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PUDDLERS
V.MANIKANDAN
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• Puddling of soil is one of the most common farm
operations in paddy growing area.

• The best quality and high yielding variations of paddy

crop respond well to good quality pudding.

• Puddling usually refer to the churning of the soil

the presence of excess water by means of a
puddler or any other implement for that purpose.
• The main purpose of the puddling is to reduce
percolation of nutrient and water, to kill weeds by
decomposing and to facilitate the transplanting of
paddy seedlings by making the soil softer and smooth.

• Paddling is down in a standing water of 5 to 10cm

depth in the field which has already received one
ploughing by the mould board plotgh.

• In the absence of a puddler, an indigenous plough is

used as a puddler by most farmers.
 Before the field is ready to be transplanted, it
should be puddled and then leveled by means of a
pata (planker) or leveler.

 If there is excess water, it should be drained off.

 The most desirable soil conditions at the time

transplanting appears to be one having semi-
pervious hard pan covered with approximately 10
to 15 cm dense mud and very litter free water on
the surface.
 According to the power source,
puddlers are classified as:

Hard operated
puddlers.
Animal dawn puddlers.

Tractor drawn puddlers.

 Puddling of small plots or tiny land patch
is mostly done by human labor using spade
or wooden frame fitted with pointed pegs or
long nails.

Such plots are not large enough to permit

use of other power sources for puggling
operations.
Animal drawn puddlers
Animal drawn puddlers are mostly used
in this country.

The indigenous plough is the most

popular implement used as a puddler in
the paddy growing areas, Though it does
not the job effectively.

Some farmers use the peg tooth harrow

for puddling paddy fields.

None of these implement is as effective

as the rotating blade type puddlers
available in the country.
 Open blade type
The open blade type implement
of this group is commonly used
for south India.

It consists of series of steel or

cost iron blades fastened to a
cast iron hub at an angle.

The number of cast iron hubs may be two or more. There hubs
revolve on a steel shaft to which the wooden beam and
operator’s seat are attached.
o Sometimes these of implement is generally a walking type.
o The effective width of the puddler varies between 0.9 and 1.2m.
o The action of these implement is much better than the other
animal drawn puddlers in use.
o Besides these implements, animal for puddling operators.
Animal drawn harrow cum puddler developed at PAC
(Ludhiana is a Versatile machine)

It is used for puddling as well as dry seedbed preparation

It saves 66 percent labor time and about 60 percent on

cost of puddling as compared to the conventional method
of puddling by indigenous plough.
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Gage angle ADJ lever

Seat

Scraper

Frame

Transport wheel

Spacer

Notched disc

Shovel
Schematic diagram of animal drawn harrow cum puddler
Open blade puddler
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Wooden bearing

Wooden frame

Helical blade
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Animal drawn helical blade Beam

puddler copy
 Power
puddlers
In general, there are four main classes of tractor drawn puddles

 Tine tiller,

 Rotating blade puddler,

 Disk harrow,

 Power rotary tiller

 Among these implements the disk harrow and power
rotary tiller are in greater use.

 The latter is operated by a filed tractor which is

equipped with a cage wheels to reduce the sinkage of
the wheels in the field.

 Due to large and heavier disks, this implement gives

very good performance.
Schematic diagram of tractor mounted rotary puddlers

Pentnagar Agricultural University

 The tractor mounted puddler developed by the scientists of
Pentnagar Agricultural University has provide to a
successful machine in terms of saving

Time
Energy
Cost Of Operation
Providing Extra Rice Yields.

 The power rotary tillers are commonly used in most Asian

Countries.
 These puddlers have now become popular in the rice
growing belt of India.
Thank you