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Maybe you should have painted it green Ken. Then 90% of the people on these forums would have thought it was the best. LOL.
Would you buy a Roto tiller with Forward and Reverse rotation?
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How about yellow? The next ones will be a different color for sure. Ken Sweet
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And add yellow stickers!!
I will not own a forward rotation tiller. We converted ours to reverse, best money spent. Oou soils are clay based, so the reverse does a better job.
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No sorry, it was a borrowed machine. I cannot say with confidence that the tines were sharpened on both sides, but I don't see why not. Nevertheless, I didn't till in both directions. I just used reverse to clean accumulation off the tines.
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Far as me personally no I would only buy a forward or reverse rotation tiller and leave it at that.
I happen to like forward rotation and I cant see myself ever needing a dual purpose tiller or me taking the time to switch one around and back etc but thats me.
It may have added value as far as resale but that still wouldn't influence me to buy one unless it was only a matter of shifting a gear shift lever then maybe just maybe.
I am lazy and all I want to do is hook up something go work come back un-hook go get something else and so on. my .002
I happen to like forward rotation and I cant see myself ever needing a dual purpose tiller or me taking the time to switch one around and back etc but thats me.
It may have added value as far as resale but that still wouldn't influence me to buy one unless it was only a matter of shifting a gear shift lever then maybe just maybe.
I am lazy and all I want to do is hook up something go work come back un-hook go get something else and so on.
my .002
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And add yellow stickers!!
I will not own a forward rotation tiller. We converted ours to reverse, best money spent. Oou soils are clay based, so the forward does a better job.
I'm confused. You don't like forward rotation so you changed yours to reverse but forward does better in your soil. ??????
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In my limited experience having tried both in my clay/rock soils I chose forward. It kicks the rocks and clay clumps rearward so I can pick up before the next pass. The reverse rotation kept throwing rocks,dust towards the rear of my tractor, only to get hit again - I got tired of stopping to kick rocks out of the way.
Just my 02 on what worked for me.
Just my 02 on what worked for me.
Leejohn
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Looks like a good tiller and sure makes for a good selling point for a guy that doesn't know what he wants.
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A typo at work, fixed it. Reverse does a better job. After having both, no more forward for me.
mikehaugen
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wouldn't it be better to use a dual-input-shaft gearbox, then you could reversed by putting the shaft on the other end of the gearbox, then moving the 3pt frame and the rear "flap" to the opposite side? Seems easier than switching all of the tines around.