(quoted from post at 01:01:30 12/14/17) is there a way I can make my 51 8n run a tiller or is it hopeless?

Installing a Howard auxiliary transmission will allow you to run a tiller. An undamaged Howard in usable condition will run you $1000+ and they are not real easy to find. Repair parts are non-existent. Howards show up on Craigslist/eBay occasionally and folks here sometimes have one they will sell.

TOH
 
Bill........is it spring time already? We usually gitt that question in the spring. Answer is still the same, NO. Iff'n ya really think ya gotta rototill yer garden, go renta Yamabotadeer with rototiller. $50/hr. Yer N-Tractor is a plowing fool, but NOT a rototillering fool.......Yeah, I gotta Troy-Bilt rototiller, works great in my garden plots, but I could NEVER gitt my eazy starting 6-volt 8N into my hillside garden plots. There is nuttin' like a fresh picked tomato with little salt, yum-yum.......Dell
 

Bill,

I wondered the same thing a while back. Last spring what I did was pull my latest attachment, a spring shank cultivator, through the garden and after that my walk behind rototiller just sailed through the soil as compared to muscling the laboring tiller through compacted ground.

My cultivator has chisel plow sweeps on the front five shanks
but there are many options for the sweeps.

T
 

I use my tiller on my 8n but that is only after running my spring shank cultivator and then discing, but then my soil is volcanic sandy loam which is much easier to deal with than the clayed soils. Mileage and opinions vary of course.....
 
My experience says no (I had one in the early 60s on '51 8N)...until this past spring. My neighbor has a Jubilee with the standard 4 speed trans and a rather weak engine one at that. His son bought a 3 point pto drive rototiller from Tractor Supply. They asked me to help hook it up as they were having trouble with the pto shaft.
I said this tractor was not capable of a slow enough speed to till. WRONG!
Now the area to be worked was the annual garden on clay soil. There was some vegetation up about an inch or so.
WOW! That tiller was tearing up everything in first gear. Then, to my surprise, he stopped and shifted to 2nd. After 4 passes he had some very nice fluffy soil to plant the garden.
Never to old to learn.
 
Yes and no. I have a 49N, on soft tilled ground with out a lot of rocks it will work, in first gear and 3/4 throttle. The first time I tilled the field for the garden, pretty rough and had to go over it several times. Now that I have a Kubota with hydrostatic tranny, I can go as slow as I want and let the tiller work, nice fluffy ground, with the N it will always be chunkier.
 
(quoted from post at 07:45:30 12/15/17) My experience says no (I had one in the early 60s on '51 8N)...until this past spring. My neighbor has a Jubilee with the standard 4 speed trans and a rather weak engine one at that. His son bought a 3 point pto drive rototiller from Tractor Supply. They asked me to help hook it up as they were having trouble with the pto shaft.
I said this tractor was not capable of a slow enough speed to till. WRONG!
Now the area to be worked was the annual garden on clay soil. There was some vegetation up about an inch or so.
WOW! That tiller was tearing up everything in first gear. Then, to my surprise, he stopped and shifted to 2nd. After 4 passes he had some very nice fluffy soil to plant the garden.
Never to old to learn.

Moral of the story "If you don't know the difference they work well"
 

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