Re: plowing vs tiller

Posted by mark on June 11, 2008 at 13:07:54 from (172.132.38.76):

In Reply to: plowing vs tiller posted by Scotty- mn on June 11, 2008 at 12:06:13:

Scotty,

I've owned a tiller for 25 +years. Like everything else, they have their pluses and minuses.

If you going to break ground...forget a tiller. Hard or sod ground will beat you and the tiller to death.

If working up previously worked ground, a tiller is great. HOWEVER, a tiller will break the soil so fine, that if you have a high clay content, after a hard rain, the soil runs together like concrete.

When you make a seedbed with a tiller, the soil looks wonderful....but that isn't always the best. It also chops up every earth worm...which may or may not mean anything to you, but they are natures soil builders. For incorporating compost...leaves grass clippings, etc., a tiller is super.

If are blessed with loamy soil...a tiller by itself might be the way to go. But again, only after the earth is broken.

To me, a tiller is a valuable extra implement to have, but I would never be without a plow and disc harrow.

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