Whoohoo! I'm getting a tractor!

[Mrs.Cicero]

15 hours ago, Cougar_ml said:

only problem with tillers on tractors is they tend to leave a big divot when you get to the end.  Typically not counter-rotating tines, so as they spin they toss the dirt behind where you are working.  At the end of the row you lift it out and just a rut.

Other than that it's great for tilling large areas.

Small areas not so much

I’ve got two 7 acre fields to do, so its big enough I won’t worry about losing the turn, and too small to bother doing it with a real tiller, which I’d have to widen the access road for anyway (way too much work).  Sometimes we lease them to whatever farmer is leasing the adjacent 200 acres, and they use his access road to get to us.  But I haven’t got a contract this year, so it’s just fallow this year probably.   I don’t till my veggie gardens as a rule, those just get broadforked.  I’m not energetic enough to be double digging with a shovel except the years I’m harvesting potatoes there…