Hedgehogs for processing potatoes

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Agrotechnical work takes a lot of time and effort. It can be facilitated by special devices for weeding or hilling, for example, hedgehogs for processing potatoes.

Hedgehogs for processing potatoes

Features of hedgehogs for potatoes

Weeding the beds with potatoes with your own hands is long and energy-intensive, especially with large areas of planted territory. Therefore, the demand for specialized equipment that facilitates agrotechnical work is always high. The potato hedgehog is especially popular.

A hedgehog is a manual or mechanical device that allows hilling and weeding of plants. That is, this tool removes all the weed grass in the inter-row area, loosening the soil and raking it to the beds. The plantings acquire a pleasant appearance, and the root system of the planted culture is enriched with oxygen.

Manual and mechanical devices are structurally little different from each other. Only the dimensions of the mechanisms and the presence of special fasteners for the mechanical device for connecting to a mini-tractor or walk-behind tractor are highlighted.

Features of designs of hedgehogs

Hedgehogs are devices consisting of 3 metal rings of different sizes, welded together. Metal rods of 5-10 cm are welded to the surface of such rings. There can be 2 or more such cones from rings. The paired structure is fastened with a special bracket, which forms an angle of 45 ° between the working parts of the tool. The metal frame to which such cones are attached can have a handle or a special attachment to agricultural machinery.

Another option is simplified. Instead of welded tapered discs, a piece of metal pipe is installed, to which the rods are welded. The resulting working part of the tool is installed on a shaft attached to a frame with a handle.

Benefits of hedgehogs for weeding

In addition to speeding up and facilitating agrotechnical measures, such an apparatus effectively copes with the tasks set. Its advantages are:

• high-quality weed removal even before their emergence.
• loosening the soil, necessary to saturate the roots of plants with oxygen.
• the possibility of additional hilling.
• correct formation of seedling rows.
• the ability to use the device in the fight against pests - mice, moles, etc.

This is a rectangle and a hiller, created in one body. It has almost no flaws. The only drawback is the high cost. But waste can also be avoided if you make such an apparatus for processing potatoes with your own hands.

Making a hedgehog for a walk-behind tractor

The size of the hedgehog will depend on the size of the walk-behind tractor

The peculiarities of making a mechanical hedgehog with your own hands depend on the size of the equipment, the number of cone-shaped tools and the availability of fasteners for agricultural machinery.In order to make such a device, it is important to develop or purchase drawings and strictly adhere to them in the process of work.

The very process of constructing a cultivator is impossible both without the presence of a welding machine, a gas cutter for metal and other tools, and without certain skills in using them.

Materials (edit)

To make a weeder for processing potatoes, you need to prepare the required amount of materials. To manufacture such a device, you will need:

• steel sheet, 4-6 mm thick (for the manufacture of working tools);
• steel strip 20-30 mm long and 4 mm thick (for lintels);
• steel rods 8 mm thick (for spikes);
• pipe with a diameter of 25 mm (for the frame);
• steel rod, 2 cm in diameter (for the axis of the device, on which the working tool will be fixed);
• steel bracket, 4 mm thick, at least 7 cm wide and 20 cm long.

The rod is placed in a metal pipe with a diameter of more than 20 mm, pre-lubricated with grease. And its ends will be held together with a metal bracket. After all the necessary materials have been prepared, you can proceed to the assembly of the potato processing apparatus.

Cultivator manufacturing process

The manufacturing process of the device is carried out strictly according to the drawings. If it specifies the use of steel discs, they can be replaced with rings. Their diameters are 300, 200 and 100 mm. The very process of making a tool goes like this:

1. With the help of a cutter, 2 rings with an inner diameter of 20 cm are cut out, and an outer one - 30 cm (they will serve as blanks for rings with an outer diameter of 20 cm).
2. It is necessary to cut holes with a diameter of 10 cm in the workpieces.The result of the work is 2 rings with an outer diameter of 20 cm and an inner diameter of 10 cm.
3. Small discs with a diameter of 10 cm should be cut out of the remaining material (steel sheet). Holes are drilled into them for the prepared pipe with a margin, that is, 26 mm.
4. Jumpers should be cut from the metal strip in the amount of 24 pieces of 9 cm in size.
5. Marks should be made on the cones where the jumpers should be welded. Large drives have 8 jumpers, and small drives have 4.
6. The thorns should be cut into 12 cm segments, and their ends should be cut off at an angle of 45 ° (there should be at least 80 thorns in total).
7. It is necessary to weld the spikes to the discs at the required distance. In total, there are 40 spikes for each cone.
8. The bracket should be bent to fit the axis and welded to it.
9. A frame is welded from a metal pipe and welded to the bracket.

The resulting apparatus will have two cone-shaped hedgehogs, which are located in relation to each other at an angle of 45 °. A properly made device should have a distance between the cones of 40-50 cm.

Making a hand cultivator

The simplest DIY tool consists of a working tool, a metal frame and a holder. The working tool can be in the form of a pipe or a truncated cone with welded-on spikes located at a distance of 4-5 cm from each other.

The working tool is put on the shaft, which is welded to the spacer frame of the product. The last stage of work is screwing the handle. Such a device works simply. Pushing the hedgehog forward, the working tool rotates, and when pressure is applied to it, it deepens into the ground.

Conclusion

A hedgehog for weeding potatoes is effective both in the form of a hand tool and in a mechanical one. In the process of operation, the device spuds and weeds the aisles under the influence of human efforts or agricultural machinery (mini-tractor or walk-behind tractor).

Specialized weeding machines are expensive. Therefore, it is advisable to make them yourself. The main thing is to work strictly according to the drawings and stock up on the necessary material.