Re: Rototiller HP

Posted by Texasmark1 on February 21, 2017 at 05:49:36 from (184.63.16.210):

In Reply to: Rototiller HP posted by Ferd on February 20, 2017 at 15:17:56:

I have Houston Black Clay. I recently bought a TSC 6' tiller (my first) and have used it a few times now. Tractor is a Ford 3000 somewhere around 35-40 engine hp. Tiller is a no brainer on power requirements. Where I had steel in the soil approximately a year ago, in 2 passes I had a planter ready, mulch bed running around 4" or so deep...buried a finger in it and then some but I may have been able to go deeper.

3 pt setting and skids on the implement control depth....forward speed just determines how long it takes to get to your desired depth with available soil conditions. I was primarily on the learning how it operates curve so I didn't pay that much attention to actual depth obtainable. On the clay that hadn't been touched in over 40 years, I ran over it twice with a Hay King Pasture Renovator, (coulter, deep soil ripper) and then twice with the roto tiller and achieved better depth with results planter ready also. Could have run a spike toothed harrow afterwards for a baby's hiney smooth surface but didn't.

The trick here is that ground speed needs to be slow to give it time to work and you can set the depth of penetration, another variable that you can select if using low hp tractors. This means that you don't need all that much hp to run it. The 6' weighs a little over 700# so assuming 5/6 of that for a 5 footer, you have no problem with a 30 hp tractor in my opinion with a 5'. If you get down to 25 hp, the frame may be so low that you can't lift it high enough when in the transport mode, but maybe not if you have proper ballast forward, like a FEL and maybe full of dirt. I have a 24 and it would require the 5' width to cover the tracks but I also have a 30 hp Ford so there is no reason to test the 24 if I chose not to use the 3000 tractor.

I now have a lot full of ground tillage implements that I thought I needed for soil prep. that are obsolete. These three implements, ripper, tiller, and harrow are all I need to go from actively growing vegetation to drilling......course this suits my application. Obviously what I said isn't true in everybody's application as all are different and have different tillage requirements.

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