Tiller Ford 105 tiller shear bolts vs throw out bearing

[Dannyboy175]

We recently bought a ford 105 tiller (54") for use creating food plots at our hunting camp. It works fine, except the shear bolts keep breaking every 15 minutes. There are lots of rock in this ground that hasn't been worked in 30 years, if not longer. Before buying this tiller, one of the guys borrowed the tiller from the maintenance departing where he works. This one was about the same size, and realy worked well. It had a throw out bearing though.

Is there any type of convernsion possible to replace the shear bolt with a throw put bearing? My father in law said that it would be cheaper to buy another tiller that had a throw out bearing. He may be right... Is there any other way to keep from having to go through dozens of bolts in a weekend?

Thanks in advance.

 

[TractorTech]

Are you referring to a slip clutch, possibly? If so, you would replace the driveline assembly as the simplest way to upgrade.

 

[boggen]

with tractortech. do a google search for "slip clutch" EverythingAttachments.com has a good video if memory serves for how to operate a slip clutch, and some notes, of how to "adjust them" and what you need to due when slip clutch is bran new. or has been setting for some time and rusted up and needing to "smoke" the slip clutch on purpose to get them working like they should.

they make slip clutches that go in line with PTO shafts. and they make PTO shafts that have a slip clutch on one end.

slip clutches are little expensive compared to shear bolts. but makes life so much easier. vs dealing with a shear bolt.