California
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- Joined
- Jan 22, 2004
- Messages
- 14,681
- Location
- An hour north of San Francisco
- Tractor
- Yanmar YM240 Yanmar YM186D
I just got this RS1400 tiller (57 inches) and wonder how fast to run it.
It's intended for YM2000, says so on the decal!
I think YM2000 has 3 speeds in the pto. My YM240 (US version of YM2000) just has 540 and 1,000 pto per American specs. Set for a 2.5 - 3"" cut on the first pass, the tiller hardly works the tractor using the 540 gear and 1600 engine rpm. In the 1,000 rpm gear, it wants a little more engine rpm to not sound like I'm loading it. (1600/2200 x 1000 = about 600 rpm input to the tiller using the higher pto gear).
Any advice on which pto gear to use?
Also, for anyone who has one of these, how deep should it be set? Do you take a first cut then a second cut deeper? (I've never owned a tiller - that's probably obvious.) This ground tills easily. I would like to find the ideal combination of tiller speed/ground speed/depth/number of passes.
I found the input gearbox filled precisely to the dipstick level, and the side gears filled to half-cover the next to top gear. Is there a level plug that I haven't discovered yet? And finally, how does the lower bearing on the opposite side get lubricated?
Thanks for any comments!
It's intended for YM2000, says so on the decal!
I think YM2000 has 3 speeds in the pto. My YM240 (US version of YM2000) just has 540 and 1,000 pto per American specs. Set for a 2.5 - 3"" cut on the first pass, the tiller hardly works the tractor using the 540 gear and 1600 engine rpm. In the 1,000 rpm gear, it wants a little more engine rpm to not sound like I'm loading it. (1600/2200 x 1000 = about 600 rpm input to the tiller using the higher pto gear).
Any advice on which pto gear to use?
Also, for anyone who has one of these, how deep should it be set? Do you take a first cut then a second cut deeper? (I've never owned a tiller - that's probably obvious.) This ground tills easily. I would like to find the ideal combination of tiller speed/ground speed/depth/number of passes.
I found the input gearbox filled precisely to the dipstick level, and the side gears filled to half-cover the next to top gear. Is there a level plug that I haven't discovered yet? And finally, how does the lower bearing on the opposite side get lubricated?
Thanks for any comments!