YM1700 run a 5' tiller briefly?

[284 International]

Your neighbor will probably appreciate you not pestering him; if he sees you got the garden tilled in spite of him, at the end of the season he may be willing to come till it under for you, or loan it to you next time. If nothing else, you'll REALLY appreciate the tractor based tiller when you use one!:laughing:

Before I found a PTO tiller, I used a Craftsman garden tractor tiller that had its own engine on it. It actually worked surprisingly well. You may keep an eye out for one of those. With some bushings and a clevis, I easily adapted mine to Category I three point specifications. I liked it because I could offset the thing to one side to get close to trees or other low-hanging obstacles, while keeping the tractor where I wouldn't get smacked in the face by branches.

DeepNdirt summarized some of my concerns with loaning or borrowing stuff. I let a friend take a dirtbike out for the weekend, and the engine seized. People I trust said he wasn't doing anything wrong, and the money he gave didn't cover the repair costs. It's not really his fault, yet if he hadn't taken it out, he wouldn't have been on it when it broke, and there wouldn't be any confusion over who was financially responsible.

Edited to add: It seems like there's a built-in advertising program that links the term "garden t ractor" (space intentional) to the Cub Cadet website. I wasn't trying to link to anything, nor, I suspect, was deepNdirt with his "garden t ractor" noun.

 

[Car Doc]

It is hard to justify a large purchase like a new tiller and the bigger the tractor the bigger the tiller and bigger money but it sure is nice to have around! :thumbsup:

 

[Ginormous]

Yes, I followed the garden t ractor link...

I'm also of the mind that I should return what I borrow in at least as good condition as when I got it; full gas tank in a car, new chain on a chainsaw, oil change etc.