Check the shelves in the utility room: what tool is needed in the country

How and how to rationally process the site

Warm days are coming, and many owners of suburban areas are preparing to open the spring, summer cottage and garden season. There is a lot to do. It is necessary to put the site in order, mow the grass, cut trees, dig up and loosen the ground for planting vegetables.

A few years ago, the main assistants of an amateur gardener were hoes, spades, rakes, shovel, ax and hand saw. Today they are being replaced by small gardening equipment - iron helpers with a mechanical heart. How to choose such an assistant, and most importantly - whether such a purchase will be justified, we will tell in today's material.

The main rule for choosing garden equipment

It is worth going to any store selling construction and gardening equipment, and eyes run. On the one hand, a large selection is good. On the other hand, the abundance of equipment and various devices often leads to the fact that a novice gardener buys everything in a row, without even knowing what this or that mechanism is needed for, whether it will be useful to him at all, and how with it work. The result of the “blind” choice is obvious - time wasted money.

To avoid this and not go to extremes, we choose for a long time and do not buy anything, or we buy what is not needed. Instead, it is advisable to follow this rule:

We acquire equipment as needed, moving from simple to complex.

T. e. it is not necessary to immediately buy any complex equipment for a small area. But, starting with a shovel, one day we may come to the conclusion that the speed of work, quality, and labor costs no longer suit us. Then we move on to more complex and productive mechanisms. For example, trimmers and brushcutters.

Why in the country a trimmer and brushcutter

Taienos

FORUMHOUSE user

I recently bought a plot of 10 acres. My plot is neglected, overgrown with trees, large trees that I do not want to uproot, and bushes. I want to start clearing the site and its partial refinement before the subsequent construction. There is some tool, so I think what else I need?

This situation is familiar to many. For clarity, we provide a list of tools and mechanisms taienosа:

• ax;
• two shovels - a shovel and a bayonet;
• scrap;
• lopper;
• chainsaw.

Our users, who have extensive practical experience in gardening and home gardening, responded vividly to the request of a novice summer resident.

Olegych

FORUMHOUSE user

If you cut young growth (trees 3-5 cm thick), mow shrubs and grass, then a saw or an ax will not be enough. A more serious tool is required.

Such a tool is a brushcutter or trimmer. Practice shows that petrol cutters are most in demand among the owners of suburban areas. They are more powerful than their electrical counterparts, they work (which is important in the initial period of the development of the site!) In the absence of electricity and allow you to cope with "heavy" thickets.

Bridge

FORUMHOUSE user

A brushcutter is an indispensable tool for clearing an area of ​​overgrowth. If the site has not yet been developed and there is nowhere to store the tool, I recommend purchasing a brushcutter with a detachable bar. It can be carried with you in the car and collected on site. By the way, a powerful benzotrimmer is needed, otherwise the undeveloped area cannot be mowed.

Our article goes into detail about all the secrets of working and choosing a petrol trimmer.

Mowing grass is not the only purpose of brushcutters. It can also be used to cut down small trees.

shiba72

FORUMHOUSE user

I have 2 sites in the forest. Each is 25 acres. Everything is overgrown with grass, bushes, small trees. We need to clear it out. I tried to cut trees with an ax with my father. We barely mastered 3 hundred square meters and realized that there was no productivity of such work, and it took a lot of time. So I think, what if instead of a knife or fishing line, put a special attachment on the benzotrimmer - like a saw blade, eh? And they should cut trees with a trunk diameter of 3-5 cm.

Of course, there are special brushcutters, but if you put a multi-toothed metal disc on the petrol trimmer, then the functions of the brushcutters are significantly expanded.

Ttrtt

FORUMHOUSE user

If the trimmer is not the most frail, then you can try. Just remember that in this case, large shock loads can be transmitted to the tool reducer.

When working with a brushcutter, you should remember about safety!

Olegych

FORUMHOUSE user

I took an ordinary brushcutter, put on it a special "wood" disc, it has many small teeth, and cut down the trees when clearing the road to the site. But this was the first and last time - scary and dangerous.

The hedgecutter differs from the brushcutter by a more powerful engine, a reinforced gearbox and a protective metal shield that covers the saw blade. On the brushcutter, the protective disc is made of plastic; it covers the rotating metal saw blade worse. In the event of a rebound of the disc, the scutellum may collapse, and the bare disc will have to fit right in the leg. In addition, the bone cutter has a shorter tube with a transmission and a different shape of the control handles. They are shorter and tougher. This allows you to more accurately drive the disc, and in case of an emergency, to fend off a rebound.

In any case, the purchase of a brushcutter is economically justified. It is enough to look at the prices for mowing grass and bushes on the Internet. Considering that you will have to mow the grass on the site (especially in the phase of development of the territory) more than once, the benzotrimmer will "beat off" itself in the first season.

In addition to brushcutters, a wheelbarrow is required when developing the site. What to choose - simple, garden or more lifting, construction - depends on the volume and severity of the work.

To make your choice, we recommend reading the article about how many wheels should a car have.

The main types of garden tools needed to work on the site and in the garden

Let's consider another situation: the territory has been cleared, and now it is required to choose the tool and mechanisms to facilitate the work on the site. Conventionally, these devices and mechanisms can be combined into a group machinery for cultivating land and plants. T. e. - for work in the garden. The widest range of equipment is presented here, from hoes and ending with walk-behind tractors.

Viktosha

Participant FORUMHOUSE

Any novice gardener will ever be faced with the question of choosing a hand tool for gardening, planting, weeding, cleaning, etc. There are tons of tools you need to make your hard work in the garden a pleasure.

The user of our portal presented a basic list of tools:

• landing scoop;
• manual cultivator;
• root remover;
• pruning shears for knots;
• power-driven pruning shears;
• folding hacksaw;
• lopper;
• scoop for weeding.

To this list you can add shovels, rakes, hoes, fruit pickers. Moreover, all these tools do not have an engine, i.e. work with them manually. This affects their cost and affects the economic viability of the acquisition.

Marishka

Participant FORUMHOUSE

Many useful devices can be made on their own, literally from junk materials. When buying a garden tool, first of all, we look not at the "brand", but at the quality of the material, the reliability of fastening of the working units and parts, and the convenience of work. With the current wealth of choice, you can buy a worthy tool, as they say, "for a penny."

This article provides drawings of "smart" garden tools, which can be done by any master "with hands".

Low price and ease of use are the undoubted advantage of manual garden assistants. On the other hand, they have low productivity (justified only with small amounts of work). And it depends on the volumes whether the purchase of an expensive walk-behind tractor or cultivator is justified. In most cases, you can do without these investments.

Conclusion

To summarize, we can say: a large selection and variety of functions of garden equipment and tools greatly facilitates work on the site, saving time and money.

Among the most necessary mechanical assistants for a suburban area are:

• brushcutters and trimmers;
• chain petrol and electric saws;
• submersible and surface, drainage and irrigation pumps.

It should also be remembered that each site is different. It is not necessary to purchase garden equipment for future use, but as needed for a specific period of time, taking into account the nature of the upcoming work and the size of the site.

Our portal contains information about what tools should be in the arsenal of an amateur gardener. These topics will be useful to those who are thinking about the choice of petrol cutters, cultivator and walk-behind tractor. Fans of everything new will be interested in robotic lawn mower article.

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