Help me to refine my decision...

mygoatboy · Oct 23, 2004

Hello,
I have been looking at tractors for starting up my farm. I will need to prepare 5-10 acres of apple orchard for turning into a truffle farm and then I will plant about 500 trees an acre on it. I was planning on tilling the whole thing so that harvesting the underground truffles would be easier. I would like to be able to use a 100" or so tiller because I plan on trying to add 5 acres a year of truffle farm. What size tractor would you recomend? I would really like a 4wd diesel because it will be used for snow removal. Also it will be used for small square baling too.

Birdman · Oct 23, 2004

I think you first need to go find the tiller you want and then see what size tractor is recomended to power it. Here is a site with a 90" tiller and they say 40 to 70 HP tractor Rhino Tiller
Something in that HP range should do what you want, but I would lean more toward the higher end, just so you would not be working the tractor at its maximun limit all the time.

HayDR · Oct 23, 2004

The Rhino tiller is MFG by Sicma. You might want to look at the CCM Gear Drive Tillers.

mygoatboy · Oct 25, 2004

Thank you to those that replied. Will the tiller remove roots or will I have to do that with a seperate attachment?

GAFarmer2 · Jul 12, 2005

No, the tiller won't remove the roots. Ok, I lie, it will but you will have to keep pulling them out of the teeth and they can tear a good tiller up right quick. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

burnetma · Jul 14, 2005

Here is one way to remove apple tree roots:
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Mighty fine hay tractor also!

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