Cultivators: reviews. Cultivator for a summer residence of mark Hyundai - "Viking"

To ease their annual troubles on the beds, many owners acquire a variety of orchard and garden equipment. This particularly applies to aggregates that are designed for soil cultivation, since the latter is very laborious. It is extremely important to choose the correct cultivator, but the complexity is in their immense variety. It is difficult to choose something specific, and therefore it is worth analyzing the reviews. The cultivator for a summer residence in this case to pick up will be much easier.

Manual models

Despite the widespread use of mechanized technology, far from all are rushing to discard the old mechanical models. They are very useful in places where electric or gasoline technology simply does not work. Most of the reviews about such devices are rather reserved.

Most often people note low cost, good quality of performance and durability. Of course, they also talk about high fatigue when processing large areas. However, the latter often arises due to the fact that potential users simply can not correctly choose the model that is necessary for a particular case.

In order not to be unfounded, we give some practical feedback. A cultivator for a dacha can be chosen by familiarizing with them in detail.

Rotational (stellate) varieties

In this case, long spiky disks are attached to the shaft. The worker rolls the tool over the surface of the cultivated soil, as a result of which the long teeth are deeply entangled in it, along the way pulling out the roots of the weeds. What are the reviews? The cultivator for this type of dacha proved to be excellent!

It is compact, you do not have to spend much effort to work with it, and the efficiency of tillage is very high. But many owners say that heavy and clay soils can not be processed with its help: they are too heavy, and therefore the teeth of the tool enter into it with difficulty, they are constantly dulled and bent.

Hand rippers

This type of device is most common in cottages and kitchen gardens throughout the country. Instruments of this type are extremely cheap, you can buy them almost at any hardware store. Frankly, on this list of their advantages ends. In most cases, the cultivator is manual for giving, reviews about which we considered, is used only by the owners of two or three hundred square meters, which do not need to mechanize their work.

Users unanimously complain that during work it takes a lot of effort, especially when it comes to dense and stony soils. Given that the quality of this type of cultivators is often very far from perfect, they serve very little.

What can you say after studying these reviews? A cultivator for giving a manual type can only be used when it is required to process a very small area. If your site is large, it is better to immediately look yourself to a gasoline or electric model.

Petrol or electricity?

This dispute will never cease, but we would like to do our bit to resolve this dispute. At once we will consider advantages of gasoline cultivators, as they are preferred by domestic buyers.

• They are mobile, do not require a source of electricity: you can work in a forest dacha.
• High power. By this parameter, gasoline cultivators outperform the electric tool.
• Due to high power, you are less limited in the size of the treated area.
• Working hours. Even professional electric tools you can not work for eight or more hours in a row, being forced to constantly stop to cool the engine.
• You will not depend on the weather. In the rain electric tools work only kamikaze.
• In rural areas, such a cultivator is preferable by two criteria: first, it is easier to get gasoline. Secondly, there are frequent power surges in the village, which "do not like" electric tools.

How do its owners speak about gasoline technology? It is quite versatile. What attracts potential users of cultivators for gasoline? The testimonies show that people like their excellent traction at low revs, the depth of tillage (it is much larger than that of electric models), and also the possibility of repair.

With regard to the last point, it should be explained: the fact is that if you burn electric motor cultivator in post-warranty period, it is easier to throw it out and buy a new one. The cost of replacement is so "brutal", which is up to 70% of the cost of the new unit.

Negative features

There are also negative reviews. People do not like the fact that most imported models are extremely sensitive to fuel quality. With high-quality gasoline in the country, problems may arise, but the piston system, which has been flown because of poor fuel quality, does not change under the guarantee. In addition, beginners often experience serious difficulties with the simplest repair.

Advantages of electric models

Thus, the advantages that the average electric cultivators have for the dacha (the reviews we will discuss) are as follows:

• Very high ease of preparation for work: just unwind the extension cord and plug the plug into the socket.
• Easy maintenance: you do not have to worry about the quality of gasoline, oil and candles.
• The electric tool can be stored in the winter even in the closet of a city apartment. The smell of gasoline will not bother you, and everything is much better in fire fighting.
• This technique is in most cases much cheaper, and its service life in the hands of inexperienced owners - much more.

Reviews are found in the same spirit. Customers like the ease of maintenance and operation of this equipment, but there is not much enthusiasm for buying an extension cord. Of course, there are battery models, but their cost is such that you can buy a gasoline and a simple electric model at the same time, spending less money.

The Viking

It should be said that the Viking cultivator, whose reviews we are considering now, are relatively common and relatively cheap mechanisms, so do not be surprised at the ever-increasing rates of sales of this tool. In addition, in our country are traditionally popular gasoline models, which this company is produced in a variety. In recent years, this subsidiary of the incredibly popular brand "Shtil" in our country has started to accelerate at an accelerated pace.

Almost all customers note an excellent depth of tillage of 0.3 m. Judge for yourself how long it would have been necessary to poke the ground with a bayonet shovel, trying to achieve equally outstanding results! In addition, the approval is caused by high-quality four-stroke engines, which perfectly work on domestic fuel, do not require frequent maintenance and repair.

Almost all the reviews say that after processing there is exceptionally high quality treated soil, without large roots and lumps. Extremely happy about this circumstance, those who plan to plant on this soil cucumbers and other crops that do not tolerate lumpy and hard ground.

Engineers also thought about the ergonomics of their equipment: the cultivator is easy to control, and the turning radius allows you not to walk on newly plowed soil. In addition, all models work very quietly, which is important for those who have small children. This is what the Viking cultivator is remarkable for. Reviews about it are mostly positive, although buyers have small comments.

Some negative features

Sometimes there are problems with the angle of the handle. But the main trouble is not this. It's all about reducers. Many owners complain that after three or four years it is out of order. As a rule, there is water and dirt inside. All this could be attributed to inaccuracy of the users themselves, but in this case only the producer is to blame.

He claims that the gearbox does not need maintenance. Ostensibly, high-quality oil is poured into it, and therefore this part should without any problems fully work out its entire operational life. Accordingly, on its body there is no transparent window through which it would be possible to observe the oil level, nor the neck, through which it would be possible to fill a new technical liquid.

Models from Hyundai

Many know this Korean company as a manufacturer of fine cars, but it does not disdain the release of high-quality and reliable agricultural machinery. In no way inferior to it is also cultivators Hyundai, reviews of which we now consider.

This company also produces a wide range of agricultural machinery with gasoline engines, which proved to be well in domestic conditions. Buyers note the high engine thrust, decent depth (up to 35 cm) and the excellent quality of soil cultivation.

In addition, high quality of components attracts attention, and therefore very rarely users complain about breakages during the warranty period. By the way, a special respect is caused by the engine made in Korea: it is very high-quality, it can work for a long time under high loads. Buyers testify that all consumables are available in all service centers (there are practically all more or less large cities).

In favor of the same manufacturer says the fact that all the components that are sold in service stores and centers are produced in Korean factories, and not in dubious Chinese enterprises. Unfortunately, absolutely the opposite situation is observed in the case of domestic producers, which we will talk about in the next part of the article.

Is it worth supporting the domestic manufacturer?

This is a complicated question. On the one hand, all domestic cultivators for giving, reviews ("Mole", for example) about which we touch, are quite cheap. But this cheapness sometimes goes sideways ...

Buyers note the low cost, as well as excellent adaptability to domestic gasoline. But they also talk about sometimes not very outstanding quality pens, starters (which fail for a couple of months), as well as about the Chinese origin of many spare parts. With the same starters, according to users, in general something strange happens: original spare parts work for years, while their "colleagues" from the Middle Kingdom, worth at least 1,5 thousand rubles, "fly" in just a month or two.

conclusions

So on what to stop the choice of a cultivator for a summer residence? The testimonies indicate that the models from the same Viking, Hyundai and Shtil have proved themselves the most reliable ones. They cost more than competitors, but the operating cost eventually turns out to be much lower. These are the best cultivators for dacha. The feedback testifies to their high reliability and high quality of performance, which competitors can not always boast of.