Tdog
Platinum Member
Back in February I posted about using a [very used] Yanmar tiller that I had purchased the week before. I was 'playing' in the pasture, trying to break up the uneven topsoil so that I could use the boxblade to make it smoother. The slipclutch began to smoke noticeably. I was afraid I'd done her in. I can safely report that operator error was in full swing that day. I was trying to move too fast over the prerviously unbroken sod.
Several TBN'ers replied that maybe nothing happened except the slipclutch slipped, as it was supposed to - - & that perhaps it was still functional.
Well, I finally got back to trying the tiller again. I first used in in my vegetable garden area & it did fine. So, I worked up courage to try the pasture again. This time I took it dead slow, and at a slow rpm. It took forever to make a pass, but it busted up the sod pretty well. I made overlapping passes one direction, & then tilled at right angles for my next passes. Towards the end, I was able to move at a much faster clip. I worked it for a little over an hour and the slipclutch was cool to the touch when I finished. And, by that time the soil was pretty much fluf.
So thanks to those of you who advised me that the slipclutch was probably OK.
Now I get to challenge myself to boxblade the area smooth.
Several TBN'ers replied that maybe nothing happened except the slipclutch slipped, as it was supposed to - - & that perhaps it was still functional.
Well, I finally got back to trying the tiller again. I first used in in my vegetable garden area & it did fine. So, I worked up courage to try the pasture again. This time I took it dead slow, and at a slow rpm. It took forever to make a pass, but it busted up the sod pretty well. I made overlapping passes one direction, & then tilled at right angles for my next passes. Towards the end, I was able to move at a much faster clip. I worked it for a little over an hour and the slipclutch was cool to the touch when I finished. And, by that time the soil was pretty much fluf.
So thanks to those of you who advised me that the slipclutch was probably OK.
Now I get to challenge myself to boxblade the area smooth.
