How to make a manual hiller

One of the most important processes in growing potatoes is hilling: loose soil allows it to grow quickly. A manual potato hiller facilitates crop care.

Making a manual hiller

Why spud potatoes

During the planting period the gardener manually measures the beds, and after a shovel he digs holes, loosens the earth.

The potato needs regular hilling: The soil is saturated with oxygen, the tuber formation increases, and regularly growing the garden, it will be possible to achieve a yield increase of up to 30%. Excess moisture leaves the soil, the tubers get warm, enriched with oxygen and grow.

To facilitate cultivation process, use a manual hiller, capable of quickly processing a plot of up to 10 acres.

Features of hilling:

• a plot is loosened 2 times per season: when the potato rises to 10 cm from the ground and when reaches a height of 20 cm;
• hilling is carried out in hellish day: early in the morning or late evening;
• after hilling, the plants are watered abundantly.

Usually use hand tools: a chopper, rake or hoe, but it’s long and hard to work .To facilitate the process, use a home-made and convenient cultivator.

Types of hand-held hives

The hiller facilitates the cultivation of the soil and speeds up the process of caring for the crop. It is not difficult to make the simplest manual potato hiller for potatoes yourself.

Types of hiller:

• plow hiller;
• disk hiller.

A disk hiller is better because:

• 2 people work with a plow;
• 2 hills can be processed with a disk hiller at once; when moving to the next furrow, part of the hiller remains on the previous one;
• it is convenient for them to loosen the ground between the beds.

Disk hiller

It is convenient for the Okuchnik to loosen the earth

It is optimal to use the disk manual okuchnik for potatoes before planting or when harvesting.

The hiller is placed on a walk-behind tractor and held in the air. With its help it is possible to adjust the depth and width of the arable land. Ideal ratio: depth – 15 cm, width – 20 cm.

The hand hoe for potatoes is a frame on wheels with discs mounted on it.

They measure the rotation of the discs and the width between the beds. The rotation angle must be the same on all sides, otherwise the hoe will lead. The width between the wheels is 10-14 cm, the diameter of the wheels is 70 cm.

Rules for making a manual hiller

How to make a manual hiller for potatoes? First create a drawing, and then proceed with the assembly.

The manual hiller consists of the following elements:

• bridge beam;
• rack – 2 pcs.; / li>
• bracket for fasteners;
• cam mechanism;
• locking bolt;
• handle;
• T-shaped leash;
• disk dumps – 2 pcs .;
• screw lanyards – 2 pcs. (for adjusting disk dumps).

Do-it-yourself hiller assembly begins with making disks (covers from enameled pans will do), after which mounts to disks are made. For convenience, it is better to make 2 bends.

They take disks or covers from pots with a diameter of 40-60 cm, screw tarp – 2 pcs., A meter hollow water pipe with a diameter of 2.55 cm for a vertical rack and more one of the same pipe for the handle, a T-shaped leash and a gas lamp or a pipe bender, a grinder for grinding joints. Adapters for disk connection and welding for fasteners and bolts are also taken.

If there is no tarple at hand, it is replaced with a simple steel plate with holes for stepwise adjustment of the angle of inclination. If there is no pipe bender, they use a simple gas burner, they heat the metal in the bend.

Assembling the manual hiller

The first step is to adjust . To make a home-made, convenient and multi-functional unit, you need to adjust the height using a telescopic device. It is located in the central part of the structure.

A pipe of different diameters is inserted into each other, and it goes into the rear link. Next, adjust the hiller to fit your height.Angle control is provided by tilting the rack in the middle, changing the angle between the vertical bed and the front link.

The bed is set in motion, the front link is hinged to the central rack, and the tarp is adjusted. The discs and the rear pillars are fastened with a welding machine.

Further, looking at the drawings, they fasten the front link. To do this, take the hinge mechanism and a long bolt, connect and get a U-shaped rear rod up to 50 cm wide.

The handle is made 20 cm long, a vertical pipe is welded in the middle of the plug, the whole structure is fixed to the vertical rod with the end of the pipe . Openings for height adjustment are made in the upper part of the rack; the same openings are drilled in a vertical fork. Discs protect if covers are used. They are bent so that one side is convex and the other is concave.

The DIY potato borer is ready for use.

Conclusion

It’s more profitable to spend a lot of time creating a manual hiller than buying an industrial one or working with a hoe.