Woods reverse rotation tillers --

[civesnedfield]

Have you looked at Howse. Most of their tillers ca be set up either way.

Rotary Tillers : Howse Implement Company, Your source for tractor and farm equipment parts and supplies

 

[dqdave1]

IMHO; the reverse tillrs put too much pressure on CUT tractors; ( pto shafts, engine requirements)not worth the price difference if any, forward tillers do a nice job.

 

[bx23barry]

I wish I had gotten a reverse 6 blade tiller.

 

[bjcsc]

Have you looked at Howse. Most of their tillers ca be set up either way.

Rotary Tillers : Howse Implement Company, Your source for tractor and farm equipment parts and supplies

My tiller is their 70". I sometimes run it forward and sometimes run it reverse. It takes about 15 minutes to switch it over from one to the other. Reverse definitely produces a finer cut. The other things I like about it is that it's heavy, it can be offset to either side and it's gear driven. (and it came with a slip clutch)...

 

[hsvhobbit]

I've got a LandPride reverse rotation tiller. It definitely takes some power to run. It's capabile of leaving the soil almost as fine as dust but what's intereseting is that you can control how fine it leaves the ground by how fast you pull it. Go fast and it leaves walnut sized chunks, go slow and you get dust. Maybe that's true of all tractor tillers, I don't know.

I've been lucky so far, haven't jammed the tines with a rock yet, all the fist sized and larger rocks seem to get thrown up in front of the tiller and are carried along by the 'wave' of dirt. Small stuff is definitely buried as is the top layer of dirt/grass.

 

[InlineDieselFan]

I had this dilemma a while back on forward or reverse rotation. I came accross a good deal on a 6' Kuhn forward rotation tiller and bought it. Some of the things that I was told when making my decision were:

Time or money? The reverse does do a nicer job but since I am at a marginal on the power I need to make two passes anyway. If I go slow it will be total powder. I have some more time than money to do the two passes, the reverse tiller was about $1,500 more and I do not use the tiller that much.

If you are going to do many acres of tilling or as a side job I would consider the reverse tiller. Otherwise save some $$$ and spend a bit more time on the tractor.

Consider power, like I said earlier I am marginal on the power, for forward tines, so with a reverse tiller I may have to make two passes anyway.

Also consider the soil conditions, I have hard nasty clay, some have nice soft sandy loam and some have a gravel pit. YOUR soil conditions will be a big determination on how big to buy and which one to buy.

steve

 

[john_bud]

Forward rotation tillers do make for a fine paddlewheel action. I unfortunately went back to the "bog" and sank my little old ford .
Jay

So, does that mean you agree with my "don't go back or blub blub blub" comment?

jb

 

[jbrumberg]

So, does that mean you agree with my "don't go back or blub blub blub" comment?

jb

jb:

I most definitely agree. I still do not know what possessed me in the first place to go back into the bog. It was enough of , , and that I never repeated that mistake. It took a long time to get that mud off of the tractor and myself after I finally got out. I used everything I owned to pull the tractor out of there; I could not get my 4WD PU into the area due to the mud. I did use a lot of rocks (fulcrums), 4X4's, my come-a-long, and a 13 pound Danforth anchor to get me out. Jay

 

[john_bud]

The 2 things I hate the most tractoring are

1)the feeling in the pit of the stomach when the tractor sinks down in the mud, you look to the sides and the rear tires are totally slick balls of goo, you look to the front just as the mud closes over the top of the tires with a sick "glurpp!" and you realize the tractor is not going anywhere for a while.

2) having to ask for assistance to get out of #1!


Actually, to be honest #3 is tied with #2. It's hearing that unmistakable "CLACK!!" sound that an expensive internal part makes with its last dying effort before exploding in a nightmare of fiscal destruction.

 

[mries]

Have you looked at Howse. Most of their tillers ca be set up either way.

Rotary Tillers : Howse Implement Company, Your source for tractor and farm equipment parts and supplies

I went and checked their brochure. I like the option of forward or reverse tilling.

I do have a question, though: I notice that the Howse (like some others) use a "U"-Bolt to attach the PTO yoke to the tiller frame. I assume that allows the tiller to shift right or left for offset tilling.

Most of the high end mfgs. (and lower end, like King Kutter II) have the yoke welded to the frame. While you give up the ability to do offset tilling, it seems to me the welded yoke would make the whole unit stronger.

Any one have an opinion one way or another?