I'm going to get a tiller for my Boomer 1025. Been looking at the King Kutter brand because that's what my local TSC carries. The 2 models I'm interested in are 4 footers the TG 48 XB-O & the TG 48 Y. the BX is chain drive & the Y is gear drive. Big difference in weight & price. The XB weights about 400 & The Y is about 580. I like the XB for the cat 1/0, the weight & price $1230, the Y is $1600. My biggest concern is how well the chain drive will hold up compared to the gear drive.
To till or not to till tis the question;
The method of power transmission to the attachment is strictly something the manufacturer decides upon.
The tiller should have a limited slip friction disc clutch or a shear pin in the
P.T.O., driveline as a matter of necessity for the attachment.
The roller chain drive reduces the speed of the right angle gearbox delivering
the energy to the roller chain via the sprockets.
The gear to gear drive also accomplishes this.
The gear to gear drive also reduces the speed of the rotation through the gear box and provides the attachement with slightly more force to rip the ground up.
The forward travel speed is the governing factor in this tillage method for either unit as the slower one travels listening to the fender radio with a cold one in in the can holder and a slice of warm pizza the easier it is to enjoy as long as the winds blowing to the rear.:licking:
More important is the tine type used whether it is the bolo tiller blade or the L tiller blade as it is strictly depending on the depth of tillage desired it will require more work depending on the soil.
The L tine is more aggresive than the bolo tine in the first pass and will vibrate the most on old ground with lots of rocks.
The Bolo tine has a longer sweep reducing the effort required to dig and hence the hop on the walk behinds and the need to go over it again-which you want to do in any case to aerate the soil.
My dear father inlaw a had an original troy built with the Danish S tines and had it for over 40 years with the rope wrap pulley engine and his soil was thick powdery soil and perfect every year.
The Danish S tines were designed for weeding and he pulled rocks out of the garden every year for those forty plus years to make it perfect.
The S tines take less effort to rotate through the soil and rip quickly.
Its all matter of prefernce and how fast you want to till and how deep as the rocks are what you have to worry about more than anything.
I have been searching a bit for a rotary plow like the BCS Berta or the ones on the older Gravelys that can be attached on a rearmount three point hitch just to see who makes them or if they are being made.
A Berta rotary plow will till to 14 inches deep with a BCS or Grillo two wheel tractor as an example.
They bounce over rocks in the furrow and you stop and dig the rock out to get rid of it and thay are an easy way to remove a lot of rocks.
