Hand digger Spider. Drawing, description

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The hand digger "spider" is a good help in the garden when harvesting potatoes, transplanting seedlings and even when digging ditches. It sharply - one and a half to two times - increases labor productivity, since it captures the soil not from one side, like a shovel, but from two, and it easily frees the tubers from the ground and brings them to the surface.

The digger is assembled from two conventional forks, pivotally connected to a horizontal metal bar. Only the handles have been replaced with handles made of thin-walled steel pipes. The handles are welded into the fork holders and bent so that during operation they cross without touching each other.

Under the holders, two lugs are welded to the forks, between which there are crossbar loops. The latter is made of a steel strip with a section of 50x5 mm and is connected to the ears with hinge axes - M10 bolts.

Hand digger Spider
Spider design: 1 - forks, 2 - crossbar, 3 - ears on the forks, 4 - hinge axes, 5 - tubular handles

They use the “spider” like this. Crossing the arms, spread the pitchfork and place it on the potato bush. Stepping on the crossbar and bringing the handles together little by little, they plunge the forks (the tips move in an arc close to the bending radius of the teeth) into the ground. No soil displacement occurs and the tubers are not injured. (Previously, 12-15 days before the start of harvesting, the tops are mowed, the tubers ripen and their skin is formed, the tops dry out and do not interfere with work.)

But now the handles are brought together, the digger is raised. If the earth is loose, it pours through the teeth and the potatoes will be on the surface; if heavy, wet, the teeth pierce, shaking the "spider" from side to side, this makes it easier to capture the bush.

When it is required to transplant any plant, the soil around it is moistened so that the earthen ball inside the pitchfork does not crumble and does not damage the root system of the plant. With the same "spider" the seedling is transferred to a new place prepared for it.

Ditches can be dug in the same way. Their edges are quite smooth, additional processing is often not required.

Author: I.Shamotov

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