Gardens All Tilled

[karma]

Thank goodness our youngest still loves to get out there for a work out!! The three beds are tilled but the requests is to plant a few rows for the local food bank or share house. Let's do some good with our gardens! Chief look at our dirt!! Yep added compost and tilled makes for happy planting.

[Chief]

Nothing tills like a Troybilt!! ;D

My Horse is old enough to have it's serial number drop off of the Troybilt online database. I bought it new in 1985, and when the original 9 hp Tecumseh engine wore out, I replaced it with a new 10 hp engine. It runs like a champ, but the tiller section needs new bearings and seals; if it isn't leaking gear oil, that means it's empty...

But I just put the 6th new set of tines on it last summer, and it's already been sodbusting this spring for one of the neighbors...

;D

[karma]

Yours if a tiny bit older than ours and what sold us on them was having my brother work for TB. The key to those are to keep them in top shape. So I need to ask did ya spray the grass with round up before tilling???

[Chief]

No need to spray! The horse was meant to bust sod, and that's what she does.

I found the original shipping bill yesterday! My machine was delivered on February 27, 1987 to my house in Newport News, VA so it is 20 years old. It started life as a 7 Horse tiller, and it's now a 10 horse tiller. It cost $1414.00 brand new, and that was with the wheel weights, the engine guard, and a hiller-furrower attachment, delivered. I think a basic horse all alone is over $2K now...

[karma]

Okay but the grass can and will grow back? Are you going to cover it?? I know I ask to many questions.

[Chief]

We were tilling a seedbed to grow a back lawn, and part of a garden. It was pretty much hardpan with little vegetation. I was able to break it up pretty fine...the deeper it digs the better it breaks up the soil and mixes things together.

[karma]

And you called before you tilled?? ;D Got to make sure those cables and whatever are clearly marked!

[Chief]

Oh yes! We actually did all of that last year before we trenched for the sprinkler system. That is an excellent point, because I have found more than one Cable TV line, sprinkler, water line, wireless fence, and what have you with my roto tiller in the past. My machine weighs over 400 lbs and has little mercy for anything in it's way. It will dig good sized stones out fo the ground if you let it...

Not for the faint of heart...