Tiller Challenge; Compact Tractor & King Kutter Tiller; Hard Clay or Top Soil? Pool Removed 

Tim, another great video. I love your ability to interact and relate with people. You truly are a good person. Please keep it up as i always enjoy your videos. Thanks!

Good job Tim ! Thank you!! That jacket is a nice one my friend! Wear it and enjoy because there's not many of them left ! Be safe family and God bless you all !!!! Eddy

Awesome job! My neighbor had a similar situation and high clay content, he decided on Sod... The company came in, sprayed some fertilizer down, leveled and prepped the surface and rolled out the sod. After a few hours he had one of the best looking lawns on the block. Five years later it still looks amazing. Thanks for sharing!

That King Kutter doesn't back away from anything! You put it through its paces in this and other videos and it really works up the soil very well. Nice job! Keep the videos coming.

Johnny does it again! Nice work!

Been watching ya for a while now Tim. Love the videos. Keep it up! I picked up the same tiller as you did. King Cuter. Cant wait till this weather breaks to try it out.

Nice Tim nice. Always love watching. Been walking around the house and garage humming TTWT tune. Addicting (smile).

Can't play with a Corvette in the winter, whereas Johnny's a year round play toy 😀

Enjoyed the video Tim & Katriel. I especially love liked your jacket Tim. Lol y'all take care and God bless.

Perfect video for today. We finally got a nice day today and your video makes me want to get my garden tilled. 😀

Nice job Tim! Your JD 1025 is the perfect size for getting up close to those buildings.

Awesome video! That tractor and rototill did a great job. I want one so bad.

I got a bad load of that stuff dumped on me on the last of six trips, the rest was good. The stuff set up after a few months like concrete. Nothing ever grew in it. Finally got the last of it out and never bought another load from that outfit. Very nice people. I have a lot of respect for crane operators, I'm a retired ironworker and many times your life depends on a good operator. Best of luck Steve.

Good stuff enjoyed that!!

Wonderful video Tim! It's nice to see your daughter back again! That man seems a lovely gentlemen, hard-working but laid back! I was wondering Tim, do you do commission labor or do you just help out friends with Johnny? I've noticed you doing work for several different people and was curious how you came about the jobs.

Great video Tim and happy to see you Katriel love the shoes ! LOL boy that looks like our clay hill and it wont grow grass !! have a great weekend and take care God bless !! Kioti Curt :-)

Throwback Wednesday. Thanks youtube for suggesting this.

Great video Tim and Katriel, hope to see the yard this summer if you get by his place again. Did Steve put down any seed in the fall to keep the yard from going to muck.

Great video Tim! I am actually looking at getting a King Kutter XB tiller for my 1025R to flatten out and reseed 1acre of my yard, but I just got over 1ft of snow in the last 12 hours thanks to New York weather, guess I still have a while until spring

Nice job! We have ridiculously hard rocky ground here in Newfoundland grass grows on it so he should be fine

On Today's Tiller Time with Tim.... Johnny turns clay into confetti.

As usual a great video from Tim.😀😀

Your making me want a tiller. I'd be very surprised if grass grows. You will have to check back next summer and give us an update. Keep up the great videos

Here in southern Indiana our soil gets rock hard. For garden preparation I have to use a plow before I can use my tiller

Great vid Tim this project for Johnny was a little hard but he got it done

Hi Tim, got the same dirt: Bought a small sub soiler 6 to 8" deep. I have 5' 800 lb. Land Pride reverse tiller, it bounces just not as as high as yours.

Tim your jacket tho!😱😍

That tiller really does have a fast rotation. Sure made a difference. I liked the new like comment subscribe thing at the end. Little suggestion, slow it down a little more in editing. Great job Katreal with with the film work.

Great video. That looked like a fun project. Most folks our age go for the sports cars, motorcycles or fancy boats for pleasure. I'm always glad to see that I am not the only fellow out there whose midlife crisis resulted in tractors. As I have said before, my biggest fear is that after I am gone, my wife will sell my tractors for what I told her that I paid for them.

It doesn't apply to this video necessarily but I found this wet year that if I rototilled my rutted up lawn that if I set the rototiller shallow, it cut up the grass roots. A thick new lawn came in within the next month with no reseeding. I did it in late August and September rains got a new lawn going. I was prepared to reseed the following spring but didn't need to.

Great job once.again Sir

good job jhonns had work it more tooys god bless you &all

good vid! you can take some of the slack out of the top hook on the quick hitch with some shim stock. you can get it in a roll of stainless steel or brass or even Mylar and cut it to strips, line the hook with the strips until the hook is tight.

I smelled it but it smelled more like an led screen than top soil to me.

Haha i liked that comment “ this is my young blonde” gave me a good laugh!!

I agree that stuff won't grow grass that stuff looks like the red clay material they use in baseball fields

Im fixing to do that to my whole yard. I went and bought a tractor, tiller and box blade for the job. Im hoping I can get some yards or gardens to till up just to give me something to do..

I'm going to go through my tiller this year. Haven't done it since I got it back in '03. I'm going to change the gear oil and make a new breather for it. After I get it done and our garden tilled you want to buy it so you can have a heavier tiller? I just need enough out of it to buy another one that is iMatch compatible. :-) Now that I have a welder maybe I can make mine fit an iMatch. Soon as I figure out how to weld! :)

I want to know if the soil allowed for grass growth.......

Looks like another job where a larger tractor would have been an issue. Is there any way you could rig up some suitcase weights to the tiller for those rare occasions when you run into super hard soil?

your making my decision on what to buy very hard, try to figure out if I want a sub compact or a compact tractor. The work you do with it is amazing. what part of Southern Illinois was you raised, I live in Eldorado Illinois.

Cant wait to get mowing again! Until then i'll watch your interesting video's ;)

So I grabbed the Habor Frieght quick hitch model. So far it does fit my few attachments. Where do you recommend getting the bushing adapters from?

Tim, watching that tiller jump, it looks like you either don't have or have a bushing on that top pin that's too small. Get some large washers for the sides of the bushing too. Makes a world of difference. I believe I got all of mine at Tractor Supply. Unfortunately, you may have to go top several stores because they always seem to be out of stock on these types of items. I was using 1" bushings but found that they really needed one slightly larger, 1-1/8" or 1-1/4" can't remember.

Good video tim

Tim good vedio looks like fun but we don't need anything tiller lived here for over 50 years good job God Bless PaK

usually best to rip it with ripping tines or just scarfiers. then run the tiller through it.

that soil will do fine growing grass just got to keep it wet enough, looks awfully dry

Local 77 laborer here. Hi brother

I sell unfiltered topsoil, you will find some roots in it and even a few rocks about the size of a golf ball but its the real deal. A lot of people that sale dirt as topsoil they screen it and add sand to it in hopes to keep it from packing giving the homeowner the look and feel of topsoil. Bad thing about adding the sand is now the dirt/sand will not hold water. Kind of goes like this Topsoil, dirt, fill dirt.

Been thinking about tilling part of my yard and seeding it this year. But my tiller is not a 3 point it mounts to my Mitsubishi D1500 diesel compact tractor only. And that tractor has not been started since I got my Johnny almost 4 years ago. And has not had fuel added to it for almost 10 years. Yes that's right the fuel economy on this Mitsubishi is actually that good. I bought it 10 years ago and filled the tank it's still got almost a half a tank on a 5 gallon tank. And I have put almost 50 hours on it. Wish my Johnny can do that.

Good job Tim, if Steve doesn’t live to far go back in a month and do a follow up video to show the viewers if the grass is growing. Thanks

Tim, did your tines loosen up at all? I've tilled some compacted ground and some of my tines were loose by the end of the tilling.

I bought my Woods Tiller from my neighbor and he told me not to turn the pto off in between rows. He said it wears the clutch out. What do you think about that, doesn't sound right to me.

Nice job what is the model number of your tiller? I also have a 1025r

It looked like the whole frame was flexing on that bouncing part of the video. Great video. No flip flops for Katriel. What?

Good luck on growing grass. I think he should have mixed some nutrients before you tilled it.

Live in Indianapolis myself. I need some work done. Will be contacting soon.

A truck load of "Sweat Peet" and a load of perlite tilled in and graded. Grass will grow like crazy. My lot is the side of a gravel pit. Two summers/winters and it is beautiful. Just have to be real careful with the grass seed. Forget regular blue grass and head for the creeping red fescue and NEVER pick up the clippings. Core aerate every spring AND fall.

We have hardpan soil in the central valley of California that has to be jackhammered by a skid steer mounted jackhammer.

I love it but why wouldn’t you reverse into position and till on the way out? Wouldn’t it limit recompacting on the way out?

Small tip when you stop don’t let the tiller keep spinning that’s why you lr getting the holes, lift before you stop

i wonder if grass has grown yet?

Whenever I rototill hard whenever I tell hard ground like that I like to do my first pass going in reverse so the tiller wants to pull itself into the ground then you do your last pass is going like normal to cover up tire tracks

Had some trees come down m mynew1025r about 6am move them out of the way

They said grass would grow 🤔. l have a feeling they will be back to put down proper topsoil.

Does that thing have the so-called selfsharpening tines? If it does they must be like razors now ha ha.

They could make a corvette tractor or are all tractors corvettes?

Tim. I have a King Cutter 4 ft, for my Kubota B-2920, and it is like a tank. Very heavy duty. My tiller is gear driven, and I till sod with it. Not something I like to do, as it is hard on the PTO system. Some, with chain driven wont do sod, because it is hard on the chain. You did a bang up job! Anything you can do, I can do better! No you can't! Yes I can! No you can't! Yes I can! Yes I can! Yes I can! I heard that in a song somewhere. Ha Ha Ha

Can't believe you didn't take out a couple shear pins on that stuff.

Wow did he say $14000 to fill the pool in? The king kutter tiller looks alot like my Kubota tiller. Thanks for sharing.

would a reverse tiller worked better?

Great Job as always. I couldn't believe Katreil didn't have her flip flops on LOL how can we call her the flip flop farmer without the proper footwear. The people that say you charge to much for tilling don't understand the investment in johnny and the tiller and you have to consider the depreciation on the equipment for maintenance and eventual replacement of said equipment I here it a lot as well thats too much after i explain a few things to them then they go oh I didn't think of that and I understand better know why you have to charge that. LOL Have a great weekend and God Bless Hope Christy's foot is healing well.

You could have bottom plowed it also then run tiller after bottom plow ... thats my 2 cents anyway,, i know yoir tiller is way better than mine and i couldn’t till that at all id have to use my bottom plow first..

Tim, if there weren't any buried utilities, the ripper "might" have been a precursor to tilling. Just an idear.

Bet she remembers every gun he bought. Lol

Tim, I had a client call me last year willing to pay 50$ an hour for me to till for 15-20 minutes. I had to charge FULL price for the mileage.

1:10 the no arm stunt!

you could wet the soil real good a couple of days before to let it soak in then till it

Do they make a single blade ripper for compact tractors?

Clay and sand makes bricks 🧱

Where in Southern illinois was your childhood farm?

Good job! Permit to remove a pool?

clay can be top soil. I live in Belgium, as you may remember and we have area's not even 20 miles away where the soil is pure clay.

Should of added compost instead of topsoil or added peat moss to what they called top soil. If it get that hard it won't drain well unless organic matter is added to soften it.

Use a reverse tine tiller they dig in and don't bounce

I think you and I have the same mentality I prefer a john deere than a corvette

Are u in illinois just curious

No flip flops Katriel?

A "Mack" jacket? Where did you get it? We've got a Mack tractor and a BIG Kenworth since the Mack blew up. I would dearly love to get my son in law a Mack jacket (his first truck was a Mack). I am very close to my son in law, we bought the Kenworth with him in KY on the dealer lot and me sitting here in OH looking at the 18 pictures of each used truck and their specs. What a blast! When the trailer gets set up, we will start hauling "real" tractors and combines.

10-4

Time for Father Daughter time with McD's FF's

Better than flip-flops

lol tractor time with time at 16:17

Tim, my comment to your "prices too high" statement. You could just tell them to do that with a walk behind tiller. Then they will be willing to pay 50-100$ an hour to hire someone to do the job with a tractor & tiller.

Fertilizer ! That looks like clay. Throw down some 12-12-12 and don't stand in the yard! The grass will lift you up like Jack and the bean stock!

Orange shirt says (re the "utility"), "We located it, but we never did find it." say wut?

Sexiest farmer jacket......ever.... 😉love his equipment. ...... good video....

Turn rpm down won't bounce.

Why not remove your loader not just the bucket? This way you dont have to keep screwing with the boom.