5 ft tiller on YM2000 ?

California · Aug 3, 2006

My YM240 (US version YM2000) is 5 ft wide due to oversize tires. But a 4ft tiller is standard for a YM2000.

I've located a 5 ft Yanmar tiller complete with the special 3pt upper link components. This looks like a good deal except for the additional width of this tiller.

What do you think - will this work? Has anyone tried this?

Normmm · Aug 3, 2006

I use a 5' yanmar tiller on my 2020d. IN heavy soil I really need the creeper gear when tilling deep. Keep rpm at power max and control tiller speed with the pto gears. 20 pto hp seems ample for the 5' tiller.

corey · Aug 3, 2006

California,

Used a 54" Howard Tiller on my YM240D for many years.
It does an adequate job with max RPM, 1st gear, low range, on a garden plot.
Multiple pass over was always necessary.
Soil here in the Northern Panhandle of WV can be heavy with clay.
Soil on my property is not an exception to that.

I now run the same tiller on my JM 284LE.
It does an outstanding job on the same plot.
The slight HP difference and the creeper options in both low and standard range seems to be responsible for the difference.

A 60" tiller on the 240D would really test the tenacity of the 2 cyl. mule.
But don't you enjoy the sound of that Yanmar when it is working.

By the way, thanks again for taking time to post reply to my question on the height of your ROPS in down fold position.

corey

Gizmo36 · Aug 3, 2006

I have a 4 ft on my 2210 , Here at the house in new ground with the hard clay it give it all it wants. Up at the farm it is good soil with sand run's easy. I could run a 5 ft up there easy , But I don't think it could pull the 5 ft here . If it did it would be hard on it.

normde2001 · Aug 4, 2006

It may be a crapshoot. I'm pretty sure the YM2000's came with 4' tillers, however the added traction of your oversized tires may make up the needed traction.

greatrandini · Aug 4, 2006

I run a 6ft KK on my 2210. I can go deep in new ground using the creeper gear. The little Yanny don't even know it is back there. I can go faster if the ground has been broke or if I set the depth shallow..... Mostly I just do a few small gardens so I just sit there in creeper gear and the tiller turns the dirt to powder......

California · Aug 4, 2006

Ok, I'm learning a little as I read your replies. I'm beginning to scope out the extent of my ignorance!

Corey, was the 240D geared too fast in the lowest gear?

Gizmo, I think this soil is like your lighter farm soil. It's been cultivated for many years, so at least I'm not facing unturned ground.

Norm, you commented on traction. Would the tiller tend to skid the tractor forward? I'm ballasted with 160 lbs water per rear tire so traction hadn't ocurred to me.

Another question I should have asked - how much does a 5 ft Japanese tiller weigh? I will occasionally need to lift this thing in/out of the trailer like that disk (680 lbs) in my sig photos.

Thanks for any comments!

normde2001 · Aug 4, 2006

"Norm, you commented on traction. Would the tiller tend to skid the tractor forward? I'm ballasted with 160 lbs water per rear tire so traction hadn't ocurred to me.'

Hhmm... I guess a tiller probably wouldn't cause a traction problem, would it? Some reason they came with 4' tillers, must be the weight.

corey · Aug 4, 2006

California,

About your question, "Is it geared too fast."

Using 1st gear in low range, my YM 240D moves at a speed that requires many passes to powder the soil.

Using 1st gear in low range, with the additional benefit of engaging the creeper gear (a feature on the JM and not on the YM) the 284LE typically turns the soil to powder in a single pass.

I do suspect that your soil condition is much different than mine.

corey