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!!!
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.
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.
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 👩🏻🌾
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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...
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
Hey freind we need more people like you
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 garden in 4’ wide beds so I use a mini tiller, I wouldn’t want to be without it! I like to till in my homemade compost. Thanks for the video!
Great idea.
Bonnie looks so cute. I was nervous that she'd get too close and ...
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.
I grow my veggies so I know what's in them. And it is fulfilling.
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.
Thanks for your input. I started tilling this year, and long story short, I just ordered a new carburetor. And I use non-ethanol fuel.
Just take it apart and clean it, mine gets clogged every time it sits for awhile.
It doesn't beat u up bc it doesn't work as hard as the other 1s do in reality
You're the best friend
like growing my own vegatables //good excercise
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 👩🏻🌾
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.
I grew up on a nursery, thousand of hours behind a tiller as a teen and young adult.
"cultivating a garden" rank 10, "tilling and cultivating a garden" rank 2
Great memories, I bet. Thanks.
Great tutorial... I'm getting started tomorrow! Wish me luck
I have a small garden so I just have a little mantis tiller I love it and since it’s narrow you can till between the rows to control the weeds.
We have a Mantis like tiller attachment that goes on the end of our weedeater. It's a little heavy but it does work well as you mention.
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.
Very informative. Thanks!
Happy to hear you find the tilling information in this video helpful. Thank you for letting me know.
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.
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My favorites: Nambe White or Acoma White corn, Anasazi Beans, Native Melons, Navajo/Hopi Pumpkins, Isleta Tobacco, L'itoi Sivol/clumping onions, wild potatoes, Dye plants, ceremonial/sacred plants, Medicinal plants, etc, etc, etc...
Good morning friend I have been following your videos for some time when are you going to make some more?
I created this short video Thursday, 2 days ago. It explains why.
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Bonnie is cute, but bad! LOL!😂😂😂❤️❤️
I always heard you should allow the soil to dry out 6 to 8 inches before tilling. Tilling damp soil causes root issues
It depends on the soil type. Where we live, if I waited for it to be dry, it would never be done. Hahaha
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?
Ya buy more land
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.
This tsc tiller is no longer available.
I just bought a old 1975 sears tiller, it have reverse, in wish scenario you need the reverse position ?
With a front tine tiller reverse isn't necessary. With a rear tine tiller reverse is important.
@@GoosePondHideoutWithRob thank u, mine is a front tiller, also reverse is kind of dangerous on this one.
I LIKE TILLED TO GROW IN
They stole my paragraph I just typed to you
Thankyou though
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
Don't try to muscle the tiller. Let it do it's thing.
@@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.
Tastes better!!!
I have an old briggs e stratton from 1977 tiler
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...
use a plastic tarp for winter over your garden so you don't have weeds in the sprng. use a free one from a lumber yard
Thanks for the helpful hint.
You are welcome. Around the edges I put pieces of rebar from construction sites also free.
How many horse power is this tiller ?
Thanks in advance
I like to take mine down to 6 inches so theres no compaction for the roots to fight with and it'll dig all the roots up to get rid of the weeds.
I have a old Troy-built with tires that Control the speed.
They are great machines. I'm thinking of putting a throttle control on this tiller. So it can be idled down when I want to walk it around slowly.
How to use a front tine tiller? Leave it out in the open to tempt thieves while using and safely storing your new rear tine tiller.
what do i have to do to the soil before starting to till
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.
What did your tiller cost?
Honestly, I don't remember. This is from Tractor Supply.
Do a small biogas
Thanks
Interesting option.
That dog wants to push that tiller.
She is bossy.
I would like to hear this guy have a argument with someone for some reason.
IKR?!😂😂😂😂
Now I see your trick how you get your cannabis plants so big looking forward to the finished product.💨
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
sitting here watching this with pizza in my mouth.. makes me feel bad
"so called modern world"...lol.....yes, we're somewhat backwards but there is some progress
I don't