Automation of country work saves a significant amount of effort and a lot of time. Today, a variety of equipment is produced, designed specifically for this purpose. Of course, the most convenient and practical tool, which has already become simply an indispensable assistant for most summer residents, can be considered a walk-behind tractor.
Using this convenient technique, it’s easy to dig a huge field under the potatoes, remove snow in the yard, mow grass, etc.
Convenient technique
Of course, summer residents very often perform such an operation as hilling potatoes with a walk-behind tractor. Loosening the earth and adding it to the stems is an event that can significantly increase the yield of this crop. Hilling is done several times a season. If you use a hoe or a hoe, you just have to spend a huge amount of energy. And especially in the case of heavy land on the site. A walk-behind tractor with a special nozzle can greatly facilitate this process. Manual hilling over large areas takes several days. Using a walk-behind tractor, this operation can be completed in a couple of hours.
Types of tools for earthing up
For loosening the earth, the walk-behind tractor is equipped with a special nozzle. At the moment, there are three main types of such additions to this technology - unregulated, adjustable and disk.
Hilling potatoes with a walk-behind tractor with an unregulated nozzle is a rather laborious process. And therefore, experienced summer residents do not recommend purchasing it. The height of the ridge under the stems in this case is strictly fixed and cannot be changed in any way. In addition, it is necessary to adjust the width of the aisles of potatoes under the knife already in the process of planting.
Hilling potatoes with a walk-behind tractor with an adjustable nozzle is a much more convenient and simple process. By spreading the wings, you can easily change the height of the soil ridge. In addition, the equipment itself is easy to adjust to the row spacing in this particular area. And finally, the most convenient are disk nozzles designed for hilling. Such a tool easily cuts the soil and is extremely easy to adjust. With such a nozzle, even moist soil can be loosened.
Domestic motoblocks
At present, motoblocks are produced by a variety of companies, both foreign and domestic. Of course, imported equipment is considered more reliable and lasts longer. However, our domestic companies have recently also been constructing quite decent models, which are also much cheaper. For example, the earthing up of potatoes by the Neva motor-block can also be carried out on rather heavy soils. This technique is lightweight and manoeuvrable. Processing her plot is actually quite convenient.
In addition, Salyut motor-blocks are very popular among summer residents. The handles of this technique can be rotated 180 ° . The large solid wheels that this model is equipped with make it extremely reliable. Hilling potatoes with the Salute motoblock is also a quick and very convenient process, despite the fact that it weighs slightly more than the Neva. Various modifications of the equipment of this brand can be equipped with engines made in the USA, Japan or China.
Hilling potatoes with a modern type motoblock is a very simple process, and even a beginner summer resident can cope with it. Given the fact that this equipment is not too expensive, its use on a suburban area seems more than advisable.