Everyone knows the saying that the retinue plays the king. Unaccompanied by a crowd of nobles, advisers and formidable guards, any monarch will seem like an ordinary person to you. In the same way, without the addition of attachments, the most expensive walk-behind tractor is a useless piece of metal.
We will talk about the types of hitches for this type of equipment and their capabilities in this article.
The main motivation for buying any walk-behind tractor is tillage. The designers paid maximum attention to this task.
The list of attachments offered for sale includes:
- plow;
- harrow;
- okuchnik (a kind of plow with a V-shaped or dished plowshare);
- cutter;
- potato digger;
- potato planter;
- mower.
plows
The evolution of swing fixtures has been embodied in the following types of devices:
- Plow standard. A wide knife - the plowshare of such a device, when plowing, loosens the ground, cutting the roots of weeds. Curved sheet - the blade turns over the earth layer.
The method of attaching a standard plow to a walk-behind tractor is illustrated in Figure No. 1. The main parts of this device: plowshare, blade, stand, heel, field board are visible in Figure No. 2.
- Reversible (rotary, double-breasted) plow. Two plows are fixed on a common frame at an angle of 90 or 180 degrees. Their blades are directed in different directions. In the working position, one of them plows the ground, and the second is on the side. After the passage of the furrow, they are interchanged by pressing (or removing) the latch and turning to the side. Thanks to this, the operator does not have to return to the beginning of the section each time, making an idle run.
- Plow Zykov. An improved version of the classic plow. It differs from it in the modified geometry of the share-dump surface. Thanks to refinement, it turns the soil layer well and crumbles it.
In a double-turn design and in a complete set - a beam, a wheel and a hitch bracket (the price in the Russian Federation for 2018 is 17-18 thousand rubles)
Designed and manufactured in Ukraine, the Zykov plow is still rare in Russia. Only a few DIY enthusiasts are trying to reproduce it in home workshops.
Harrows
Land turned over by a plow is a “semi-finished product” that requires refinement. For this work, a harrow is used, which breaks large clods and levels the soil.
There are two types of harrows:
- Dental;
- Disk.
Disc harrow (price about 11,000 rubles)
It should be noted that disc structures perform harrowing better and cleaner than toothed ones.
Okuchniki
This type of attachment for walk-behind tractors is designed for loosening the soil and creating furrows during sowing, planting seedlings and weeding.
By design, hillers are:
- single-row and double-row (with fixed and variable working width);
- disk;
- rotary (active);
Single-row hillers with a fixed width (25-30 cm) are designed to work with light walk-behind tractors (up to 4 hp). Variable working width and two-row installation allows these devices to be used on more powerful mechanisms and to process beds of different widths with them.
Two-row hiller on a reinforced frame (average cost 2.5-3 thousand rubles)
Disc hiller (average cost 3-4 thousand rubles)
Rotary (propeller) hillers do not need to use a hitch, since they are placed instead of the wheels of a walk-behind tractor. Toothed discs of a special configuration loosen the soil well and pull out weeds in the aisles.
Okuchnik rotary OR-380 Price 2600-3000 rubles.
cutters
They can perform several operations:
- loosen and level the ground;
- crush lumps of soil and mix its layers;
- mix fertilizers;
- destroy weeds.
Complete with a walk-behind tractor are usually universal cutters equipped with saber-shaped knives. They are comfortable to work on soft ground. For dense and weedy soil, mechanisms called "crow's feet" are designed.
Crow's feet cutter
High mechanical strength and a special shape of the cutters allows them to loosen neglected areas, pulling out weeds with roots. In autumn, with their help, insect pests that have fallen into the ground for wintering are destroyed.
Potato planter and potato digger
The main crop of our fields and suburban areas - potatoes require significant labor costs when planting and harvesting. To mechanize these operations, two mounted units are used: a potato planter and a potato digger.
The first is equipped with a small plow that makes a groove. Immediately behind it, a hopper is installed on the frame, from which the potatoes fall into the ground at regular intervals. Two sloping hiller discs attached to the back of the frame cover the bed. So in one pass, three operations are performed at once.
KSM-1A trailed potato planter makes a furrow by itself and puts potatoes into it
Anyone who has dug potatoes at least once with a shovel will surely appreciate the usefulness of this simple device. The potato digger, mounted on the hitch of a walk-behind tractor, consists of a plow with steel bars welded to it. Raising the ground under the bushes, he carefully removes the tubers to the surface. Collecting them in a bag or box after such processing is not a difficult matter.
fan potato digger
In addition to the fan, there are more efficient screen-type vibrating diggers. They are designed to treat large areas. Such equipment is connected through a power take-off shaft, which transmits torque to the potato digger pulley, causing the working elements of the mechanism to vibrate.
Vibrating potato digger (prices for devices start at an average of 12 thousand rubles)
Mowers
Mowing grass is another important work operation performed by mounted units.
Two types of mowers are produced for walk-behind tractors:
- rotary;
- segment.
The rotary design is easier to maintain. Segmental resembles a hairdressing machine. It is more complex in design, but cuts the grass cleaner than the rotary. This attachment is used for mowing large lawns.
Rotary mower, the average price, depending on the model, is 14-20 thousand rubles.
Segment mower
In addition to purely agricultural implements, walk-behind tractors are aggregated with other devices:
- trolley trailer;
- adapter (two-wheeled trolley with a seat and without a body);
- snow blower;
- motor pump;
Trailer
Work on the land and on the estate is associated with the transportation of fertilizers and feed, crops and firewood. You can solve these problems with the help of a trailer trolley. It turns the walk-behind tractor into a "short-range" vehicle.
A useful option that some types of walk-behind trailers are equipped with is a tipper body that facilitates unloading.
Adapter
A useful addition to the walk-behind tractor, giving it the functions of a mini-tractor. A good adapter saves the owner from tedious walking around the site.
By design, adapters are steeringless (only seat, lift lever and brake) and equipped with a steering wheel.
Such a simple mechanism facilitates the cultivation of land and is sold at an average price of 10,000 rubles.
The adapter with the steering wheel is several times more expensive. Despite this, it fully justifies its cost, if we take into account its working capabilities.
Grader, mini tractor, dump truck and tiller. The functions of four mechanisms are combined in a steering adapter in a complete set (price is about 32,000 rubles)
snow blower
Many owners do not put their walk-behind tractor on a joke in winter. With its help, you can free vast areas of the estate from the snow cover. Snow removal devices aggregated with it can be divided into several groups:
- shovels-dumps;
- rotary ejectors;
- brush mechanisms.
The simplest and most affordable is a dump type device. The width of the shovel fixed to the front of the walk-behind tractor can be from 0.8 to 1.5 meters. The choice of its size depends on the power of the motor. The design of a dump provides adjustment of an inclination and an angle of rotation.
Where a shovel is helpless, and this often happens in high snowfalls, a snow blower will do the job. It is connected to the power take-off shaft of the walk-behind tractor. The auger design has high performance and confidently clears the area from snow cover up to 50 cm high.
The brush attachment is used to clean areas with expensive decorative coatings that require the most accurate work.
For irrigation of plots located far from power lines and close to water bodies, motor pumps have been created. This type of attachment for walk-behind tractors is connected to the power take-off shaft. The average productivity of motor pumps is 20-40 m3 of liquid per hour. The pressure generated reaches 4-5 meters with a suction depth of up to 10 meters.
What attachments for a walk-behind tractor can be made with your own hands?
It all depends on the qualifications of the home master and the set of tools that he has. We advise beginners to start their experiments with the simplest designs - a fan-shaped potato digger or hiller.
The design of the device for digging potatoes is shown in the sketch. It consists of a wide bent plate (paw) welded to a vertical bipod and a field bar. Teeth from reinforcement are attached to the rear edges of the paw by welding.
It is easier to make a disk model from hillers. Its main elements - discs can be cut from the ends of old gas cylinders. They have a suitable shape, diameter and thickness of the metal.
A lot of design solutions for the device itself have been invented, you can see this by watching videos of home-made people, as well as various assembly schemes.
One example of an adjustable disk hiller device
In addition to disc discs, you will need:
- two racks made of steel strip;
- two rolling bearings;
- bolts for fastening the racks to the frame and adjusting the rotary sectors;
- cross member from a profile pipe;
- T-shaped leash.
The main condition for the high-quality operation of such a mechanism is the accuracy of the manufacture of all parts and the symmetry of the installation of disks. Otherwise, it will be taken away from the furrow during movement.
Homemade products for a walk-behind tractor are invented and made by almost all owners of this equipment. The purpose of these actions is to expand the functionality of the unit with minimal financial investment. In the basic configuration, the cultivator has extremely limited capabilities. Installing various options on it can turn a small machine into a full-fledged mini-tractor. Often home-made devices are in no way inferior to factory-made counterparts. In order to improve the walk-behind tractor with your own hands, a set of tools that are available in every workshop of a country house or cottage is quite enough. The necessary materials can be found in a landfill, in a barn, or at a scrap metal collection point.
Chassis improvement
The first thing users of a walk-behind tractor think about is how to make a cart with a seat for it. The use of equipment in normal mode using levers involves the application of great physical effort. However, the use of a trailer reduces the stability of the vehicle. You can fix this problem by expanding the wheelbase. This is done using extension cords that are attached to the axle shaft with pins or bolts. Having solved the problem with stability, the operator is faced with another issue: the unit is poorly controlled. helps to give it good maneuverability. This device is made by analogy with the nodes of cars. Homemade unlockers for a walk-behind tractor are made using ordinary household tools - a grinder, welding and a grinder.
The light weight of the walk-behind tractor is the cause of poor adhesion of the wheels to the ground. Slippage is a common occurrence when raising virgin soil, working on wet ground or driving on snow. To avoid slippage, weighting agents are attached to the walk-behind tractors.
These devices fall into the following categories:
- Wheeled. They are disks that are mounted on wheels or hubs. Disks are made monolithic of metal, concrete or hollow, filled with sand. The weight of wheel weights can be 30-70 kg.
- External. Made from any heavy material (steel, lead, concrete). They are attached to the body with hooks or bolts. Some craftsmen weld a frame from a corner to the body. Sandbags, bricks, scrap metal and other heavy objects are placed in it.
You can improve the patency of the walk-behind tractor by installing lugs. The easiest way to make lugs is to make a rim from a strip of metal and weld blades onto it. The rim diameter should be larger than the rims and smaller than the tires. Rim mounting is carried out with flat tires. After the lug is installed, the wheel is inflated.
When purchasing an assistant in a store to work in a summer cottage, backyard or small farm plot, you need to remember that even diesel heavy walk-behind tractors themselves are nothing more than an expensive toy with a powerful engine. A multifunctional assistant, they are made by a variety of accessories for a walk-behind tractor. Most manufacturers of mini-equipment also produce various additional equipment for completing their models of walk-behind tractors, but many owners prefer to make various fixtures and nozzles for their walk-behind tractor with their own hands, looking for all kinds of diagrams and drawings for this.
Trailer and attachments
Despite the variety of additional equipment, it can be conditionally divided into two groups:
- Trailer devices;
- Attached equipment for motoblocks.
But this division is really arbitrary, because most of these units can be mounted both directly on the walk-behind tractor and on special trailers - adapters. In the first case, it becomes mounted, and in the second, fixed on the adapter, it turns into a trailer. Of the entire large list, only lugs and weighting agents refer exclusively to attachments for the walk-behind tractor itself, and are not used in the hitch, but their purpose is to improve the adhesion of the unit to the ground, so they are not so much production equipment, but rather accessories for the walk-behind tractor.
Working attachments include:
- plows;
- cultivators;
- cutters;
- hillers;
- soil cutters;
- pumps;
- mowers.
Attachments for a walk-behind tractor are not limited to this list only - there are still many attachments, mostly homemade.
The list of actually trailed working devices for walk-behind tractors is not so long:
- special couplings (adapters).
Using these devices, you can turn a single-axle unit into a two-axle mini tractor, which will be much easier and safer to work on. Almost the entire hitch on the walk-behind tractor can also be hung on special hitches. Often, the owners use two sets of attachments at the same time: one is hung directly on the walk-behind tractor, and the second set of attachments is attached to the adapter, thus doubling the performance of the unit.
Which is better: factory or homemade attachments?
Seemingly absurd at first glance, the question is actually far from being so simple. It is clear that a factory attachment to a walk-behind tractor is better than a homemade one, but the trouble is that it often only fits equipment of one brand.
What comes out of it? You have a walk-behind tractor, there is, for example, a factory mower for it, but there was no hitch for it, and you made a homemade hitch. In this situation, it may well happen that you have problems with assembling your homemade hitch for a walk-behind tractor and a factory mower into one unit - either the mount will fail, or something else will not fit.
In fact, for many owners, making attachments for walk-behind tractors with their own hands is a necessary measure. After all, the total cost of all the necessary devices and devices, without which the multifunctional operation of this mechanism is simply impossible, is often ten or even one and a half higher than the cost of the model itself. Therefore, having purchased a walk-behind tractor, many people simply cannot afford to purchase additional equipment for them, especially when it comes to buying powerful diesel models, the cost of which is already 1.5-2 times higher than the cost of their gasoline counterparts.
Another reason that leaves the owners of domestic brands with no choice but to make equipment on their own, whether mounted or trailed, for their walk-behind tractors is the lack of high-quality factory analogues. Therefore, instead of buying imported equipment at exorbitant prices and then trying to hang it on domestic models, it is much easier and cheaper to make trailed or attached equipment for your walk-behind tractor with your own hands.
In addition, home-made - does not mean bad, low quality. The attachment to the walk-behind tractor assembled from improvised materials gives no less, and often even more benefits than those stamped on the factory conveyor. After all, it is assembled by hand, it has a minimum of complex knots and a maximum of practicality. In addition, such equipment is obtained as much as possible adapted to the relief of the land on which it will work. The main thing is that such a prefix is \u200b\u200bassembled correctly and with maximum observance of safety precautions during its operation.
The most unexpected homemade devices
Probably the most common use of a walk-behind tractor after cultivating the soil and transporting goods is a wood splitter, which allows you to split large chocks without much physical exertion. True, the wood splitter itself is mounted on a separate frame, and only a working motor is used from mini-equipment.
The second common use of this mechanism is to turn it into a snowmobile or swamp. The most amazing thing is that craftsmen manage to carry out this transformation, practically without changing anything in the design of the unit.
First, a trailer is hooked to the walk-behind tractor in order to have a two-axle four-wheeled unit, and then air is released from all wheels. On flat wheels put on special homemade lugs. Their width is 2-3 times wider than the standard width of a conventional wheel. Then the wheels are pumped up again, which, increasing in volume, are tightly pressed against the lugs put on top of them.
Due to the width of the wheels, such a device puts pressure on the ground 2-3 times less than conventional wheels, but due to its spikes it has sufficient grip with it, so the unit “shod” in such devices runs quite briskly both through mud and snow . But it should be noted that over rough terrain on such a vehicle is still not particularly accelerated.
There are many more wonderful devices invented by folk ingenuity, each of which deserves a separate story.
The design and arrangement of any walk-behind tractor implies the mandatory use of attachments. And since modern motor blocks have heavy and high-torque motors with power take-off systems, it is not surprising that motor tool manufacturers create more and more interesting nozzles and attachments for walk-behind tractors every season.
What a tool kit can do
The universal nature of the design of the walk-behind tractor implies that additional working tools and equipment are used exclusively as attachments for the walk-behind tractor. During operation, it can be easily removed and replaced, without interfering with the design of the walk-behind tractor.
In the vast majority, attachments for a walk-behind tractor are developed and produced primarily for tillage and growing vegetables and grain crops in small areas of household plots. Therefore, all attachments can be correlated into three categories:
Important! Due to the high degree of unification of the design of the main unit with the motor, the owners of different models of walk-behind tractors can partially adapt attachments and attachments for "foreign" models to their units. Especially when it comes to "Soviet" models.
Typical options for attachments for walk-behind tractors
Manufacturers of equipment for walk-behind tractors divided the entire range of attachments into two groups:
The simplest attachments and nozzles for a walk-behind tractor
Such devices include a number of plows, cutters, hillers for universal purposes.
Most of them are single-row, but for heavy models of walk-behind tractors, multi-row ones can also be used, most often these are cutters and cultivators.
For each model of the walk-behind tractor, the manufacturer produces a whole range of extensions and nozzles that can increase the wheelbase and increase the stability of the hitches for installing a plow or a knife hiller. In some cases, with the help of hitches, small harrows or rakes can be attached to the walk-behind tractor, the use of which can significantly increase the efficiency of working with mowed plants and their residues in the ground.
An obligatory tool is lugs installed on walk-behind tractors during heavy work - plowing or milling the soil. For work in particularly difficult areas, you can use additional reinforced lugs with hinged loads.
The second most popular after the plow are cutters for cultivating the land. Usually double ones are used, but if desired, tools with an increased number of knives can be supplied.
Attached equipment for motoblock fireworks
Currently, relatively new models are the most popular in the list of additional devices for a walk-behind tractor - seeders, potato planters, harvesting devices and snowplows. Nozzles and mechanized units for planting seeds allow you to sow at the most optimal time, when the period goes for days or even hours.
For example, additional devices for sowing small seeds and grain crops. The design of the attachment is very similar to that used for full trailed tractor planters.
Potato planters KS-1, with a weight of just over 40 kg, allow planting about 100-120 kg of seed potatoes in a prepared furrow in an hour and a half. The seed material is loaded into the hopper and fed by the chain drive of the planter to be placed into the soil at precisely measured intervals. It is clear that before the work of attachments it is necessary to cultivate and cut furrows in the ground.
No less interesting is the equipment for digging and collecting potatoes. You can simply dig tubers out of the ground with a special type of plow, but it is better to use a more versatile version of attachments that help even partially harvest.
It is worth mentioning a separate category of attachments used for mowing green mass. For example, a rotary mower for Salyut with a chain drive of a cutting tool allows you to mow grass many times faster than when using a self-propelled lawn mower. The hinged design of the GPM-1 rake allows you to remove mowed hay without much effort.
For hilling and processing row-spacings, a disk hiller or flat cutter is perfect.
In addition to cultivating the land and harvesting, for Salut, you can use special attachments designed for watering and spraying shrubs and trees. This is a water pump capable of creating pressure up to 5 atm.
Snow removal attachments
The practice of working with motor units has shown that, with the appropriate equipment with attachments, the motor block works perfectly as a snow blower. One of the most successful options for a mounted snow blower is the SMB-1 mounted kit.
With the help of a rotary knife and an ejector, the snow blower is able to remove packed snow up to 200 mm thick from the roadway, and the entire mass of snow is thrown onto the roadside at a distance of up to five meters. An alternative to using such equipment may be to use a tractor or work with a shovel.
For cleaning wet snow, you can use a mounted blade-shovel. A blade one meter wide makes it possible to lift and remove heavy snow saturated with water and ice up to 30 cm thick. At the same time, the set of installed equipment has an additional handle that allows you to change the direction of the cut. If desired, and with a sufficiently powerful engine, you can even cut off the top of the turf on sandy soil with a walk-behind tractor. In fact, a blade shovel and an adapter can turn a walk-behind tractor into a miniature bulldozer.
The final fine sweeping of the web can be done with a snow blower based on a rotary brush. This attachment will not only remove dirt and stone from the road surface, but is also capable of removing frost and compressed frozen snow up to 10 mm thick.
Transport attachments
A walk-behind tractor with a sufficiently strong motor can simply be turned into a small transport vehicle capable of carrying from 100 to 400 kg of cargo. This will require a special type of hinged hitch and a single-axle trailer.
The average speed on rough terrain is up to 10 km / h, on the road you can move up to 15-18 km / h. Most of the inconvenience associated with the use of such equipment is due to the fact that the gear ratios of the transmission are not very well combined with the optimal speed and speed of the walk-behind tractor. Given the lack of full-fledged controls and braking in the walk-behind tractor, in order to operate the unit on a hitch with an overloaded trailer, quite serious experience and skill in driving such motor units is required.
If desired, with the help of an additional attachment adapter, you can turn the walk-behind tractor into a microtractor, quite maneuverable and powerful. By adding grass mowing equipment to it, you can get a full-fledged motorized lawn mower.
Many interesting specimens of attachments for a walk-behind tractor were created by the hands of enthusiasts, for example, a caterpillar transporter. Or a system for spraying and chemical plant protection. Most of these models are quite successfully subsequently copied and used to develop industrial models of equipment.
Conclusion
Additional units and devices turn walk-behind tractors into full-fledged agricultural machines. They cost a lot, but with proper use they reduce the physical load by an order of magnitude, while the quality of work remains consistently high. In some cases, such as snow removal, there is practically no alternative to using a walk-behind tractor with an installed snow blower. The market for these types of products continues to grow rapidly.
The most effective equipment for giving in the countryside and for a country house is a walk-behind tractor. Only as a device by itself, the walk-behind tractor is useless. In order to work with it, you need attachments.
For the owner of small plots, buying sheds for your walk-behind tractor will not be very unprofitable. But for the owner of a large plot, the purchase of high-quality equipment will quickly pay off. But what to do, already having a walk-behind tractor on the farm and not being able to buy additional equipment for it? The answer is simple: make attachments for walk-behind tractors with your own hands.
How to make attachments for walk-behind tractors with your own hands
In principle, most of the equipment is very simple in design and easy to make from what is at hand. True, you still have to buy a hitch for canopies. And you can make other devices like a potato planter, potato dipper, lugs, a seeder, hillers yourself.
Homemade hiller to walk-behind tractor
To make homemade hillers for a walk-behind tractor, you need to take two metal disks 2 mm thick and place them opposite each other so that they open outward.
When we have chosen the correct angle of the discs, we need to bolt the hiller or just weld it.
Now we need to fix it on the hitch we bought to the walk-behind tractor and go!
Homemade potato planter
The device of a home-made potato planter is somewhat reminiscent of a hiller. Here, too, there are two disks at the bottom, but on top there is a special bowl into which potato tubers are poured. From the hole in the bowl, the tubers fall into the ground, and the potato planter discs are designed to bury them with every step.
In order to make a homemade potato planter, we need to assemble the frame, wheels and wheel axle, steel pins, tuber hopper, hook sprockets and adjustment mechanism. When making a canopy, pay attention to the frame, because this is the main organ of the potato planter.
All other organs are attached to it. Cover the front wheels with a metal plate, without it the potatoes will fall out of the hopper when we don't need it.
Correctly select and adjust the adjusting apparatus of the potato planter. This is necessary in order to properly distribute planting material in the soil. Tighten the bottom of the bunker with rubber so that the potatoes do not fall out in vain. The potato planter can run on a wide variety of wheels.
How to make lugs for walk-behind tractors with your own hands
In order to make them yourself, you need to have several blanks, a grinder and a welding machine.
To make lugs, you can use old car rims. Take out the steel corner, it will then be our teeth on the lugs. Take the axle shaft and fix the bearing on it.
Weld a square plate into the center of the rim so that its corners touch the edges of the rim. For fidelity, we make holes in the plate and additionally fasten it with bolts to the disk. We attach the half shaft from the inside of the disk to our plate.
When our wheel is ready, let's take care of the holds for it. Earlier we said that you need to buy a steel angle in order to remake it manually. So, we cut the corner with a grinder into pieces, fold every two segments into a corner and fasten them with a welding machine.
The hooks that we have obtained must be placed on the rim of the disc at a distance of 15-20 cm from each other.
The second way to make homemade lugs
There is another way to make wheels with lugs. It will come in handy if you have an old unnecessary gas cylinder and no lugs. We cut a circle (rim) from a balloon with a width of five to seven centimeters, the circumference of the rim should be 30 cm.
After that, we make hooks from a metal plate of 40 mm and, just as in the previous version, we fasten them at a distance of 15 cm from each other. In addition, an additional plate is welded to each hook in its center, which creates an additional “tooth” of the grouser.
We add another 60 cm to the edge of each hook - this is for greater entry into the soil. We weld a square plate to the rim of one of the metal discs, on which there will be an axis of the lug.
Homemade trailer for motoblock
Now consider the design and capabilities of a homemade trailer for a walk-behind tractor. Sometimes manufacturers themselves do not make them for the motoblock being sold, or they do it but of poor quality, often they bend during transportation, where the trailer is connected to the wheels. The best is a home-made trailer for a walk-behind tractor, it will turn out 2-3 times cheaper and, accordingly, more reliable.
To begin with, we make the body of the future trailer. To do this, we take steel pipes with a rectangular section or we can use corners, as is the case with lugs. We need a grinder to cut the pipes at a right angle and then we can sheathe the body with wood or metal. We attach the front seat for the driver. So you can control the walk-behind tractor with a cart, sitting and holding it by the walk-behind tractor control handles.
When our body is ready, it's time to think about how our cart will ride. We need to make a wheel axle by taking the rear axle from the car, removing the gearbox from it. You can also use as an axle a metal rod turned along the edges so that you can put on wheels for a trolley.
When the trailer is ready, you still need to attach it to the walk-behind tractor. Coupling the trailer with a walk-behind tractor using a swivel assembly. To make it, we take a pipe with a rectangular cross section and weld it to the lower edge of the cart so that a regular triangle is formed, and the edge of the body is the base of this triangle.
We also mentioned the manufacture of the swivel assembly. It is a cylinder with a console on two bearings. This design of the device allows the wheels of the trolley and walk-behind tractor to move independently of each other.
Below you can see drawings of a standard trolley for a walk-behind tractor
Attached home-made equipment - cutters and plow
One of the main attachments for a walk-behind tractor are cutters and a plow. Only cutters are used only on soft and constantly cultivated soil, and the plow is used on virgin soil. Also, the plow is more expensive and not every summer resident can afford it. But, in principle, this article itself was created for those who want the whole set of attachments and do not want (or cannot) pay for it.
For a homemade plow, take a metal plate with a thickness of 3 to 5 mm and a pipe, the walls of which should be 5 mm thick. We will also need to make a plow body.
At the beginning, we take a metal plate and sharpen it as we would sharpen a braid. Let's make a blade out of the plate. To do this, you need to cut it with a grinder. The plowshare looks like a trapezoid, you can see its sample below. Now we fix the pipe. And we also need a homemade ploughshare. Purchased replace with a circular saw blade. All the parts made by us are now attached to the plow body and attached to the walk-behind tractor through a hitch.
Motoblocks and attachments to them: video
And now, for a clearer idea of \u200b\u200bwhat attachments can be, we present you a video with a possible canopy for a walk-behind tractor.
We make a reversible plow for a walk-behind tractor with our own hands
Earlier, we considered the possibility of using a plow (homemade) instead of a cutter as an attachment for a walk-behind tractor. Both the cutter and the plow perform similar functions, but differ in the quality of processing. The reversible plow is also different from the standard plow.
Such a plow has a complicated design, in which the body is equipped with a curved feather on top. Thanks to this structure, the reversible plow not only plows the land, but also turns over the layer of land that it has plowed. This is useful when working with heavy soil.
The device of a reversible plow is much more complicated than that of a conventional plow, and only a professional can make a reversible plow on their own. It is very difficult to choose the right quality blanks and not make a mistake anywhere in the process.
In order to assemble such a plow yourself, you need to know what to assemble from, that is, what parts of it must first be made.
To make a Zykov plow with your own hands, you need to make a stand with which you will hook the plow to a walk-behind tractor, a plow body with a plowshare, a field board (thanks to it, the plow becomes more stable) and a feather with which the earth turns over.
The blade of this plow is made from a pipe half a meter in diameter with a wall thickness of 5 mm. We turn on the welding machine to cut out the blade, which we then grind with a grinder. For the body of birches, a steel plate 2-3 mm thick.