Tiller Tiller conversion - Forward rotation to Reverse Rotation Complete!!

[WilliamBos]

Hey Don,

The clay here is just like concrete when dry, after the conversion, the finished bed was a drastic improvement, no more clumps.

Works great.

 

[Don87]

I have hard ground with lot's of clay, and I too found that in my ground the reverse rotation was better.

I couldn't compare 'apples to apples' as the 30" reverse rotation tiller was on the old Cub Cadet 2160, and the new 48" 'forward rotation is on the Massey. Although I could plant after one pass with the reverse rotation, and it takes two passes with the forward rotation.

 

[dougtrr2]

Just curious, how did you determine the exact location of the gear so the meshing would be correct? I would think it would be critical to prevent excessive wear.

Take Care,
Doug in SW IA

 

[WilliamBos]

Just curious, how did you determine the exact location of the gear so the meshing would be correct? I would think it would be critical to prevent excessive wear.

Take Care,
Doug in SW IA

The housing is a perfect square, it was machined out by Kubota to make selling either reverse or forward rotation tillers as low cost as possible.

We only needed a new bearing pressed on. Was that simple.