Do-it-yourself cultivator from a trimmer

The cultivator makes soil cultivation easier, reducing time spent. This attachment, useful in agriculture, with rotating cutters allows you to loosen the soil and destroy weeds. With its help, it is possible to quickly process soil without affecting the fertile layer.

Cultivator is a universal garden tool that perfectly replaces a shovel and hoe. Mechanized equipment allows you to quickly hill up and dig up small areas of soil. Cultivated soil in beds, flower beds and greenhouses gets rid of weeds and becomes soft. This simple device is mounted on a tractor or walk-behind tractor.

A factory-made device is quite expensive, so many people prefer to make it themselves. For the base, you can use an ordinary gasoline trimmer. As an alternative, it is acceptable to use an electric brush cutter.

What is needed to make a cultivator based on a trimmer

To create an agricultural unit you will need a certain set of tools. It is also necessary to select the components of the future soil cultivation device. Set of tools and materials for transformation trimmer The cultivator includes the following items:

1. Garden forks.
2. Angle grinder for cutting metal. Must have a set of discs with a diameter of 125 mm.
3. Welding machine and electrodes.
4. Drill with a set of drills.
5. Electric jigsaw.
6. Emery machine. Two abrasive wheels are installed on it.
7. A metal sheet. The preferred thickness is about 5 mm, suitable dimensions are 10*10 cm.
8. Set of hand tools: wrench, hammer, pliers, marker, tape measure.
9. A long steel tube, the diameter of which is suitable for the shaft.

Assembling a mini-cultivator with your own hands is not so difficult. Using this technical device, you can cultivate small areas of soil at shallow depths.

The optimal trimmer power is 2 horsepower.

How to make a cultivator from a trimmer: description of the process

We will make three cutters for the future fixture. For this we use the teeth of a garden fork. This is the working part of the future device, which weeds the earth.

The cultivator will need three rods. You can use a larger number of cutters, but in this case an increased load will be placed on the brush cutter. The length of the rods should be from 10 to 15 cm. This is the depth at which the soil is loosened.

Process steps:

1. We bend the fork rods in the desired direction.
2. Flatten the teeth to a centimeter width.
   

3. We sharpen the cutters with fine abrasive on an emery machine.
4. Using a jigsaw, cut a nickel with a diameter of 10 cm.
   

5. We process the metal circle on the machine to an ideal shape.
6. We weld three cutters to the metal nickel.

Now all that remains is to combine the two parts. We attach the working element with cutters to the finished base, that is, to an electric or gasoline trimmer.

A reverse thread on the end of the shaft will make the task easier. In this case, easy screwing of the cutters is ensured. Before work, you should weld a pipe with a nut to them.

A cultivator is a useful device for farming.It allows you to loosen the soil without turning out large layers of earth. If you have experience in plumbing, you can quickly make a simple garden cultivator from gasoline trimmer. Remodeling will not require any special financial costs. An electric lawn mower should be equipped with an extension cord, which will allow you to increase the area being processed.