Rotary Tiller for Bad Boy 1022 Tractor

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CPTKILLER

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Location
Gatesville, TX
Tractor
Kioti CK2610
I have a Bad Boy 1022 Sub-Compact Tractor on the way and my other half “requested” a tiller. The 1022 is rated at 21.5 HP with 15.4 HP at the PTO. The question is this tractor capable of handling a Bad Boy (48 inch) ROTARY TILLER - BBRT48. It describes working with a 25 HP-45 HP range. I am curious what users have found with the BBRT48 Tiller on sub-compact tractors?

I was going to pick the tractor up but a couple of issues came up.

1. The trailer to haul it is on order. They will loan me a trailer to haul it home. I can live with that. I found that I wished many times that I had a trailer when I had my Kioti.
a. Necessary for side gigs.
b. Useful if I need to have the tractor worked on.
c. Useful for hauling material for our never ending DIY projects instead of renting a trailer or jury rigging hauling long pieces of material in a Jeep Gladiator Pickup.
2. The tractor had a problem when I picked it up. The salesman pointed out that the fuel gauge wasn’t working. He asked if wanted to take it home or pick it up on Monday after it was fixed. I chose for them to repair it. I’ll get on Monday hopefully repaired. I checked the fuel and it was full confirming a faulty fuel gauge.

I’ll eventually get around to a user review once it has some hours on it. Based on feedback here, I opted for a belly mower for my small property. Thanks everyone for the feedback.

My initial perspective is that it is very small which is good for this small piece of Texas. It fits my small Filipina wife and she IS NOT intimidated by the size like with the Kioti. This means that both of us will use it with me doing the maintenance. The controls in most cases are similar to the Kioti which simplifies operations. The engine compartment seems very accessible but I’ll comment more on that after I do the 50 hour service.

I will appreciate your views on the choice for the 48 inch tiller.
 
   / Rotary Tiller for Bad Boy 1022 Tractor #2  
Probably will work fine, my sister has a 650(?) John Deere subcompact that makes about 18 hp (engine) and it runs a 4 ft tiller just fine in good soil (not heavy clay and rocks)
 
   / Rotary Tiller for Bad Boy 1022 Tractor #3  
That ought to be fine, it's not too far short of the '5 horsepower per foot' rule. If I might pry, why did you get rid of the CK?
 
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Probably will work fine, my sister has a 650(?) John Deere subcompact that makes about 18 hp (engine) and it runs a 4 ft tiller just fine in good soil (not heavy clay and rocks)
My experience with the Yanmar YM186D with 18 engine hp (same engine?) and 15 PTO hp, is it can just - barely - run my 54 inch Yanmar Japanese rice tiller that was intended for a Japanese Yanmar with 24 hp, 20 pto hp. The little YM186D works hard until I'm going at a right angle to the tilled ground. Then climbing up onto the un-tilled surface buries the tines and it will stall if I don't lift the tiller. Not ideal but workable.

You have a better ratio of PTO hp to tiller with than I do. That should work unless your ground hasn't been cultivated recently. In that case, you mighty need to make a first shallow pass to prep it for tilling full depth.

Maybe an American small tiller can till weeds into the ground. The rice tiller I have just wraps them around the main shaft. It's necessary to mow first.
 

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