|
Motocultivators are single-shaft machines used for treatment on smaller land or on hardly approachable land. Generally, they have the two wheels and PTO for different attachments or they can have diggers attached directly on the shaft.
History
Cultivator was invented by Arthur Clifford Howard, who started to experiment with disk harrows in 1912. At first, he was using tractor's drive as power source for running machine similar to today's spike harrow. Later, he appended these blades to disk and got cultivator. He established company for cultivators production, but the production stopped during the First World War. In 1920 Howard patented cultivator with five blades and with internal combustion engine. In 1922 Howard established Austral Auto Cultivators Pty Ltd, later known as Howard Auto Cultivators. Head office was in Northmead near Sidney.
Motocultivators
"Little tractors" on two wheels powered with petrol or diesel engines with five to 15 HP. First great usage were in Asia for works on marshland (most often rise fields), but now you can find them in all types of lands. In Asia some producers added two additional wheels, so cultivators became real small tractors used for cultivating between crop rows and in vineyards. On islands and in other regions it is used as a main vehicle. Usually trailer is attached on it and via PTO it transmits power on trailer's wheel, so you have 4WD vehicle. Usually it is used for cultivating land, grass cutting or rarely as a sprayer in vineyards and orchards.
|
