Grading gc2310 box blade or tooth bar

[mpegg]

Hi guys I just got my new toy its a gc2310 with a 54 mower and tiller and i have a question. Witch is better a tooth bar or a box blade. I have about an acrea to clear it is full of pine trees. It used to be a Christmas tree farm that is over grown. I am using the bh to remove the stumps, but i have a lot of small roots still in the ground. I want to move my garden in that area and i don't think the roots would be to good on the tiller. so I would like to remove them and i am looking for the best way

Thanks
mpegg

PS. I would like to thank everybody for the threads I have been reading them for about a month. I was trying to decide which tractor is better the bx24 or the gc2310. If it wasn't for everybody's experience and opinions I might have made the wrong choice for me. thanks again

 

[loulblades]

Our property is an old nursery that I have had alot of trees removed from. Previously I didn't have a backhoe so the stumps were ground up by the tree guy. After that I used my brother's King Kutter 60" tiller on my gc2300 to till the area. I hit some pretty big roots because the grinding method leaves alot of the roots...big ones too.

I think if you are using the backhoe to remove the stumps, what is left probably wouldn't hurt the tiller. I don't have a box blade blade but I don't think it really goes deep enough to help with roots that are left after removing a stump by BH since the roots left are most likely deeper. I would say the same about a toothbar since it doesn't go very deep (but it does work nice for other things). If you are really concerned about problems with the tiller, I would suggest a sub-soiler or middle buster (got mine at TSC) to break things up before tilling.

 

[61flattop]

Unless you hit a sizeable root..... I doubt it even would phase a good tiller. I would use the tiller the break ground, if you hit something sizable enough to stall the tiller, mark it and either dig it up by hand or wait until you have it all done and dig em all up. If you are tilling in virgin territory, you need to make small passes and increase your depth as you go. Also, if you are just planting grass, there is no need to go the full depth of the tiller. All of my grass planing up here, I have only tilled down about 3". After I break the surface up, I add fertilizer and lime and then forward till it to break it up more and get a good mix. I also burn wood during the winter time and I will take and spread ashes as well.