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89s rule said:
Unless that pic makes it look larger than it is I recommend you check with your neighbor. Or just find a tiller and then be laid up for a week recovering. ;)

I planted some raspberries this weekend with the kiddos.
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It's big. The ground is fairly soft. I've tilled areas this big before but I was in waaaaay better shape back then.
 
Rent one, easier and you get the latest gear. The right one can take that out in an afternoon.

Or buy a full on tractor :)
 
For the price of renting I bet you can get a decent used one off Craigslist.
Mine was donated to me 6 or 7 years ago and is probably 30+ yrs old, purs like a kitten every year after a few pulls. Front tine, but i dont care it works and it was free.
 
Pickens jockey lot is your friend!
 
eventhough said:
I don't have a tiller. I posted up looking for one. There isn't much in Craigslist. I might have to buy a new one - argh. Don't wanna do that. I could go down to Columbia and get one for free but I don't have a day free to do that. My neighbor has a tractor maybe he can at least disc it for me.
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do you have a trailer?

Unless you are going to be tilling every few months a tiller is a very poor investment. Most people use a tiller once, maybe twice a year. A yearly service is about $75 bucks and since tillers usually sit more than they are used a carb rebuild is also needed pretty much every year (thank you ethanol...my son is going to Furman!!) So add another $60-120 to that bill depending on how bad your fuel system has gotten.

Homedepot has really good prices on rental equipment. To start a job of that size something like a stand on skid steer with a tiller attachment would be ideal, or a tractor with a pto tiller. You will hurt for days after tilling that up.

After that you can rent a tiller once a year for about the same price as you would pay for servicing it. A good rear tine 8hp tiller will run you well over $1200 new. Troy built horse tillers are pretty good, the older ones are built better than newer MTD built ones. The craftsman/mtd tillers are not all that good but are also pretty good $$ new.

So yeah...I'd rent. just .02 from someone who makes a lot of money from people who keep a tiller around just to till for a few hours each spring.
 
I'm buying a tiller. I have enough land and need for one then renting would suffice.

Buying a tiller is not an investment to me - it is a tool. Ill get my value out of it pretty quick.

Spring garden, fall garden, food plot twice a year at the house plus at various hunt sites... that and I don't like renting. Plus my work schedule doesn't allow me to set aside a day to just rent a trailer and till. I have to get at it as time allows.

I don't run ethanol in my 2 stroke engines.

I'd love to have a tractor but I don't have the $ or enough need right now.

I wonder how those ATV pull behind plow devices work...
 
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i've seen small bush hogs that you pull behind an ATV, never a tiller.

Keep ethanol away from all your 4stroke equipment too. Most mowers/tillers have metal fuel tanks, ethanol draws moisture from the air...it makes a nice rusty mess in the bottom of stamped steel tanks.

The briggs 5 horse fuel tanks sell for about 95 bucks. If they are not too bad i can bead blast them but because of the tiny opening for the fuel a badly rusted tank is FUBAR.

IIRC the honda GX series metal fuel tanks sell for around $130

so yeah...avoid ethanol in not only 2 cycle but 4 cycle too.
 
Picked up another catering job... 115 people for this Saturday......and next Saturday, I guess an H55 is in my future for the 62.. WHOO HOO!
 
Reminds me of this:
Whistle Tips
http://youtu.be/Nnzw_i4YmKk

Anyone watch this one before? When it first came out I was at Erskine and we laughed so much.
 
3pits said:
Picked up another catering job... 115 people for this Saturday......and next Saturday, I guess an H55 is in my future for the 62.. WHOO HOO!
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I used to love stick shifts...i wouldn't buy a car unless it was a stick..maybe I'm getting older but I'm not as big of a fan as i used to be when it comes to changing gears.

Maybe it's because of old age?

I also used to love going from bar to bar all night every weekend...and now I get my kicks from going to bed at 9pm.
 
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