DIY Tiller Rake

17th March 2021

Solnyshko-type turner

Now let’s figure out the design of the tedders for tillers and mini tractors like the Sun. For tillers, it is better to use the three-wheeled tedder, for tractors, five-wheeled tedders are suitable. So, we need a metal pipe, wire 4-7 mm, steel sheets 4 mm thick.

We will make a welded frame from a metal pipe, on which we will install brackets to which the wheels will be attached. Cut out the impeller discs from steel sheets. From the wire, we will make fingers that will rake the cut grass. They must be replaceable. Bolt them to the discs.

Different types of tedder designs

Rake-tedders, or tedders, are designed for harvesting hay, freshly cut grass or straw. With the help of the working part of the rake. wheels with steel curved beams. efficient raking of hay takes place. Today, several types of such tedders have already been created. The most popular among them are rotary and wheel mounted rakes.

Rotary tedders are a finger-type design based on horizontal rotors, i.e. rotating engine parts. Beams are fixed on them with the help of springs, which will be engaged in raking and tedding hay. Thanks to this design, you can adjust the height and angle of tedding.

Wheeled mounted tedders of the Sun type are convenient primarily because from 3 to 5 wheels are located obliquely from each other, which increases the efficiency of work. It is also clear that the use of 3-5 rakes at once significantly increases the speed of work. The wheels in the agitator are interchangeable, each is fixed on two bearings, and this greatly facilitates their repair.

Also, the fingers on the tedders whip up hay or straw, increasing windrow ventilation.

It is this construction of the Sun type that is easiest to do with your own hands.

Of course, if you have certain skills, then a tedder for a tiller or mini tractor will not seem such an intricate invention.

2.1 Creation of rake tedders mounted 4-wheeled Solnyshko

Rotary tedder with your own hands

First, let’s try to make our own rotary tedder. We make a metal frame, the dimensions of which will depend on the traction of the tiller or tractor. For it, you can take a round or square metal pipe. One side of the frame should be the same size as the hitch, the other should gradually taper.

The rotor required for the tedder is driven by a propeller shaft, but it can be easily replaced with the rear axle of a passenger car. The fact is that it is in the rear axle that there are all the gears necessary for operation.

If you are making a tedder on a tractor, you will also have to install a reduction gear on the PTO shaft.

In many tractors, the number of shaft revolutions per minute is 540, which is a lot for tedders.

The role of the rotor will be played by the disc of the car, on which we will weld 10 tubes to make the “sun”.

Now we are left with only the teeth of our rake. They are best made from durable steel. We will attach them to the rotor by welding. Rotary tedders ready.

Benefits

minimum equipment maintenance costs;
the hinged structure ensures a long service life;
the design has a powerful frame and a drawbar;
convenient transfer of equipment to transport or working condition;
price.

Most farmers claim that thanks to the use of a rotary rake, tedders, aggregated with mini-tractors, the loss of dried crop mass during raking is minimized. In addition, the “fingers” on the wheels of the agitator not only beat the hay well, but also turn it over, which improves windrow ventilation and, accordingly, increases the quality of the hay mass.

Conclusion

In fact, hand-made turners of this kind are in no way inferior to factory models, and sometimes even turn out to be better than them due to the quality of assembly and parts.

Do-it-yourself tedder rake for a tiller: instructions for creating attachments

We do homemade products for the tiller with our own hands

For quick and high-quality soil cultivation, you need to make homemade “crow’s feet” cutters for the tiller, which will mix the soil to a sufficient depth and break up hard clods.

A homemade tiller rake is also a useful attachment. It is most correct to have several rakes of such different types.

A homemade hiller for a tiller will also be needed by every gardener. The hiller will allow the formation of even and high ridges on all beds with root crops. A homemade tiller blade will make it easier to remove snow and sand from the land, create good conditions for further soil processing.

Is the tiller rake a much needed piece of equipment??

First, let’s figure out what they are for. With this device, you can level a dug garden, collect mowed grass and hay, and also clear the area of weeds and debris.

The above work takes a lot of time and effort if done manually. Therefore, such attachments as a rake for a tiller are an essential assistant. However, not everyone can afford to purchase this device, and then there is another option, to make them yourself.

How to do it yourself

If you decide to make a cross rake yourself, you will need the following set:

hacksaw;
hammer;
welding machine;
puncher;
two wheels;
metal axle;
profile pipe;
springs;
metal rods;
rake tubes.

Experienced gardeners recommend choosing a rake model not in one piece, but in a folding version. Cross home-made rake to the tiller, which can be folded in practice, turn out to be more comfortable and mobile during transportation.

With a hand-made rake, you can achieve maximum mobility in raking hay. That is why they must be fully mechanized to work. The technological process of manufacturing these devices is quite simple.

In the process of designing them, you need to pay attention to the presence of such components as levers, drawbars, rods, struts, axles for wheels and crossbars for teeth. It is from the tube that all the elements for the rake are made with their own hands. except for the teeth. Ordinary metal rods can serve as them.

As the drawings describe, the pipe sections are assembled into a structural solution. They can be tightly welded into one piece, or you can firmly insert one pipe into another. The traction mechanism will determine the free rotation of the tiller, so the wheels do not need bearings. Having calculated the efficiency of cleaning the haymaking area, you can choose any diameter of the rake grab with your own hands.

There are a lot of ideas for making homemade elements for working units. As well as the required blueprints, they are available. Therefore, the best solution would be to use them and make a multifunctional rake for the tiller yourself, because they will significantly increase the productivity of your work.

Convenient homemade seeder to the tiller

Conventionally, seeders for tillers are subdivided according to the number of simultaneously sown rows. from 1 to 5, vegetable seeders and precision seeders are also distinguished.
Vegetable seeders are used for dotted sowing of vegetables: carrots, onions, beets. The device for feeding the seeds is driven by the support-drive wheels of the sections. In addition, the rotational speed of the apparatus is regulated by replaceable sprockets.

Seed drills for vegetable precision seeding have a brush seeding device. In such a device, a rotating brush agitates a layer of seeds in the hopper so that they are poured into an opening located in its rear wall. The hole is closed by a rotary disc with holes of different diameters. By turning the disc, you can change the size of the holes and thus change the seeding rate.

A homemade seeder to the tiller is usually connected to the tiller using a universal coupler, thanks to which the tiller can be equipped with two-row and four-row seeders.

Homemade rake for tiller

If you wish, you can easily make a homemade rake for the tiller. For the wide hay rake, you can use conventional water pipes with different diameters. You will need to put a special sleeve on the round rod, and then tap its surface, slightly twisting.

When making, a round rod is best suited. Most of the rake parts are held together by electric welding, since this method is simple, and at the same time a reliable design is obtained.

Greater design simplicity can be achieved if the swivel parts on the axles are fixed without rolling bearings.

It is better to fold the hay rake to the tiller, as this will simplify their transportation.

Making a homemade disc hiller for a tiller

We begin to make a homemade disc hiller for a tiller by looking for lids from steel pots that are unnecessary in the household (better not enameled, but just metal ones).

The required diameter is about 40-50 cm, taking into account the fact that the depth of germination of potato roots into the ground is not more than 15-20 cm.Next, we sharpen the blades of the covers, and in our case they are already the disks of the hiller, on a grinding machine.

If the covers are flat, then they are slightly bent to one side with a hammer.

Further, in order to make a convenient hiller, you need to make a cart, to which the disks that move the soil will be attached. It can be a structure of pipes and bushings; we attach small support wheels to its lower frame.

After that, you can proceed to testing such a hiller right on the potato plot of the garden.

Homemade Tiller Shovel

the tiller often acts as a bulldozer, leveling the ground, as well as clearing sidewalks or roads from snow and mud. For it is equipped with a shovel blade.

A homemade shovel is made for a tiller without any difficulties if you have an “angle grinder”, a drill and a welding machine on your farm.

You will not have to look for a suitable metal for a long time, since an ordinary two hundred liter steel barrel is suitable for making a shovel-blade. By carefully cutting it into three pieces, you get three curved segments for the shovel. Having welded two of them along the contour, you get a shovel. A blade with a metal thickness of 3 mm, which is quite enough for the required rigidity of the blade-blade.

1.2 Do-it-yourself rake for the tiller

It’s no secret that every entrepreneur, especially a farmer, carefully plans his budget and often refuses to buy functional devices, which, if desired, can be dispensed with. If you belong to the category of zealous owners and want to test a new device first, we suggest you make a do-it-yourself rake for the tiller.

For manufacturing we need:

2 wheels about 35-40 cm in diameter;
a rod of a sufficiently large section or a fragment of a water pipe, which we use as an axis;
a drawbar, which can be made from a thick-walled pipe;
metal rods 5-10 mm in diameter, which should be bent one piece at a time;
2 pipes with a diameter of 30 and 40 mm for the manufacture of the axis, respectively, and the implementation of its fastening;
ready springs.

At the first stage, put the wheels on the axle and weld on it 2 additional reinforcing pads at a distance of 100-120 mm from each of the wheels. sheet steel can be used for this purpose. Fix the drawbar in the center of the axle and weld a loop to it to aggregate the attachment to the tiller. Alternatively, you can use any ready-made trailed element, for example, a universal trailer for an MTZ tiller, which can be purchased at disassembly.

Homemade hay rake

Next, we move on to creating the working mechanism itself. Weld 2 racks to the axle, and to them 2 fragments of a 40 mm pipe, they will be used to attach the rake axle. Pay attention. the axis must be movable and easy to turn. The outer sides of the fastener pipes should be blocked (for example, by welding pieces of sheet metal to them). This minimizes the risk of the rake shifting during operation or when turning the tiller.

At the last stage, the structure should be provided with teeth, attaching them to the axis at an equal distance, and equipped with a lever.
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1 Rake-tedders. features and benefits

Both professionals and amateurs point out that one of the best and most practical tiller tools is the rake. This simple, in terms of design, attachment is connected to the main equipment using a universal adapter and performs one of the most time-consuming summer cottage functions. collecting hay, tops and weeds.

Tiller rake

2 Tiller harrows

The harrow is another popular unit that the tiller can be equipped with. Tiller harrowing is an excellent opportunity for summer residents and farmers to simplify the process of cultivating their plot. Factory lines of equipment in this segment are represented by classic (gear), disk or rotary models. From the point of view of performance, a rotary harrow for a tiller is considered the best solution, however, its cost is slightly higher than less technological products.

Among the models on the modern market, the harrow for the Tiller Neva is considered to be the most easy-to-use and financially affordable. It is she who will become the prototype of a home-made mechanism, the assembly principle of which we will now consider.
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1.1 Main characteristics

Classic factory designs are made of high quality steel. They have a solid margin of safety and excellent indicators of corrosion resistance. the period of their intensive operation reaches 10-12 years.

Most models are equipped with a movable mechanism that adjusts the position of the structure in relation to the ground and a swivel device that provides optimal parameters for using the unit.

Many farmers believe that the rake can be replaced with other wheel-and-pin devices, which are slightly less expensive. Information for those who trust the numbers. the productivity of the rake is about 30% higher than that of analogues, with their help you can process an area of up to 7 hectares within an hour.

No less popular is this type of rake, such as tedders, which are based on a “sun” type construction. They are multifunctional. they can be used as a tedder for hay, collecting grass and even dry varieties of forage.

A professional tedder for a tiller is characterized by a more complex arrangement of structural elements, which also affects the cost of this type of attachment.

Hay rake

In general, if you are not engaged in animal husbandry, you can do without this device, otherwise its presence will significantly simplify the processes of preparing feed.
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Tiller rake: features and benefits

the tiller is rightfully considered the main assistant of the modern farmer. With its help, professionals and amateurs can automate many processes, which has a positive effect not only on reducing the time required to complete a wide range of tasks, but also on the quality of growing most crops.

Modern manufacturers of small-sized agricultural machinery also offer farmers a large selection of attached auxiliary equipment, in the segment of which rakes for tiller and disc harrows for tiller occupy a leading position.

1.3 How to make a rake for a tiller?

2.1 Harrow for a tiller do it yourself

Homemade harrow for tiller consists of:

a metal pipe with a square section, to which teeth sharpened on one side are welded at an equal distance from each other;
drawbar with a metal ring for attaching the harrow to the tiller;
equipped with an adjusting screw of the rack, with which you can choose the depth of immersion of the tines in the soil.

Before getting started, pay attention to the power of your tiller. the row of your homemade harrow may depend on this.

Tiller harrow

Most models of motorized cultivators do an excellent job with 3-4-row homemade plows, the weight of which is sufficient for plowing and leveling the soil.

Often, the process of making additional attachments for a tiller with your own hands is laborious and time-consuming, but, as practice shows, this is the only way to find out without significant costs whether you will use additional options.

Homemade rake for tiller: blueprints for manufacturing

We make a rake for the tiller with our own hands: drawings with dimensions, photos of production, a video showing the rake at work.

Harvesting hay manually is a rather laborious process, in order to facilitate work and not to rake the cut grass manually, you can use a tiller with a hay harvesting device.

In this article, we will take a closer look at how to make a homemade rake for a tiller with our own hands.

Diagram of a homemade hay picker.

1. drawbar;
2. lever;
3. traction (raises-lowers the rake);
4. brace;
5. rack;
6. rake with teeth;
7. hub;
8. axis;
9. wheel.

Materials for making homemade products:

Pair of wheels with a diameter of 30. 50 cm.
Metal rod, pipe, for making axle.
The drawbar can be made from a profile pipe.
For the teeth, you will need rods with a diameter of 6. 8 mm.
Rake mechanism. pipes with a diameter of 30 mm for the axle and 40 mm for its fastening.
Springs can be used ready-made or bent independently.

Tiller rake drawing.

Detailed dimensional drawings for DIY hay picking with a tiller.

1. bushing (pipe 33.5 x 3.2 mm. 2 pcs).
2. cross member (pipe 21.3 x 2.8 mm).
3. cross member bushing (tube 26.8 x 2.8 mm).
4. brace (pipe 21.3 x 2.8 mm).
5. leg (pipe 26.8 x 2.8, 2 pcs).
6. bushing (pipe 33.5 x 3.2, 2 pcs).

Rod, pivot joint.

Earth Tools Buck Rake IN ACTION

1. draft (pipe 21.3 x 2.8mm).
2. bolt М 8.
3. nut М 8 (2 pcs.).
4. bracket.
5. rake console.

1. handle (pipe 21.3 x 2.8 mm).
2. drawbar (pipe 26.8 x 2.8 mm).
3. bracket (St3, sheet s5, 2 pcs.).
4. stop (St3, sheet s5, made with the dimensions of pos. Z without a hole).
5. adapter sleeve (pipe 33.5 x 3.2 mm).

1. lever (StZ, strip 30 × 4 mm).
2. handle (StZ, rod with a diameter of 12 mm).

1. console (pipe 26.8 x 2.8 mm).
2. bracket.
3. tooth (steel 45, bar d8,17 pcs).

In this video, the author shows the principle of operation of a homemade hay harvesting device for a tiller.

Homemade Tiller Shovel

the tiller often acts as a bulldozer, leveling the ground, as well as clearing sidewalks or roads from snow and mud. For it is equipped with a shovel blade.

A homemade shovel is made for a tiller without any difficulties if you have an “angle grinder”, a drill and a welding machine on your farm.

How to make a homemade blade for a tiller

The tiller can serve as a bulldozer for leveling the ground, cleaning sidewalks or roads from dirt and snow. To do this, you need to make a homemade dump on the tiller, as a rule, sheet metal with a thickness of 1-2 mm is used. Inside the blade, four steel ribs (stiffeners) are welded from a sheet with a thickness of 3-4 mm.

Holes are drilled in them in place to fasten the blade with the rods in a strictly vertical position with respect to the front end of the tiller. It is also better to sheathe the bottom of the blade with tin, so that it does not burrow into the ground.

1. dump sheet (tin);
2. rack 4pcs (stiffeners);
3. bottom sheet of a dump (tin);
4. knife; 5. tie rod fastening eye.

Convenient homemade seeder to the tiller

A homemade seeder to the tiller is usually connected to the tiller using a universal coupler, thanks to which the tiller can be equipped with two-row and four-row seeders.

Homemade gadgets for the tiller, description, video, photo

The first thoughts of making homemade accessories for the tiller, appears after the need to transport goods, so I started an epic with useful accessories for the tiller and was the first to make a homemade trailer.

Homemade rake for tiller

When making, a round rod is best suited. Most of the rake parts are held together by electric welding, since this method is simple, and at the same time a reliable design is obtained.

Greater design simplicity can be achieved if the swivel parts on the axles are fixed without rolling bearings.

It is better to fold the hay rake to the tiller, as this will simplify their transportation.

We do homemade products for the tiller with our own hands

For quick and high-quality soil cultivation, you need to make homemade “crow’s feet” cutters for the tiller, which will mix the soil to a sufficient depth and break up hard clods.

A homemade tiller rake is also a useful attachment. It is most correct to have several rakes of such different types.

A homemade hiller for a tiller will also be needed by every gardener. The hiller will allow the formation of even and high ridges on all beds with root crops.
A homemade tiller blade will make it easier to remove snow and sand from the land, create good conditions for further soil processing.

How to make a homemade plow for a tiller correctly

Do I need to make a plow for a tiller if you don’t have special metalworking skills? Yes, it’s worth it. The design of this agricultural tool is quite simple and therefore it is right for everyone to make a homemade plow for the tiller.

Before proceeding with the implementation of your idea, you need to look through the previous posts of our site, where we described the manufacturing process in detail with drawings.

Best of all, professional tools are suitable for work, they will allow you to perform all technological operations with your own hands at the required level and at the same time maintain their quality. An amateur tool for such work is unsuitable because its level of strength is insufficient to perform some of the operations.

Making a homemade disc hiller for a tiller

We begin to make a homemade disc hiller for a tiller by searching for covers from steel pots that are unnecessary in the household (better not enameled, but just metal ones). The required diameter is about 40-50 cm, taking into account the fact that the depth of germination of potato roots into the ground is no more than 15-20 cm. Next, we sharpen the blades of the covers, and in our case they are already the disks of the hiller, on a grinding machine. If the covers are flat, then they are slightly bent to one side with a hammer.

After that, you can proceed to testing such a hiller right on the potato plot of the garden.

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http://exkavatori-exmash.ru/drugoe/grabli-dlya-motobloka-svoimi-rukami-samodelnye-voroshili-chertezhi-kak-sdelat-lentochnye.html
http://moezerno.ru/texnika/tillers/grabli-dlya-motobloka.html
http://sam-stroitel.com/grabli-dlya-motobloka.html
http://motoblok-kultivator.com/samodelnye-prisposoblenija-dlja-motobloka/

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