Looking at a tiller...need help

[jbrumberg]

Sniggle:

You are off to a good start . Learning to use (and hopefully well with practice) what attachments you have will naturally guide you towards future attachment acquisitions . Keep us posted and send pics . Jay

 

[WayneB]

I agree totally with Jay, enjoy the bb and Woods makes good stuff!

Wayne

 

[jim_n_nh]

I can speak about the ccm m160 tiller. It is great and so is CCM. They answered all my questions and thanked me for my business. Honestly it is one of the nicest business transactions I have ever done.....And the tiller is a tank, no problems, no regrets except I should have bought it sooner.

Jim

 

[jbrumberg]

I can speak about the ccm m160 tiller. It is great and so is CCM. They answered all my questions and thanked me for my business. Honestly it is one of the nicest business transactions I have ever done.....And the tiller is a tank, no problems, no regrets except I should have bought it sooner.

Jim

Ditto ! Jay

PS their technical support/service department talked me through my only "crisis" with a very positive outcome . They definitely stand behind their product. THe M-160 was not that much more expensive than the KKII gear driven tiller (~ $300 including S & H). Jay

 

[diyDave]

Sniggle, welcome to TBN! As others have said, a tiller might not do as well as you think. I would recommend that you try to find a box blade with scarifiers as your primary implement of destruction, followed by disc, then harrow. The scarifiers on a box blade can be set real low, by adjusting your toplink to the closed position, and your lift arms all the way up. by using the BB in this position, you are able to break up the surface, and level slightly with the blade. Kind of like a chisel plow with a drag behind it. The main thing to remember with horses is not to stock your land too high for its capacity, otherwise, they eat up and compact your pasture beyond repair. Around here, 3-1/2 acres is not enough for 2 horses "on pasture" year round!

 

[Sniggle]

DiyD,

Thanks for the welcome. As I stated earlier, I did choose to go for the boxblade, a stought woods 60 incher.


I do still plan to buy hay for the winter, but I am hoping that adding the 3.5 acres of pasture will allow me to not buy hay in the summer and to turn somewhat green my existing .8 acre muddy paddock. Atleast that is the plan.

I will post some pictures later as it progresses...hopefully showing me successfully using my implement.

 

[joe48]

Sniggle, welcome to TBN! As others have said, a tiller might not do as well as you think. I would recommend that you try to find a box blade with scarifiers as your primary implement of destruction, followed by disc, then harrow. The scarifiers on a box blade can be set real low, by adjusting your toplink to the closed position, and your lift arms all the way up. by using the BB in this position, you are able to break up the surface, and level slightly with the blade. Kind of like a chisel plow with a drag behind it. The main thing to remember with horses is not to stock your land too high for its capacity, otherwise, they eat up and compact your pasture beyond repair. Around here, 3-1/2 acres is not enough for 2 horses "on pasture" year round!

Waring, be very careful what position the tractor end of the toplink is in. If you check elsewhere you will find threads discussing this.
What can happen is when doing very heavy tillage(ie; pulling roots and stumps with bb scarfiers) ,if the top link is in wrong whole for your tractor, the attachment point(with the 3 holes) can break or break the transmission casting, a VERY EXPENSIVE repair.!!
Read and use the recommendation in your owners manual or contact them or dealer for recommemdation if not in manual.

Be careful,have fun, and wear your seat belt when doing this kind of work, when the tractor stops and you don't you will understand why!! That steering wheel hurts.

 

[Barneyhunts]

I am lookng for a tiller that would be used to prep newly cleared pasture area (read roots, will try to avoid big rocks), and then to renovate my muddy paddock next fall when I can move the horses to the new pasture for a bit (I will labd rake it first multiple times to find all the surface hidden goodies).

I would plan to make multiple tenative passes, and would not have to go too deep in much of the area. The area is approx. 3.5 acres.

I can get a landpride rta (shear pin) 1558 for $1550, and would then need to ship it (another $250, not tax).

Or I can bid on one on Ebay, a Farm Pro 57 inch, and get it for maybe around $800, and then have to ship it also about the same distance.

Thoughts? (Don't tell the wife I am throwing more money at the tractor, please

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2003 Kubota B7800, Improved seat, FEL, 60 MMM, Woods RB and LR (6 ft), PHD w/ 12 inch auger, 430 hours.

I have a 32" Woods tiller that I use on my BX2200 in our garden. When I first broke the ground with this it vibrated so much on the rocks it "rattled my teeth"(at minimum depth setting). After three years of picking rock the tiller is great in those cleared areas. ARO this experience when I bought a B7800 I also bought a plow and disc for working new ground into food plots. They worked well, though I still pick a lot of rock. Good Exercise!
Good luck with your choices!

 

[Wesdor]

Drop the teeth on that box blade and you should be able to get most of the roots free. I picked up a Middle Buster (also known as a potato digger) at a sale last fall and that is pretty good at getting roots free.

diyDave suggested that you consider a disc. That is my thought as well. We have a disc and a tiller, but for what your are describing I would use the disc after going through with the box blade (teeth extended).

The tiller does a great job if you want to prepare a seed bed, but a disc and then harrow would provide good seed bed preparation at a lower cost.

Welcome to TBN

 

[frankv]

I can speak about the ccm m160 tiller. It is great and so is CCM. They answered all my questions and thanked me for my business. Honestly it is one of the nicest business transactions I have ever done.....And the tiller is a tank, no problems, no regrets except I should have bought it sooner.

Jim

I too am going to get a tiller this year. Considerred the CCM but unfortunately I've sent two emails over a two week period trying to get shipping info and a question on models answerred. Still no responses from CCM.