Every spring summer residents and farmers begin processing and preparation of the soil for crops. Modern gardeners more often cease to use shovel and get cultivators. This tool considerably facilitates work and improves quality of work that allows to achieve good harvest.
The cultivator is modern garden tool which performs works on loosening of the soil, earthing up of beds, removal of weeds, boronovaniya. The cultivator can replace not only the direct competitor – shovel, but also chopper, rake, pitchfork. Cultivators are manual and automated, manual are suitable for processing of dachas, and here if the area of the field big, then it is better to use large units which, together with the tractor or irrespective of it, will easily and quickly process the soil.
Cultivators, depending on the principle of work, are petrol, electric and mechanical. Also cultivators differ to destination. Steam cultivators are used for preseeding processing of soils. Row-crop – loosen the soil and destroy weeds in row-spacings of the seeded cultures. Universal – provide processing of row-spacings and simultaneous fertilizing of cultures with mineral fertilizers.
By means of some types of cultivators it is possible to bring in the soil manure in liquid or firm view of the set depth.
Advantages of cultivator before shovel
Cultivation is the most modern method of soil cultivation. Unlike digging by means of shovel, the cultivator mixes fertile layer, but does not dig in it. Therefore the friable and air earth which is not demanding additional treatment rake turns out. Moreover, mechanical cultivators by which after cultivation it is possible to collect the available grass are issued. Such models interest first of all pensioners as at digging-up of kitchen garden by means of shovel and the subsequent alignment and loosening after all it is necessary to bend and collect by rake the scattered roots and land parts of plants. During the work as shovel the main physical load is placed on back digging, and cultivators are developed so that during the work with the earth the loading was distributed evenly on back, abdominal press, hands and legs. At the same time the person can longer work, and be tired less.
Import motor-cultivators for giving can use both gasoline, and on the diesel. Models differ in speeds, dimensions and functionality.
Shortcomings of cultivators
Mechanical cultivators are almost deprived of shortcomings. And here the automated cultivators have the minuses. First, expenses of fuel or the electric power are necessary for their work, and today the electric power and gasoline are enough road. Secondly, such large units need to be stored somewhere, that is it is necessary to prepare the special shed or hangar. Thirdly, repair at breakage of autocultivator can pour out in the considerable sum of money.