With the purchase of a walk-behind tractor, the user has a desire to use it in all household work for the garden, garden, etc. Some people strive to immediately purchase the maximum possible set of attachments for the walk-behind tractor, others buy only the minimum number, gradually purchasing the rest. The third category of owners takes on self-production do-it-yourself devices and additional devices. Sometimes they surpass in many respects what the industry can offer.
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What do walk-behind tractors come with?
The walk-behind tractor itself represents only a power unit with wheels. So that he can perform useful work, it needs to be turned into an agricultural machine, supplemented with attachments. Only then do the positive aspects of this energy-rich device begin to appear.
A small list of basic attachments and attachments:
- The lugs will allow the walk-behind tractor to move across the arable land.
- Plow and cutter. For a long time deep processing land with the turnover of the layer was carried out by plows. A soil mill is a device capable of loosening the fertile layer.
- A potato planter will make the work of villagers and summer residents easier when planting potatoes.
- A flat cutter is one of the ancient tools that is experiencing a rebirth with the emergence of the ideas of organic (ecological) farming.
- Hillers. An increase in the yield of root crops, as well as an increase in the efficiency of the plant root system, is achieved by using hillers.
- The trailer turns the walk-behind tractor into a vehicle that can transport cargo on the site and on roads common use.
- The snow blower extends the period of use of the walk-behind tractor; in winter it is actively used for clearing snow.
This is far from full list attachments for walk-behind tractor.
It is not necessary to purchase the entire set of attachments for the walk-behind tractor at once. Additional tools are purchased or manufactured as needed.
DIY lugs
The engine torque is transmitted through the transmission to the wheels. To move across arable land, you need to create sufficient force. You can increase traction by increasing the coefficient of adhesion of the wheel to the ground. Therefore, the lug increases this coefficient several times, allowing you not to increase the weight power unit.
To make this attachments, you need to purchase:
- sheet steel 2-3 mm thick, standard quality steel st3 is sufficient;
- isosceles angle 35-50 mm;
- pipe with internal diameter more than 25 mm.
This set of blanks is sufficient to get started. All that remains is to choose a design or develop your own.
The lug can be leading and overhead. The driving lugs are installed in place of the base wheels of the walk-behind tractor. The overlays are put on top of the base wheel. Leaders do it more often.
DIY plow and cutter
The plow, for all its apparent simplicity, is quite difficult to manufacture. Usually, production begins with a hitch - special attachments. The body is fixed to the hitch - this is the main working body. cuts the soil layer. Next, a layer is formed, and then its turnover occurs.
The design of the plow body includes several components:
- ploughshare – cuts into the soil;
- dump - serves to create a given movement of the formation and turnover;
- field board – stabilizes the direction of travel of the entire agricultural unit.
For a walk-behind tractor, the design of the rotary plow is interesting; with one move of the lock, the plow can easily be changed from right to left and vice versa. This is very convenient for cultivating land in small areas.
If the plow can be conditionally considered a passive working implement, then soil mill is active. When cultivating the soil, the wheels are removed, and the unit moves due to the rotation of the cutters. The working blades perform rotational movement and loosen the ground.
- The lister (fertilizer) hiller is structurally similar to the body of a plow with two moldboards; it moves between the rows, moving soil from the groove to the ridge. They are used with relatively small row spacing;
- disk hiller in the form of two disks covering the ridge. When they move, a ridge is created on both sides at once;
- rotary (propeller), having active plates that throw soil into the ridge.
Lister hillers are often equipped with adjustable blades. This allows you to change the grip width of the working element. Many people use propeller attachments for hilling potatoes, but by cutting the rhizomes of perennial weeds, they contribute to clogging of the field.
Disc hillers are the most common; they are easy to manipulate during operation. They are also easy to make with your own hands.
Do-it-yourself walk-behind tractor trailer
The trailer expands the capabilities of the walk-behind tractor. With it, it turns into a vehicle capable of delivering various cargoes. The parameters of this homemade attachment for a walk-behind tractor depend on the available power. The higher it is, the more complex the cart can become.
For energy-rich walk-behind tractors with engines over 10 hp. Two-axle trailers are possible, which can transport up to 1000 kg of cargo. Usually they build small ones, the load capacity of which is 300-500 kg.
Eat important requirement. The reliability and controllability of the tow hitch must correspond to the characteristics required for vehicles operated on public roads. Therefore, axles or axles from other wheeled vehicles are most often used. Many focus on the use of ready-made bridges from cars and cargo scooters.
Scooter wheels are designed for a load of more than 150 kg each. Therefore, they are taken as a basis for design. Some do-it-yourselfers equip the trailer with a spare tire to make a quick change on the road.
The main thing is to create a strong frame, as it will absorb the load from the transported materials. At the same time, the safety of all road users when operating a walk-behind tractor with a trailer on roads where there are other vehicles also depends on a strong frame.
DIY snow blower
When purchasing a walk-behind tractor, most users expect to use it only in spring-summer period. In fact, when using an energy-rich unit in winter as a snow blower, you can significantly increase the efficiency of its use in your personal household. There are times when snow has to be removed from paths and areas almost every day.
Several types are used for snow removal:
- auger with rotary discarder;
- bulldozer type with blade;
- a shovel blade is a simplified type of snow blower;
- rotor-fan.
For most users, having a plow blade is enough; this snow blower is much easier to make.
The user, depending on his conditions, determines the type of snow blower he needs. Many people take on the task of making a complex auger, believing that this particular device will help in the winter. In fact, most are convinced that it is easier to simply move the snow, freeing up the roadway and territory.
The walk-behind tractor is an assistant in cultivating the soil, transporting goods, and harvesting crops. For these manipulations it must be equipped with additional attachments. But in the store they are expensive; a complete set is more expensive than the walk-behind tractor itself. Many craftsmen design and make homemade products for walk-behind tractors with their own hands. Articles, photos, and instructions from the Internet help with this.
Having the simplest skills in working with an angle grinder, a welding machine, or a drill, you can assemble useful homemade products from scrap materials and disused parts. Homemade structures are often made from more durable metal than store-bought ones and last longer.
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Homemade devices for walk-behind tractor
The necessary attachments on the farm include:
- land cultivators - plows, cutters, rippers;
- for crop care - hillers;
- rake;
- snow shovels;
- seeders, planting devices.
Rake for walk-behind tractor
Homemade rakes for walk-behind tractors are used when harvesting hay for livestock on a small farm. They are made with their own hands from narrow metal pipes and twigs. To make it work robust design, the parts are assembled for welding.
Homemade rakes are foldable for easy transportation.
By designing the rake yourself, you can make the grip width at your discretion. The pick-up height of the rolls is adjustable. Rake rods are made for collecting hay or mown grass on the site. In the second case, both the width of the structure and the size of the teeth can be reduced.
Homemade crow's feet cutters for walk-behind tractor
They help to deeply loosen the soil and crush large clods of earth.
This device is a one-piece welded structure, so it is stronger and more durable than conventional walk-behind cultivators. The cutter qualitatively processes hard soil for sowing potatoes. It can be used to plow the ground under the snow.
The quality of plowing depends on the degree of sharpening of homemade cutters. The soil becomes lush and rises 5-10 cm if the edges of the flat cutters are sharp. They crush large and small roots, destroy harmful beetles and wireworms, and saturate the soil with oxygen.
Homemade “crow’s feet” for a standard input mount must be made with a diameter of 52 cm, a gripper of 1.25 m, and a number of beams of 30 pieces. Each beam is bolted to the coil.
Homemade plow
A homemade plow for plowing is easy to make even for a person with minimal skills in working with metal. Milling cutters are used to loosen already used soil. The plow is used to cultivate virgin soil and compacted hard soil. It has a greater margin of safety. The plow is expensive, not every summer resident can buy it, but you can try to make it yourself.
You will need a plate 4-5 mm thick and a pipe with a wall of the same thickness. The structure is attached to the frame. The main element of the device is a sharpened plate; it must be cut with a grinder in the shape of a blade. The ploughshare has the shape of an elongated flat trapezoid. We fix the pipe and assemble the structure completely. It is connected to the walk-behind tractor via a hitch.
Reversible plow
The plow of this design is a little more complicated. A rounded feather is attached to the top of the homemade product. Not only the land is plowed, but also the cut layer is dumped - when processing virgin soil, this is sometimes necessary. The complex structure of a reversible plow requires its manufacture professional craftsman, which can calculate the exact parameters of each part.
One of the varieties of such structures is the Zykov plow. To assemble it yourself, you will need a stand with which it clings to the walk-behind tractor, the plow body itself with the ploughshare, a board for support and a curved blade for turning over the layers. The plow moldboard is made of a pipe with a diameter of 50 cm.
Blade-shovel
Can be leveled with a walk-behind tractor land for the construction of utility buildings. Like a bulldozer, it can clear sidewalks and paths of dirt and snowdrifts. To make a homemade blade you need to take a metal sheet 2 mm thick. For strength, plates of thicker metal are welded vertically inside the blade - they will not allow the rear wall of the blade to sag. You also need the lower part of the shovel; it is lined with tin so that the bottom does not get stuck in the ground or snow. The bottom of the shovel is placed at a right angle to the lower base.
Homemade products for a walk-behind tractor can be made with your own hands from used materials.
For the manufacture of homemade shovel You will need a metal saw, drill and welding machine. A 200-liter steel barrel is suitable as a material. It must be cut along the height into 3 parts and the outer two of them welded together. The metal of the barrel is thick enough to make the device durable.
Potato planter
A very popular and indispensable piece of equipment in the garden is a homemade potato planter. It has a tuber expander with a hole at the bottom and disks for burying them in the ground. Rear wheel with inside must be covered with a plate so that planting material did not fall under the wheel of a walk-behind tractor. The entire structure is mounted on a steel frame. The depth of its fixation is adjustable.
The bunker can be made of plywood or galvanized thin sheet. Wooden box can be painted waterproof paint. To prevent the tubers from being damaged, the inside of the bunker is lined with rubber.
The planting device consists of a metal tube with a diameter of 10 cm, to which a furrow opener is attached. Its height, and hence the depth of the furrow, is regulated by the vertical movement of the structure.
The furrows are sealed with discs directed towards each other at an angle. They move due to bearings. The width of the row is changed by loosening the bolts of the stepladders and moving the disks. To ensure that there are no traces left on the ground from the planter wheels, the ground can be loosened with cultivation legs welded to the frame.
The seat of a homemade sower for a walk-behind tractor is attached to a metal base frame.
Disc hiller
You can assemble it with your own hands from scrap materials convenient device for hilling vegetable crops planted in rows. The main elements of a homemade hanger will be two metal pot lids or disks of the same size. Their diameter is at least 50 cm. The edges of the covers or metal disks must be sharpened like cutters. These are the main details of the hiller. Flat lids are rounded inward using a hammer.
Disks that collect soil into a roller around the stems of potatoes or other crops are mounted on a metal frame. Small wheels are welded to the bottom of it for support. It is necessary to secure the disk rods movably so that you can adjust the angle of inclination of the processing surfaces.
A walk-behind tractor makes life in the village much easier, saves money, and facilitates manual labor. The cost of mounting it depends on the manufacturer and the availability of additional equipment. The Neva walk-behind tractor is in demand in our country. This unit is reliable, unpretentious, and easy to maintain and repair.
The design of each walk-behind tractor provides the possibility of using a variety of attachments. Attachments expand the range of agricultural work. Such equipment is divided into several categories depending on the scope of application.
Types of attachments:
Tillage
1.1. Plow. This hitch is used for plowing virgin soil and deep soil cultivation. When handled skillfully, a properly adjusted plow will deepen itself as it moves and cut even furrows. Thanks to this, it can be used to quickly prepare grooves for planting potatoes.
With some cultivators, a rototiller or plow is included. By default, such attachments come with walk-behind tractors Neva, Aurora, Zubr and others.
1.2. Reversible plow. It differs from the usual one by multidirectional working elements in the design. This makes it possible to plow in both directions without returning the walk-behind tractor idle. With this configuration, one plow is running and the other is raised. When driving in reverse side, the operating elements can be swapped by pressing the pedal.
1.3. Hiller plow. It differs from the usual one in that it has a V-shaped share. It is used for sowing vegetable crops (potatoes, onions, legumes). The main function is hilling the beds.
1.4. Rotary plow. It is connected as an attachment to the power take-off shaft. May have from two to four curved shares. When plowing, it turns the soil in the same way as a regular plow, but it is easier to work with. Characterized by greater stability and high performance.
1.5. Cutter or cultivator. They belong to the main types of mounted tools for tillage. In some models of walk-behind tractors they are installed instead of wheels. To pick up optimal width processing, adjust the opener or change the number of sections. It is more practical to use a mounted cultivator. It does not bury itself, maintains the depth of the furrow more confidently, and does not move to the side when hitting a denser section of the bed. A properly configured motor cultivator will cultivate the soil no worse than a tractor, without “trampling” the soil.
1.6. Harrow. Can be finger, disc or rotary. This attachment is used to break up clods of soil and level beds.
1.7. Potato digger. The simplest design has a special plow-hiller with moldboards in the form of rods. The plow digs under the tubers, the soil spills out through the dumps, and the potatoes remain on top.
Mowing grass and making hay using walk-behind tractor attachments
2.1. Mowers. There can be rotary and segmental (knife) ones. Rotary ones are more efficient in mowing, while segmented ones are more maneuverable. The second type of scythe is used for working between trees and bushes.
2.2. Tedder. This attachment is designed to turn hay, making it easier to dry.
Planting and sowing
3.1. Potato planter. This attachment consists of a container on wheels, a furrow cutter and a hiller. When working, potatoes are fed into the furrow at a certain time interval, and the hiller covers them with earth.
3.2. Seeders. They work according to the principle described above. The design of the seeder depends on the size of the seeds and the method of planting them. Using such a mounted device, tomatoes, watermelons, garlic, onions, carrots, etc. are planted.
3.3. Dominator with seeder. This type of vertical tiller is designed to create a lawn. The Dominator simultaneously performs all three operations: loosens the soil with vertical knives, sows seeds, levels, and compacts the surface of the future lawn with a roller.
Cargo transportation and transportation
4.1. Cargo trailer. Trailers for walk-behind tractors can have a load capacity from 300 to 500 kg. The body usually tilts, and the trolley itself can be equipped with brakes, lighting fixtures and operator's seat. The trailer is convenient, as it facilitates work when harvesting crops and transporting various cargoes.
4.2. Wheels with lugs. These metal wheels help increase traction. They are heavier than pneumatic ones and do not become clogged with soil. Thanks to this, the lugs do not slip under load.
4.3. Weights. Mounted on the body or on wheels to increase weight light walk-behind tractor and so that a heavier hitch can be installed on it.
4.4. Riding module. This is an adapter trailer that helps turn a walk-behind tractor into a mini-tractor. He is rear axle with seat and hitch for trailed equipment.
Other jobs
5.1. Rotary brush. This attachment, which is mounted on a walk-behind tractor, allows you to quickly and efficiently sweep up debris or freshly fallen snow from both asphalt paths and lawns.
5.2. Bulldozer knife (blade blade) - a suspended device can only be used on heavy walk-behind tractors. The blade is used to move large volumes bulk materials(piles of sand, rubble, snow, etc.).
5.3. Auger-rotary snow blower. Designed to clear an area of large volumes of snow, compacted or icy layers. A steel auger grinds the snow and ice mass and throws it to the side at a distance of up to 20 meters.
Homemade attachments for a walk-behind tractor
Additional equipment expands possibilities simple mechanism, turning it into an indispensable multifunctional unit. The Neva MB-2 walk-behind tractor can be purchased with a set of attachments. But in some cases, factory equipment is not suitable: the price, quality are not satisfactory, and it is not intended for this model. Then you can make a hitch for a walk-behind tractor with your own hands or buy attachments from another company and adapt it to your unit.
When developing the equipment of a walk-behind tractor, you need to take into account engine power, weight and dimensions, workloads, and method of connection to the main mechanism. This will help you use funds rationally and prevent you from wasting time and money.
Here are some examples of devices that you can make yourself:
1) Do-it-yourself walk-behind trailer adapter
Design:
- Frame with cross bar;
- Wheel stands;
- Braces;
- Operator seat;
- Hitch;
- Axle, wheels;
- Controls;
- Trailer.
To make a simple frame, you need a pipe 1.5 - 1.7 m long. The more powerful the walk-behind tractor, the longer the adapter drawbar can be, the larger the pipe cross-section and the diameter of the wheels.
A transverse rod is welded to one edge of the frame. Its length is the width of the trailer's wheelbase. Wheel stands and braces are attached to the bar for rigidity and better shock absorption. Wheels can be taken from a trailer or cart.
A stand for the operator's seat is secured in the center of the crossbar.
A hitch is welded to the second end of the frame, with which the trailer-adapter will be attached to the tow bar of the walk-behind tractor. The simplest connection between attachments and walk-behind tractor is a single hitch. For greater functionality and maneuverability, you can use a lever with two or three knees. It makes it possible to adjust the position of the hitch.
2) Homemade potato planter for walk-behind tractor
Design:
- Frame;
- Container for tubers;
- Chain conveyor;
- Adjustment mechanism;
- Plow;
- Disc harrows;
- Axle and wheels.
The frame for the mounted planter is made from a profile pipe by welding. Conveyor racks, a towbar, and spars are attached to it to ensure rigidity. Fasteners are mounted below that will hold the disks, cages and bearing housings, and the plow.
The drive sprocket is placed on the shaft, secured with a key. It is installed in bearings, and the wheel hub is mounted on the edge.
The conveyor bowls are made of 5-6 mm wire. A curved piece of the same wire is welded to a ring with a diameter of 58-60 mm from below. The result is a depression in which a medium-sized tuber will linger.
They are then welded to the chain links using fasteners. The interval between them depends on the diameter of the drive sprocket and the length of the chain. It can be installed experimentally. The conveyor chain is mounted on the idle sprocket and stretching device. The principle of chain tension is the same as for a bicycle.
The transport tape is connected and tensioned only after it is threaded through the hole in the container for planting material.
The working part of the conveyor must pass through the hopper, capturing the planting material. If the chain clings to the walls of the hopper, this will lead to its destruction.
The discs are mounted on special racks (sectors), which make it possible to change the angle of inclination of the disc and the immersion depth of the unit.
3) Disc hiller for walk-behind tractor
Design:
- T-frame;
- Racks;
- Discs;
- Screw tappers.
The disc hiller is the most convenient mounted unit to use. With its help, you can perform work when planting a vegetable garden and during active growth plants. It does not require much physical effort to operate, and its power increases as the speed decreases.
For the manufacture of discs, alloy steel with a thickness of 1.5 - 2 mm is used. A hole is drilled in the center for adapters that will attach them to the hiller frame. The outer edges of the disks are bent.
The adapters (disc stands) can be simply welded or bolted to the frame crossbar. In the second case, it will be possible to change the grip width of the hiller.
Using talpers, the angle of rotation of the disks is changed to regulate the depth of their immersion. Sliding bearings built into the structure facilitate the operation of the hiller.
4) Homemade potato digger for walk-behind tractor
Design:
- Frame;
- Share;
- Editorial node;
- Cleaning drum.
When selecting the dimensions of the parts, you need to focus on the power of the walk-behind tractor to which the potato digger will be connected.
The welded frame is made from metal corner 60x40mm, section of channel No. 8, profiled pipe.
The moving part of the potato digger is the ploughshare. It consists of a steel plate (or several plates) and rods. It is attached to the elevator casing using four fasteners tightened with nuts. All sharp edges on this structure must be blunted so that they do not damage the tubers.
The editorial unit consists of two cylindrical metal bodies. The glass-like body of the potato digger must have a bushing to connect the driven and drive shafts. Right assembled structure when installed on a walk-behind tractor as a mounted one, it should rotate freely.
Hubs are made from a pipe with a diameter of 25 mm. Transmission sprockets are welded to them. The latter, in turn, are mounted on the bushings using parallel keys.
The cleaning drum looks like a squirrel wheel, which is why it is sometimes called that. It consists of two roller chains of 94 links, mounted on special rods. This structure is mounted on two fixed axes.
As the walk-behind tractor moves, the force of the shaft will make the plowshare make digging movements, changing the angle of inclination. The tubers will gradually move through all the design elements of the mounted unit, sifting the soil through the rods.
5) Plow snow blower
Design:
- Adapter;
- Dump.
To make the blade, a frame is mounted. It is sheathed with tin no more than 2 mm thick. Its dimensions depend on the characteristics of the territory served. For cleaning paths, a width of 50-55 cm will be sufficient.
The lower edge of the blade should be located at an angle to the main axis of the frame. A knife is attached to it using bolts or rivets. A large inclination of the knife allows you to cut off hard crust, a small inclination allows you to move the snow mass without any special load on the engine.
The adapter consists of two rods and three brackets. The blade is attached to the walk-behind tractor frame using rods. And the angle of its placement relative to the frame is adjusted using brackets. To facilitate adjustment, a traction mechanism can be installed. The front wheel units of a passenger car are used as the basis for this hinged mechanism.
The principle of universality
Some elements of the hinge are similar in design and operating principle. Therefore, it is possible to manufacture equipment based on the principle of universality. So, for example, a potato digger can become a potato planter or hiller. Using one node per similar designs will save money and storage space additional kit equipment.
Attachments for walk-behind tractors have always been of particular interest to DIYers. Simple and at the same time universal device power unit medium and heavy walk-behind tractors allows you to create several types of mounted implements. This means that all these relatively simple devices will make the walk-behind tractor a real competitor to the modern tractor.
Homemade attachments for walk-behind tractors
For walk-behind tractors of medium and high power Today, suppliers and manufacturers offer a huge number of attachments and accessories that provide mechanization for many operations. However, despite such attractive offers and ready-made options for supplying kits, many owners prefer to make attachments for the walk-behind tractor with their own hands. And the reason is not that homemade ones are cheaper. Not at all, if we take the cost of materials, then this is absolutely not true. The problem lies elsewhere. Do-it-yourself equipment for a walk-behind tractor, these are mostly universally selected according to their quality parameters tools that meet the needs of a specific person.
This approach to the formation of a fleet of agricultural machinery makes it possible to take into account in the process of designing and assembling equipment all possible features both the site and the owner himself.
The equipment being developed for the unit is conventionally divided into equipment:
- universal purpose;
- highly specialized focus;
- auxiliary equipment and devices to simplify the control of the walk-behind tractor.
TO universal means primarily include adapters and various kinds trailers that make a universal transport platform both for transporting goods and as a convenient vehicle. Some models of walk-behind tractors are capable of reaching speeds of up to 25 km per hour. Although the comfort of a mini tractor is still far away here, you no longer have to walk.
Highly specialized types of equipment are most often designed to perform only 1 or a maximum of 2 operations. However, these are precisely the ones that are most in demand from the point of view consumer qualities tools for high-quality processing soil, performing operations to care for crops, preparing feed, and even used in construction. In part, it should be noted that among homemade products special purpose Relatively simple types of tools predominate - plows, cutters, etc. This is something that can be done from scrap materials and using the simplest power tools. But more complex elements are manufactured using units from other equipment.
And, of course, what makes it easier to control is a counterweight on the walk-behind tractor, wheel weights and anti-slip chains - all this allows you to work with the unit all year round.
Homemade products for walk-behind tractor
The question of where to start designing attachments for walk-behind tractors is quite reasonable. The fact is that almost all walk-behind tractors are equipped with factory-made trailers, designed for the use of standard types of equipment. It is necessary to clarify, however, that it is the standard equipment that does not satisfy the needs of customers - trailed systems turn out to be too delicate and fragile when used in harsh operating conditions.
For domestic walk-behind tractors, trailer hitches are mainly made of steel welded method, but for mass Chinese production it is mainly cast iron, or an alloy of metals. It is clear that for one body plow even the most powerful cast iron adapter will not withstand.
Therefore, the first thing you need to create is a do-it-yourself plow towed to a walk-behind tractor. Here it is better to take as the basis of the design standard scheme- the adapter is a hinge with the ability to fix the plow in different positions, which is especially convenient for plowing large plots, when a plow is used with both left and right moldboards.
This option will help you use it for plowing, hilling, and for installing a seat adapter for a mower or a rake for turning hay in haymaking.
Universal trailer for walk-behind tractor
The presence of a trailer ensures mobility, because it is one thing to drive a walk-behind tractor with already installed units, it’s another thing when a plow, cutter, or simply is loaded onto a trailer and transported by the walk-behind tractor itself.
You need to calculate the parameters of trailed equipment for a walk-behind tractor based on its power, the principle here is simple - 1 liter. With. means the ability to transport 100 kg of payload on a trolley. The simplest and most reliable design is a single-axle trailer with a load on the central axle. And although the carrying capacity of such a trailer is small, only up to 500 kg, this is quite enough to install a seat on the trailer and operate a walk-behind tractor while sitting on the trailer.
The most difficult thing here is to select the necessary components. Easiest to use finished parts. For example, a do-it-yourself hub for a walk-behind tractor is made from an automobile hub for passenger cars. This allows you to use standard car wheels and tires for the equipment of the unit. On the other hand, a hub from a VAZ classic is perfect for making other useful homemade products - lugs, winches, wheel weights.
The trailer is mainly made from rectangular pipe, but both a channel and an I-beam can be used as a frame base. It is better to provide removable sides for the trailer. It is preferable to immediately provide for the possibility of installing several types of sides on the platform:
- wooden or metal for transportation of bulk cargo;
- light, mesh for harvesting green mass for animals;
- folding, expandable usable area for transporting hay.
But in order to move comfortably on the roads, it is worth making wings on the walk-behind tractor. If possible, immediately install mudguards on them. After all, not all roads have asphalt and hard surfaces.
According to the law, a walk-behind tractor with a trailer cannot be called a vehicle today, but this does not mean that the trailer should not be equipped with light signaling devices.
Be sure to install at least 4 reflective elements on the trailer - 2 red at the back and 2 white at the front. This will help the car driver identify the cart in the dark.
Tillage tools - do-it-yourself plow and plow for a walk-behind tractor
Before attaching a walk-behind tractor to tillage, you should decide what is more important and set priorities in terms of technology for cultivating the site. For large areas used for planting potatoes, root crops, grain crops the best option I would like a do-it-yourself plow for a walk-behind tractor. Make it simpler and easier. But for the beds under vegetable crops, for processing strips between the rows of the garden or final processing for planting, it is better to use a milling cutter. This will make further work much easier.
When the coupling to the walk-behind tractor is ready, the most difficult thing in making the plow is its shape. The body has a shape that is difficult to mold and therefore it is better to make a plow from several components. It is better to make a coulter for a walk-behind tractor with your own hands from steel. The large force that this element will experience should not lead to its deformation. Moreover, it is the coulter that is responsible for the depth of lowering of the plow.
The plowshare must be as wide as possible hard metal. This is the part of the plow that cuts into the ground and cuts its layer. The strength and power of this element will allow you to work with the plow both in the conditions of cultivated arable land and to do preliminary processing of virgin soil. Despite the complexity of the blade design, it is quite simple to make. For a curved blade, it is better to take a ready-made round or oval shape. Make a dump out of it according to the drawing. Craftsmen usually use pipes for this big size from 350 mm in diameter or gas cylinders. This results in an almost ideal blade shape.
One of the questions on how to make a plow for a walk-behind tractor will be the production of a field board - a stabilizing element for the plow, which sets the direction of its movement when working on arable land.
A do-it-yourself plow for a walk-behind tractor, just like a plow, is assembled from several elements. True, to use a plow in soil cultivation, it is better to provide a blade made of reinforcement, so that during cultivation the soil is loosened as much as possible when the formation is turned. In the design of the plow, it is better to provide not a frontal blade, but a double-sided blade with reinforcing bars.
Do-it-yourself cutter for walk-behind tractor
Attachments for a walk-behind tractor in the form of a soil cutter can be used mainly for light and medium-sized units. For heavy models with a separate power take-off mechanism and transmission of torque to trailed units for a walk-behind tractor, cutters with a chain drive will be optimal.
The simplest cutters for loosening the soil can be four segmented reciprocating cutters. Structurally, such a cutter is a pipe on which reciprocating cutters are rigidly mounted. For medium and light units, the axle shafts for the walk-behind tractor are made collapsible. This way you can adjust the width and speed of tillage. If two segments are installed on each side of the gearbox, the processing speed is significantly higher. True, the width in this case will be small. For axle shafts consisting of two or even four elements, the working width can be increased to 1.5 meters.
Do-it-yourself attachments for a walk-behind tractor are made from a profile pipe. The profile is easier to install on the wheel gearbox. Yes, and connecting them when building up is much simpler and easier.
Simply insert them into each other and secure with pins. Do-it-yourself axle shafts for a walk-behind tractor are made from a square or hexagonal pipe with thick walls. For 1 set of cutters you will need:
- pipes for the axle housing with a wall thickness of 2.5-3 mm and a length of 50-80 cm;
- for connecting pipe segments of smaller diameter 50-60 cm long;
- 8 saber elements for the working body;
- clamps on the axle shafts - 4 pieces;
It is recommended to make the cutters themselves from a steel strip with a thickness of 5 mm or more. The most The best decision for the manufacture of cutters - the use of forged metal. In this case, the strength is higher and there is no need to sharpen the tool frequently. When developing the shape of a cutter for a walk-behind tractor with your own hands, it is recommended to use drawings of the most successful models - a saber cutter, a curved cutter, or a cutter with a triangular pointed element.
Disc cultivator for walk-behind tractor
One of the most popular types of attachments for a walk-behind tractor during the summer plant care period is a cultivator. You can make a weeder for a walk-behind tractor with your own hands:
- following the example of a classic cultivator in the form of a trailed ripper;
- as disc hillers, used for processing root crops.
The processing technology involves passing a walk-behind tractor between two rows of crops or when using a multi-hull cultivator of three or even four rows.
The hiller ripper can have several types of tools installed in one housing:
- ripper;
- two double-moldboard flat-cutting plows;
- 2 disc harrows for the formation of ridges;
- two disks for plant protection.
Do-it-yourself plant protection discs for walk-behind tractors are usually made of sheet steel. Depending on the purpose of the device to which they will be applied, their diameter is calculated. For cutters, the diameter is usually 5-7 cm smaller than the cutters, and for a cultivator they should be 30-35 cm in diameter. It’s just that when milling an area, plants usually have small height. But cultivation is carried out when the plants reach significant growth, and their breakdown at this stage can result in the death of the vegetable crop.
Medium-sized disks can also be universal, with a diameter of 20-25 cm. In this case, it is necessary to provide a universal type of fastening to each type of attachment.
Auxiliary equipment for walk-behind tractor
Among the necessary improvements to the walk-behind tractor in the form of attachments, it is recommended to make, in addition to all of the above, the following elements:
- wheels with lugs for working on loose soil;
- lift;
- mounted bucket-blade for snow removal.
For wheel designs used as movers for walk-behind tractors on arable land, wheels with rubber tires. Experience and ability to work with will tell you how to make wheels for a walk-behind tractor with lugs yourself. ready-made structures, for example, with steel rims from car wheels.
To do this you need:
- 2 steel discs from passenger car;
- corners 25x25 cm;
- electric welding;
- Bulgarian;
- tape measure and pencil.
The corner is cut into segments of 35-40 cm. The rims of the disk are marked into equal segments. It is best if there are 8 or 10 of them. Marks are made and corners are welded at the marks.
It is better to make a do-it-yourself lift for a walk-behind tractor from a piece of pipe with a diameter of 100 mm. The lift itself is made in the form of a roller on a bracket. If necessary, it changes its position and makes it possible to lift the walk-behind tractor onto a support. In its normal position, the lift shaft is located in front of the unit and is used as a support roller when overcoming ditches and ruts.
The ladle can be made:
- from sheet metal thickness 1.5-2 mm;
- hard plastic with a knife at the bottom made of a metal strip;
- from plywood 8-10 mm thick or OSB boards 10-12 mm.
The bucket is rigidly fixed to the walk-behind tractor frame. To make work easier, you can make a rotating device to change the angle of inclination of the cutting plane to the road surface.
To make the bucket work for a long time, the support ski is carried in front on a bracket. This will make cleaning safer. The cutting surface will be at a certain height above the ground and will not touch the ground.
You can improve your home motorcycle equipment to suit your requirements without high costs. After all, you can assemble attachments for a walk-behind tractor yourself, doing everything yourself.
Work of a walk-behind tractor with attachments - video
The most effective equipment for a summer residence in rural areas and for country house is a walk-behind tractor. Just as a device in itself, the walk-behind tractor is useless. In order to work with it, you need attachments.
For the owner of small plots, buying canopies for his walk-behind tractor will not be very profitable. But to the owner large plot, buying quality equipment will quickly pay for itself. But what should you do if you already have a walk-behind tractor on your farm and are unable to buy one for it? optional equipment? 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 equipment is very simple in design and can be easily made from what is at hand. However, you still have to buy a hitch for awnings. And you can make other devices like a potato planter, potato digger, lugs, seeder, hillers yourself.
Homemade hiller for walk-behind tractor
To do homemade hillers to the 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 selected the correct angle of the disks, we need to secure the hiller with bolts or simply weld it.
Now we need to secure it to the hitch we bought to the walk-behind tractor and off we go!
Homemade potato planter
The structure of a homemade 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 a hole in the bowl, the tubers fall into the ground, and the discs of the potato planter are designed to bury them with each step.
In order to do homemade potato planter, we need to assemble the frame, wheels and axle, steel pins, tuber hopper, sprockets and adjuster. When making a canopy, pay close 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 configure the adjusting device of the potato planter. This is necessary in order to correctly distribute the planting material in the soil. Tighten the bottom of the hopper with rubber so that the potatoes do not fall out in vain. The potato planter can operate on a 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 become our teeth on the lugs. Take the axle shaft and attach the bearing to it.
Weld a square plate into the center of the wheel rim so that its corners touch the edges of the rim. To be sure, we make holes in the plate and additionally bolt it to the disk. We attach the axle shaft from the inside of the disk to our plate.
When our wheel is ready, let's work on the hooks for it. We said earlier that you need to buy a steel angle in order to then remake it by hand. So, we cut the corner into pieces with a grinder, fold each two pieces 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 method of making 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 there are no lugs. We cut a circle (rim) from the balloon with a width of five to seven centimeters, the circumference of the rim should be 30 cm.
After this, we make hooks from a 40 mm metal plate and, just as in the previous version, fasten them at a distance of 15 cm from each other. In addition, we weld an additional plate to each hook in its center, which creates an additional “tooth” of the lug.
We add another 60 cm to the edge of each hook - this is for greater penetration into the soil. We weld a square plate to the rim of one of the metal disks, on which there will be a lug axis.
Homemade trailer for walk-behind tractor
Now let’s look at the design and capabilities of a homemade trailer for a walk-behind tractor. Sometimes manufacturers themselves do not make them for the walk-behind tractor they sell, or they make them of poor quality; they often bend when transporting cargo, where the trailer connects to the wheels. The best thing is a homemade trailer for a walk-behind tractor; it will be 2-3 times cheaper and, accordingly, more reliable.
First, we make the body of the future trailer. For this we take steel pipes With rectangular cross-section or we can use corners as in the case of lugs. We need to use a grinder to cut the pipes at right angles and then we can sheathe the body with wood or metal. We attach a driver's seat to the front. This way you can operate a walk-behind tractor with a trolley while 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 a passenger car and removing the gearbox from it. You can also use a metal rod turned around the edges as an axle so that you can put on the wheels for the cart.
When the trailer is ready, you still need to attach it to the walk-behind tractor. Hitch the trailer to the walk-behind tractor using a swivel unit. 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 a rotating unit. It is a cylinder with a console on two bearings. This design of the device allows the wheels of the cart and walk-behind tractor to move independently of each other.
Below you can see drawings of a standard trolley for a walk-behind tractor
Homemade attachments - 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 entire set of attachments and do not want (or cannot) pay for it.
For 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 the body of the plow.
First, we take a metal plate and sharpen it as if we were sharpening a scythe. Let's make a blade out of the plate. To do this, you need to cut it out with a grinder. The ploughshare looks like a trapezoid; you can see a sample of it below. Now we attach the pipe. And we also need a homemade ploughshare. We will replace the purchased one with a disk. circular saw. All the parts we have made are now attached to the plow body and connected to the walk-behind tractor via a hitch.
Walk-behind tractors and attachments for them: video
And now, for a clearer idea of what attachments can be, we present you with a video of a possible canopy for a walk-behind tractor.
Making a reversible plow for a walk-behind tractor with your own hands
Previously, we considered the possibility of using a plow (homemade) instead of a milling 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 also differs from the standard one.
This plow has a complicated design, in which the body on top is equipped with a curved feather. Thanks to this structure, the reversible plow not only plows the ground, but also turns over the layer of soil that it plowed. This can be useful when working with heavy soil.
The design of a reversible plow is much more complex than that of a conventional one, and only a professional can make a reversible plow on his own. It can be very difficult to choose the right quality workpieces 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 you need to make first.
To make a Zykov plow with your own hands, you need to make a stand with which you will attach the plow to the walk-behind tractor, a plow body with a ploughshare, a field board (thanks to it the plow becomes more stable) and a feather with which to turn the earth.
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 birch body, a steel plate 2-3 mm thick.