Cultivator – the mechanical unit intended for processing of the earth: loosening, digging-up, earthing up. Easy and mobile, it is especially convenient when it is necessary to dig up beds and beds, to loosen the soil between bushes. It is possible to choose the model suitable you taking into account operating conditions.
What drive to choose
Cultivators happen to the electric and petrol drive. First less powerful, but their work requires only the electric socket and the long cord providing movement to the most distant corners of the site. Usually the cord of long about 60 m is included in the package that guarantees mobility, necessary for comfortable work. These cultivators are safe, weigh less and do not demand refueling by gasoline, the child will even easily cope with them, they are optimum for sites, small on the area, allowing to process the soil on depth to 25 cm.
The electric cultivator allows to use it for work in the closed greenhouses that is impossible for petrol.
Petrol cultivators with the 2-htaktny or 4-htaktny engine more powerful, but noisy and difficult in leaving and service. To prolong the term of their service, for gas station it is necessary to use only special mix of gasoline and oil. Their weight is also more, but also depth of plowing of the soil is more. In service the models of cultivators for giving equipped with 2-htaktny engines are cheaper and easy.
The choice of cultivator for the seasonal dacha
Modern dachas have stopped being plantations for cultivation of vegetables and became more vacation spots on which trees and ornamental shrubs grow, and it means that the easy cultivator up to 10 kg quite will be suitable for processing of not numerous beds. Such models, generally release foreign producers. Them, of course, it is impossible to process qualitatively virgin sites, but already existing beds and beds will can do quite. However, if such cultivator has in set special mills, you will be able to dig up bed on the new place and with its help.
The cost of cultivator is in direct dependence on its power, the it is higher, the this tool is more expensive. For work on beds and beds enough 1 kW cultivator.
Choosing cultivator, consider that in the passport utilization properties for normal type of soils are specified if on your site loamy or marshy soil, you can not achieve the stated results. When width of the processed sites of the territory rather big, choose the corresponding cultivator, with big working width. The possibility of its adjustment by means of shift of the cutting mills has to be provided. The cultivator high power, the higher and it performance. The functionality of this mechanism can be increased at the expense of the additional nozzles which are included in the package. Such cultivators can hill the earth, dig potatoes, weed weeds.