Tiller Tillers.. Which is better?

[jmattox1]

Which is better Land Pride or Farm King.

Looking to purchase soon.

Please include topics as:
Hook up
Quality
Price
etc...

Thanks

 

[chrisjbell]

Hi there....

I've been looking, too, and there are a lot of answers and opinions on this forum. I don't have any advice, since I've only rented a Kubota branded tiller (which was just fine), but thought I'd recommend that you do a search on "tillers" in this forum - I know you'll get plenty of input /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif. Hope this helps...Chris

 

[HayDR]

The Kubota was made by Maletti in Italy. Much of the landpride tiller is the same as a Sicma. They both are chain drive in most of their models. Just remember that when a MFG has another company make their tillers you have 2 companies living out of the profits and the prices are usually higher. The Farm King is basically the same situation but with their blades being made by Empire Plow.

 

[Egon]

Up here in the frozen north Farm king tillers are painted orange and are the Kubota official tiller. Chain drive and all.

Egon

 

[grandad]

There was another thread about Italian-made tillers a while ago... seems to be a specialty of implement mfrs. over there. Many of the U.S. brand names are Italian imports. I have a "Muratori", chain drive, which seems to work just fine.

Seems to me for occasional use, just about any of these should last indefinitely with reasonable care during use. If you are using one commercially, you could expect some repairs and they would eventually wear out.

 

[Egon]

Grandad:

The Italians manufacture many very high quality products but never seem to get recognition for doing so.

Egon

 

[SteveBenson]

I've heard peple say that the Italians do a lot of sourcing in their product development (buying parts of the shelf) that usually results in products made of both over and under engineered components. Just what I've heard, and not specific to the Ag market.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Hi Steve--I thought Mr Fiat (Italian) at one time had control of most of our MF,Ford/NH,Case/IH,Agco, etc tractors--If this is still the case? Looks like they could build good quality implements, as well.--Ken Sweet
Sweet Farm Equipment Co.

 

[SteveBenson]

Like I said, it was just something I heard in my engineering exploits, and not specific to the AG market. It's only hearsay, but I put that disclaimer on it when I posted.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

I too am looking for a tiller. I haven't decided on which one to buy... if they weren't so darn expensive I would just buy any old one.. Since I have a NH TC33 I am looking for something that can be powered by about 27 PTO Hp.

Having one shipped to me is an option but not if the cost of shipping brings it way over something like the KK for 999.00 at TSC.

Also, I have concern of having a unit shipped in and if it ever needed servicing what to do about it or if it breaks.

Ok... so can those of you that have tillers give me some good advice "Chain or Gear" or whatever I should be concerned about... it is getting closer to spring and I need to get one soon.. MANY Thanks...