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What (who) is rotavator - definition

FARM IMPLEMENT USED FOR SECONDARY TILLAGE
Rotary tiller; Rototiller; Power tiller; Cultivater; Rotary hoe; Rotavator; Rotary Tiller; Rotary cultivator; Rotary harrow; Sweep (agricultural); Sweep (Agricultural); Rotary plough; Cultivators; Field cultivator
  • A cultivator pulled by a tractor in [[Canada]] in 1943
  • 1949 [[Farmall]] C with C-254-A two-row cultivator
  • F210 Honda tiller
  • A Japanese two-wheel tractor
  • Homemade sweep. Notice the inner and outer "sweep" blades.
  • Tines close-up
  • A tractor-mounted tiller

rotavator         
['r??t?ve?t?]
(also rotovator)
¦ noun trademark a machine with rotating blades for breaking up the soil.
Derivatives
rotavate verb
Origin
1930s: blend of rotary + cultivator.
Cultivator         
A cultivator is a piece of agricultural equipment used for secondary tillage. One sense of the name refers to frames with teeth (also called shanks) that pierce the soil as they are dragged through it [It also refers to machines that use rotary motion] of disks or teeth to accomplish a similar result.
Cultivator         
·noun One who cultivates; as, a cultivator of the soil; a cultivator of literature.
II. Cultivator ·noun An agricultural implement used in the tillage of growing crops, to loosen the surface of the earth and kill the weeds; ·esp., a triangular frame set with small shares, drawn by a horse and by handles.

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Cultivator

A cultivator is a piece of agricultural equipment used for secondary tillage. One sense of the name refers to frames with teeth (also called shanks) that pierce the soil as they are dragged through it linearly. It also refers to machines that use rotary motion of disks or teeth to accomplish a similar result. The rotary tiller is a principal example.

Cultivators stir and pulverize the soil, either before planting (to aerate the soil and prepare a smooth, loose seedbed) or after the crop has begun growing (to kill weeds—controlled disturbance of the topsoil close to the crop plants kills the surrounding weeds by uprooting them, burying their leaves to disrupt their photosynthesis, or a combination of both). Unlike a harrow, which disturbs the entire surface of the soil, cultivators are designed to disturb the soil in careful patterns, sparing the crop plants but disrupting the weeds.

Cultivators of the toothed type are often similar in form to chisel plows, but their goals are different. Cultivator teeth work near the surface, usually for weed control, whereas chisel plow shanks work deep beneath the surface, breaking up hardpan. Consequently, cultivating also takes much less power per shank than chisel plowing.

Small toothed cultivators pushed or pulled by a single person are used as garden tools for small-scale gardening, such as for the household's own use or for small market gardens. Similarly sized rotary tillers combine the functions of harrow and cultivator into one multipurpose machine.

Cultivators are usually either self-propelled or drawn as an attachment behind either a two-wheel tractor or four-wheel tractor. For two-wheel tractors, they are usually rigidly fixed and powered via couplings to the tractors' transmission. For four-wheel tractors they are usually attached by means of a three-point hitch and driven by a power take-off (PTO). Drawbar hookup is also still commonly used worldwide. Draft-animal power is sometimes still used today, being somewhat common in developing nations although rare in more industrialized economies.