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Dennis Higgins

03-16-2000 18:51:19




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Have used a belt driven rear-tine tiller that has standard and counter rotating tines(srt)(crt). It is time to replace my tiller and i was contemplating a troy-bilt. I noticed most of the troy-bilts have srt only. With my old tiller i used the crt most of the time seems to till better and doesnt jump arond as much esp on hard ground.My question is does troybilt operate better than cheaper tillers.Is crt not necessary on the troy-bilt.

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Jim

04-07-2000 05:11:29




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 Re: rototiller in reply to Dennis Higgins, 03-16-2000 18:51:19  
I have used a troybuilt srt and tried to break sod with it. Not a good deal, I got some paper work on troybuilt rototillers and they offer a line of crt and Im thinking about getting one. They are painted black, not red.



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Mongo

03-20-2000 12:11:44




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 Re: rototiller in reply to Dennis Higgins, 03-16-2000 18:51:19  
Next time you see the Troybilt commercial, look and see what they are tilling. It looks like they are going through for the tenth pass. In real life on unbroken gound it would be bucking like a mule. The only forward rotating one I use goes behind my Oliver 550 and it does a good job of holding it down. I have a walk behind 8hp Snapper that I leave in counter rotating all the time. I would go for a counter rotating one if I were you. You know what it is like and can always switch it to FRT if you need the workout...

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marvin

03-17-2000 13:47:24




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 Re: rototiller in reply to Dennis Higgins, 03-16-2000 18:51:19  
I have an old Sears rear tine tiller with the counter rotating tines. It seems to do a better job of breaking up the soil from sod. The CRT will try to hold the machine back and dig in and actual cut from the bottom up. The Non CRT units like Troybilt are rotating forward and try to push themachine forward. When ever it hits anything hard the rotation of the tine will lift the back of the machine wheras a CRT machine will pull the back of the machine down. You can still get some lifting on a CRT machine after it has passed over the hard object and the back of the tines hit the object. If you have a garden plot that is well till then either type will work good. If you are breaking ground you maybe better off to get something big ro break the ground first or go rent a machine for the first pass.

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bbott

03-17-2000 12:55:16




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 Re: rototiller in reply to Dennis Higgins, 03-16-2000 18:51:19  
We've had a "horse' model for 20 years or so now... Works fine. We had an old original 1950's 'rototiller' long before that...

For single rotating tines.. I think the key to not having it jump around too much is using the depth control so you don't try and take
too big a bite on the first pass or two.

The newer models have a higher tine speed than the older ones.. supposed to till better...(like ours)... No real complaints about the machine..

Honda is supposed to have a new CRT machine out with some sort of differential unlock feature that
eases turning radius... don't know much else about it though.

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