The problem of speeding up and reducing cost of road construction without sacrificing their quality can be solved by creating a complex of units of continuous operation. The aggregates, in sequence, carry out the whole complex of works aimed at road construction. The use of satellite navigation opens up broad prospects for full automation of the aggregates, so the overall goal is to create a complex of aggregates that carry out the continuous construction of roads, mainly in automatic mode. One of the devices which are part of the units of continuous operation is a bucket wheel type agitator. The use of direct-flow rotary rippers for soil development is restrained by insufficient theoretical justification of their parameters. Before analyzing the interaction of the elements of bucket wheel type agitator with the ground, it is necessary to clarify the design layout of the bucket wheel type rotor. Some design parameters of the bucket-wheel type agitator are derived from logical reasoning. Other parameters of a bucket wheel type agitator are obtained by plotting the impact of the blade on the ground in the plane and spatial simulation. The conclusion about the necessity to install a small rotor in addition to the large rotor coaxially with it has been drawn from here. The feed to the end-knife, i.e., the thickness of the layer cut by the end-knife, has been determined. Based on the adopted methodology, the geometric and operating parameters of a large bucket wheel type agitator rotor have been determined. Maximum small radius of circumferential and end knives of the big rotor is established. To excavate near the rotational axis of the bucket-wheel type agitator, a small rotor with a higher angular velocity must be installed in coaxial alignment.