Opinions on Craftsman rear tine tillers?

Keep in mind most any tiller will work in a previously tilled garden. In my garden this year I am expanding. What I did is plow the whole thing, old and new part then tilled what I am seeding so far. Peas and spinich and will till as I need more space til the garden is full. I am tilling with a JD 300 tractor and mounted tiller. I do have 2 rear tine >Roto Hoe< tillers that I want to sell. PM me for info. They are both in good shape. Probably the best tiller I ever had was a Kubota tiller on a Kubota B6100 tractor. Heavy duty and the tractor has 3 rear pto speeds. Run in high speed and it will make sod disappear real fast. Larger areas I will plow and harrow with a tractor to prepare the ground.
Tom

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Tom Lavalette, Garden Farmer
Owner Toms Tractors, Buy, Sell, Trade Garden Tractors and Implements. Custom Built machinery by order.


If Farms were Smaller, Communities would be Closer.

So tell me, overall is a front tine easier to manage or a rear tine, and does it make a discernible difference in the quality of the ground post-tilling?

We have a TB rear tine that needs some work on it. Our older front tine works well but it absolutely kills my back to use. I was talking about having someone fix the rear tine and was told that there was no point because there isn't any difference, which I don't necessarily believe. I don't know because the only one I've used is our front tine.

There's a reason why the good high end tillers are rear-tined.

My Troy-bilt horse is only taxing when turning corners.

We've used a front-tine Sears for a long, long time. Gosh, at least 20 years at this point. I don't know how their rear-tines work, but we've always been able to go after never tilled areas and chop the daylights out of them. And the machine is still supported with parts, diagrams, all that good stuff.

A friend's dad GAVE us his MTD. It's practically new, and we have no complaints about it. Don't know why others put it down, except that it's made off-shore. But so is just about everything these days (even Sears), so that's no reason to diss it.

JMO,
Pony!

When working in a thick layer of mulch or manure with straw in it, a front tine tiller can be the better machine.
Other than that the rear tine is the best for overall ease of use, even with the solid axle turning problems.

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Deja Moo; The feeling I've heard this bull before.

I bought the "Bronco" because my garden is small.

I tried out my Grandpas "Super Bronco" and his didn't have CRT's like mine does.

I like the CRT's because with the normal rotation, the tiller can go running away! Mine does not run away, but I was wondering about those smaller tires that the Bronco has on it, I found out.

They work GREAT for the first pass, but the second pass the tires just spin and load up with soil.(the garden was a little damp)

I am happy with it, Rual King also had some "White" branded tillers for the same price as a "proline" troy, but it was just too big of a machine for my garden. But it had all sorts of bells and whitles(CRT/RT/reverse/etc.)