Seasonal and garden dachas for many Russians became not only source of eco-friendly products, but also opportunity "to pick" in the earth, to grow up something the hands and just to stay outdoors, to breathe fresh air, to warm up physically. But that such hard work after all was for pleasure, it is possible to facilitate it, having bought the special equipment for soil cultivation – cultivator.
What is cultivator
Cultivator – the mechanical unit which allows to dig up and loosen the soil, at the same time getting rid of weeds. Such bezotvalny loosening gardeners and gardeners carry out, at least, two times a year – on spring, before landing, and in the fall, after harvesting.
Cultivators have small weight, are maneuverable and easy to control, them it is possible to process the most remote corners of the site. The working width and depth of soil cultivation are regulated. To many models the producers offer the additional nozzles allowing to expand considerably functionality of these units: okuchnik, kartofelekopalka, mowers and so forth. Cultivators can work at electric and petrol draft.
Merits and demerits of electrocultivators
Electric cultivators less powerful, than petrol, but they will easily cope with all necessary complex of works on sites of small and medium size up to 20 hundred parts. It is convenient to work as them in the greenhouse, at beds and beds. They are connected by means of long cord to the normal electric socket by voltage of 220 V.
Electrocultivators are easy in operation and service – after completion of work it is necessary to disconnect mills and the handle, to wipe dirt and to remove to next time. Each 2-3 years need to be greased chain and the leading gear, the electric engine any additional care does not require. Cultivators with power up to 1 kW are intended for processing of small beds and beds, more powerful – up to 2 kW allow to solve also more complex problems. These units thanks to lack of harmful exhausts are used for works in greenhouses, besides, they work more quietly, in comparison with petrol cultivators and are more economic.
It is possible to carry small power to shortcomings of electric cultivators – on difficult heavy soils such machine can show very low performance.
How to choose electric cultivator
Judging by responses of consumers, from what the domestic industry can offer easy-to-work and reliable electrocultivators "Mole" and "Hope" enjoy the greatest popularity. But the decision in many respects depends also on operating conditions. The main defining moments upon purchase of cultivator are the performance necessary for you, power consumption and those functions which it will have to carry out. Performance is defined not only by the power of the unit and working width of mills, but also nature of the soil on your site – than it is heavier, especially you need to get powerful cultivator. For the site less than 20 hundred parts can be chosen the cultivator relating to series semi-professional or household. Six horsepowers of such unit quite will be enough if the working width of mills makes at the same time about 60 cm.
Sites more than 20 hundred parts will require cultivator with power up to 20 hp with the additional hinged equipment.
When the surface of your site uneven, there are eminences or inclinations, choose cultivator which can function on inclined sites, the maximum allowed tilt angle which depends on how the engine valve head is located. It has to be specified in technical characteristics. As a rule, than the cultivator is more powerful, to that it will be heavier. In this case you should take care of facilitating control of such heavy machine and to get cultivator which has backing it will help you to provide necessary maneuverability.
When choosing cultivator consider also such moment as the power relation to device weight. The weight is less at the same power, the more there will be power consumption and the it will be more convenient to you to cope with this machine.
The cultivator which movement can be stopped is considered safer, having just taken away hand from the handle. The motor will continue to work at the same time, on the unit will not be mobile. There are situations when in need of emergency braking the Start-up button just could not be looked for. The wheel by means of which it moves on the site and set of the additional mills allowing to regulate working width is included in the standard package of cultivator ripper. Taking into account those tasks which you need to solve when processing your site you can also get additional equipment which will expand functionality of cultivator: okuchnik, plows, kartofelekopalka, the cart and also the special pneumowheels, grousers and weighting compounds increasing passability. If you doubt that to buy – cultivator or the motor-block then everything again depends on those works on processing of the site which you want to facilitate to yourself. For loosening and earthing up of the soil on kitchen garden the cultivator suffices, and here the motor-block will be required for the equipped giving where with its help it is possible not only to process the soil, but also to remove garden paths, to mow, water and even to chop wood.