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Where do you guys suggest getting a rear tine tiller for the garden? Can't be spending a lot. :waiting:
Like to get one for pulling behind my riding mower but used ones seem hard to find or I'm not searching the right name.
CertInsaneC5
03-10-2012, 9:47am
How big of a garden?
Case of beer
6 shovels
6 messicans
Done.
How big of a garden?
http://i41.tinypic.com/162ob6.jpg
Just go rent one.
They might deliver too. :seasix:
JRD77VET
03-10-2012, 8:02pm
Maybe somebody advertises in the local "penny pincher" paper for rototilling.
I do a couple neighbor's gardens with my set up on my Cub Cadet
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v78/JRD77VET/house/cub%20cadet/action/DCP_5608.jpg
:seeya: Jeff
Maybe somebody advertises in the local "penny pincher" paper for rototilling.
I do a couple neighbor's gardens with my set up on my Cub Cadet
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v78/JRD77VET/house/cub%20cadet/action/DCP_5608.jpg
:seeya: Jeff
My dad had that setup but I guess that woman ended up with it. :issues:
JRD77VET
03-10-2012, 8:21pm
My dad had that setup but I guess that woman ended up with it. :issues:
You could post on a couple cub cadets sites to see if anyone is interesting in tilling your garden
Cub Cadet Collectors dot com • Index page (http://www.cubcadetcollectors.com/forum/)
www.onlycubcadets.com (http://www.onlycubcadets.com)
Torqaholic
03-10-2012, 11:18pm
Good luck. I'd love to get one for my garden tractor. It's an old steel framed model that I rebuilt. It's a tank with steel frame and hydraulic controls for attachments. Have searched and found a tiller or two that's made for it but not in this state... And I'm not traveling to Montana to pick one up.
This is the only picture I can find of that-
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v169/Venomenon/Garden/engine.jpg
Eventually I will score a tiller attachment but until that happens I purchased a Troy-Built Super-Bronco. Been rocking that for several seasons now and it has done very well.
http://www.mppcanada.com/ProductImages/1687.jpg
Nice sized garden you have there :hurray:
Anyone want to come pull the weeds out of my strawberries? :leaving:
Using a hoe to till with sucks. I gave up after about 20' x 1'. :leaving:
Torqaholic
03-11-2012, 4:32pm
I weed strawberries by hand sitting on a bucket because I want to transplant the daughters. Gardening is definately not for sissies :rofl:
BuckyThreadkiller
03-11-2012, 4:32pm
I borrowed a Mantis from my FIL. It wasn't any harder to handle than a weed eater. Only issue was that tall vegetation tends to wrap around the tines and axel.
I weed strawberries by hand sitting on a bucket because I want to transplant the daughters. Gardening is definately not for sissies :rofl:
It was actually around my strawberries that I did. :lol:
The weeds and grass didn't stop growing over winter but the berries did! :issues:
I borrowed a Mantis from my FIL. It wasn't any harder to handle than a weed eater. Only issue was that tall vegetation tends to wrap around the tines and axel.
Is that the little front tine one? :waiting:
Torqaholic
03-11-2012, 4:48pm
Oh, you were probably talking about 2 different things. Sorry, haven't had my coffee yet. Been working on the vette.
IMO a shovel works better for simple cultivation (breaking up and turning over the soil). Just pop it in the ground with your foot about half way (6 inches or so) and turn it over. Sounds like a lot of work but it goes pretty fast and is a lot less effort than a hoe for that. I only use a hoe down to a depth of about an inch at the most when weeding between rows (thus my confusion).
Torqaholic
03-11-2012, 4:56pm
I borrowed a Mantis from my FIL. It wasn't any harder to handle than a weed eater. Only issue was that tall vegetation tends to wrap around the tines and axel.
Doubt they make a tiller which doesn't do that. I let my garden sit fallow one year... Tilling the next year was a nightmare. I didn't go far before breaking out the shovel to turn over the largest clumps of vegetation before resuming the till.
Oh, you were probably talking about 2 different things. Sorry, haven't had my coffee yet. Been working on the vette.
IMO a shovel works better for simple cultivation (breaking up and turning over the soil). Just pop it in the ground with your foot about half way (6 inches or so) and turn it over. Sounds like a lot of work but it goes pretty fast and is a lot less effort than a hoe for that. I only use a hoe down to a depth of about an inch at the most when weeding between rows (thus my confusion).
I went lower than the mole tunnels. :leaving:
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