Options for homemade hand cultivators
This important function can also be performed with a shovel . But hard work doesn't pay off. Labor efficiency itself increases several times if you use mechanized soil tillage. Any owner of a small plot of land can make a manual plow with his own hands. Special tools may require a welding machine.
It should be noted that soil cultivation began a very long time ago . Several decades ago, at the peak of the garden and dacha lifestyle, such a tool was very popular. It was either bought from factories or made independently.
The most popular types of tools are:
- Flat cutter. This is a tool similar to an ordinary hoe. He is a mechanized version of it.
- Rotary, or star. This plow works on the principle of alternately cutting the soil with knife-shaped stars.
- Cultivator "hedgehogs". It works on the principle of a rotary plow, but the ground is loosened not by knives, but by steel rods that look like a porcupine.
- Tornado. This tool looks like an ordinary pitchfork, but its rods are twisted in a spiral. Additional mechanical devices cannot be installed; it is only a hand tool.
The scope of application of the devices is the widest. Cultivators can perform the following tasks:
- loosen the soil, thereby saturating it with oxygen;
- cut rows for sowing crops and sprinkle them;
- rid plants from the influence of weeds, etc.;
- used together with a walk-behind tractor;
- break up lumps of soil and level the ground.
More about the device
The most popular are small designs whose weight does not exceed 20 kg. They are very productive and compact, and with the help of such products you can perform various tasks on the site: removing weeds, loosening the soil and even applying various fertilizers. A hand cultivator will also be useful when caring for some plants, as it is capable of loosening the soil near the beds, thinning and hilling them.
Note! Of course, you cannot compare a hand-held cultivator in terms of power with a walk-behind tractor, but for basic tasks in a garden plot it is quite enough. The advantages of hand tools include the absence of fuel or electricity costs, as well as the ability to use them in hard-to-reach places.
The design of most types of cultivators includes special cutters, which, moving around the site, loosen the soil. Other attachments can also be used:
- paws for loosening the soil;
- a special sock that loosens and cuts the soil, thereby removing weeds;
- hiller for creating small grooves in the soil, which are needed for sowing various crops;
- needle disk , which is used when a large crust forms on the soil surface;
- feeding knives with special dispensers . They are necessary for applying fertilizers to the soil.
When used correctly, hand cultivators make excavation work much easier. Of course, for this you need to use the appropriate nozzles and types of structures.
Required materials and tools
In order to always be able to make some necessary products at the dacha, it is necessary to prepare the most popular materials in advance.
First you need to stock up on a lot of steel. It should be in every workshop. The number of different strips, profiles and pipes determines how many necessary tools you can make with your own hands.
Welding will be an indispensable tool in every household. With its help, you can quickly and reliably connect all the parts of various structures. Bolts and nuts are used as an alternative to welding, but the reliability will not be comparable.
Many people do not know where to start when assembling a hand cultivator with their own hands. Drawings are the first thing a novice owner should stock up on . You also need to have the following set of tools and materials:
- Profile made of steel, pipe or fittings. This material will vary depending on the model chosen.
- Wheel and fastening to it. As an alternative, you should take a bicycle frame.
- Handle. For this part, you can use both metal pipes and shovel handles.
- Welding. You can connect parts using welding, or you can use bolts, but it is advisable to have welding.
- Drill with a set of drills.
- Grinder with cutting wheel.
What do you need for work?
To make various devices for soil treatment at home, you need to prepare special materials for this. First of all, you need to take care of getting steel. The more different pipes, sheets or metal rods you have, the better. You can’t do without a set of tools, but they are present in any garage, so you don’t have to bother finding them.
A welding machine is one of the most important tools for working with metal products. With it, you can connect different parts made of metal in just a few seconds. Of course, in most cases you can do without a welding machine by connecting the parts using self-tapping screws. But the quality of such connections cannot be compared with the quality of welds.
Cultivator "Tornado"
Making such a cultivator is not difficult. Its base can be made of a metal pipe. It is necessary to weld steel rods to the end of the lower part of the pipe, thereby forming a square shape. After this, the rods are bent in a spiral direction, and the ends are sharpened.
As an alternative, you can use a bicycle handlebar as a lever, and instead of a metal handle, install a shovel shaft. This will significantly save your own effort during work.
Such a device is designed for digging out various roots at great depths, for preparing holes for planting trees, etc. It can be used as an electrophoresis for cultivating the soil with your own hands.
Smoke waterfall trick – Tricks with hookah smoke
It's not that simple here. You should practice a little before performing this trick. Try exhaling through your mouth while inhaling through your nose. This will take a couple of hours, or maybe a couple of days. Step by step the trick will look like this:
- You inhale a lot of smoke;
- Smoothly and slowly you begin to exhale it through your lower lip, directing the flow upward;
- At this time, you should also begin to inhale through your nose (difficult, but possible with proper training);
- Voila, the Waterfall out of the smoke trick has come out!
The famous smoke waterfall trick
How to make a flat cutter
Many people are looking for a cultivator for weeding. You can make such a weeding machine yourself. A profile pipe made of metal or steel is used as the basis for the frame. This base must be made of 2 parts. You need to weld at an angle of 30 degrees. A wheel fork made of a steel pipe or plate 3 millimeters thick is welded to the frame. The wheel itself can either be made independently or purchased. The steering wheel must be made of 2 steel pipes fixed to the frame.
The horizontal part of the frame is an adapter for the cutting attachment. Then you need to install a knife, which is made of steel tape 2-3 millimeters thick. Then the knives are sharpened. The sharpening angle can be changed or adjustable knives can be installed. If there is an old bicycle on the farm, then all the spare parts can be taken from it. Due to the large diameter of the bicycle wheel, the ride becomes very easy when working. The knife is made in the form of an inverted letter “P”, or T-shape. It should be noted that a T-shaped knife must be used very carefully between rows, as there is a possibility of spoiling the harvest.
A special subtype of the flat cutter is the design with forks. This device has several knives that are attached to a fork. It is made of steel rods, and they, in turn, are curved in a special way.
Malfunctions of membrane autocompressors
Diaphragm auto compressors break down extremely rarely. Although they are characterized by some breakdowns inherent in piston devices: damage to the power cable or blown fuse in the plug used to connect to the cigarette lighter.
But still, the main element of the tire inflator that can fail is the membrane. Most often, it is made of rubber or other plastic material, which at low temperatures hardens and becomes inelastic. If such an autocompressor is turned on at low ambient temperatures, the membrane will simply rupture . In this case, repairing a car compressor of this type will consist of replacing the membrane.
Hand plow
Although such a device is called a plow, its intended purpose is contradicted. It does not have the classic properties of a plow. Even two people are not enough to work with such a tool. He is more of a classic cultivator. The device resembles a flat cutter, but an additional traction handle is installed.
Such a structure is handled by one person from the front, who acts as a traction force. And the second, the operator, controls the process of cultivating the land. It is impossible to use such a device without a co-pilot.
It is important to note that such a tool is not suitable for plowing soil for two reasons. The first is that a normal plow turns over layers of soil, but the device only loosens it. In addition, human power alone is not enough for normal plowing of the land.
Classification of tornadoes
The following types of tornadoes are distinguished:
- Scourge-like - the most frequently observed, least destructive, often observed over water. The funnel is smooth-walled, narrow, sometimes meanders:
- Vague - wide, similar to a cloud descending to the ground and spinning. This is a strong tornado, capturing a significant area of the earth's surface, rushing at incredible speed:
- Composite - consisting of several “cords” moving around the main “pipe”. Tornadoes of this type are the most destructive, as they attack several areas of the territory at once:
- Fire tornadoes emerge from clouds caused by either a severe natural fire or a volcanic eruption. They are dangerous because they contribute to the spread of fire over many kilometers:
- Waterspouts occur over the ocean, sea, or less often lake surface, when the water is cold and the air above it is warm:
- Zemlyanoy is a rare species that appears as a result of a serious natural disaster, most often an earthquake. Typically thin and curved, with the radius of the walls widening closer to the ground. In the central part of the column there are lumps of soil swirling, below there is a mass of mud:
- A snow tornado is a consequence of a severe winter snowstorm:
- Sandy is a rare and unique species due to its origin. The occurrence of a tornado is noted not in the cloud layer, but in the ground part. The sun's rays heat the sand so that the pressure in this area decreases, and air masses flow into this area. The sand, under the influence of the wind, begins to rotate, forming a large funnel capable of movement and long-term existence:
There is a classification of tornadoes based on the strength of the damaging factors. The following types of vortices are distinguished:
- Weakly destructive (speed up to 30 m/s). Possible damage to roofs, fences, and trees.
- Moderately destructive (up to 50 m/s). Ripping off roofs, overturning cars.
- Significantly destructive (up to 70 m/s). Collapsing small buildings, overturning large vehicles, uprooting trees.
- Strong (up to 90 m/s). Destroying the walls of buildings, lifting cars, trains, watercraft.
- The strongest (up to 115 m/s). Destroying and lifting large buildings, picking up and throwing vehicles, and other large objects.
- Super strong (up to 145 m/s). Huge construction and transport projects are transported over long distances at tremendous speed.
- Completely destructive (speed from 145 m/s). Scattering into pieces everything that gets in their way.
Rotary or star
Making such a device is not a difficult task. To make the structure, you need 5-7 stars, which will serve as knives, strung onto the axle. These knives can be either straight or curved to the sides. After cultivating the soil with such a tool, it is recommended to walk between the rows and a flat cutter. A combination of two models is also possible, when the stars are first used in the design, and then a flat cutter is used for the final stage. This can significantly save the worker’s strength and energy. Since the stars perform the function of wheels in the design, an additional axle is not needed.
Working with such a tool is quite difficult, so only a physically trained person can handle it. In such a garden structure, you can install wheels of the same diameter instead of stars. In this case, you will get a good weeding hiller.
Hookah tricks for beginners - Easy
For beginners, I advise you to start with easy tricks. For example, these can be different methods of tricks with rings. Once you learn these hookah tricks, you will begin to understand the general principle of the other tricks. It’s a little hard at the beginning, but then everything will go like clockwork. Don't wait and surprise your friends!
Hookah tricks for beginners look like this
Cultivator "Hedgehogs"
For the base you need to prepare a powerful fork made of steel strip. In front of the tool there is a working axis with attachments. They need to be made from pieces of pipe onto which steel rods with pointed tips are welded. Actually, that's where the name comes from.
Loosening is carried out by lightly shaking the soil and piercing it, but the weeds remain in place, especially their roots. The main advantage of this subtype is the easy movement of the tool. Inter-row passage is carried out almost effortlessly.
Automotive compressor KS-AUTO TORNADO AC-800
The advantage of this compressor is that it is two-piston. Consequently, with a small weight and size, it significantly exceeds the power of other devices in the same category. With a mass of 2 kg, the performance of the Tornado AC-800 is 60 l/min. In addition, this feature significantly reduces wear and tear on the product.
Compressor KS-AUTO TORNADO AC-800
Thanks to this performance, the pump will inflate even a completely flat tire in a very short time. The maximum pressure for this device is 12 atm, which is the highest value in our rating. A flexible air hose made of frost-resistant material allows the compressor to operate in a temperature range from -40 °C to +60 °C.
The device comes with a convenient bag for storage and transportation, as well as a set of replaceable tips.
| Specifications | |
| Type | Piston |
| Pressure gauge | Analog |
| Voltage | 12 V |
| Nutrition | Battery terminals |
| Hose | 1.9 m |
| Weight | 2 kg |
| Maximum pressure | 12 bar |
TORNADO AC620 DOUBLE POWER Two-cylinder compressor 10Atm 60l/min 300W 25A 12V
Another two-cylinder compressor with a capacity of 60 l/min perfectly combines price and quality.
The length of this model's air hose is 5 m and the electric cable is 3 m. Combined with its performance, this makes the Tornado AC620 Double Power indispensable for vans and minibuses.
Compressor TORNADO AC620 DOUBLE POWER
The operating temperature of the compressor is from -20 °C to +40 °C, and the continuous operating time is 15 minutes. The product also comes with a carrying bag and a 45 cm long high-temperature air hose.
| Specifications | |
| Type | Piston |
| Pressure gauge | Analog |
| Voltage | 12 V |
| Nutrition | Battery |
| Hose | 5 m |
| Weight | 3 kg |
| Maximum pressure | 10 bar |
