Giant roto-tiller or mini tractor?
timintexas
17 years ago
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Full StoryI am at a crossroads. I could buy a real big roto-tiller or a small mower type tractor. Sears has a Craftsman garden tractor for 2,900 bucks. It can haul attachments such as a tiller (another 800 dollars) and a cultivator ('bout 200 dollars) and, I guess it can mow my lawn too. I was going to buy that (gulp) but then I started to think perhaps a heavy duty tiller might be better.
See, in the past, I paid a guy to do my fields- he used a regular tractor with a tiller. It worked great but each time it was 5-600 bucks. Money aside, I did not have any problems but now...I do. I installed 3 acres of blueberries in rows 10 feet apart. For the next handfull of years, I am going to crop between those rows. No more big tractors comming in that field. Gotta' do it myself.
What I am wondering is this...for the money, which machine is going to give me my moneys worth? No one I know has either type. Riding mowers are fickle...that much I know and the garden tractor types are just that...big mowers. Do the big tillers hold up for a long time? Some of them are near 3,000 dollars also! The thing that bothers me is that tillers have a "path" of about 20 inches or something. The tractor type has about 40 inches I think. I will have to make a lot of passes to fill up 400 hundred foot rows with a 10 ft. width if using the tiller. I do not mind the grunt work part of it but with all those hours on the tiller..will it go to peices really fast? On the up-side, the tiller will allow me to continnue to use it longer during the growing season since it IS narrower (remember, I am croping between rows now).
I could sure use someones opinion right now! I have just a few more weeks to decide, then the weeds will be here!
Thanks...
stan_gardener
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