A New 2+ h.p. Motor Hoe.
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This Model is Being Exhibited at the Smithfield Show.
We have received particulars and photographs of a new motor hoe, from lvel Agricuitural Motors, Ltd., a concern which it will be recalled has been engaged ever since 19u2 in developing a practical type of small agrimotor.
The Ivel itself, although improved in many of the small details, remains very much nowadays as it has been for a number of years past. Evidence of further enterprise of the company, however, is now to hand in the shape of an intimation that it has just been appointed sole agent, for the United Kingdom and ail British Colonies, for the interesting littie motor hoe, which is henceforth to be known as the IvelBauche, and which is built at Versailles. The first one to reach this country is exhibited at the current Smithfield Show, and the example staged is one of those known as type 5, fitted with a 2i h.p. engine.
This particular type of motor cultivating plant has been evolved expressly to meet the requirements of farmers for such classes of work as hoeing either in fields or under the combined conditions that are met with in orchards, gardens, vineyards, and cotton and rubber plantations The Ivel-Bauche is made in two different types, both of which are suitable for hoeing. The small machine can travel between plants which are set not less than 25-i ins. apart ; the larger one can travel between plants which are not less than 49i ins. apart. Both these models are built very low, so that when they are used in plantations they do not damage the branches of trees.
The knives of the hoe are moved backwards and forwards by the action of the machine's travelling, and the work accomplished is, therefore, much more efficient than when it is effected by hand or home hoe. The control of the machine is easily effected by any comparatively unintelligent farm hand, who walks behind it during its progress. The depth at which the hoe is working can be adjusted readily by the operator.
The engine, as we have said, is of
h.p., 90 mm. by 100 mm. The ignition is Bosch magneto. All the gearing and the driving transmission is enclosed in an oil and waterproof ease. Although the minimum width in which. type S can work is 25i in., the knives can be so altered that 27:1 ins, can be hoed when desired. Type L, the larger machine, has a 40 bp. engine, 140 mm. by 110 mm., and is of similar construction. This machine can also be used as a. stationary power plant.
Amongst the outstanding advantages for this class of plant we may summarize as follows : a hoe of this kind can obviously do more work than can be done in the oldfashioned way either by hand or horse ; the machine is extremely simple and very easily handled ; it can be turned in its own length, and can pass through groups of narrow planting without damaging them. The mechanical operation of the hoe blades effects a better and more even breaking up of the ground than is possible by any older method. The weeds are severely bruised and cut by the reciprocating knives, and so it is certain that they do not take root again. This class of cultivator has done well in France.