motoculture

English translation: garden machinery

14:17 Dec 9, 2010

French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Agriculture

French term or phrase: motoculture

Everywhere we go "motoculture" is advertised.

We know that it mainly covers ride-on mowers and rotovators

But dictionaries suggest "mechanised agriculture" and "mechanised farming"

Is there another word that covers the ideas of "week-end" "small-scale" "domestic", please?

Jack Dunwell KudoZ activity Questions: 158 (1 open) (4 without valid answers) (12 closed without grading) Answers: 956 France
Local time: 11:06

English translation:garden machinery

Explanation:
My Tibberton (Gloucester) supplier of parts for my Westwood ride-on is
E. Buckland Garden Machinery L.L.P.

Even with postage, parts come out at half the price of working through a French supplier (though I haven't actually ordered any really heavy parts).
They undoubtedly do other brands. I recommend them.

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http://www.bucklandgardenmachinery.co.uk/

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Look at the link: lots of ride-ons, chainsaws, seed spreaders, exactly the sort of things the local motoculturistes do. Quads too, but I'm not sure they count, even if the locals deal in them too.

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Do the Products page.

Selected response from:

Bourth (X)
Local time: 11:06

Grading comment

Thank you again Mr G
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

5 +1

Garden power tools

claude-andrew

home and garden power equipment

John Speese

self-propelled garden/horticultural equipment

B D Finch

motorised equipment

Carol Rush

garden machinery

Bourth (X)

Discussion entries: 17

Jack Dunwell

France

ASKER

Yes yes Mr G

18:43 Dec 9, 2010

And if you could just tune down the revs on Sunday morning when the essential Archers Omnibus is playing on our valve wireless, we should be SO grateful. Otherwise Pop Larkin and I are great admirers

Bourth (X)

Oi!

18:20 Dec 9, 2010

I just said I've got a ride-on mower, mate, so I'm not common!

Jack Dunwell

France

ASKER

I think that, largely you are right Carol

17:49 Dec 9, 2010

Thank you. And I have this feeling that young Bourth has that indefinable common touch that is SO annoying but must be respected?

claude-andrew

France

17:48 Dec 9, 2010

Yes, I agree that most of the equipment referred to under 'Garden power tools' is small. Well, it depends on what your centrale d'achat actually selsl. If it's for tilling (which is the usual sense of 'motoculteur' (as opposed to 'motocculture'), you'd use a term like 'rotavator'.

Carol Rush

17:45 Dec 9, 2010

Could it not be 'motorised gardening equipment'? When I do a google search I get things like a lawnmower with a super duper engine, a flymo with the same, as well as sit on lawnmowers etc.

Jack Dunwell

France

ASKER

Claude-andrew

17:40 Dec 9, 2010

Right. The first sit-upon comes in at no 64 for my search

claude-andrew

France

17:30 Dec 9, 2010

I get everything on googling image "garden power tools", from hedge cutters to ride-on mowers.

Jack Dunwell

France

ASKER

John

17:15 Dec 9, 2010

I get blowers and flymos with "garden power equipment" Is it the same for you?

Jack Dunwell

France

ASKER

Hello Claude-andrew, thank you

17:12 Dec 9, 2010

Right, I googled "garden power tools" and requested visuals and ended up with trimmers and teenies. Nothing Sit-upon, which is (as I see it) the very Sacred Temple of Motoculture?

claude-andrew

France

Fourth

16:56 Dec 9, 2010

Yes - but try googling "garden power tools"

John Speese

United States

16:52 Dec 9, 2010

I agree, "power tools" tends to connote hand-held tools, that's why I prefer power equipment. Granted it's a fine nuance.

Jack Dunwell

France

ASKER

Claude-Andrew

16:43 Dec 9, 2010

Forgive me if I am wrong, but it seems to me that "power tools" are usually electric drills and saws and planes etc.
In other words small hand tools. And if one Googles "power tools" that's the result. Thoughts?

claude-andrew

France

16:33 Dec 9, 2010

In that case, I'd call it "a garden power tool outlet"

Jack Dunwell

France

ASKER

My particular sentence, Phil, is

16:29 Dec 9, 2010

"En mars 2010, X et Y ont crée Z une centrale d'achat spécialisée en motoculture"
Which doesn't give much of a clue for anyone wondering what "motoculture" might be. Personally, I hate lack of context, so I understand your objections.
It struck me as strange that my dictionaries seemed so far from the mark.

philgoddard

United States

16:22 Dec 9, 2010

No, I just meant you haven't given us a sentence containing the word.

Jack Dunwell

France

ASKER

Well Phil

16:08 Dec 9, 2010

It's as common as muck here in the great South-west. The mainstays are ride-on grasscutters and then there are rotovators and then it seems to peter out into smaller garden and horticultural tools aimed at the individual/small scale producer/gardener. I'm quite happy with answers which do reflect much of this.

philgoddard

United States

15:59 Dec 9, 2010

I think the reason why you're getting so many answers and no agrees or disagrees is because you haven't provided proper context.

Answers

11 mins confidence:

home and garden power equipment

Explanation:
I'd say home and garden power equipment, outdoor power equipment for homeowners, etc., as per the websites for the companies that make this stuff that I gave you below.

Reference: http://www.merchantcircle.com/business/Home.And.Garden.Power...
Reference: http://www.drpower.com/

John Speese
United States
Local time: 05:06
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 27

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thank you John, that's nearer the mark!

19 mins confidence:

self-propelled garden/horticultural equipment

Explanation:
Starting with one that isn't a ride-on mower:

"The Turbo70 SP is the top of the Lawn-King garden vacuum range and is a self propelled unit powered by the eco-friendly B&S XLS 50 5 Hp low emission engine."
www.greenandeasy.co.uk/.../Lawn-King-Turbo-70-SP--Self-Prop...

"Professional wheeled and ride-on brushcutters for use on gardens, parks, grounds and for use on ... Type, Pedestrian self-propelled. Width of cut (cm), 60 ..."
www.whatkit.co.uk/products/.../wheeled-ride-on-brushcutters... -

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Dropped? Hardly. I think that the whole point of "moto" is that the equipment concerned is too big and heavy for the operator to push or pull and so it is self-propelled, which can cover both ride-on equipment and the sort that the operator walks behind but doesn't have to push.

B D Finch
France
Local time: 11:06
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 52

Notes to answerer

Asker: do you think that "self-propelled" might be dropped, BD ?

53 mins confidence:

motorised equipment

Explanation:
such as a motorised lawnmower

Carol Rush
Local time: 11:06
Native speaker of: English

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

Garden power tools

Explanation:
Any garden equipment that uses a motor, whether electric or internal combustion.
The term scores a large harvest on Google.

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Strictly, your term "motoculture" would be "Gardening with power tools"

claude-andrew
France
Local time: 11:06
Native speaker of:

English

1 hr confidence:

garden machinery

Bourth (X)
Local time: 11:06
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 160

Grading comment

Thank you again Mr G

Notes to answerer

Asker: Your BUCKLAND garden machinery photo is practically identical to the one I have for this job. Look like fairground dodgems without the overhead sparks That's BUCKLAND for you, always ready to give 10%

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