Tiller Vs Plow & Disk Harrow

[massey driver]

looking at your lack of funds so to speak.I made my own plow I bought a old single furrow horse plow[that used to have wooden handles] the handles etc where long gone and the plow was in pretty bad shape.Anyway picked up the plow for $5 at a auction sale and with a little cutting and welding for 3 pth pins and top link have a plow that works good for maybe $25 also made a 3pth hitch disc and 3pth cultivator as well all out of old farm impliments that can be bought cheaply at most farm auctions.The only catch is that you need to be handy with a welder and tape measure.Its just that easy [as Shell Bussey would say. Now the other thing if memory serves me correctly I belive there's a place called Buhler equipment located in Morden Manitoba Canada that manufactures and sells impliments for small tractors as well. I'll type in the address buhler.com Now I also have a 48" tiller that I use and the plow and disc and cultivator more or less are just stuff to play around with but the serious work is done with the tiller. As always Larry

 

[1972SprintConvertible]

Now I also have a 48" tiller that I use and the plow and disc and cultivator more or less are just stuff to play around with but the serious work is done with the tiller. As always Larry

Glad to see I'm not the only one that looks at it that way.

 

[66chevelle]

Thanks for all the comments..

With @ 1/2 acre cleared and almost ready for a vegetable in the spring, and more to follow (depending on how fast I can clear bush, remove stumps and rocks). I'm going to go strait to the tiller, although playing with a plow and disk would be fun. Now to wait until some sales pop up.


Thanks again.

 

[slowzuki]

You'll find the roots to be a problem for all field tools. Be prepared for some hard work over the next few years.

 

[butternut]

Just the other day, I broke close to a half acre of hayfield sod for a small stand of corn I want to grown next year. I used a Kuhn EL 62-180, which is a 60 inch, pretty heavy duty, gear-driven tiller. I was impressed. It's a little late in the year and the ground was quite moist. To boot, I have a heavy clay loam, and there was a good 6 inches of grass. I had the wheels set just a couple notches down from the highest (most shallow till) point, and the rear hood up quite a bit. I couldn't go very fast mind you, but it did a great job on just the first pass. The sod was completely chopped, and I had what seemed like a good 4 inches of reasonably fluffy ground. If it doesn't get too much wetter, I'll go out there in a week for a deeper 2nd pass before winter sets in. They say the depth range is 7 inches, but I bet it'll go considerably deeper than that when the soil is worked/softer. From my extremely limited experience, I'd say that a heavy duty tiller is certainly capable of doing the work of a plow and harrow, but only at a "hobby farm" scale. Also, I think it's true, you probably can't beat a tiller for creating a nice, perfectly smooth, fluffy seedbed.