Modn
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Modn,
I'm not sure, I'd have to see it but it seems like the tires would compress the ground and reduce the effectiveness of the outer discs.
Rob
You may have a point....
Modn,
I'm not sure, I'd have to see it but it seems like the tires would compress the ground and reduce the effectiveness of the outer discs.
Rob
I'm trying to figure out how that would work. What's your rear tractor width?
I guess you'd have to have one hill outside the tires and off to one side?
Rob
Not sure if anyone mentioned this but the way I used to hill potatoes and make narrower and "multiple-looking" space saving rows is to do one row with the hiller centered on the tractor. Then do the next row with the tractor tires in the tracks formerly made on the first pass. It narrows the rows and both passes are in clean soil.
Another way I have made narrower (and space saving) rows is to offset the hillers on the tractor and then make one row and then reverse at the end of the row and come back in the tracks that give you a narrower row. This makes the row even narrower. You leave your tire track as the center between the rows. It's a variable depending on how wide the hillers are set up.
Multiple units have not worked for me.
That's interesting, I had thought about using my potato digger but couldn't see the double row it made so close together working. I will try it however and thanks for the advice....
...Rob
For growing garlic in raised beds I added "wings to each side of my tiller... I wanted to show the entire set up but my camera bit the dust... Anyway there is a wing on each side of the tiller and the bed is elevated about 8". The soil is really fluffy and drains well... the top "flat" of the raised bed is about 36" wide and the wings bring the soil inward about 8" on each side... Hope this gives another "food for thought" idea... Dave
Baby Grand, mornin'... One more point.. My tiller is wider than the inside width of the tires... So, the bottom edge of the wings, when installed on the tiller, is narrower than the tire inside width... This allows to drive the tractor down the raised bed again for any other work that needs to be done... The upper edge of the wings is tapered inward so the dirt won't slough off, back into the tire track... Also I have added a drag of sorts, that attached to the door on the tiller, to "pre groove" the raised bed for planting purposes... that works well also..I like it. Simple enough that I could make it from scrap.
Baby Grand, mornin'... One more point.. My tiller is wider than the inside width of the tires... So, the bottom edge of the wings, when installed on the tiller, is narrower than the tire inside width... This allows to drive the tractor down the raised bed again for any other work that needs to be done... The upper edge of the wings is tapered inward so the dirt won't slough off, back into the tire track... Also I have added a drag of sorts, that attached to the door on the tiller, to "pre groove" the raised bed for planting purposes... that works well also..