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Field Cultivator

Tillage and Land Preparation Implements

A tillage implement carrying multiple shanks, or teeth, on a wide metal frame, drawn behind a tractor to prepare a seedbed: it stirs and loosens the topsoil, buries crop residue, uproots weeds, and mixes soil so a following crop reaches water and nutrients evenly. Hydraulic cylinders raise and lower the frame to control working depth across a field. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Origin
Soil scratching for weed control is ancient, done with hoes or plough before larger equipment was developed. 2
Classification
Power Source
Hydraulic or PTO 1
Connections

Associated With

Chisel Plough, Implements and Machines

field cultivators commonly follow chisel ploughing as secondary tillage to break clods and prepare the seedbed

Plough, Implements and Machines
Source Cultivator (Wikipedia)

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Hydraulics, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the power-source enum value this implement already carries, resolved to an agriculture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The power-source fact itself stays on the implement unchanged.

Power Take-Off, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the power-source enum value this implement already carries, resolved to an agriculture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The power-source fact itself stays on the implement unchanged.

Sources
1. Cultivator (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Industrial use section
    Field cultivators are used to complete tillage operations in many types of arable crop fields.
  • History section, Industrial Revolution sentence
    In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as the Industrial Revolution developed, a proliferation of cultivator designs proceeded.
  • lead description or Wikipedia lead (power-source)
    Hydraulic cylinders raise and lower the frame to control working depth across a field.
  • Associated With: Plough, History section, first sentence
    was done with hoes or plough for millennia before any larger or more complex equipment was developed
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2. Cultivator (Wikipedia)
History section
Quote, History section
The basic idea of soil scratching for weed control is ancient and was done with hoes or plough for millennia before any larger or more complex equipment was developed to reduce the manual labor and to speed the work.
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