Rototiller PTO vs stand alone

[jaxs]

Where I come from if it breaks while you are using it you repair it.

That's where my neighbor is from,he didn't like the arrangement. :duh:

 

[jaxs]

I have both a Troy Bilt and a 5' King Kutter.
I bought the King Kutter ten+ years ago.
The troy Bilt has been sitting in a corner of the barn ever since.

Yea and if your wife read's that,you'll be sitting in the corner with the tiller you spent money on and never use.

 

[oosik]

I choose the stand alone Troy Bilt with counter rotating tines. It simply goes places where I can never get the tractor.

 

[Sonny580]

I have/use a KK 72" tiller for the first ground stir,---then th rest of the season its the TB Horses----I have 8 of them and they all get a workout on 4.5 acre garden.
You will find them to be more useful , IF you have to make a choice between the 2 types.

 

[jshwhite]

At my place, mechanically operated tools are NOT LOANED OUT!
I will volunteer to do the work for you, if/when I have the time.

Exactly. I learned that lesson a few years back and changed my policy to match yours...

 

[3Ts]

I have both a Troy Bilt and a 5' King Kutter.
I bought the King Kutter ten+ years ago.
The troy Bilt has been sitting in a corner of the barn ever since.

I have the same combination and the same situation with the Troy Built sitting in the barn.
I'm thinking about enlarging the garden this next year and will probably pull it out to till between rows.

Yea and if your wife read's that,you'll be sitting in the corner with the tiller you spent money on and never use.

We had the Troy built first, then needed something to repair hog damage to the lawn so she was on-board with the purchase. I did not know how it would work to repair the hog damage, but it turned out "not bad". We've used it on our garden, neighbor's place, & ... easier and quicker than the walk behind.

 

[3Ts]

"My neighbor didn't buy either, he borrow's mine." ...ain't that the truth! And something always breaks when they borrow it.

Good point you make about cultivating between rows of a garden. A walk behind would be the way to go there.

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But the worest doen't come until while watching you repair it, neighbor tell's other neighbor "that wouldn't have happened had you bought higher quility equipment".

Where I come from if it breaks while you are using it you repair it.

At my place, mechanically operated tools are NOT LOANED OUT!
I will volunteer to do the work for you, if/when I have the time.

Exactly. I learned that lesson a few years back and changed my policy to match yours...

I'll loan out tools that are not expensive with the expectation that I'll never see them again. Sometimes I do and sometimes I don't. I do not loan out powered tools, except one time. I didn't really want to do it then, but he'd helped me a lot - more than what the walk behind tiller cost so I let him borrow it. Not to much damage when I got it back. Otherwise, if you want something done, I'll come over with my equipment and operate it, but it's not leaving here without me and it's returning when I leave.

 

[fried1765]

I'll loan out tools that are not expensive with the expectation that I'll never see them again. Sometimes I do and sometimes I don't. I do not loan out powered tools, except one time. I didn't really want to do it then, but he'd helped me a lot - more than what the walk behind tiller cost so I let him borrow it. Not to much damage when I got it back. Otherwise, if you want something done, I'll come over with my equipment and operate it, but it's not leaving here without me and it's returning when I leave.

There is a liability issue to consider also.
If I take my L48 TLB over to my neighbor's place to dig a hole, and hit a utility line, or do some other damage, I am responsible.
If my TLB is damaged or destroyed, while off my property, I have no equipment insurance coverage.

Insurance replacement value of my 250 hour L48 (with lots of built in accessories) would likely be the L47 @ $60K PLUS.
And .....the L47 only digs to 10', plus it sports the Tier IV crap.
Needless to say: The L48 will not leave my property!

 

[pmsmechanic]

I loan out stuff all the time and it's very rare that I don't get it back. Like in the last 40 years maybe $100 worth. If I want to borrow something the neighbor has I have no problem obtaining the use of it, but I always try to return in better shape than when I picked it up. To me that is just the normal way of doing business but then I live in a pretty descent community. Neighbors look out for each other and most of us are here "together".

 

[fried1765]

I loan out stuff all the time and it's very rare that I don't get it back. Like in the last 40 years maybe $100 worth. If I want to borrow something the neighbor has I have no problem obtaining the use of it, but I always try to return in better shape than when I picked it up. To me that is just the normal way of doing business but then I live in a pretty descent community. Neighbors look out for each other and most of us are here "together".

It USED to be that way all across the USA.
Not so much, in some places here anymore.