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Product Overview

The 3TGQ-4.5M Garden Management Machine from HONGCHENG is a two-wheel-drive, walk-behind self-propelled cultivator powered by a Zongshen GB225 gasoline engine rated at 4.5 kW. Built for orchards, tea plantations, vegetable greenhouses, tobacco and medicinal-crop fields, as well as hilly terrain and small fragmented plots, it handles rotary tilling, inter-row weeding, grass mulching, ditching and ridging in narrow rows, slopes and greenhouse aisles where large tractors cannot enter. The front guard clearly marks four working modes — Weeding, Crushed Grass, Garden Tillage and Ditching — making it an upgraded choice for smallholders, family farms and cooperatives replacing animal and manual labor on small fields.

Key Features

Zongshen GB225 power, ample torque. The matched Zongshen GB225 is a single-cylinder, overhead-valve, forced-air-cooled four-stroke gasoline engine displacing about 225 cc and rated at 4.5 kW. It starts easily by recoil, runs smoothly, burns fuel economically and starts reliably in cold weather. With a huge service network and universal spare parts across China, it delivers noticeably more torque reserve than 4.2 kW machines, never straining in heavy clay or on slopes.

Two-wheel drive, strong traction. Two large lugged rubber drive wheels with star-shaped hubs grip firmly without slipping on heavy clay, wet ground and gentle slopes; a small front gauge caster controls direction and tilling depth. The machine turns neatly between tree rows and crop beds without nose-lift or wandering.

Four jobs in one machine. The front guard clearly marks four working modes — Weeding, Crushed Grass, Garden Tillage and Ditching. Swapping implements takes only a few bolts at the rear quick-hitch, so one chassis covers the whole field-management season.

Safe and comfortable operation. The handlebars adjust in height and angle, red non-slip sponge grips suit different operators, and throttle, clutch and kill-switch are grouped on the grips with a release-to-stop control. All exposed belts, chains and rotating parts are guarded to meet agricultural-machinery safety standards.

Multi-function Capabilities

Rotary tilling. Fitted with rotary blade gangs, the high-speed tine shaft turns, crushes and levels soil in one pass, leaving a fine, even seedbed ready for sowing and transplanting.

Inter-row weeding. Fitted with weeding wheels, it weeds shallowly between crop rows and tree lines at seedling stage, without damaging roots or burying plants, covering large areas quickly.

Grass mulching. With mulching blades, the machine chops weeds and crop residues in place and returns them to the soil, building organic matter — ideal for orchard sod management.

Ditching and ridging. The matched mouldboard furrower opens clean irrigation, drainage and fertilizer trenches; switching to the ridger hills up green onion, ginger, sweet potato, tobacco and maize at seedling stage.

Technical Specifications

Model: 3TGQ-4.5M Garden Management Machine

Brand: HONGCHENG

Configuration: Two-wheel-drive, walk-behind self-propelled

Engine: Zongshen GB225 gasoline

Engine type: Single-cylinder, OHV, forced-air-cooled, four-stroke

Displacement: approx. 225 cc

Rated power: 4.5 kW

Starting: Recoil starter

Fuel: Gasoline

Transmission: Direct-coupled; rear tine-shaft drive

Drive wheels: Large lugged rubber tires with front gauge caster

Handlebars: Adjustable height and angle, red non-slip grips

Standard implements: Rotary blade gangs, weeding wheels, mulching blades, mouldboard furrower, ridger

Suitable crops: Fruit trees, vegetables, tea, tobacco, medicinal herbs, sweet potato, maize

Competitive Advantages and Applications

The standout advantage is the genuine Zongshen GB225 powerplant — larger displacement and more torque reserve than GB200 machines. The two-wheel-drive chassis delivers stronger pulling and straighter tracking than single-axle micro-tillers, while the four-in-one design — weeding, mulching, tilling and ditching — replaces several single-purpose machines. It ships complete with common implements, wears a high-visibility red finish, and carries full safety labeling.

Typical uses include inter-row management and grass mulching in northern orchards, rotary tilling of southern tea and vegetable plots, greenhouse soil preparation, small hilly fields, and inter-tillage, ditching and hilling of tobacco, vegetables and medicinal crops. Work-rate equals eight to ten laborers, so one machine covers year-round management across dozens of mu, cutting labor cost, catching the farming season and raising grower returns — a cost-effective field-management tool for family farms and cooperatives.