Help me to refine my decision...

   / Help me to refine my decision... #1  

mygoatboy

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Location
Central MA
Tractor
Ford 3000
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.
 
   / Help me to refine my decision... #2  
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.
 
   / Help me to refine my decision... #3  
The Rhino tiller is MFG by Sicma. You might want to look at the CCM Gear Drive Tillers.
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   / Help me to refine my decision...
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#4  
Thank you to those that replied. Will the tiller remove roots or will I have to do that with a seperate attachment?
 
   / Help me to refine my decision... #5  
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
 
   / Help me to refine my decision... #6  
Here is one way to remove apple tree roots:
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Mighty fine hay tractor also!

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