Residents of the countryside, summer residents, gardeners, in a word, everyone who works on the ground, always dream of a mechanized "assistant". They expect him to finally replace the shovel. The best will be a walk-behind tractor. We will tell them step by step about how to build such a unit from improvised materials in your yard.
Imagine ideas from which you can make a simple walk-behind tractor. First, the main node is the internal combustion engine (ICE). More often single-cylinder, so that the consumption of gasoline is less. Secondly, the design should allow to plow, weed and become a vehicle.
A number of home-made devices can be hung on the walk-behind tractor to facilitate work in the garden. Most needed: a moldboard or moldboardless plow, a drum or tine cultivator, a grass mower with a minimum grip, or a pump to supply water from any source.
The question immediately arises: what is the consumption of gasoline? A 4 liter tank is placed on the walk-behind tractor. It is enough for half a day of engine operation. But only if it is not a virgin (compacted) area, but often cultivated, even with a shovel.
Step by step construction
Determine the power of the internal combustion engine. Remember: Air-cooled internal combustion engines overheat from long work, they need and forced ventilation. Therefore, put aside the ICE from chainsaws, even from the Ural 2T Electron with 5 horsepower (hp).
More productive than ICE from motorcycles of the Planet brand - one- and two-cylinder (16-22 hp). The Soviet motor scooters of the Vyatka group (a prototype of the Italian Vespa), as well as the Tula and its prototypes, including the cargo Ant, will also work. Their power is from 5.5 to 8-11 hp. Such motorcycles and scooters are still in garages and sheds, they can be bought for a pittance through ads.
Let's continue detailed instructions how to make a walk-behind tractor. For those who have a land plot of 20-50 acres, we will offer to make a walk-behind tractor with an internal combustion engine of a single-cylinder motorcycle Izh-49 or a two-cylinder K-700, or the first issues of the Urals.
The technical value of Izh-49 is in the steel engine head, not aluminum. Despite the power of 11.5 hp, this "Izh" will give odds in traction to the successor - "Izh-Planet P-5" with its twenty "horses".
In the villages, even today they plow vegetable gardens without alterations. And on trailers they carry up to one and a half to two tons of hay. They are slow moving so they don't get hot.
What is needed for assembly:
- "donor", from which some spare parts are removed;
- drawings (from the Internet or the passport of the factory walk-behind tractor);
- welding, preferably a mini-turning unit (there is a school type);
- set of tools.
Assembly features
The main thing in this is the drawings and dimensions of walk-behind tractors with your own hands. Draw them even by hand, putting down the parameters, indicating the places of welding, bolting.
Install the main gearbox from the "Ant" on the frame. The frame is from an old motorcycle with the front wheel fork removed. Attach the hitch to the back of the frame attachments. Attach the wheels from the classics ("Zhiguli") to the pipe-axle.
Main knots
About DVS said thoroughly. On "Izhi", working with high turnover, you need a creeper. It is mounted on many walk-behind tractors, it is sold as a regular spare part.
The factory gearbox is already equipped with a creeper. You can’t assemble it yourself, it’s better to buy or dismantle it from a non-working or outdated walk-behind tractor. This simple options do-it-yourself motoblocks.
trailer
Factory units are often assembled with a two-wheeled trolley with a driver's seat. It will not be difficult to assemble attachments for walk-behind tractors with your own hands. One of them is a trailer.
What you need to prepare for work:
- metal pipes;
- wheels, preferably ten-inch from an old Soviet scooter or motorized carriage;
- steel sheets with a thickness of 0.2 - 0.3 millimeters;
- corners, hardware, tools.
It is desirable to weld the frame in one place. So it will get a rectangular shape without vertical bends.
Assembly technology
From the corners you make crossbars that will be installed in the back and front. They are connected by vertical profiles with a rectangular clearance. Get a grate.
Attach the same four racks to the longitudinal ones - fasteners for the sides.
Weld 0.3 mm steel to the grate, make sides from 0.2 mm.
TO cross beams weld spars. Attach springs from the Muscovite, Zhiguli - classics to them. Connect the middle of the springs to the wheel beam.
Weld a "drawbar" in front of it for a non-rigid grip with a walk-behind tractor.
The seat is installed either on an elongated drawbar or in the back of a trailer. It is from the front of any passenger car, or welded by ourselves and equipped soft pillow and back.
Caterpillars on a walk-behind tractor
Peasants, summer residents work in the field, in the garden almost until the first snow without frost. It is not easy for a walk-behind tractor with a trailer to enter such soil or drive onto asphalt or a grader. For clarity, take a photo of the walk-behind tractor with your own hands.
They improve the traction force by installing original caterpillars from a conveyor belt or old tires. But here some experience or a hint of craftsmen is needed.
It is easier in such weather to put chains for passenger cars on tires. We left the mud, snow on the asphalt - remove the chains, and home without incident.
Do-it-yourself photo of walk-behind tractors
If earlier it was necessary to harrow and plow almost manually, using minimum quantity auxiliary tools, now it could be done with the help of special equipment. In this case, we are talking about walk-behind tractors - units that are full-fledged helpers in the garden and vegetable garden. However, the cost of all these equipments is quite high, taking into account the cost of the walk-behind tractor itself, so many craftsmen have adapted to make new home-made products of this or that technical tool.
It is not surprising that the growth of such interest in this technique was associated with the use of various additional trailer and trailer equipment. hinged type(KUHN), which significantly expand the functionality of the walk-behind tractor.
About the device of the walk-behind tractor
Next, you will find out which walk-behind tractor is better to choose. To make it clearer what the principle of home-made manufacture of a walk-behind tractor and its additional components is, it is necessary to consider in detail the device of the walk-behind tractor itself as a means of small-scale mechanization. So, this unit includes several main working units:
- The main driving force, i.e. engine.
- Transmission.
- Chassis.
- Basic controls.
Engine
As the main driving force in the design of walk-behind tractors, a standard internal combustion engine is used. Depending on the type and brand of walk-behind tractor, for example Cayman Vario, Patriot Ural, Texas, Foreman, Crosser, Viking, Forza, the engine used may be different:
- Petrol 4-stroke engine. This engine is used for units belonging to the light and medium class of devices.
- Diesel 4-stroke engine. Motors of this kind are used on heavy and powerful walk-behind tractors designed to work on the most difficult surface areas.
Video: The best diesel walk-behind tractor
For more information about the operation of a diesel walk-behind tractor, see the video:
Of course, 2-stroke motors are also found in the configuration, but they are used in fairly old models of walk-behind tractors, significantly inferior to 4-stroke ones in terms of power traction. However, most consumers get exactly 4-stroke engines running on gasoline. Their device includes the following systems:
- Fuel supply system. Consists of a fuel tank, carburetor, air filter and fuel hose.
- A lubrication system that lubricates those parts that rub against each other.
- A starter that spins the crankshaft.
- A cooling system that removes heat from the engine cylinder block using airflow.
- An ignition system that produces a spark at a spark plug.
- The gas distribution system, which ensures the flow of the air-fuel mixture into the engine cylinder, and is also responsible for the exit of exhaust gases.
It is important that the engine is already sold with all the main working systems, which greatly facilitates the process of home-made manufacture of a walk-behind tractor.
Transmission
The main function of the transmission is to transmit torque from the engine to the wheelbase, as well as speed control and change the movement of the unit. Its design includes several working units: gearbox, clutch, gearbox and differential (not available in all models).
Transmission can be of several types:
- Gear.
- Belt.
- Chain.
- Combined.
Basically, the classic type of gear transmission is used on heavy walk-behind tractors, and it consists of bevel and cylindrical gears.
The remaining types of transmission are used in light and medium types of walk-behind tractors. At the same time, regardless of the type of transmission, the design contains a PTO - a power take-off shaft that transmits torque to the working units of the unit.
As for the clutch, it can be different:
- In the form of a V-belt transmission. The essence of the process is the clutch lever, which tightens or loosens the belt, which transmits, or stops the transmission of torque from the motor to the gearbox.
- Single or multi-plate dry or wet clutch.
- Conical clutch.
Most high-quality walk-behind tractors Sadko, Don, Huter, Profi, Plowman, Champion, Carver use the second type of clutch, which is most reliable.
Chassis
The chassis includes not only the wheelbase itself, but also the frame structure to which these wheels are attached, and where the main working units of the walk-behind tractor are located.
In more modern models The walk-behind tractor provides for changing the distance between a pair of wheels, which allows you to adjust the track size of the walk-behind tractor.
Today, there are two types of wheels - pneumatic and metal with lugs.
Basic controls
The motoblock control is located on the handle of the unit, responsible for changing the speed and direction of movement of the device. The controls include:
- Levers, steering wheel and gear shifters.
- Clutch control.
- Lever or button to stop the engine.
- Gas supply, etc.
The design of the walk-behind tractor does not have a seat for a person (as in the Salyut walk-behind tractor), so the control itself is done by the person himself.
Do-it-yourself accessories for a walk-behind tractor
I would like to start the analysis of homemade products with the direct manufacture of walk-behind tractors with my own hands. We are not talking here that we will make the unit from scratch, because it is technically impossible for home conditions.
The main working units will be taken from other equipment, we just have to prepare a certain base on which it was possible to successfully connect all the organs of the walk-behind tractor.
I would like to talk about diesel walk-behind tractors on 4 wheels, the home-made products of which will be discussed later. At their core, these units are similar in appearance and in their technical data to full-fledged mini tractors.
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The only difference is the lack of a differential lock on the walk-behind tractors, but otherwise they are very similar - the presence of a driver's seat, steering, and the presence of two pairs of wheels.
It is clear that the alteration will be based on adding several additional nodes to the existing walk-behind tractor - an additional frame for the second pair of wheels, installing a steering wheel and a chair, under which there should be speed control, etc.
Video: Minitractor from the Neva MB2 walk-behind tractor
The finished version costs about 120 thousand rubles, so not everyone has the means to purchase it. Here, home-made production becomes expedient, which is gaining popularity every year.
How to make a four-wheel walk-behind tractor
To make a full-fledged 4-wheel walk-behind tractor, we need a fairly powerful base unit (Bison, Neva, etc.). In this case, we will consider a conversion from the Neva walk-behind tractor, because it is quite common in our country.
For greater convenience, you can purchase a ready-made conversion kit, which costs about 30 thousand rubles.
We conditionally divide the assembly process into several stages:
- First of all, we need to take care of the manufacture of the frame. We are talking about an additional structure of the bearing type, under which the second pair of wheels will be located. To make the frame, we need pieces of pipe and metal corners.
- There are no special requirements for the parameters of the pipe, but it must be borne in mind that the load on these elements will be sufficient.
- The elements of the pipe must be cut with a grinder, and then fastened together with bolts. For better structural stability, a transverse steel beam can be welded.
- You also need to weld a device for attaching attachments and trailed equipment to the frame. It can be mounted both in front and behind the unit.
- To mount the front pair of wheels, we need a metal pipe, the diameter of which must match the width of the front axle. Wheel hubs must be attached to the pipe.
- In the center, you need to drill a through-type hole, through which we fasten the structure to the front frame. Next, the gearbox and tie rods are installed. Then install the steering wheel.
- As wheels, you can use old ones from Soviet cars.
- We install the existing engine on the front of the structure. This is done so that the walk-behind tractor is more stable on the surface, because attachments or trailed equipment will be located behind it.
By the way, additional equipment for a walk-behind tractor will be connected to a walk-behind tractor using a tow bar (for a trailer to a walk-behind tractor) and a special bracket (for attachments).
Such do-it-yourself home-made products for a walk-behind tractor are quite reliable and practical in operation, because the whole structure turns out to be more monolithic, representing a complete device with a seat and a steering wheel. In terms of functionality, they are even comparable to mini tractors, which are much more expensive.
We will additionally consider homemade products for the Neva walk-behind tractor with our own hands, since it is so popular. In particular, you can make several options for additional equipment:
- Blade for motoblock.
- Hiller disk type etc.
Dump
The blade is necessary not only for snow removal in winter, but also for clearing various debris. To make it, we need the usual sheet metal, the thickness of which will be about 2 mm. Inside it, you need to weld 4 ribs of the same steel, but about 4 mm thick.
They need to drill holes through which the blade with rods will be fastened. The lower part of the structure is best sheathed with tin to prevent the blade from being buried in the ground.
Hiller
To make it, we need a couple of ordinary metal pot lids (enamelled, in this case, will not work). Their diameter should be about 500 mm. Next, sharpen the edges of the covers on grinding machine so that they enter the soil better.
Disc hillers need to be attached to a makeshift cart with wheels. They are made from ordinary bushings and pipes welded together.
Attachments to walk-behind tractors and motor cultivators, home-made products of which can be completely made independently, are the most various kinds:
- Weeding equipment.
- Potato diggers and potato planters.
- Snow blowers, etc.
Homemade trailer
Trailers for walk-behind tractors and their homemade products are quite simple design, consisting of a conventional box with sides, located on the wheelbase.
For self-manufacturing trailer we need:
- Professional pipe 40×25 mm and 25×25 mm. It is needed for the manufacture of the trolley hitch itself with a walk-behind tractor, as well as for the manufacture of sides - inside and under the trailer.
- For the body, we need to make a frame structure from a professional pipe 40 × 25 cm and 25 × 25 cm. The bottom of the body can be made from an ordinary piece of sheet metal. Pieces of the corrugated pipe must be welded to the bottom of the body in such a way that a lattice is obtained. On top of these edges, a full-fledged piece of professional pipe is welded around the entire perimeter.
- On the finished frame you need to install a profiled sheet, which will serve as boards. The height of each side is approximately 30 cm.
- The tailgate needs to be made folding. As latches, we use ordinary latches that need to be attached on both sides of the board. This board is attached to the bottom of the body with the help of ordinary hinges from the doors. On the same board, you can install reflectors that act as reflectors.
- Wheels can be taken from Oka or Zhiguli cars - their diameter will be optimal.
- The bridge can also be taken from the old Zhiguli. The wheels are attached to it with a pair of bearings. You can fix the bridge to the frame using pieces of pipe, up to two on each side. One end of the pipe is welded to the bridge, and the other - to the body.
Feasibility of manufacturing homemade trailer quite understandable, because the cost of all the costs of a homemade product is about 4 thousand rubles, which is several times lower than the price of a finished trailer in a store.
The best homemade equipment
Homemade products with an engine from a walk-behind tractor (read a do-it-yourself harrow for a walk-behind tractor) are also of some interest. Among them, the most interesting is the manufacture of a snowmobile. As a running gear, you can use a transport tape on which you need to attach snow hooks.
In addition, interesting are the options for manufacturing other various types of equipment from a walk-behind tractor:
- ATVs. By type of design, they resemble mini tractors, but they have wheels of a higher diameter. This is necessary so that the unit can pass through the most difficult terrain.
- Minitractor. This design we have already considered, which includes an additional part of the frame for a second pair of wheels, as well as steering wheels and a driver's seat.
Conclusion
Do-it-yourself motoblock homemade products, the drawings of which can be found on the Internet, are the best way out for those who do not have the opportunity to spend extra money on the purchase of additional equipment.
Considering that the savings are significant, there are a lot of people who want to make such technical means personally.
Having bought a walk-behind tractor, its happy owner solves most of the problems associated with the processing of the site.
A rich set of attachments allows not only to plow the soil with high quality, but also to cultivate it, harvest potatoes, clean snow and pump water.
You can always buy a trolley for a heavy walk-behind tractor, which will turn it into a mini-truck.
And what about the owners of medium and small walk-behind tractors, which are not structurally adapted to the transportation of goods and the performance of other "tractor" work?
One thing can be firmly said: you should not sit back and wait for a miracle. Anyone who understands the mechanics of cars will be able to make a lot of interesting cars out of a walk-behind tractor.
Minitractor and all-terrain vehicle from a walk-behind tractor
Almost all homemade products from a walk-behind tractor are made to increase comfort at work. Indeed, why waste energy driving a heavy unit “by the horns” when you can saddle it, turning it into a maneuverable mini tractor?
However, one important remark needs to be made here. Sitting astride a walk-behind tractor, you will increase its center of gravity. This will increase the risk of rollover during tight turns. To increase stability, you need to make a fairly wide second driven axle (1-1.2 m).
It is very desirable to expand the narrow wheelbase of the walk-behind tractor itself. Today, for such an alteration, you do not need to look for an experienced turner. On sale there are ready-made bushings (extensions) that are placed on the drive shaft to increase the distance between the wheels of the walk-behind tractor.
If there is no differential on a light or medium walk-behind tractor, then it is possible to increase its maneuverability and at the same time increase the wheelbase by installing blocking swivel extensions that perform these functions.
Anyone who does not work confidently with iron and does not have much experience in designing machines can make a mini tractor from a walk-behind tractor by purchasing a ready-made kit.
It includes:
- frame with engine mounts;
- footboards with pedals;
- seat;
- semi-axle lock release levers;
- steering with rods;
- front beam with brake discs and wheel hubs;
- rear linkage with manual lifting mechanism;
- wings.
The price of such a kit is in the range of 20-22 thousand rubles. There are no special problems when converting a walk-behind tractor into a minitractor in the presence of the listed assembly units.
In the end, you will homemade tractor, where you can comfortably process the site and carry loads by attaching a trolley. An important advantage of the finished technical kit is its design - accurately calculated and tested in operation. With self-adaptation of the walk-behind tractor for a home-made tractor base, most of the nodes will have to be manufactured and docked independently. This process often requires rework and refinement.
The one who made a mini tractor with his own hands will assemble an all-terrain vehicle from a walk-behind tractor without problems. To do this, just change the standard wheels to wider ones and install off-road tires on them.
It is best if the basis for such a mini-all-terrain vehicle is a water-cooled, rather than air-cooled motor block. It is more resistant to prolonged loads and overheats less.
Snowmobile and swamp from a walk-behind tractor
There is no fundamental difference between these homemade products, since a snowmobile from a walk-behind tractor, like a swamp vehicle based on it, has one fundamental requirement: minimum pressure on the ground. Remodeling a walk-behind tractor for a new 4-wheel chassis Special attention it is necessary to pay attention to the quality of manufacturing wide snow-swamp wheels.
It is best to make lugs in such a way that standard walk-behind tractor wheels can be placed in them.
Owners of heavy walk-behind tractors with a trailer can make a homemade snowmobile out of it without changing the design at all. To do this, it is enough to change your hand tractor into new off-road “bast shoes”. The tires must first be lowered, then the frame must be jacked up, the wheels inserted into the lugs and pumped up again. After this simple work, you can safely go on a trip through wetlands or deep loose snow.
Practice confirms that such a home-made swamp vehicle, even with a not very powerful 6-horsepower gasoline engine, drives quite briskly across the plain and confidently overcomes small slopes.
Motor dog and caracat
Anyone who has had a chance to ride an imported motorized towing vehicle will surely see in its design a lot of similarities with a conventional motorized block. Almost the same front traction unit with the engine, the same way of transmitting torque, similar controls on the steering wheel. The only thing missing is rubber tracks, with the help of which the motorized dog will pull the sled and the rider across the snowy field.
Realizing their dream of a motorized towing vehicle, avid fishermen and hunters can go two ways: buy a ready-made snowmobile attachment or make it yourself.
Today, caterpillar attachments are produced on an industrial scale for almost all types of walk-behind tractors (Neva, Salyut, Agat, Favorit, Cascade, Forza, etc.). The price of this unit is quite high (about 30 thousand rubles).
Therefore, those who are trying to save money and at the same time are familiar with the caterpillar undercarriage design can make it and ski sleds on their own. To do this, you need to weld a solid frame that will accommodate the engine and steering wheel, running and driven sprockets, as well as two intermediate shafts with rubber rollers.
Speaking about what can be made from a walk-behind tractor, it is worth mentioning such interesting homemade like a caracat. The strength of this car is in its huge wheels, which are ordinary autotubes, pulled together with strong belts.
Sometimes tires from trucks are used to make ultra-low pressure tires. They are facilitated by carefully cutting out part of the surface electric jigsaw, leaving only part of the bead and the tread pattern.
Homemade ones are put on a karakat from a walk-behind tractor wheel disks, modifying and expanding the standard automobile. You can also put a very original rim on a light walk-behind tractor. To do this, two aluminum basins are welded along the contour, the bottom is cut to fit the size of the hub, they are provided with stiffeners and side stops to fix the camera.
With external clumsiness, a karakat based on a walk-behind tractor is surprisingly passable and stable. It not only easily overcomes swampy lowlands, but at the same time is able to carry a fairly significant load (up to 100 kg).
Someone who plans to assemble an ATV, using a walk-behind tractor as a basis, must be prepared for the fact that it will not reach ultra-high speed on it. But in terms of maneuverability and cross-country ability, such a device is in no way inferior to the more expensive branded “brother”.
Landing in a home-made SUV remains traditional "motoblock", and not motorcycle like in a "quad". You do not need to make rims for such an ATV with your own hands. You can use standard ones from any passenger car, designed for the installation of wide-profile "mud" tires.
The first thoughts to make home-made devices for a walk-behind tractor appear after the need to transport goods, so my epic began with useful gadgets for a walk-behind tractor and was the first to make a home-made trailer trolley.
We make homemade products for a walk-behind tractor with our own hands
For quick and high-quality soil processing, you need to make home-made cutters like " crow's feet» for a walk-behind tractor that will mix the soil to a sufficient depth and break up hard clods.
A homemade rake for a walk-behind tractor is also a useful attachment. It is best to have several of these different types of rake.
A homemade hiller for a walk-behind tractor will also be needed by every gardener. Okuchnik will allow you to form even and high ridges on all beds with root crops.
A home-made blade for a walk-behind tractor will facilitate the removal of snow and sand with land plot, will create good conditions for further tillage.
Homemade rake for walk-behind tractor
If you wish, you can easily make homemade rakes for a walk-behind tractor. For hay rakes with a wide hay rake, you can use conventional water pipes that differ in their diameters. You will need to put a special sleeve on the round rod, and then tap its surface, turning it slightly.
When making, a round rod is best suited. Most parts of the rake are fastened by electric welding, since this method is simple, and at the same time a reliable design is obtained.
Greater simplicity of design can be achieved if the rotary parts on the axles are fixed without rolling bearings.
It is better to make a hay rake to a walk-behind tractor folding, as this will simplify their transportation.
How to make a homemade blade for a walk-behind tractor
The walk-behind tractor can serve as a bulldozer for leveling the ground, cleaning sidewalks or roads from dirt and snow. To do this, you need to make a home-made blade for a walk-behind tractor, as a rule, sheet metal 1-2 mm thick is used. Inside the blade, four steel ribs (stiffness) are welded from a sheet 3-4 mm thick.
In them, holes are drilled in place for fastening the blade with the rods in a strictly vertical position with respect to the front of the walk-behind tractor. It is also better to sheathe the bottom of the blade with tin so that it does not burrow into the ground.
- 1 - blade sheet (tin);
- 2 - rack 4pcs (stiffening ribs);
- 3 - bottom sheet of the blade (tin);
- 4 - knife; 5 - eye for fastening the thrust.
Convenient home-made seeder to the walk-behind tractor
Conventionally, seeders for walk-behind tractors are subdivided according to the number of simultaneously sown rows - from 1 to 5, vegetable seeders and precision seeders are also distinguished.
Vegetable seeders are used for dotted sowing of vegetables: carrots, onions, beets. The device for feeding seeds is driven from the support-drive wheels of the sections. In addition, the rotational speed of the device is regulated by interchangeable sprockets.
Planters vegetable exact seeding have a brush sowing device. In such a device, a rotating brush stirs up a layer of seeds in the hopper so that they spill out into a hole located in it. back wall. The hole is closed with a rotary disk having holes of different diameters. By turning the disc, you can change the size of the holes and thus change the seeding rate.
A home-made seeder to a walk-behind tractor is usually connected to a walk-behind tractor using a universal hitch, thanks to which it is possible to complete a walk-behind tractor with two-row and four-row seeders.
Homemade shovel for walk-behind tractor
The walk-behind tractor often acts as a bulldozer, leveling the ground, as well as clearing sidewalks or roads from snow dirt. For it is equipped with a shovel blade.
A home-made shovel for a walk-behind tractor is made without any difficulties if you have a “grinder”, a drill and a welding machine on your farm.
You won’t have to look for a suitable metal for a long time, since an ordinary two hundred liter steel barrel is suitable for making a blade-shovel. Carefully cutting it into three parts, you will get three curved segments for a shovel. Having welded two of them along the contour, you will get a shovel-dump with a metal thickness of 3 mm, which is quite enough for the required rigidity of the shovel-dump.
We make a homemade disk hiller for a walk-behind tractor
We begin to make a home-made disk hiller for a walk-behind tractor by searching for covers from steel pans that are unnecessary in the household (preferably not enameled, but simply metal). The required diameter is about 40-50 cm, taking into account the fact that the depth of germination of potato roots into the ground is no more than 15-20 cm. Next, we sharpen the blades of the covers, and in our case they are already hiller disks, on a grinding machine. If the covers are flat, then they are slightly bent to one side with a hammer.
Further, in order to make a convenient hiller, you need to make a trolley, to which disks that shift the soil will be attached. This can be a construction of pipes and bushings, we attach small support wheels to its lower frame.
After that, you can proceed to testing such a hiller right on the potato plot of the garden.
How to make a homemade plow for a walk-behind tractor
Is it necessary to make a plow for a walk-behind tractor if there are no special metalworking skills? Yes, it's worth it. The design of this agricultural implement is quite simple and therefore it is right for everyone to make a home-made plow for a walk-behind tractor.
Before proceeding with the implementation of your plan, you need to look at the previous posts on our site, where we described the manufacturing process in detail with drawings.
Professional tools are best suited for work, they will allow you to perform all the technological operations with your own hands at the required level and at the same time retain their quality. An amateur tool for such work is unsuitable because its level of strength is insufficient to perform some of the operations.
Homemade cutter crow's feet, for walk-behind tractor
This is an all-welded non-separable steel cutter, which gives it much greater strength than conventional cultivator cutters. Homemade cutter crow's feet, for walk-behind tractor shows greater efficiency and is successfully used when plowing hard soil. It can be aggregated with almost any walk-behind tractor or motor-cultivator with a suitable axle diameter.
It is very good to use the “crow's feet” cutter when plowing the land for planting potatoes, especially if the soil is hard with large clods of earth, or when, for the prevention of the Colorado potato beetle, wireworm and other garden pests, you need to quickly plow the garden “in winter”.
Crow's feet are usually sold unsharpened, and many gardeners who have already tried these cutters are advised to sharpen them for easier and faster plowing.
Below are the drawings homemade cutter"crow's feet2 with a diameter of 520 mm., grip 1250 mm., a total of 30 beams. 3 pcs. per section. The beam is bolted to the coils.
When plowing the soil with such a cutter, it loosens and rises to a depth of 40 to 100 mm on average, depending on humidity.
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Do-it-yourself hitch to a walk-behind tractor, photos, drawingsToday's peasants cannot imagine their activities without special equipment. Most people assemble attachments for a walk-behind tractor with their own hands, since this machine goes on sale with a minimum set of additional tools for cultivating the land.
For summer residents and residents of rural areas, where it is required to cultivate sufficiently large areas of land, this technique is a real savior that allows you to perform the intended work quickly, efficiently and without heavy physical effort. Only now the walk-behind tractor itself is of value in the role of a tractor; in order to perform various land works, it is necessary to purchase or make attachments with your own hands.
There are a lot of additional tools for this machine, so it is only profitable for large farmers and those who are engaged in land work to order to purchase them. But in order to process enough small areas land or in order to save money, you can create all these tools with my own hands. Often, experts advise nevertheless to purchase a hitch in the store, since it performs quite important role at work and has universal type. It is simply necessary for walk-behind tractors, with its help attachments are attached, such as: a plow, a trailer, a potato planter, a hiller and much more that is needed in the work of a farmer. Unfortunately, this coupling assembly is not included with the equipment, so it will have to be purchased separately. But many craftsmen, in the event of an unsuccessful search for a hitch, make it on their own.
How to make a clutch knot?
This part must be made of durable material, as it is the link between the tool for work and the traction force of the walk-behind tractor. This knot must have strong fixation elements on both sides.
For its manufacture, you will need the following tools and materials:
- Metal or channel. They will be needed to create the main body of the node.
- Fastening elements in the form of bolts, nuts and steel rods.
- In order for the position of the node to be changed, you need to consider which adjustment element is needed. It should be a strong and metal lever.
- To assemble this part of the walk-behind tractor, you will need a welding machine, a set of keys, drills and a metal drill.
Such home-made devices must correspond to the dimensions and load capacity of the machine. The assembly must have sufficiently strong fasteners and be suitable in size to the main equipment.
Of course, you need to make a universal hitch, since it will be possible to attach to it, as homemade devices and acquired.
The universal node is assembled in the following sequence:
- First you need to take 2 metal arcs of the same size U-shaped, channels are perfect for their manufacture. Holes need to be drilled in each metal plate: in one - 6 pieces, and in the other - 8 pieces.
- The body is a more complex part and is assembled using welding machine. It must clearly measure and drill holes for the connecting elements, and on one of the brackets it is necessary to think about how to make a movable connection.
- The most difficult thing in this work is the manufacture of the lever, or rather, the mechanism for adjusting the position of the walk-behind tractor. Its main parts are a screw, a bracket and a handle.
To perform this work, it is recommended to use a special machine on which it will be possible to grind all necessary details. When the hitch is assembled and ready for use, it is worth checking the strength of its connection and fastening of the working device for the walk-behind tractor.
Mounted devices for walk-behind tractor
In order to cultivate the land and perform a number of agricultural work on a small tractor, you will need the following additional devices:
- Rake.
- Plows.
- Hillers.
- Potato planters and potato diggers.
- Harrows.
- Weeders and mowers.
- Wood splitters.
- Sprayers.
- Rotary cutters.
All these devices will be needed sooner or later, but most often they use a rake, a plow, hillers and devices for planting and harvesting potatoes.
How to make a hiller?
The simplest home-made attachment is a hiller. To assemble this device, you will need the following tools and materials:
- 2 discs of the same size durable metal. They can be made independently, or taken from a planter that has served its time.
- Bolts, nuts, metal axles and washers, plain bearings.
- T-shaped metal frame.
- Racks — 2 pcs.
- For correct adjustment angle of rotation of the discs, you must purchase screw lanyards.
Adapters are placed in the center of the disks, they are used to fasten to the frame. Racks ideally need to be mounted on such devices, so that in the future you can adjust the distance between the disks. The rest of the parts are assembled by welding and bolts.
Potato Digger
This device is indispensable during the harvesting of tuber crops, especially potatoes. It is not so easy to make such homemade products for a walk-behind tractor with your own hands. Before work, it is necessary to create drawings of attachments and think through every detail.
The frame, as the main body, is made of metal corners or channels by welding. It must be sufficiently strong and stable.
For direct collection of tubers, 1 or 2 metal plates with rounded edges are needed, this is done so that they do not cut the potatoes. You will also need metal rods that are welded to the plate. All together, this design is called a plowshare - this is a moving part this device.
An equally important piece of equipment is the editorial node. For its manufacture, it is necessary to purchase 2 metal cylinders, they are designed to connect 2 bushings that ensure the interaction of the shafts.
Housing for cleaning tubers. It is quite difficult to make it for an inexperienced master. To assemble it, you need to purchase roller chains, steel rods, it is with their help that you need to assemble a structure that, in its own way, appearance will resemble a wheel for a squirrel. This wheel must be firmly fixed on 2 special rods so that the drum can rotate.
Properly assembled parts will allow you to use this device in your work for many years, and a high-quality result will please.
snow blower
It is not difficult to make it; to create it, you need to prepare 2 metal pipes and brackets. The so-called dump, can be made from sheet metal. Rods are attached to its body by welding, and brackets allow you to fix its angle of inclination and location relative to the coupling unit. This moving part can be taken from self-propelled equipment that has served its time.
potato planter
In order to assemble this attachment yourself, you need to prepare the following parts:
- The frame is the main bearing element, it can be welded from metal corners and channels.
- It is necessary to attach a metal axle to the frame, to which the wheels will be attached.
- A hopper for potatoes is attached to the bottom of the frame.
- Hook sprockets must be correctly attached to the frame and connected to the adjusting mechanism.
Particular attention must be paid to the correctly adjusted location of the stars, since the distribution of tubers in the soil during planting will depend on this. The wheels on this device can be of different diameters, it all depends on the dimensions of the walk-behind tractor and attachments.
Some craftsmen manage to create universal fixtures For earthworks, for example, by adding or removing any parts, you can create a potato planter from a motor cultivator, and a rake can be easily converted into harrows by changing the main nozzles on the frame. If you approach this issue competently and with skill, then you can gradually collect the entire essential tool for domestic and agricultural work on a walk-behind tractor.
