#Rotavator

Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmaryngmar@social.tchncs.de
2025-04-20

Washed and parked until next time. Still can't find any instructions for it, so not sure what maintenance to do.

The chain case has oil in it, smells like API GL-5 hypoid gear oil, looks fresh and there's a bolt that is probably the fill level one. Looks good for now.

Otherwise just some grease on the PTO shaft. Didn't find any other grease nipples.

#Homestead #Tractor #Maintenance #Iseki #Barn #Farm #Rototiller #Rotavator

A small blue rotavator parked in a barn on top of a former animal burrow filled with hay. There's some other stuff in the barn, including green metal roof offcuts, a messy pile of planks and a stack of firewood, as well as an old board door. The evening sun casts a long shadow of the photographer on it.
Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmaryngmar@social.tchncs.de
2025-03-21

Garden tilled. The rotavator dug up a brick, a few more concrete chunks, some plastic, a pipe and a massive fucking steel beam. Luckily it seems I didn't break any of the tines. The guard door on the right was bent slightly, but it was easy to unbolt and bang straight again, didn't even chip the paint. Japanese steel won over Soviet steel 😁

Figured out what the feedback lever does, too!

Some tricky driving to get in the corners.

#Homestead #Tractor #Rotavator #Garden #Soil #Digging #DIY

A bunch of things the rotavator revealed, including a pipe, a bit of plastic on the left and a big steel C-beam covered in soil. The rear of a blue tractor with rotavator is visible in the freshly tilled field behind.The tilled garden/field, with neat rows on the right where there was nothing in the way and somewhat less tidy at an angle on the left where there was a fence and a big tree with large roots. The soil looks dark and fertile.
Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmaryngmar@social.tchncs.de
2025-03-20

My notes for setting the rotavator up, so I don't have to struggle through the Japanese manual every time.

The auto-tilt is so cool. There's a sensor somewhere and a tilt piston on the right 3PH arm. So when the tractor falls with one wheel into a ditch, the piston keeps the rotavator level, resulting in perfectly straight fields from uneven ground. In 1984 this must've been revolutionary.

Still haven't figured out what the feedback lever is for 🤷

#Japanese #Tractor #Iseki #Farming #Rotavator

Notes for setting up a rotavator on an Iseki tractor, with illustrations copied from the Japanese manual but labeled in English and with my own coloured markings on.Second page of the same, here explaining the secret controls under the seat and the tilt control panel.
Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmaryngmar@social.tchncs.de
2025-03-20

Short work day because morning shenanigans in town, but then I retrieved the rotavator from the tractor barn. Fixed a few small problems and greased all the things, as it was nicely painted but not a drop of grease anywhere.

Some studying of Japanese manuals (translated) and wrestling the thing on and off the 3PH twice and then... magic!

Turning the concrete field into fluffy garden soil. At sunset, sadly, so just a quick test run.

#Rotavator #Tractor #Iseki #Farm #Homestead #Gardening #Soil

A blue Iseki RA 1360 rotavator. It's a tractor attachment, here sitting on a plank for maintenance. There's a chain drive on one side, a flap door with large springs and safety guards on either side. It's built very solidly. Under neath, invisible from this angle, is a thick shaft with spinning blades that chew up the soil and aerate it nicely.A small blue tractor with said rotavator now attached and lowered into the ground for work. It has taken an oval run around the former overgrown and concrete strew garden and where it has been, dark, finely crumbling soil is now leveled out behind it. In the center, for comparison, the overgrown mess with deep grooves from concrete beams remains.
2024-03-31

🌱Creating a covered planting area🧑‍🌾
After moving the shed I was left with a patch of ground that is relatively low in weeds and planned on using it as just another area for growing things. However, after getting rid of the other greenhouse I was also left with a greenhouse base that either needed giving away to the local metal fair
Read More 👉 plot88.uk/2024/03/31/creating-
#blog #allotment #gardening #Digging #Greenhouse #Rotavator #Weeding

2023-05-06

Jungle Clearance

Due to the weather being quite rubbish I didn't get over to the allotment much in the past month. And it seems things are now starting to grow! A lot!

plot88.uk/2023/05/06/jungle-cl

#blog #allotment #gardening #Digging #Onions #Potatoes #Rotavator #Trees #Weeding

🌱🌺 Le Jardin des Faunes 🌾🍅🌿faune@piaille.fr
2023-04-21

Aujourd'hui mon voisin est venu affiner la #terre avant les #pluies annoncées pour ce weekend.
Il est passé au #rotavator puis j'ai couvert avec des #bâches* juste derrière pour éviter que tout ne se retasse dans la foulée.
* C'est des vieilles bâches d'#ensilage que j'ai récupéré au centre de tri #agricole.
#agriculture #bio #sol #JdF

Un tracteur travaille le sol au rotavator. A droite une bande d'herbe, au centre une bande de terre affinée par le rotavator, au bout de laquelle se trouve le tracteur, à gauche une bande de terre labourée mais non affinée. Grand ciel bleu. Au fond à droite le bois, à gauche la maison du voisin.Le même endroit sans le tracteur. La majeure partie du champ visible a été affinée. À droite on a commencé à marquer l'emplacement des planches de culture et des passes pieds avec des bambous et on a étalé quelques bâches noires sur le sol. Au premier plan on remarque par terre un rouleau de ficelle agricole bleue.
Le ciel est majoritairement bleu avec quelques petits nuages blancs.La majeure partie du champ est désormais couverte par des bâches noires, soutenues par des pelletées de terre. Une dizaine de bambous marquent l'emplacement des planches de cultures et des passes pieds. En ce début de soirée le ciel est désormais chargé de gros nuages bien gris.Reste de fragments de maïs fermenté sur la bâche d'ensilage. C'est dégueu et ça pue.
2023-03-05

Planting Fruit Bushes

Poundland sells cheap fruit bushes, and if you pick the ones with leaves on, they tend to grow fairly well and make a nice hedge type thing. If you pick the ones with no leaves on... they're dead, you're buying a dead plant... They're also not a pound each, but never mind.

plot88.uk/2023/03/05/planting-

#blog #allotment #gardening #Digging #FruitBushes #Rhubarb #Rotavator

2023-02-19

Preparing for Spring

It's been pretty windy here again, so I went to the plot to see if the shed had tried to escape again...

plot88.uk/2023/02/19/preparing

#blog #allotment #gardening #Digging #Rotavator #Shed #wind

2022-12-03

plot88.uk/2022/12/03/mr-rotava

I've been trying out my new battery powered #rotavator on my #allotment. It's saved me many hours of tedious digging.

Anyone got a nice lawn they want destroying?

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