Opinions please

[BillS2009]

OK, I am going to purchase either a disk harrow or a roto-tiller for my Iseki. Those of you that have either, which does the best job? It will be used to prepare land for landscaping and for gardening. Thanks!

 

[brin]

OK, I am going to purchase either a disk harrow or a roto-tiller for my Iseki. Those of you that have either, which does the best job? It will be used to prepare land for landscaping and for gardening. Thanks!

A disk harrow will be fine and less expensive if yo put enough weight on it to push the disks down. I have not used a tiller behind a tractor but it is my impression you have to go slow whereas with a disk harrow you can get up and go but again be sure it is weighted down and you want to make turns with it and alternate your direction ....it digs in better that way.. I have used a walk behind tiller and in my opinion they do not get down as deep as a disk will if used properly.

 

[Storm56]

I have both a disc and tiller and use them both for different conditions. If the ground is hard, and or there is a very heavy ground cover, the disc struggles. In the right conditions the disc works very well and is faster. However there are just as many times when the tiller rules.

 

[sweettractors]

You really need a turning plow to compliment the disc harrow. Both, together, make a nice setup. Other wise a tiller would do the same work as the plow and disc harrow. We have both used bottom plows and new Lift discs and new Rototillers as shown below. Ken Sweet

 

[Rod in Forfar]

OK, I am going to purchase either a disk harrow or a roto-tiller for my Iseki. Those of you that have either, which does the best job? It will be used to prepare land for landscaping and for gardening. Thanks!

I bought a 3 X 12" plow ($125) for my 35 hp tractor, then found an 8' 3 pt hitch disk ($500) when I got sick of pulling an old four-gang rig around corners. The disk does a great job in my stony garden plots, primarily because of its enormous weight. It's way too heavy for the poor TAFE and would likely kill it on a 20 acre field, but it makes short work of the small areas.

The innovation which made the most difference to the garden this summer, though, was the purchase of a ($500) 1979 Troy-Bilt Horse, the old classic tiller which they got right. It works between the rows. I can't see a lot of value in a tractor-mounted tiller which gets put away as soon as the first seed goes into the ground, but I don't do much landscaping with my implements.

But the TAFE weighs close to 3 tons in disking trim. A lightweight tractor and a light disk might produce a completely different effect, and a 3 pt hitch tiller might be great if it wasn't bouncing off rocks all of the time.

 

[lens12]

I'd get a tiller. It will leave a nicer seed bed every time.

 

[larso1]

I use my tiller all the time. I use it on hard packed ground too that has rocks in it. I also till my neighbors big garden area and it's like a hot knife thru butter there. Maybe set a little too deep. I fab'd an adapter to connect my 2-pt tiller to my 3-pt tractor. Here's a video showing me tilling hard ground in front of the house next to the road. It does bounce there but haven't broke one of those hardened tines yet.

YouTube - Yanmar 48-in. 2-pt. tiller in action, Iseki Tractor

 

[LBrown59]

OK, I am going to purchase either a disk harrow or a roto-tiller for my Iseki. Those of you that have either, which does the best job? It will be used to prepare land for landscaping and for gardening. Thanks!

You can till this but you can't disk it!

 

[Ivan49]

I would buy the tiller. I have a 62 inch Bush hog on my FB 31 tractor and it does a great job. I use it in cly ans sand soil with no problems. If you have a lot of stones you may break a tine or two but they are cheap. The slower you go the better of a job it does.