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I reckon you could make one of these.
Ive got one and its like the handle from a push mower and the wheel from a wheelbarrow with blades suspended behind the wheel. You can move the blades closer together or further apart.
They are called wheeled cultivators too.

tada!
Quite pricey though but see what I mean about maybe making one.

http://www.blackberrylane.co.uk/wheelhoes.html

Hi Gunners
Try borrowing one through your local Freecycle group!

albert onglebod wrote:I reckon you could make one of these.
Ive got one and its like the handle from a push mower and the wheel from a wheelbarrow with blades suspended behind the wheel. You can move the blades closer together or further apart.
They are called wheeled cultivators too.

Wheeled hoes and wheeled culivators are actually different - although on some you can swap implements.

I have a wheeled hoe (two horizontal blades), a wheeled cultivator (two vertical blades) and a wheeled ridger. All of mine are more than 50 years old and came via Freecycle.

The hoe has wooden handles, the cultivator and rider have metal.

If you like, I'll take some photos and post them.

The hoe and ridger are best used at a walk, but the cultivator is best used at a jog. Sound easy? Try jogging to one side of a wheeled hoe in soil that's already been turned over...

What I'm looking for now is a chest plough. It has a wooden yoke that you push your chest into, and a long shaft with handles on either side. You grasp the handles, lean into the plough and then push and twist, push and twist, push and twist. I quite fancy planting some barley or oats next year and as I can afford neither horse nor tractor, manual ploughing is the thing.

Stonehead

A while ago someone posted a link to a page about how to make a wheeled hoe out of an old bycycle. Someone might remember it, or you might be able to turn it up with the search facility.

is this it?
http://sondahl.com/wheelhoe.html

In fact it's not, but it's interesting to see that more than one person has been thinking along the same lines.

The one I was thinking of is The Fabulous Bullwinkle Garden Cultivator

That one is excellent better than my find as it is less bother trying to join all the bits back together. I also found this page which has microsoft word instructions for making one from a bike frame. Although its a bit more complex than the bullwinkle version.
http://www.varalaya.ca/

The ancient wheeled hoe with operator.



A close-up of the business end.

The wheel is a pressed steel disc, while the frame is a steel casting. The two blades are adjustable and kept razor sharp.

The handles have the name Brown burned into them, plus the letters L and R on the respective sides.

Stonehead

The potato ridger.



A close-up, showing where the aluminium casting for the arch has broken. (The casting is currently at the blacksmith being welded up.)

The ridging plough needs burnishing before being put to use, while the alloy wheels have welded themselves to the steel axles. I've fixed one, but the other is going to take a bit of careful heat.

Despite the problems, it still works reasonably well and again has a lot of adjustments (width and depth of furrow, plus angle of handles, wheel settings, etc).

The maker's name is Jabo and I've been told it was made from aluminium not just to save weight, but to use up excess aluminium when there then was a steel shortage in the 1950s.

Stonehead

And the wheeled cultivator with mechanics...

This has a rubber-tyred steel wheel, with an aluminium casting for the frame. It's missing the central cultivator blade (the blacksmith is making me a new one) so you have to overlap your rows or leave compression tracks from the wheel.

With a blade directly behind the wheel, I'll be able to do wider rows and speed things up markedly.

It's another one from Jabo.

All three came via Freecycle and the people who gave them to us got them from a commercial potato farm where they hadn't been used for more than 30 years.

I love them!

Stonehead

That last one looks the same as mine but the blades are different.Mines a Jalo as well. I got mine from a boot fair.
OH is just learning welding at the moment so Im hoping he will have a go at making other shaped blades for it.

I've got one that I don't use anymore. I would willingly sell it for a reasonable price and would offer tea and a chat if the buyer collected it. I live in North Leicestershire.