New Member With Implement Questions

[3gunr]

I have two pto tillers .a 5ft with L sheped tines and an old 6ft yanmar with c shaped tines. the yanmar cuts hard ground better and gets clogged with grass less. The key to tilling is to cut grass and weeds as low as possible and kill whats left with glyphosate. wait a week or two then till. it will go much smoother. If your doing food plots till in your lime and fertilizer at the same time. then plant hopefully right before rain.

 

[ericm979]

I may have left the impression that I was going to be hitting stumps regularly. The few stumps are cut flush with the ground. I know where they are and will mark the area with orange paint before I begin work. I figured I might somehow accidentally hit one at some point. In the short term they will remain where they are. My question was about the function of clutches in bush hogs and tillers. Do I understand that they help prevent damage to the PTO and the implement correctly?

If they are flush the mower will go over them without issue.

The clutch should slip if the blades are stopped. But rotary cutter blades are on pivots, not a solid bar like a lawn mower. Usually they pivot back when you get something large under the deck (like a rock) and make a loud banging as they beat the heck out it. It's rare to actually lock up the blade spindle so the clutch slips or the shear pin shears.

But if there are rocks or stumps sticking up, hitting them with the blades is only one danger. You can also catch the housing on it and bend the housing or the mounts.

Kodiak makes light and medium duty rotaries with chain guards to slow stuff that gets thrown. Kodiak makes the Mahindra branded cutters, or did 2 years ago when I got mine.

 

[Egon]

With the tractor size the OP mentioned a home built tool bar for the three point may be a consideration. Shanks that are longer can be used and the number varied as to pulling difficulty.

Slip clutch definitely for rotating equipment.

Rototiller will be preferable to a disk/cultivator as they will pull hard if they are doing good.

For levelling dirt a rear blade with gauge wheels works well. If you have to move dirt the bucket works well.

 

[Freep]

I have a Kioti CK3510. One of the things I liked about it was the relatively high weight (2700ish) for a relatively small tractor. Rear tire ballast helps further. The CK2610 seems like an excellent value tractor all around to me.

I have a field cultivator as well. Many of them are in essence to long pieces of angle iron with a 3-point frame and multiple individual shank sub-units attached. I found a very good deal on an old 7-foot, 9-shank cultivator. My tractor could not pull it, so I removed several of the shank sub-units. It works well with 5, but really penetrates deeply with 4. If you get a field cultivator it may be worth insuring that this customization if possible with it. I see old cultivators on Craigslist for a few hundred dollars frequently.

 

[Dranrab]

Thanks again for all of the feedback.