Tiller question

Egon · Mar 1, 2006

Sorry fellows. Seems I got a foot in the mouth before any thought process were enabled. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Ahh well - good for a chuckle! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Egon /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Spiffy · Mar 1, 2006

( "back-wards compatible". /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif )

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SnowRidge · Mar 1, 2006

...no self respecting 425 owner knows what a 3pt is... 

Careful..........some of us are part of multi tractor families. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Spiffy · Mar 1, 2006

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Also fitting that catagory, I can't even plead ignorance! Any other PT guys have a tractor with a 2pt (yes 2pt; no not the PT)?

Sorry, OK back to tillers; I might know more in a month, but haven't even cut soil with that yet.

J_J · Mar 1, 2006

All my implements are 3pt on my 1445. That's the way it was back then. It still works fine, but I have to work at hooking up more than you guys. It would cost a small fortune to convert over to QA.

What is a 2pt, and who has one? I need a picture of that.

DHS · Mar 1, 2006

HowlinHills,

My garden does not have rocks. However, I till my 165-foot beach a few times a year. I have a few self-inflicted rocks on my beach. Rocks about the size of my fist and larger occasionally stop the tiller. Usually, I can turn off the PTO raise the tiller and shake out the rock. Occasionally, I have to get off and manually rotate the tines to free the rock. The tiller is heavy duty and the rocks have not damaged it.

I use the stump grinder to trench 8 inches deep for ¾ sprinkler pipe and some control wiring. I changed the stump grinder rotation so I can trench driving forward. A big improvement. It works OK as a stump grinder if you are not doing it professionally and time is not money and you have lots of patients. Use it on a cool day because it heats the hydraulic oil rapidly.

Dale

Spiffy · Mar 1, 2006

2pt was way before the PT days. It was supposed to compete with the 3pt - only faster: back up, snap the implement in. The trade offs being that it had to lift at an angle and 3pt doesn't put torque on the arms; so as tractors and implements got larger, the 2pt got left behind.

As far as 3pt; I thought Egon was talking Cat1 like on a CUT, same as can be mounted [in place of the BH] on the back-end of a 24XX. Oh yeah, toss the old PT mounting system in the mix, now we can really have some fun! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

The picture is of a blade; the male arms tell the story better then the female.

 edit: added smilies; improved grammar

Spiffy · Mar 1, 2006

Here's a 3pt conversion (from 2pt) kit I saw on the internet. Pull the 3pt arms out of the female 2pt arms, loose the toplink and there's a 2pt.

I have the draw bar in the 2pt so don't have any 2pt implements.

ernemats · Mar 1, 2006

I have a 422 with a tiller and I also have fairly rocky ground. No real big stone just saucer size and smaller. I have used the tiller some but it gets tiresome having to unjamb rocks every few minutes lodged between the tines and the housing. Most of my rocks are just the right size to get jambed in there. It is not hard to get them out just turn the power takeoff switch off and usually they will fall out or just put down pressure on the tiller and back up. The tiller does an excellent job tilling without the rocks and it is very durable and heavy built. Would I buy it again probably not . I would just use a regular plow and disk which I have for my bigger tractor. Last year I had my tiller listed for sale on power trac site but I decided to just hang on to it for occasional use.

pah · Mar 2, 2006

My soil is also very rocky. If I had it to do over again I would not get the power-trac tiller. I think they should post on their website NOT FOR ROCKY SOIL.