Found a rototiller for the N.....what do you think

BEFCO has(or had)a 42" rototiller model in their lineup which has reversible drive sprockets. They have 3 models(standard, medium, & heavy duty)in each size. At the time of the article the heavy duty one had the reversible sprockets. Looking at the website today, it appears the T40 models all have that feature.

With the sprockets reversed the pto to tyne turn ratio is about 1.00 to 0.75. If you have a Sherman(or other)stepdown transmission to slow the tractor down, that would still give you a good speed on the tiller.

The article did not recommend going any wider than the 42" model, though, or likely overload the N. That width also required offsetting the tiller to one side so you cover one wheel track.

So, what do you think? Any of you guys have a BEFCO or tried one? Maybe other brands have the reversible sprockets too?

Jeff

Put the tiller on the N and put the N in neutral.
Park a truck with a winch on it in front of the N.
Use the winch cable to pull the tractor along
while the N drives the tiller. Sounds good to me.

I use a bottom plow on our garden every year.
Then go back with the Troybuilt tiller.
But I'm lousy at plowing so it is hard to till.
Someone modified this plow so it can't be set up right.
So I plow a row, then instead of putting the tires
in that furrow, I have to drive next to it.
Gives me a furrow and a hump, a furrow and a hump.
That gets hard to till with a walk behind tiller.

I was thinking I could plow the garden,
then use a tiller on it. After it's plowed it
might be broke up enough to use a tiller without a winch.

Our garden is barely big enough to get the 8N in it.
It's about 30 x 20 and it gets smaller every year.

Pooh Bear

Anyhow the chart says that at full throttle will get the pto to 545 rpm and the ground speed to 2.77 mph with the sherman in low and the 8N in 1st.

Isn't that too fast. I am still gonna use my front time 5 hp model on my garden that provides for two seniors lol.

It shouldn't be too hard to mount one of those to a 3-point tiller.

Then, you could idle along the tractor, taking advantage of it's lift, with the tiller operating at the correct speed all the time, with LIVE power.

Years ago, Cub Cadet and Sears, and I'm sure others, had the tillers for their garden tractors set up that way. Same thing, smaller scale!

I am not sure what you are asking "What hp engines do them destructive blankety-blanks have?"... do you mean the self-powered Sears or Cub tillers?

• Cub

You could power a 5 foot tiller with a small block V-8 and say "*MY* N pulls a tiller just fine...what's the problem..."

Satisfy yourself, what does it matter what the group thinks?? duey

On top of this most tillers further step down rpm thru their own gearbox, sprockets, etc.

What got my attention in this article is how this model of rototiller will allow you to step up the tyne rpm(by reversing the spockets). In other words you can have a fast tiller rpm even when you have a relatively low pto rpm.

Jeff

(I get a free one to try out if I volunteer to do that, right? LOL)

Dawn, who would probably drive it right through a fence or something...