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JD790

06-10-2001 18:49:01




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I am looking into buying a tiller for some part time commercial use and have looked at Befco, Bushog, landpride and King Kutter.
I have a diesel 30hp/25 pto.

Any comments or suggestions concerning this product or use of these tillers would be appreciated.




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Robert in W. Mi.

06-11-2001 17:39:12




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 Re: CommercialTillers in reply to JD790, 06-10-2001 18:49:01  
I do a lot of custom Rotavateing, and for my $$ there is only Howard. It's the only one i've seen that can take the constant abuse of commercial use. I've hit everything you can think of while Rotavateing, and if it's not a very HD unit, you will bend or break it!!! My brother bought a Bush hog tiller, and bent it up fairly fast. You can pay more now, or have lost time, and buy parts later!!! Why would some one buy a commercial tiller they have to baby????? Robert

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Russ

06-11-2001 09:09:28




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 Re: CommercialTillers in reply to JD790, 06-10-2001 18:49:01  
JD, I looked at a lot of tillers before I bought mine and I would agree that the Howard is the standard for true commercial tillers, You have to decide if the amount of use it will see justifies this expense though. I ended up buying a 5' King Kutter which works very well in the very rocky soil around here and you can get a brand new one on sale for $1000. I drive mine with a Ford 1720, 23 pto hp I believe, the key is that you have to be able to gear the tractor down(ground speed) when necessary, and I don`t normally run mine at full pto speed( works better with all the rocks). Russ

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bbott

06-10-2001 19:50:08




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 Re: CommercialTillers in reply to JD790, 06-10-2001 18:49:01  
Been very happy with my Howard Rotovator.. very heavily built... interchangable gearsets for different tine speeds. As far as I can tell, pretty much the standard for commercial tillers.

What size were you thinking about ? Seems like 4' would be as much as you could handle... and that might be a bit on the high end.

I assume you're looking at doing custom garden and landscape work ?



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JD790

06-10-2001 20:13:25




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 Re: Re: CommercialTillers in reply to bbott, 06-10-2001 19:50:08  
4 foot is about all I would need. An offset would be good. I am looking into clearing rural homes of brush, and other fuels for wildfire.
In other words trying to make official DNR fire prevention rings around homes. Tilling and planting grass around ones house seems to save homes. A small plow and or box scraper may come in handy. I have seen a bunch of old Jeeps with 1 bottom plows behind them for digging fire lines. But I have no intention of being around when the fire breaks out.

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bbott

06-11-2001 12:14:17




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 Re: Re: Re: CommercialTillers in reply to JD790, 06-10-2001 20:13:25  
Most of the tillers should have offset built into them so you could get a 'clean till' behind the tractor on one side.

I don't know what your terrain/soil etc is like, but it might be a hard life for a tiller due to rocks, pipes, other garbage likely to be lying around.

A box blade with rippers might be an idea... Make a pass with it before you till.



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