Even having a very small in size dacha plot or a garden, sometimes it is simply impossible to do without mechanical assistance in the form of a motor-tractor or a mini-tractor. This unit will be able to optimize many processes for the care of the site, and attachments, which are widely available on the market today, can significantly expand the scope of its application. This article is devoted to the review and principles of choice of attachments, which will help you to mechanize many agricultural work.
Types and purpose
There are several types of attachments for mini tractors, which for greater convenience can be grouped by the areas of their application in various aspects of human life. There are also universal, necessary for almost every owner of such a unit of adaptation, which should, first of all, include a trailer and loader.
In agriculture
Agriculture is an area in which various mechanical aggregates are often used and, accordingly, attachments are used most often here.
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Such devices include plows, harrows, various automatic devices for sowing soil and planting plants, harvesting, irrigation and spraying units, as well as various trailers, loaders and dumps. Below we take a closer look at the use of all these units in this sphere of life activity. 
In construction
Such types of attachments, such as dumps, excavator buckets, drills, trenching nozzles and rippers make mini tractors very useful for digging trenches and holes for building foundations, as well as for digging cesspools, cattle burial grounds and other dimples in the ground, whose width is considerable least must exceed their depth.
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Loaders, winches, buckets with loading platforms, truck tractor carts, fork pallets allow builders to easily and quickly move various loads across the construction site, both small and rather large and heavy. In addition, some of the above devices also allow you to lift loads to a small height. 
Communal sphere
For the communal sphere, the most important attachments are shovels dumps, sprayers, brushes for washing asphalt, chemical and sand spreaders, snow cutters, buckets, snow throwers, snow plows, and front loaders.
With the help of such an arsenal, public utilities workers can resist snow drifts on roads and sidewalks, fight ice, clean the streets from dust and settled small particles, clean pavement tiles and the roadway, and also clean up various garbage - like household, accumulated in small quantities, and large quantities of construction waste.
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Livestock
In the livestock sector, it is very difficult to find a worthy use for the mounted equipment of mini tractors, since all the work involves interaction with living organisms, which in the process of its implementation are not physically injured. Therefore, the most commonly used units in this area are buckets, trailers, loaders and dumps.
With the help of these devices in livestock perform a rather narrow and specific list of works, for example, cleaning livestock buildings from faeces, transporting feed, animals or their meat, digging gutters and cesspools and in very rare cases (this requires quite serious qualification of a mini-tractor operator) feeding animals. 
Use in agriculture
As already noted, agriculture is the area where attachments are most widely used, so we pay attention in this article to the devices intended for it. Below you will find an overview of the most popular and useful aggregates used for agrotechnical processing of soil and plants.
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Soil preparation and tillage
For the purpose of soil preparation and tillage, several units that are fundamentally different in their functionality are used:
- plow;
- harrow;
- cultivator;
- pochvofreza;
- mower.
The plow is used solely for the purpose of plowing the land, and in view of the fact that it sinks into the soil quite deeply, for its comfortable and efficient use it is necessary to have a mini-tractor with a capacity of at least 24 horsepower, for example, Xingtai 244.
Important! In order to save time spent on plowing and / or loosening, it is recommended to carry out work in the direction of the longest segment of your site. So you will spend less time for inefficient turns of a minitractor and equipment.
Harrows, cultivators and pochvofrezy used for loosening the soil, and sometimes to remove weeds and leveling the next planting site of cultivated plants.
With these units, by default, any mini-tractor should cope, but the harrows are very often very wide, sometimes they can reach up to 400 centimeters. To use such large devices, it is necessary to have a machine with a power of at least 14-15 horsepower, for example, DW 150RXi, Forte 151 EL-HT Lux or Claus LX 155. 
Mowers are most often used on soil, which they are still planning to turn into a field, to clean it from a variety of high weeds, as well as small bushes. Absolutely any mini-tractor will work with a mower, the only condition for its adequate work is the obligatory connection to the machine's battery.
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Planting equipment
Most often, when people talk about planting crops with the help of such aggregates, they imply planting vegetable crops, however, it should be noted right away that with the help of attachments, you can also plant cereals, legumes, as well as corn.
Here is a list of the most popular equipment:
- potato planter;
- bow saw;
- garlic planter;
- corn, bean or cereal planter.
The principle of planting vegetables is that, from a common reservoir with a huge amount of planting material, vegetables are fed through special tubes to different grooves, which, after they fall into the soil, are immediately sprinkled with earth. To work with such equipment, it is desirable to have a tractor, which would be equipped with an engine capacity of 15 horsepower.
The seeders, in general, work on the same principle as the units for planting vegetables, only their tanks are much smaller, and instead of tubes that feed vegetables, they are equipped with special nets moving in different directions along the course of the mini-tractor.
When the cells placed on different grids coincide, a portion of the grain drops out of the tank, which is covered with earth. Adequate work of such a drill can provide a mini tractor with a capacity of 15 horsepower.
Video: grain planter at work
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Maintenance of trees
In order to maintain stands in agrotechnology, the following attachments are used:
- weeding cultivators
Important! Be careful when using weeding cultivators, carefully set the level of soil loosening, taking into account how deeply the roots of the plants you are processing do lie. Careless attitude to this issue may cause injury to the roots and the subsequent destruction of plantations.
- fertilizer hoppers.
Weeding cultivator serves to loosen the soil, giving oxygen access to the roots of plants, destroy weeds and increase the beneficial effect of fertilizers that are brought under the plants with the help of the second type of attachments from this list - a bunker for fertilizing.
Some types of mini tractors allow you to use both of these types of attachments together, for example, Zubr 150 or Garden Scout T-15.
Watering and spraying
Alas, the minitractor is not able to provide decent watering for numerous plantings, so it is better to establish, for example, a drip irrigation system in your area.
However, this technique is quite capable of handling the spraying of plants, for this purpose there are the following mounted units:
- sprayers for water;
- sprayers for chemicals.
The principle of operation of both of these devices is generally the same, they differ only in the materials from which they are made. A chemical sprayer can carry and spray various substances that it is highly undesirable to treat plants at the same time as water, due to a likely chemical burn.
That is why it is recommended to keep two separate sprayers, or at least how to wash the tank after the chemicals and before starting to spray with water. This device can be used absolutely with any mini-tractor.
Harvest
After the end of all the main works, the time of harvest comes, and here the following aggregates will be extremely useful in the farm:
- potato digger;
- garlic digger;
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Equipment for different types of vegetables works according to the same principles, which can be mechanical, vibration or conveyor. The main difference in them is the size of the digger for digging, and the depth at which the digging occurs. Any mini tractor is equally well suited for the use of such equipment.
Learn more about the capabilities of the Zubr JR-Q12E, Salyut-100, Centaur 1081D, Cascade, Neva MB 2 power tillers.
Loader
In the basic configuration of absolutely any mini tractor there is a similar attachments. With it, you can make loading and unloading of various materials (feed, building materials, etc.). 
Its initial configuration includes a bucket (the volume is on average 0.5-5 cubic meters) and an arrow (allows you to lift and lower horizontally the load). Instead of a bucket on the boom, you can install many other various devices, such as dumps, crane lifts, forks, rippers and more.
This will help to significantly expand the functionality and usefulness of your mechanism. The maximum weight that an average compact tractor with a power of 15 horsepower can lift on a loader is 1500 kilograms.
Trailer
Trailers, which are usually attached to the rear side of your car, may differ slightly in their functionality. For example, there are trailers of dumping type and side trailers, single-axle and with several axles, etc.
A trailer type tipper is best suited for transporting any bulk cargo, and it is more advantageous to use airborne for transporting packed cargo. The number of axles on the trailer is also extremely important, since it is proportional to the weight of the load that you can transport with its help. 
It is also important to understand that single-axle trailers have less weight and much more mobility and maneuverability than the two-and three-axle, which, in turn, are more stable and have a more pronounced maneuverability. The maximum weight that an average mini tractor on a trailer can carry is about 2000 kilograms.
How to choose attachments
When buying an attachment, first of all, make sure that the material from which it is made, corresponds to the declared seller. Carefully inspect the structure for mechanical damage and / or factory defects, pay special attention to the part of the equipment that is in direct contact with the ground.
Important! It is best not to make deals with individuals and non-certified sellers, especially those that sell Chinese models of attachments. It often happens that after the purchase (especially Chinese equipment), it turns out that this unit is designed to work only with one particular mini-tractor model.Video: attachments for mini-tractors
When purchasing attachments, you should clearly understand what you will use it for, whether there is a need for such an acquisition, think about whether you can do without it, estimate the benefit that you will be able to extract from owning this unit.
As for advice on choosing any particular types of attachments, first of all try to get extensions for the loader, a shovel dump and a trailer - these three units are responsible for most of all the work that can be done on a mini-tractor. Turning to the choice of more specialized equipment, do not hesitate to ask opinions from more experienced farmers.
Pros and cons of homemade attachments
Of course, many owners of mini tractors are quite skillful and technically competent people, which allows them in some cases to make attachments for their cars on their own, but not always this way of providing themselves with such units will do you good. 
Homemade mower for mini-tractor
First we give the arguments that make the production of improvised attachments expedient:
- often the cost of production is cheaper than buying a finished device;
- You will not be limited to the factory operating parameters of the unit and the peculiarities of its basic settings;
- if a need arises, you can change the mount on your equipment and hang it on another mini tractor;
- You can always fix the broken part in the unit yourself.
Now for the negative aspects of using home-made equipment:
- during its operation, damage to the mounts and other parts of the mini-tractor may be possible;
- Purchased attachments can sometimes be replaced under warranty, and self-made equipment is not;
- usually the efficiency of the purchased equipment is much higher than that of the self-made one;
- Often, improvised equipment breaks down more often than purchased equipment.
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So, we hope that this article has answered some of your questions about additional units, which can extend the functionality of mini tractors.
Mechanization is the most important and most useful process that has replaced manual labor in all civilized countries for quite a long time, so do not be afraid of innovations and, if you have the opportunity, join the ranks of people who have optimized their work processes as soon as possible!
