. So why not give them a new life and make a mini tractor from a motor cultivator yourself?
Mini tractor from a walk-behind tractor
Such small-sized equipment can be used as a snowblower, and for plowing and cultivating the soil, and even for planting potatoes. Converting a walk-behind tractor into a miniature tractor, which will be more difficult, more mobile, and more powerful, has another advantage: a low price. Any person who knows at least a little about technology can create a homemade mini tractor. There is no special, universal construction scheme, each master has his own. Still, before work, you need to work out more than one drawing, study more than a dozen schemes of the future model.
Choosing a walk-behind tractor
When choosing a cultivator for assembling a future model, you need to decide on its main parameters:
- motor power;
- engine type (runs on gasoline or diesel);
- plow dimensions;
- its weight;
- price;
- manufacturer.
In the process of converting motoblocks into mini tractors, products from Russia, China and Belarus are used. To make the right choice, you need to get acquainted with the characteristics of each manufacturer.
Russian motoblocks are the most popular among technology enthusiasts who want to convert them into a more complex machine. They have positive qualities that are used in the alteration process: they are a belt clutch in the transmission and a system of all-wheel drive attachments, imported motors with small dimensions, great efficiency and fuel economy.
Motoblock produced at MTZ
Chinese walk-behind tractors are a copy of Russian ones, but they have a number of individual characteristics. This is the use of motors, independently designed and produced, simplified designs and the use of cheap materials, reduced cost. Motoblocks from China in appearance differ little from their Russian counterparts. The most famous and popular are such models as Aurora, Bison, Centaur.
Motoblocks manufactured at MTZ (Minsk Tractor Plant) are also in great demand in the market. As well as on Russian designs, Belarusian manufacturers also use engines from foreign firms Honda and Weima on their motoblocks. An individual feature is the use of a multi-plate clutch, similar to a three-wheeled motorcycle.
Aggregate manufacturing options
Assembling a mini tractor with your own hands with an engine from a walk-behind tractor depends on the choice of a future model.If the tractor is later to be used for work on large areas, then the power and weight of the cultivator must be very high. This also applies to the type of soil - a light cultivator cannot process hard layers of soil with sufficient quality. From similar calculations, a motor plow is selected for lightweight soils.
If you focus on the type of engine, then the choice of an economical diesel engine is designed for processing large areas with difficult soil. A diesel engine stands out from a group of similar units with a very noisy engine operation. In contrast, the petrol engine is much quieter. Starts up quickly in any weather, but consumes a lot of fuel, so it is more rational to use it in small areas with loose soil.
Plow for plowing on a mini tractor from a walk-behind tractor
A plow for plowing on a mini-tractor from a walk-behind tractor must be chosen, taking into account the depth of plowing. A collapsible version is suitable for this, which during assembly can be adjusted and adjusted as needed.
The next important point in the alteration is the choice of the manufacturer. Chinese motoblocks are considered the cheapest, but they often fail at work. Therefore, domestic models are recommended, the most famous of which are Favorite, Neva, Salut, Agro, Cascade.
There are several options for how you can remake a tractor based on motoblocks. Self-assembly is not difficult to do, you just need to study the drawings well and prepare everything you need for work.
Mini tractor assembly instructions
After carefully studying the diagrams and drawings, you need to prepare a set of materials and equipment for work. It includes:
- welding machine;
- a set of keys and screwdrivers, nuts and bolts;
- grinder and wheels to it;
- electric drill with accessories drills.
You can start installing the mini tractor. This should not be done without the corresponding drawings, because they describe not only the assembly procedure, but also indicate the individual features of the fasteners, the connection of parts on the selected model. The general reconstruction scheme is as follows:
- manufacturing of a frame, which will subsequently have to withstand the structure itself and the cargo being transported;
- fixing a hitch for additional devices on the tractor (if a trailer is not planned in the model, then it can be installed both in front and in the rear; for a trailer behind the frame, a hitch must be welded - a hook for hitching to a trailer);
- installation of front wheels with brakes and steering;
- equipping the minitractor with an engine from a motor plow in the front of the structure for a reliable balance during the transportation of goods.
This is a general diagram of the assembly and reconstruction of a miniature tractor using an engine from a walk-behind tractor. Each of them has its own picking characteristics, they must be used in the process of self-alteration of models.
Mini tractors based on MTZ, Ugra, Agro, Zubr, Neva motor-blocks
Motoblock MTZ is considered a "heavyweight" because it has a high power, which allows it to be turned into a tracked vehicle. Such a mini tractor has high cross-country ability and deep plowing.
The wide capabilities of the "Urga" walk-behind tractor (cultivation, watering, the presence of an earthen drill, a forage grinder and even a circular saw) will make it possible to use them in a mini-tractor with high efficiency.
The mini-tractor from the Agro walk-behind tractor has one drawback, which may affect its operation. The axis of the module is fragile and can break when overloaded. To avoid this, when reconstructing in a minitractor, you need to use wheel reducers to strengthen the axle.
Motoblock "Agro"
On a mini-tractor assembled from the Zubr walk-behind tractor, you can perform different types of work: plowing the land, mowing grass, collecting and transporting crops.The machine is very reliable and powerful thanks to its strong engine.
The tractor, made on the basis of the "Neva" walk-behind tractor, is light and has high maneuverability. This allows it to be used for processing hard-to-reach garden and summer cottages.
At the request of the master, in each new model of a mini tractor, you can make a cab with a canopy, install a seat for the driver, connect it with springs to the frame. It is possible to use headlights for work in the evening and at night. All these improvements will create convenience and comfort for the owner of the car. This, in turn, will increase the performance of the unit.
