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When cultivating the land, the cultivator helps to loosen and weed the soil. Some models can use additional attachments that significantly expand their functionality and make them versatile cultivators. The article will tell you about which attachments for motor cultivators can be used when cultivating the land.
Attachment types
Motor-cultivators are useful both for processing small summer cottages and for fields of farms. To get started, you need to choose a device that is suitable in terms of power. For plots with an area of less than ten acres, cultivators with an electric motor are suitable. They are easy to use, work almost silently, and do not require much effort during operation. However, if the field area is much larger, or it is necessary to cultivate dense clay soil, then it is necessary to use cultivators with a gasoline engine. Examples of high-quality equipment of this type are Champion, Texas, Hyundai, Viking, Neva or Cayman motor cultivators.
Attachments for cultivators
Attachments can help you do many types of work in the field.
Plows
Usually, a cultivator without additional equipment can only loosen the soil, but a mounted plow for a cultivator will allow plowing. Usually it is possible to adjust the plowing depth.
Cultivator plow
In addition to plowing, a plow for a motor-cultivator can be used as a tool for planting potatoes and digging them out.
Harrows
After plowing, large clods remain that must be crushed. Harrows are used for this purpose. There are two main types of such devices:
- disc harrows;
- dental.
In the first case, discs are used that cut through clods of earth. In the second, the harrows break up clods in the same way as it can be done with a rake.
Harrow
Hillers
These additional devices perform important functions:
- help to form the beds;
- spud the previously planted potatoes.
The cultivator hiller consists of two surfaces that are located at the back and slightly turned inward. Being near the ground, they move the ground closer to the axis of movement, forming a gap between the rows and raking the ground into the garden bed.
Hiller
Cutters
There are cutters that come with the cultivator. They use saber-shaped cultivator knives. They can be effective in fairly soft soils. If the soil is clay, it is more advantageous to use cutters of a different design (they are supplied as a hinged device, for example, a cutter knife for a Mole motor-cultivator, left and right) - they are called "crow's feet". In this case, the cutting parts are horizontal when they enter the ground. They are mounted on legs attached to the axle. A motor cultivator with an active cutter can work on denser soil.
Cultivator cutters
In the basic configuration of the Texas cultivator, 6 types of cutters are provided, therefore there is no need to use hanging cutters for the cultivator.
Potato planter and potato digger
Digging up potatoes is a tedious job.With a potato digger connected to a cultivator, this work can be done with much less effort. The potato cultivator resembles a shovel blade with several metal rods coming out of the top.
Potato planter and potato digger
More complex designs use a shovel blade and a special lattice bottom cart. The soil with the potatoes falls on the grate, then falls down, and the potatoes remain on the cart.
In a potato planter, to plant potatoes, a plow is used to create a furrow and a bunker from which potatoes fall into it at regular intervals.
Mowers
The mower is positioned in front of the cultivator. Cultivator mowers usually look like two horizontal discs under which the blades rotate quickly.
Cultivator mowers
Trailer
There is an opportunity to facilitate the transportation of goods. For this purpose, a cultivator trailer can be connected to the device. Typically, a cultivator cart has a lifting capacity of 250-500 kg. Some models have a front seat for an employee.
Adapter
Usually, when working with a cultivator, a person holds it by the handles and leads it in front of him. The adapter seat is a trailer that has two wheels and a seat is installed. Once connected, a person can sit on it and operate the cultivator equipment while sitting.
Snow blower
This attachment can be used for snow even if it is dense and well packed. With the help of pointed augers, it crumbles a layer of snow, which then falls into a special bucket and through a pipe on it falls to the side of the track.
Snow blower from cultivator
Aerator
This device is needed in order to process the topsoil and make it looser. Usually it is a roller, to which a large number of teeth are attached, which, when moving, plunge into the ground.
Rotary brush
This device is designed for cleaning up debris. It is a brush made in the form of a roller. It is installed in front of the cultivator.
Rotary brush
With the help of a rotary brush, it is possible to remove debris not only on the ground, but also on paths, lawns or indoors.
Blade knife
This cultivator is connected from the front. Outwardly, it is a copy of a reduced-size bulldozer knife. It can be used to remove a lot of sand, debris or snow.
Lugs
These are additional wheels. Lugs for a motor-cultivator are designed to improve traction with the ground while driving with trailed equipment. Cultivator lugs are especially important when the work is carried out on wet and slippery soil.
Lugs
Homemade attachments
In this case, much depends on the skills and abilities of the master and on the availability of the necessary tools.
Potato digger
A potato digger can be made of metal parts by welding them together. The flat foot is designed to loosen the ground. Several reinforcing rods must be welded to its upper side. The upwardly curved cultivator coulter must be attached to the share.
Below is a sketch of the device.
How the opener looks schematically
Hiller
To independently make a disk model of a hiller, you need to prepare:
- Two steel posts.
- You will need rolling bearings, 2 pieces.
- Bolts will be needed to attach the frame to the rack.
- Cross member made of shaped tube.
- Leash, which is made in the form of the letter "T".
You can use the bottom of an old gas cylinder to make discs. These parts have the desired thickness and shape.
The following drawing will help you understand how the hiller should be arranged.
Schematic representation of a hiller
In manufacturing, the accuracy of the parts and their installation is important.
Attachment care
When using attachments, it is important to follow the rules for its operation:
- When connecting an additional device to a motor cultivator, each action must be performed strictly according to the instructions.
- After completing the work, it is necessary to clean the working parts of the device.
- If there are threaded connections in the attachment, they must be carefully lubricated with machine oil.
It is necessary to use attachments for cultivators to expand functionality. It should be remembered that the connection must be carried out strictly according to the instructions.
