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What type and make of tiller do you guys like ?

Dad bought this American made TroyBilt in the late 80s used for $150. 10 years ago I replaced the 5hp Briggs with one off a slightly used wood chipper I picked up for $75. Just got it running recently. Dad only used it one time since the motor change before Alzheimer’s got him.
 

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Walk behinds will beat the snot out of you in the red clay. I have my FILs old one in my shed, starts on the first pull but man it is a chore to use.
 
The trick behind the large walk-behinds on clay is to lightly weight the handlebars with your palms as you guide it down the row. If the tines jolt you forward, you're pushing down too hard. It just takes multiple passes on hard clay. Keeping the tines sharp is key too.
 
cheveslakr said:
The trick behind the large walk-behinds on clay is to lightly weight the handlebars with your palms as you guide it down the row. If the tines jolt you forward, you're pushing down too hard. It just takes multiple passes on hard clay. Keeping the tines sharp is key too.
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My TroyBilt does pretty good in the clay, which is all we have. Night to have forward and reverse too.
 
I was going to buy a walk behind rear tine tiller, but then I bought my new tractor and then bought the 5' PTO tiller.... no issues and the tractor does all the work. Wouldn't even consider buying a walk behind one now.

I can till Lisa's garden in under 5 minutes, no sweat, no fuss.
 
I have clay and if I wanted a garden , I would work lots of leaves into the soil.
Plenty of leaves around here. Seems it would take 3 years of this before ever starting the garden ?
 
cheveslakr said:
The trick behind the large walk-behinds on clay is to lightly weight the handlebars with your palms as you guide it down the row. If the tines jolt you forward, you're pushing down too hard. It just takes multiple passes on hard clay. Keeping the tines sharp is key too.
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Now you tell, where was this info in 1975 when dad had me behind one of these, it drug my ass while I was fighting it 😆
 
Nashville Cat said:
I have clay and if I wanted a garden , I would work lots of leaves into the soil.
Plenty of leaves around here. Seems it would take 3 years of this before ever starting the garden ?
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Our lower garden was solid red clay, I put about 500 lbs of 50/50 topsoil and compost and it was planted immediately and everything over produced Also put in 4 blueberry bushes, muscadine grapes, Elderberry trees and a persimmon tree. It’s all within a fence perimeter around Rip’s 2 art studio buildings I put up for her.
 
Nashville Cat said:
I have clay and if I wanted a garden , I would work lots of leaves into the soil.
Plenty of leaves around here. Seems it would take 3 years of this before ever starting the garden ?
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If you want a garden and plan to till leaves in, you're looking at 3 to 5 years before it's worth planting in...... if you want to garden now, till in horse and cow shit.... that will amend the clay and render it damn near perfect for planting just about anything.
 
I've been amending my garden soil for 40 years & it's just about there. Used to pile on all the leaves on about 1/4 of the garden in the fall & It took just about the whole next summer to get them broken down.
Now everything goes into a compost pile in the fall & it's usable to put on the garden the next year. Since doing it like that I can't hardly believe the difference.
 
kmakar said:
I was going to buy a walk behind rear tine tiller, but then I bought my new tractor and then bought the 5' PTO tiller.... no issues and the tractor does all the work. Wouldn't even consider buying a walk behind one now.

I can till Lisa's garden in under 5 minutes, no sweat, no fuss.
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Takes longer for me to hook up the PTO tiller than it does to till the garden.
 
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