Horse power vs tiller width

[Ken Cunningham]

I have a JD3025D and I want to get a tiller. Does anyone run a 5ft tiller with a 25 hp tractor? I would like your input if you do. I have sandy soil so I think it will be fine, but I would sure hate to spend that much money and be disappointed with the results. Thank you in advance for your help.

 

[Yander]

I run a 50" tiller with a 18PTO hp and it does a bang up job feels like it could run a bigger one. your tractor has 20PTO hp. I think it would run a 60" tiller just fine. With a tiller the worst thing that can happen is if you are a little under powered you just take a little smaller bite (don't go as deep first pass). I wouldn't be afraid to do it.

 

[Raul-02]

I have a JD3025D and I want to get a tiller. Does anyone run a 5ft tiller with a 25 hp tractor? I would like your input if you do. I have sandy soil so I think it will be fine, but I would sure hate to spend that much money and be disappointed with the results. Thank you in advance for your help.

I have a 60" selectatilth I have a 47 HP tractor with about 35 at the PTO (PTO HP is a data point lots of folks forget).
I have heavy clay in my soil. On a second tilling I can bury my tiller and if I am going too fast (barely a slow walk) I can stall my engine.
You may find that depth of tillage and speed of tractor are your limiting factors

 

[3Ts]

I run a 5' tiller on a Kubota L235 (19 PTO HP). I ran it in the sandy soils in Florida and it worked fine. I brought it here to Texas and had a concern about the clay soils here, but just run a little slower ground speed or a little shallower first pass and it does fine.

 

[4570Man]

My current tractor has more HP but I previously used a 5’ tiller behind a L2550 Kubota.

 

[JJT]

I run a 6' tiller on 30 pto hp, in heavy clay, no issues for 25 years. I do have HST and the first pass is slow....

 

[5030]

Rule of thumb is 1 foot of width per 5 pto ponies.

 

[hornett22]

I run a 5' tiller on a Mahindra 1626 shuttle. No issues. Tilled several acres

 

[pmsmechanic]

I run a 5' tiller on a 28 pto hp tractor. Soils around here are both sand and clay. There are times when some more hp would be nice but with the hydro trans I just drive slower.

 

[orezok]

Rule of thumb is 1 foot of width per 5 pto ponies.

Unless it’s reverse rotation.