I am thinking about getting a tiller to work with my YM1500D. I am guessing that it will only handle the 4' units. Are the YM units that are usually attached when they ship here quality units or should I look into another brand? Who is selling the YM units in the midwest?
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HayDR
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YM1500D 14-15 PTO HP you likely need to think about a 42" if you have any clay soil.
scrinch
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My 15 PTO-HP Yanmar F15D handles a 48" tiller just fine, but I don't think you would want to go much larger. Most of the tillers that come with the older gray market Yanmars are 2-point, so changing implements involves converting back and forth between 2-point and 3-point hitches. Some of the used Yanmar tillers are still in good shape, and others, as I found out, are not. If you buy used, find a reputable dealer who will only sell you the former.
Thanks.....What I was thinking about was trying to locate one of the original units that was made for the 1500......be it 42 or 48. I assume they are good units....easily maintained, repaired, etc.
I thought I read at one time that the containers of tractors shipped in had tractors and tillers in them. But now I was searching the net for dealers that sell the tractors and have found none that advertise the availability of those tillers. Maybe I was wrong.
I thought I read at one time that the containers of tractors shipped in had tractors and tillers in them. But now I was searching the net for dealers that sell the tractors and have found none that advertise the availability of those tillers. Maybe I was wrong.
OkieG
Veteran Member
<font color="blue"> I am guessing that it will only handle the 4' units....quality units or should I look into another brand? </font>
Just got a 5' KK tiller two weeks ago. The garden has alot of clay. The tiller was used after the ground was broken first with a middlebuster. The tiller worked great with my 19 hp at the PTO. No hint of tiller stress or strain. The clay chunks came out as fine, fluffy soil.
Don't know anything about YM, but you will get a variety of opinions on KK quality. I am pleased so far, especially that a 5 footer doesn't seem to be too much implement for my tractor. I don't think the 4 footer would have covered my tire tracks very well.
KK does make a 48" tiller. Saw 'em at the TSC, but didn't check price. Someone on another thread posted that they cost the same as the 60" model. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif ~$1000.
OkieG
Just got a 5' KK tiller two weeks ago. The garden has alot of clay. The tiller was used after the ground was broken first with a middlebuster. The tiller worked great with my 19 hp at the PTO. No hint of tiller stress or strain. The clay chunks came out as fine, fluffy soil.
Don't know anything about YM, but you will get a variety of opinions on KK quality. I am pleased so far, especially that a 5 footer doesn't seem to be too much implement for my tractor. I don't think the 4 footer would have covered my tire tracks very well.
KK does make a 48" tiller. Saw 'em at the TSC, but didn't check price. Someone on another thread posted that they cost the same as the 60" model. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif ~$1000.
OkieG
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I thought I read at one time that the containers of tractors shipped in had tractors and tillers in them. )</font> I spoke with several exporters of Japanese tractors when I was considering importing them to the US. Without exception, I was told that for every tractor, I would also be shipped a tiller. Also, one person told me that sometimes if I ordered 14 tractors, I would get 14 tillers and two would not be very good. I would get credit for the bums, but it would be a constant cycle of some going back and more bad ones coming in, but most were OK. I think most of those importers are simply selling the tillers separately, or using them to make package deals. In general, they go for between $400 and $600. Parts for them are not always easy to get but they were usually very good tillers used for tilling rice fields, so the punishment wasn't great either. Do a Google search for yanmar tillers, gray market tillers, Iseki tillers, Hinomoto tiller, Mitsubishi tiller, etc and see what you can come up with. John
Thanks......I've been told that a 5' unit is just a little too much for the little Yanmar with 15hp at the PTO. And a 4' will cover the tracks of mine. I have a 4' box blade and it is sized just right for it. Covers the track and just a little tire slippage when the box is full of material.
My ground here in Missouri is hard and full of rocks.
My ground here in Missouri is hard and full of rocks.
Since you don't have it in your profile, I don't know where you're located. Here's a place in Washington State that has remanufactured imported tillers. EFConstruction
Here's one in Texas: Tripleddd
Here's one in Dundee, NY: Zephyr Knoll
Another in Texas: Vina Tractor
Hope this helps, John
Here's one in Texas: Tripleddd
Here's one in Dundee, NY: Zephyr Knoll
Another in Texas: Vina Tractor
Hope this helps, John
OkieG
Veteran Member
<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
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
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.
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
Gold Member
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 $.
</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
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.
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.
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.
</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
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
