How to make a rock scraper for potatoes from an old bicycle

Everyone who has experience in growing potatoes is familiar with the manual technology of hilling bushes.

In order to facilitate this process, you can make an excavator from a bicycle with your own hands.

Operating principle

How to reduce your work, easy to understand. The principle of the homemade hiller for potatoes is simple.

The main part of the unit, which goes deeper into the ground by 10-15 cm, is made of a conical shape or in the shape of an arrowhead. The blades are placed at such an angle that the earth in the aisle is moved to the desired width and sprinkled a number of potatoes. The width will depend on the width of the row. This part is attached to the bicycle frame with a steering wheel. It is the whole machine that controls the steering wheel. And most of all facilitates the work of the wheel that moves in front.

In this way, The process of hilling potatoes is performed by the following actions:

• deepen into the ground;
• move it using the wheel;
• by steering control unit.

The process of spuding potatoes is easier than if you did it manually with sap, spuding each bush separately. Work goes much faster and better. This treatment is suitable for potato plantations planted row and ridge way.

How to make a rock plaster for potatoes with your own hands

How to make a rock plaster for potatoes with your own hands, you can understand by reading our article. This is easy for the owner, who has the necessary tools, an unnecessary old bicycle, a cultivator section and, of course, desire.

Materials and tools

For the manufacture of manual potato tillers with their own hands, first of all, the cultivator part is needed. Here you can use the finished section of a conventional tractor cultivator, you can weld the cultivator, placing the blades at the right angle. It will take the frame of an old Soviet bicycle with one wheel (26-28 inches). From the wheel is better to remove the rubber, leaving the rim "naked." The metal hits the ground better, so the finished unit is easier to control. The frame must have a steering wheel. Naturally, you will need both bicycle keys and wrenches.

Manufacturing process

The manufacturing process will consist of several stages.

• The first stage is preparatory.

First of all, let's prepare the bike frame. We remove from it the rear wheel, pedals, saddle and steering wheel. We remove the tire and the camera from the front wheel, leaving only the rim. Prepare a section of the tractor cultivator to mount in place of the rear wheel. To do this, you need to fix the fastener to the section if the "native" does not fit. If there is no cultivator section, you need to prepare the metal to weld it yourself.

• The second stage - the manufacture of the unit.

The rear wheel carrier must be trimmed, leaving only the “triangle” of the frame. At the cut-off place for the rear wheel, butt against the pedals, fasten the tractor cultivator section. Tightly tighten the nuts with an appropriate wrench (most often they need two: one to support the bolt, the second - to tighten the nut).

The removal of this section must be adjusted so that it is convenient to walk away from the hiller. In the place where the saddle stood, set the steering wheel. Tightly tighten the bicycle key. Height adjustable for your height.

In addition, be sure to very tightly tighten or tightly brew the front fork so that it stands "dead" and does not turn. If the finished cultivator section is not, then it needs to be cooked. Here is a special calculation. It is necessary that the width of the excavator was 2/3 of the width of the row. The angle of the welded blades must not be sharp in order to capture the ground well (approximately 80-90 °).

A strap can be worn on the front to work together. For the belt pulls the first, manages - the second. To okuchnik easier to hit the ground, you can attach a load to it.

Other options for hillers

Okuchnik can be bought in the finished form, but do it yourself cheaper and easier (without leaving home). There are also many options for homemade hillers: from a wheelbarrow, from a sidecar, from a tricycle, from a bicycle wheel and a pipe, etc. For a manual hiller from a wheelbarrow, a frame with a wheel is taken as the basis. On it the section of a cultivator fastens. Driven by handles wheelbarrows. Okuchnik of a children's tricycle can be done by removing the seat and the front wheel. Ready tractor cultivator is not suitable here. It is necessary on the inside of the frame next to the wheels at a certain angle to weld the blades. Such a design will move along the row, not along the aisle. Hiller of the stroller is made on the same principle.

One of the options, how to make a manual okuchnik with our own hands, we showed in this article. This homemade unit can perform a variety of work on the site, especially if you change the nozzle: weed, loosen, cultivate, etc. Moreover, one person can carry out these works with ease.