Tiller Tillers

[OkieG]

<font color="blue"> My ground here in Missouri is hard and full of rocks </font>

If your garden soil is hard and full of rocks, you may want to turn it up with a middlebuster and do a landscape rake treatment before running the tiller through.
The rocks in my garden are few and small, but they make a racket in the tiller.

OkieG

 

[Ozarker]

I'm in the Ozarks................Missouri....some call it Mizery. I'm guessing it got that name from early settlers tryin to turn garden soil with shovels.

Thanks for the links.

 

[Ozarker]

I have been doing it for the past few years with a rear tine walk behind tiller. It gets the job done but I'm getting old and want to sit on the tractor and let it do all the work now.

My neighbor hired a guy to till his garden area last week and the guy used a JD with a tiller. When my wife saw how good a job it did, she told me that I ought to get one. It isn't often that my wife encourages me to get an implement so I better take advantage of her temporary insanity.

 

[Villengineer]

I recently bought a yanmar 1303 from a local importer. It looks really good for a used implement and seems to work great. It was $600. Unfortunately, I don't think he'll ship just a tiller. Anyway, there has been a guy from Missouri selling various size/condition grey tillers on e-bay recently. If you're close enough definitely go look at them if you can b/c I know that when I bought mine the condition of the tillers varied quite a bit, even when they were the same $.

 

[KiotiJohn]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I'm in the Ozarks................Missouri....some call it Mizery. I'm guessing it got that name from early settlers tryin to turn garden soil with shovels.)</font> I like Missouri from the little I've seen of it. Years ago in St. Louis on a train trip, and then I had friends in the boot, Dexter and Oran. The people I encountered were very nice. Hope you find a tiller you like. John

 

[Ozarker]

I have learned to like it. I am originally from Kansas (Kansas City) and my wife was an Iowa farm girl. I retired from the Army at Ft Leonard Wood and we both didn't want to move back to flat lands. So we bought a place and stayed here.

I am new to tractors but I guess you can teach an old city boy new tricks. I was paying guys to maintain my lane and plow snow when I decided that it would be better if I just bought some equipment and do it myself. You should have seen the mess I made out of my driveway the first time I tried to grade it.

I think I'm getting the hang of it now and spent the past weekend backfilling the eroded ditches, recutting the crown and tapering the lawn back to where the ditch use to be. All that with a clutch that really needs to be replaced.........my next project.

 

[Ozarker]

I saw that guy's ad on e-bay and looked up his location. He's about 100 miles south of me right on the Arkansas border. I'll keep watching to see if he offers a tiller but it seems that he is offering package deals with tractor, tiller and trailer.

 

[KiotiJohn]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I'll keep watching to see if he offers a tiller but it seems that he is offering package deals with tractor, tiller and trailer. )</font>
That may be what it seems he's offering, but if he has tillers, he wants to sell them!
I liked Kansas City when I was there many years ago for just a few days. I also visited Levenworth and I thought that was a pretty little town. Stayed in a quaint hotel called the Cody. I think it's gone now, but I don't know. There's something to be said for any place one lives, huh? John