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ChuckLuedtkeSEWI 
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Posted: 21 Mar 2010 at 12:46pm |
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Was wondering what some of your opinions were on using a 3 point rototiller for gardening large tracts. I thought someone told me that it wasn't good to pulverize the soil that much. I just figured my garden keeps getting bigger and bigger each year, and it does seem to make a nice seed bed.
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bigfish_Oh
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Posted: 21 Mar 2010 at 12:54pm |
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It was hard to do with my 45 !! I am not a gardener, but used Dad's a few times, 5 or 6 ft. It was a load and without a good holding 3 point it sucks a lot, it WILL sink and stall the engine and make a real mess!
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Stan IL&TN
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Posted: 21 Mar 2010 at 12:57pm |
That person must not be a gardner. How else do you prep the seed bed? I would think that most use a tiller as most don't have a tractor, plow and disc to do it. Dad always plowed it then disced it with the tractor but still used the tiller to get it even smoother before planting. I think a tractor mounted tiller would be the cats meow.
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Posted: 21 Mar 2010 at 1:21pm |
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They are sweet!! I use a 6` behind the D15 series II. I wish low gear was a little slower. Two times over and the ground is in pretty good shape.
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Don(MO)
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Posted: 21 Mar 2010 at 1:46pm |
I had a nice 6' Land Pride tiller pulled it with a WD45 in low gear, It worked the ground up just like a little 5hp tiller but lots faster. The WD45 had no trouble handing it in plowed ground down to 5" or so at 6" or more I had to use the hand clutch some. I sold it because all my friends thought it was my job to till there gardens, I fixed that little problem, Sold it far away from me! LOL
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Rick of HopeIN
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Posted: 21 Mar 2010 at 2:02pm |
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It takes a low low gear to make em work and a narrow tractor helps.
You have to watch, some of the import tractor had matched units with unusual PTO speeds to run them.
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 21 Mar 2010 at 2:05pm |
OK, you guys have me sold....now the question. Would a D-14, in good shape , handle a 5' wide tiller OK? Only have an acre ,but walk behind tiller takes so long, new crop of weeds start growing before I finish !
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Don(MO)
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Posted: 21 Mar 2010 at 2:13pm |
Jay, If you need to make more than one pass over the ground to get it nice with a 3 point tiller that's less work than a walk behind tiller. lol
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Posted: 21 Mar 2010 at 3:06pm |
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Jay, Get a 6`,they don`t take much power. 6` will take out the wheel tracks better.
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Posted: 21 Mar 2010 at 3:37pm |
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We have about an acre of garden. We have a Howard 5 ft., 3PH rototiller that we have had for 10 years and run it with a Allis CA at about 5 inchs deep, any deeper and it will stall the CA, but it covers the wheel tracks. I rototiller everything under in the fall preferable with a coat of rotted manure and rototill once in the spring and than go over with a walk behind 7 HP rear tined tiller before planting. Makes a nice fine seed bed for planting small seeds into.
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steve
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Posted: 21 Mar 2010 at 3:46pm |
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I think the only problems are that they kill many earthworms, shock benificial bacteria and some soil willl settle too much after being over tilled and turn to concrete....Just dont over do it. I wonder if any classic AC's really go slow enough
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Posted: 21 Mar 2010 at 3:55pm |
I use a 5' LandPride behind my Kubota and it makes a very nice seed bed. I usually disk in the fall and spring, just use the tiller before planting. I used the subsoiler and mole a couple years when first starting out, made a big difference. Good luck.
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Sticks and stones may break my bones but hollowpoints explode on impact.
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Posted: 21 Mar 2010 at 7:16pm |
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I have a 5020 Allis with a 5' Shandhi tiller handles the tiller just fine will even do sod
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Posted: 21 Mar 2010 at 9:07pm |
Chuck. I use a 4 Ft Maschio tiller with my CA. It would be nice to have a slower gear, but this works well for me!
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Posted: 21 Mar 2010 at 9:43pm |
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I use a 5' Howard on my 175D and it plays with it most of the time. It was way too much for my D12 SIII though! I used to use it on my D17 gas, but a diesel is so much nicer. The older Howard weighs in at about 1000#, not a toy like the LandPride, JD, KingKutter or others. If you have rocks like we have in this area, a Howard or Northwest is the only way to go.
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