Till depth.

[LBrown59]

How do I get my Tiller to till at least 6 inches deep .
3 or 4 inches is as low as I can get it to go.
Where have I gone wrong?

 

[taborekle]

Different tillers have different depths that they can till to. Usually the larger the tiller, the deeper it can till.

On most tillers that I have seen (and I have a Land Pride RTR0550 tiller) there are two skid shoes on either side of the tiller. To get the maximum depth, lift the tiller with the 3 pt ht and unbolt the fixed position of the shoes, and then push the shoes up to the maximum height (right up against the tiller) and then rebolt them in. With the shoes up against the tiller, the tiller will sit as low as possible in the ground.

Even so, on my tiller, one pass often is not enough to reach the maximum tiller depth for the skid shoe setting. I often have to make 2 or 3 passes of the same ground in order to 'reach' down to where the float pan on the back of the tiller is amost parallel to the ground.

 

[ChuckinNH]

Lee, some of the BX's don't allow the 3pt hitch lower arms to go as low as they might, and that limits the depth that tillers, etc. can work to. A couple of folks have replaced the fixed arm between the rock shaft, and the lower arm with another threaded one like on the other side, and I guess that has given them more range of travel. I wish the lower links on my B went lower too, and may have to try that modification myself. Folks wanted implements to lift higher, and I guess you can't have it both ways......

 

[LBrown59]

Thanks for confirming what I suspected .

Different tillers have different depths that they can till to. Usually the larger the tiller, the deeper it can till.

On most tillers that I have seen (and I have a Land Pride RTR0550 tiller) there are two skid shoes on either side of the tiller. To get the maximum depth, lift the tiller with the 3 pt ht and unbolt the fixed position of the shoes, and then push the shoes up to the maximum height (right up against the tiller) and then rebolt them in. With the shoes up against the tiller, the tiller will sit as low as possible in the ground.

Even so, on my tiller, one pass often is not enough to reach the maximum tiller depth for the skid shoe setting. I often have to make 2 or 3 passes of the same ground in order to 'reach' down to where the float pan on the back of the tiller is amost parallel to the ground.

 

[LBrown59]

Lee, some of the BX's don't allow the 3pt hitch lower arms to go as low as they might, and that limits the depth that tillers, etc. can work to.

I thought of that so backed the tiller out over a ditch and lowered it.
The bottom of the tines went a good 8 to 12 inches down into the ditch.

Hay a guy could use a tiller and the Fel to dig a ditch.

 

[jenkinsph]

My prior tiller that I had was a Howard Rotovator with 4 tines would till about 4 inches deep but the new 673 has a larger diameter 6 tine setup and tills about twice as deep.
Some of the larger ag tillers can get about 12 inches deep but require a large tractor to function, and a fat wallet to purchase.

I am happy with 7 to 8 inches though.


Steve

 

[Sackett2]

Make sure the tiller is level or even leaning a bit forward. I motice a big difference on my KK tiller if the top link is too long