Tiller Tiller Question. 4' or 5' Tiller ?

[Sawyer Rob]

Well, if you are going to take it, then take it...come a running, we will see what it does in one of my food plots... Be prepared to be embarrassed!

SR

 

[jeff9366]

I'm only tilling 2-3 acres.

My soil has clay mixed with good soil and was planted last year so hopefully soft enough to just till it up.

If you have recommendations on tillers please let me know.

I was looking at King Kutter and Landpride..They seem to get good reviews.

I found a used KK almost new cond..that might be worth going after, but open to other ideas..

The OP is a newbie, seeking a new or used roto-tiller for light duty conditions over a small area.

The OP has recently worked soil. The OP is considering middle-of-the-road King Kutter and Land Pride roto-tillers.

The OP only wants to roto-till two to three acres.

Commercial duty Howard brand has an fine reputation among those do much tilling work, especially commercial tilling.

Using the OP's parameters his 27-horsepower/PTO will power a 60" or 72" Land Pride or King Kutter roto-tiller without issue, although perhaps not a rare, heavy Howard.

The post on Howard roto-tillers is fine but not germane to the OP's situation.

Besides, it seems OP has a Disc Harrow already. (?)

 

[Uncle Lar]

I've got the kk60in. Its offset so covers one tire track on my CK25HST. On first time claymixed ground it took a shallow pass, then a deeper pass. Works great for me.

 

[TheMan419]

The OP is a newbie, seeking a new or used roto-tiller for light duty conditions over a small area.

The OP has worked soil. The OP is considering middle-of-the-road King Kutter and Land Pride roto-tillers.

The OP only wants to roto-till two to three acres.

Commercial duty Howard brand has an fine reputation among those do much tilling work, especially commercial tilling.

Using the OP's parameters his 27-horsepower/PTO will power a 60" or 72" Land Pride or King Kutter roto-tiller without issue, although perhaps not a rare, heavy Howard.

The post on Howard roto-tillers is fine but not germane to the OP's situation.

Besides, it seems OP has a Disc Harrow already. (?)

Amen. There is a huge difference between those of us doing jobs on our personal property and those doing it commercially.

I filled 10 acres of clay soil on my 24 hp tractor w a new tsc brand 5 foot tiller. Lots of people here said it would take forever, tractor would over heat etc.

Well it took 2-3 days. Not one time did temp gauge get over where it is when I Bush hog.

Would I want that set up to till for a living? No. But it fit my budget and was cheaper than hiring it out even w the equipment purchase.

As to the op you are on the right track.

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

Well, if you are going to take it, then take it...come a running, we will see what it does in one of my food plots... Be prepared to be embarrassed!

SR

Bring it up here. I have a pasture that hasn't had the ground broken on it since at least the 1940's. If it's going to be a test, let it be a test. I have no idea how far away you are from me, but unlike you, I put my location in my profile. I'm smack dab in the center of ND. I have no idea where "upper midwest" is, but I'm not hiding.

I don't normally feed the trolls. Chalk it up to one too many single malt scotch's last evening after supper. Now, I'm on my way out of town for 2 days, but I'll be back late Fri night, or Sat morning. So if I don't respond to your next "cute" reply, don't get your feels hurt that I'm ignoring you. I'll be happy to PM you my address if you want to bring that thing by for a spin. But I'm a working man, 70-ish hrs a week normally. So I don't get much time to "play" like some of you interweb ninja warriors (aka trolls). And sometimes I get called out of town on short notice (like now, hospital in town 3 hrs away has emergency equip that went down, so off I go).

So, invitation stands. Bring it by. You're the one with all the free time.

 

[MESSMAKER]

Well, if you are going to take it, then take it...come a running, we will see what it does in one of my food plots... Be prepared to be embarrassed!

SR

I put my money on the tiller.

 

[skipperbrown]

I have a 4' tiller and a 5' wide tractor. The tiller, a King Kutter, is offset and only one tire is not covered. When I am done tilling, there is only one tire track remaining. If you are going to be cultivating 2 acres or more often, I'd recommend a disk over a tiller. It will work the ground much faster and the cost is about the same. We plant about 20 ac in food plots every year and can disk the entire thing in a day, easy. Using a tiller would take a week. You can pull a tiller at about 1 to 2 mph if that fast. A disk can run as fast as HP and roughness allows, in our case, about 5 to 6 mph.

 

[newbury]

I've a 5 foot KK tiller. At my Virginia lot I've mostly Marine clay that is the consistency approaching wet shale. My M4700 with loaded rears had difficulty pulling the tiller for a full depth pass, I had to make two passes. In areas where the soil had more loam it was no problem.

Local conditions can be very important.

 

[cphilip]

Hmmm... my 25 runs a 60" without any problem....And its PTO is just barely over 20HP. Yea it takes two or three passes in virgin clay grassy pasture but thats kind of expected. My 60Hp tractor also took a few passes in that condition.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I'm smack dab in the center of ND. I have no idea where "upper midwest" is, but I'm not hiding.

I don't normally feed the trolls. Chalk it up to one too many single malt scotch's last evening after supper.

So, invitation stands. Bring it by. You're the one with all the free time.

No troll here, I'm coming up on two thousand acres of custom ground tilled, most of it through my 6' tiller, (I have three Howards) so I know what works and what doesn't.

Nope, if you want to be embarrassed, pick a time this spring, pm me and I'll give you my address. I'm probably close to a thousand miles away and I don't need to haul my equipment over there when I already know what will happen.

A 25 or 30 pto hp compact tractor just isn't going to handle a 6' Howard, tilling like I do on every custom job I go to...

SR