Tiller tiller depth for food plots

[flINTLOCK]

My soil is very rocky as I've said before in other posts. Since I don't think I'll be very successful trying to plow or till deeply, I've resigned myself to working only the top several inches of soil. Will the 3-pt hitch allow me to keep a tiller that shallow. It might give me the seed bed I need without getting jammed with the deeper rocks? Any thoughts?

 

[deere755]

Your tiller may have skids on it to set your depth and carry the load. If not you can use your 3pt. to take care of it. I feel that 3 to 4 inches of good lose dirt is all you need for a good seed bed.

 

[flINTLOCK]

That's good news. I won't need to buy a disc or plow and possibly can cover most of cost of tiller that way. How wide a tiller would a 30 hp tractor handle if tilling only several inches deep?

 

[NATTYBUMPO]

I have a Bota L3010 with R1s. It handles a 60" BH tiller very nicely in all kinds of soil and crop residue conditions. I think thats what Kubota recommends for this size machine. I think its important to be able to cover your tire tracks with the tiller, and with R1s it does.

 

[deere755]

I have a 56 inch tiller on the back of a 20 hp Deere. I agree it is important to cover your tire tracks. If you have 30 hp you should be able to handle a 56 or 60 inch tiller. The main thing with a tiller is to take your time and let the tiller work. I till at a crawl and in one pass its ready to plant.

 

[HEC]

I have a spring tooth harrow I got off a potato farmer for $100 which is on a draw bar.I used that on my ground before using the disc harrow and it would pull up rocks which had any size to them so I could go back and put them in my fel..I use to use it on my Dad's ground when he used to rototill for his market gardens and it would make rototilling so much easier as would break up the ground .You can adjust the teeth to any spacing you want and it will go from nothing to about a foot deep.You can put on or take off as many teeth as you want to go with your size tractor.I am not sure teeth is the right terminology but that is what I call them,maybe someone can give the right name for them if that is not correct.If you could find something like that it might save you alot of wear and tear on your tiller.