BX attachments

[Tdog]

I have to profess my ignorance on yet another tractor question. I bought a used 4' Yanmar tiller a couple of years ago to prepare the soil for a small veg garden. It works fine. However, I need to get the garden into rows. So far, I've been doing that part by hand & it seems to me the tractor should be doing this work.
I think I recall reading that I need a hiller. Is that something like a disk? I don't even have a toolbar for the BX. I assume that is something I will need to set this up? As you can see, I don't know dirt about dirt.

 

[RonR]

Someone here (forget sorry) posted a mod they did to the dirt shield on the rear of their tiller. After tilling the garden a coupla times, they lowered the "hiller", which was just flat iron in a triangle shape. It pulled through the dirt as he tilled a final time, leaving wonderful rows.

Hope this helps
ron

 

[AceDeuce]

Why not just get a middle buster? They're cheap and good for making furrows.

 

[JBX]

Hi AceDeuce,
Having a "furrower" on the back of the tiller would be best for 2 reasons, in my view,
1- because then you are doing two tasks with one pass, and
2- hopefully you will not have tire tracks showing!

The tire tracks may not be covered by using the middle buster alone.

JBX

 

[HomeBrew2]

Someone here ...

Found it.

 

[Tom_H]

Why not just get a middle buster? They're cheap and good for making furrows.

Because while you're making the second furrow, your tires will smash down the first furrow, while you're making the third, the second gets squashed, unless you make the distance between furrows greater than the width of the tractor. The MB or SS loosen soil up, but if you want it to stay in furrow shape, you need an implement with multiple points, and the spread needs to equal or exceed the tractor width, OR be offset to one side.