ROTAVATORS continued to be sold in the states by distributors, and they still are.Īpparently the line has been acquired by Klonskilde (not sure of the spelling), the people who make chisel plows and other tillage equipment.
#Howard rotavator hn full#
The company was purchased I think in the late '80s by the Danish giant Thrige Agro, which made a full line of ag equipment. Unfortunately for a lot of us, Howard closed their USA facilities in 1985 but continued to be made overseas. I don't remember specifics, but I agree with what dhermese and Tramway guy have indicated-they do require power and, depending on your soil, 8" of depth might take either a slow, slow forward speed or multiple passes. They are, however, quite heavy and do require substantial horsepower. ROTAVATORS have always been rugged, well-designed machines. Some models were English, some French, some German.
The rest of the ROTAVATOR line-designed for the horsepower you're using and higher-has always been made overseas. We also built a large, wide seedbed tiller called the Model HW ROTASPIKE. We had a manufacturing plant in Muscoda, WI, where we built small ROTAVATORS like the Model HN and HJ-suitable for small, garden-type tractors. Howard's USA headquarters was in Harvard, IL, when I joined them. was a contemporary of Henry Ford, and I'm told, he and Henry-both tinkerers and inventors at heart-used to correspond and compare notes. Howard, who developed the scroll-pattern of the blades along the rotory shaft, powered by the tractor PTO. They called their rotary tiller a ROTAVATOR (which, by the way, is a palindrome-a word spelled the same way forward and backward), because ROTA stood for "rotary" and VATOR stood for "cultivator," since the Brits refer to tillage as cultivation. Howard was a worldwide company headquartered in England. I was their ad manager and wrote/photographed their brochures and sales literature. I can tell you a little about Howard Rotavator, because I worked for them from 19.
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