Tiller Tiller use

[Hard]

I have a 3 pt hitch Woods tiller that I am thinking about selling because I am no longer gardening. If I don't have a garden to till what else is it good for?

I am going to do some major work to my lawn. Scrapping of the top (weeds, crabgrass and such) off and have some good soil brough in. I have a rear blade, landscape rake and box blade. Would a tiller be useful for this lawn project? I think the rear blade, rake and box scraper will do the job.

Any opinions? The tiller is just taking up space in my garage. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[HGM]

I leveled a section in my back yard.. Thinking the box blade would do it alone was a mistake... It would do it, but my tractor is a little light in the rear and the tires would dig a hole when the scarifiers and blade dug in.. I ran the tiller over the area and tried it again.. If you goal is to do some lawn work and worry about sod latter, I'd strongly recomend using the tiller to cut the grass root system and soften the ground to make your box blade work easier.. Even though the tiller is combersome and takes up space, I'd sell my box blade first... The tiller is pretty versatile..

 

[hockeyhead]

Me too!, I'd sell my box blade , before my tiller,

 

[Ductape]

Hard,
Don't listen to them !! That tiller is no good.... use a box blade and rake on your lawn.

Coincidently.... i'm looking for a a used tiller, and i have a couple hundred burning a hole in my pocket ! /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Hooked_on_HP]

Insted of scraping off the sod and weeds you would be better off spraying the area with weed killer first. After everything dies then till it. This way you dont have to deal with balls of roots. My prefered method of leveling dirt is to till it first then use the landscape rake. You can move alot of loose dirt with a rake.

 

[RonR]

To get some good seed bed prep, I till my yards about 2" deep, then make multiple passes. I found if you till it more than 3-4" deep, the ground gets too soft and doesn't firm up well for seeds to thrive in.

Tilling your present yard first, to get the soil loose, would make scooping it up easier. Then topsoil. I'd recommend adding compost if you can also. Then work it up and get that new lawn going.

Ron

 

[HGM]

Does weed killer actually get rid of the root balls?? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif Not sure how that works, but it seems like an unnecessary expence.. When I tilled my yard, I left it to sit a couple of days untill I could get back to it and it was all dead.. I worked quicker than any weed killer I ever tried..

 

[KiotiJohn]

Last year I tilled my front yard so that everything would level up a little better and then used the landscape rake to clean it all out. I used the boxblade without the rippers to fill low spots.

If you don't use some type of weed killer to eleminate the emergents that got tilled under AND up, then you'll eventually have a weedy lawn again fairly soon. Tilling can bring up deep weed seed to a point that it germinates.

I wouldn't go very deep, as someone said, not more than about 3" just enough to level a bit and get the top materials ripped out.

After that, sell your tiller cause you probably won't need it. It will be worth about what you paid for it if you've kept it well.
I'm not sure I'm going to keep my Woods 52" tiller either since I may not garden any more myself. It's a great tiller, but even when I'm gardening, I don't need it often as you know.

Unless I start doing work for others, I see no reason to let it sit and ruin. BTW, the price on mine was 1200. Probably easily worth at least $900 as it has not been overly used.

John

 

[Nasty135]

Well now (ahem) neighbor /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Depending on which model and what size you might have an interested party right here... I have a neighbor that has a 52" that he doesn't use and told me to go ahead an get some use out of it, but I might be interested in having my own ...so if something would happen to his while using it(you know the deal)

Where are you in Md?

PM me once you've decided on selling it or not /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Hard]

I sold it on ebay for $910.