yanmar tiller

[Eddie]

Probably could, but I won't.

Well excuse us for wanting to see that

 

[normde2001]

Well excuse us for wanting to see that

This is the first I knew that you wanted to see one, Eddie. If I happen to run across 1 again, I will post it. They were on the old "Sanko" site, but gone now. How about some water buffaloes tilling under water, if I see them again?

 

[California]

I downloaded this picture from the Yanmar-Japan corporate website, International section.

I think their point is that flooded rice paddies are one of the working environments their tractors are designed for.

 

[normde2001]

I downloaded this picture from the Yanmar-Japan corporate website, International section.

I think their point is that flooded rice paddies are one of the working environments their tractors are designed for.

View attachment 62970

Thanks California, that's one of them. I rest my case.

 

[Cord]

I have a 1301 yanmar tiller , I run it at 540 and it dose good. I have never ran it any faster than that.

Give it a try. The tiller puts the most beautiful fluff in the soil. It brings all the fine soil to the top and totally buries the trash. I only do this after I've made a couple of passes at 540. On each pass I till a bit deeper until the tiller is reaching all the way down.

 

[runningbird]

how deep do you till, if I go more than 6" the angle on the u-joint gets too steep and comes off. I'm just wondering if I've got the right set up.

 

[LMTC]

Anything more than 2-3" is counterproductive for gardens. If the hardpan below that really needs to be broken up, better to drag a subsoiler around and create some channels. Or run a chisel plow over the area if possible, or even disc a couple of times, but not to the point of fine silt. Tilling too deep brings up inert weed seeds to a level where they can germinate, allows the ground to pack more firmly when rained upon, creates greater potential for topsoil runoff, and a few other things.

 

[Mickey_Fx]

Must be my eyes but I don't see a tiller on that tractor in the water. Come on guys, give it some thought, there is no need to till in a mud puddle. Why would Yanmar design and build all the auto controls, i.e. UFO control, for their tillers to maintain perfect depth control if being tilled in the mud. Bet some of you think cranberries are also grown in the water like rice.

Personally I till at least 6" deep. Have been doing so for more than 30 yrs. Ground conditions will have a big factor on ground prep. You do have the option of varying speed of the tiller and tractor to control how fine or course the soil is worked. Soil conditions vary greatly based on locale. On my tractor/tiller setup the angle of the PTO shaft isn't very steep at 6" depth but then I also have an adequately long PTO shaft.

 

[MarkStewart]

Here's another mud tilling pic. Not with a yanmar but still tilling mud for a rice farm.
07 tilling close up.jpg photo - n photos at pbase.com
06 tilling the new way.jpg photo - n photos at pbase.com

Actually I'm not sure if that's a tiller. It looks like he's tilling up something there anyways.

 

[California]

I've seen farming identical to the second photo, in rural Hawaii.

From a distance it looked like an ordinary US tiller was being used - possibly with some extra width.