Tiller 240d Buying a tiller..

[TractorToolsDirect]

We carry a model with a 43" tilling width made by the Italian brand Caroni. Best of luck on your search. I hope this helps, let me know if I can assist you any further. I have attached our product listing for the TX43 for your review.

Tractor Tools Direct | TX43 Rotary Tiller by Caroni

 

[powerscol]

Just something to think about. You want a tiller wider than you rear tire track.
Chain Driven they have several models (YJC) that your mule can run. Several advertisers here carry this brand. They also have gear driven.

 

[Coda1]

I spun tire a couple of times with 2wd and ag tires. You might be ok with 4wd and turfs. I would probably give it a try before spending the money for another set of wheels unless you have a lot of need for ag tires.

 

[California]

You don't need better tires with a tiller when you have 4 wheel drive. Engage the tiller with the ground and its like 32 wheel drive forward. The tiller will push you.

The turf tire option on YM240D was expensive and rare. I would get a different tractor before I would swap them off, but if you decide to, advertise widely and get top dollar for them.

Finally, verify that YM240D didn't come with unique differential ratios in the front and/or rear axle for the turf tire option. If the differentials were non-standard it may be hard to determine what size R-1 tires would preserve the same ratio of front to rear rolling circumference. Its critical to duplicate that ratio with the new tires.

 

[Cord]

Yanmar makes some pretty good tillers and they're dirt cheap. Just make sure it comes with the drive shaft. They're special and you won't find the pieces needed to make one.

 

[California]

Yanmar makes some pretty good tillers and they're dirt cheap. Just make sure it comes with the drive shaft. They're special and you won't find the pieces needed to make one.

...And the special top link assembly - a short top link and a 'bridge' that bolts onto the tractor. The Yanmar tillers mount close to the tractor and require this so the tiller will lift straight up instead of rotating into the rear tires.

 

[Yanmar240d1980]

Turf tires/traction should not be an issue with forward operating roto-tiller tines, which push the tractor forward.

I thought tillers all ran against the tractor, reverse action

 

[Yanmar240d1980]

...And the special top link assembly - a short top link and a 'bridge' that bolts onto the tractor. The Yanmar tillers mount close to the tractor and require this so the tiller will lift straight up instead of rotating into the rear tires.

Will I need to buy a diff drive shaft to accommodate my tractor for any tiller or are you saying to accommodate a yanmar tiller to my 240d?

 

[Yanmar240d1980]

You don't need better tires with a tiller when you have 4 wheel drive. Engage the tiller with the ground and its like 32 wheel drive forward. The tiller will push you.

The turf tire option on YM240D was expensive and rare. I would get a different tractor before I would swap them off, but if you decide to, advertise widely and get top dollar for them.

Finally, verify that YM240D didn't come with unique differential ratios in the front and/or rear axle for the turf tire option. If the differentials were non-standard it may be hard to determine what size R-1 tires would preserve the same ratio of front to rear rolling circumference. Its critical to duplicate that ratio with the new tires.

You know a whole bunch!.... I was just this moment looking for front ag tires to go with potential new back ag but they don't seem to make front ag or turf anymore for 4x15 do they?
So I need to stick with my rare turf front and back I suppose... I'm gonna be in some muddy stuff though. I have all the manuals for this thing so maybe ratio info in there. Either way ... No sense in putting new fronts on unless one goes out... Backs will depend on my number of times getting stuck I reckon.

 

[California]

Will I need to buy a diff drive shaft to accommodate my tractor for any tiller or are you saying to accommodate a yanmar tiller to my 240d?

If you find a Yanmar tiller be sure to get its native driveshaft and top link components as a complete package. Otherwise it will be difficult and costly to replicate any of these essential parts.

I was lucky when I got mine, the driveshaft was too short. I went back to the VN wholesaler and they said it must have been modified for a slip clutch so they gave me a driveshaft extender (common Tractor Supply item) to make up the missing length. You don't want to get into problems like that, that may be more difficult to resolve.

The 'before' photo that I showed the dealer.

'After' photo, in use with driveshaft extender bringing the shaft length up to normal. Yes it needs paint. Now 10 years later it doesn't look any prettier. But I had asked them for their cheapest tiller, and this cost $200 complete including that $20 driveshaft extender they provided. It works fine. That's the same tiller in my sig photo below.

(The pretty photo I put in an earlier post was someone else's tiller on a nice VN refurb).


Added: Use a common US tiller instead? Seems to me so long as it has the right length driveshaft, or larger so you can cut it down (simple), it will work as well on a Yanmar as on anything else. You might verify it will clear the rear tires lifted as well as down. So far as I know it was only the tillers made in Japan for their domestic market tractors (ie RS1400 tiller for YM2000) that are so close-coupled that they need that special top link assembly and everything else on the market is generic dimensions to fit anything.

If you haven't read this already - the US dealers had US (Canada?) made tillers and other attachments to sell with the US Yanmars. Then later when the VN refurb shops flooded the US market with 'rebuilt' (repainted) used Japan-version tractors, they normally included the tiller that had been with that tractor since new. So for a while there were a lot of Yanmar-Japan version tillers available here cheap. They may be hard to find now.

Photo - my tiller is the last green one. (But this importer went out of business a decade ago).