2manyrocks
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I'm sorry. What I meant was I think someone asked the same question and got an answer about there being two belts on some models, but I can't remember exactly what they said. The models I've personally seen only have one belt, but I don't want to mislead you because I'm not quite sure what you have.
If your unit is like mine (which appears to be like CR172's), you have a high and low range lever on the side of the transmission housing, and you have a pulley that also has a high and low range, but you change the high and low ranges on the pulley by moving the single belt from one groove on the pulley to the other one. Instead of having a two speed transmission, this allows for four speeds not counting reverse.
On mine, there is a single lever in the middle underneath the handle bars to engage the tines and transmission.
I forget the exact time period, but for a while they were selling a different model that you could change implements on so you could convert it from a tiller to some other use. That model may have had different controls than mine. That's why I asked for a picture because I was wondering if you had one of those units. Over the years, I have seen several of the ones like I have, but I haven't seen any of the convertible units except for the sales brochures I used to get years ago from Garden Way.
Does yours look like the one that CR172 posted except you have a B & S instead of a Kohler engine? I think there were about 3 engine options on the Horse.
To make it more complicated, Troy Bilt also sold a number of smaller tillers that typically had B & S engines. I think they were called the Pony and the Junior plus some other models whose names I don't remember. As I recall, the Junior had a PTO/Forward engagement lever in the middle of the handlebars on the control panel. It had a different control arrangement than on the Horse model that CR172 posted. The Junior (if I remember right) had only a single speed transmission (no hi-lo lever), but had a dual pulley that would allow you to move the belt to allow a hi and low speed range.
If your unit is like mine (which appears to be like CR172's), you have a high and low range lever on the side of the transmission housing, and you have a pulley that also has a high and low range, but you change the high and low ranges on the pulley by moving the single belt from one groove on the pulley to the other one. Instead of having a two speed transmission, this allows for four speeds not counting reverse.
On mine, there is a single lever in the middle underneath the handle bars to engage the tines and transmission.
I forget the exact time period, but for a while they were selling a different model that you could change implements on so you could convert it from a tiller to some other use. That model may have had different controls than mine. That's why I asked for a picture because I was wondering if you had one of those units. Over the years, I have seen several of the ones like I have, but I haven't seen any of the convertible units except for the sales brochures I used to get years ago from Garden Way.
Does yours look like the one that CR172 posted except you have a B & S instead of a Kohler engine? I think there were about 3 engine options on the Horse.
To make it more complicated, Troy Bilt also sold a number of smaller tillers that typically had B & S engines. I think they were called the Pony and the Junior plus some other models whose names I don't remember. As I recall, the Junior had a PTO/Forward engagement lever in the middle of the handlebars on the control panel. It had a different control arrangement than on the Horse model that CR172 posted. The Junior (if I remember right) had only a single speed transmission (no hi-lo lever), but had a dual pulley that would allow you to move the belt to allow a hi and low speed range.