The one-row garlic harvester is built for that ten-day window. It is a 50 kg walk-behind unit, 1000 × 400 × 950 mm, cutting a single row of 180–220 mm working width and set for the 18–22 cm row spacing that most garlic is planted at. Depth is adjustable at the share, so the same machine works in light sandy soil and in heavier loam where the bulbs sit deeper. Power comes from a small air-cooled gasoline engine on the frame — no tractor, no three-point linkage, no PTO.
The working principle is simple and it is the reason the bulbs come out whole. A narrow share runs under the row ahead of the lifting chain; the chain carries the whole plant — bulb, roots and stem — up and back, and the soil falls away through the links instead of being dragged along with the bulb. The drive is arranged to run in reverse relative to travel, so the wheels and frame pass over the lifted strip instead of pressing bulbs back into the soil.
What comes off the back is not a scattered pile. Plants are laid down in order, roughly parallel, with the tops of one row falling across the bulbs of the next — a free sunshade that keeps the skins from scorching while the crop waits for collection. That single detail is what separates a machine-lifted crop from a fork-lifted one in the drying shed three weeks later.
The machine suits holdings from a few mu up to a few hectares, terrace fields and small plots where a tractor-mounted lifter cannot turn, and growers who lift garlic and then follow with onion, shallot or shallot-type crops on the same beds. Weiwei Machinery has built agricultural machinery in Zhengzhou since 1980, holds CE and ISO 9001 certification, and ships to Africa, Southeast Asia, South Asia and South America. Machines are built to the voltage, fuel and spare-part standard of the destination market, and we can quote a container load for cooperatives buying several units.
Tell us your row spacing, your soil type and how many mu you lift per day, and we will confirm whether one unit covers your window or whether you need two running together. The full range of harvest and post-harvest equipment is on our homepage — message us on WhatsApp and you will have specifications, a video of the machine working and a price within 24 hours.
