Great video! You make it look so easy. I have an old 1970s 8hp 25" tiller we call"Big Bertha" It has no neutral, no break and no dead man switch. I'm 6' 2" 230lb and it basically just drags me across the yard as lean back and dig my heels into the ground I also don't wear gloves when I till, I feel like I can't get a good grip if I do, but that's just a preference.
Hi great video how long have you had the tiller would you recommend it or something else thank you for the talk while you were telling definitely learned a few things.
Hi, Great tutorial video; thanks for sharing. My lovely wife bought me a new Hyundai 3hp tiller as a Christmas present a couple of years ago and it does a good job but with drawbacks. You are so right about not having the control lever on top of the handlebar; it doesn't make sense and I don't know why manufacturers do this; having the lever under the handlebars like you now have I belive is a very useful modification; I've been going to modify my tiller for a while so I'll make a point of doing it soon. Also my tiller has a single wheel at the front it being a real pain; I like the look of your double wheels so this could be another modification to carry out; I'm a mechanical engineer with a well equipped workshop and enjoy making life easier for myself. Your woodland is wonderful. Kind regards, Colin.
Wonder what Your views are on the big Honda tiller? For our raised bed garden, loving the Big Beef tomato this year. With the raised beds, we install a weed barrier, then use a torch to burn round holes where the plants will go. I love that...no weeds to deal with. Plan to expand the raised beds...but also what a main garden. Liked Your video.
Gardening is balm for the soul. I can not tell you how wonderful it is to eat a meal that is 100 percent homegrown. Second year for my big garden tiller and I love it for adding chicken litter and homemade compost to the soil. Great exercise and also some vitamin D. Many benefits to being outside!!!
I love the video. I just bought a house with an acre and I’m looking for a recommendation on a good first tiller to purchase to start a new garden so we can live sustainably. There’s a lot of ivy I’ll have to break up and grass, any recommendations?
We had a garden for years then my gpa and neighbors got "to old" to continue. Garden hasn't been tilled in 10 years. I just bought a southland 43cc cultivator but it's not the big rear style craftsman we used to have. Any tips? tine direction? Doing the best with what I've got but my memories are needing a jump start
@@GoosePondHideoutWithRob I did and tried the pattern you did in your video. 1st 2 passes got a lot of the grass & roots tilled up enough to rake it away. Then I kept making passes until it started to dig a good 1st layer. I'm used to the big rear tillers but this one's pretty nice. My only question still is the tines part, if their turned in that means cultivated but turned out means till. Still don't fully understand but it's not stopping me.
Great video! So lucky to get a tiller as a gift for Christmas, and now doing my planning! So stoked to give her a whirl, going to save me so much time and energy 👩🏻🌾
Just wanted to say I have the same tiller from Tractor Supply. Probably around 7 years now. I have had and used many different tillers and this is by far the best front time tiller I have ever had. I doesn't beat you up like many of the old ones would.
This a perfect video. Great instruction. To the point. Thank you!! I moved out of the city and will start a new garden. Different from gardening in a small city backyard lol. I have a big area full of grass to convert to a garden and just wasn’t sure how to do it. Cardboard,-smother the grass, tarp-kill the grass, tilling? Put in raised garden beds? There are many different opinions and it can be confusing. Thank you. I think this will work.
Plow, disc, add fertilizer, till.... Plow, with a shovel/ sod cutter, or tractor plow Disc by breaking up the chunks with shovel, or tractor disc. Fertilizer, leaf/paper/eggshell/mulch compost, manure, chemical fertilizer etc. Then till. Otherwise your tiller will bounce around and get damaged and hurt you or tire you out.
So I can: 1) control the quality of the food I eat, 2) so I can avoid all the chemicals on commercially grown produce, 3) so I can grow foods NOT available in the stores (traditional Native American varieties that I was raised eating), 4) Etc, etc, etc... Sure wish I could get my old MTD front tine tiller back from my ex-wife on the rez... LLLOL
While the wheels are "under" the tiller (plus, temporarily replacing the tines with wheels)... you can attach a cart to the "post" to pull behind it...
