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Ugh. A tiller takes way too much power & maintenence to ever be seriously used for general tillage. I'm sure those big machines had a special use, but no way would I want to spend the money on keeping that drivetrain working. And it would be extremely slow. Disks were used by farmers because they cut up chunks, cut out weeds, and worked up the soil. They do cause serious compaction in wet soils or in repeated trips. Now adays every farmer has a disk parked in the grove for those few times we need to cut up freshly plowed soil or corn stalks or something. But, far and away the medium tillage implement of choice is a field cultivator of some type. I have been on a working farm almost 40 years, and the _only_ reference I ever heard to a tiller being used on a farm was a story from my ag teacher. He said back before herbicides they had a month of bad rain and the corn fields were a sod of weeds. The whole neighborhood rented a 4-row rotory cultivator (5 little tillers) and he crept through the fields in low gear ripping up the weeds. He said he could cover the whole day's cultivating with a real cultivator in an hour the next day. I would seriously consider what you wish to accomplish with a tiller. It is by far the most expensive machine to operate, including wear on your tractor, and will be the slowest by far. Unless there is a real reason to use one, I would reconsider this several times over.... --->Paul
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