3pt hitch roto tiller and harrow help

VAfarmer16 · Dec 16, 2008

i have a 364 international 35 hp diesel tractor. and im wondering how big of a roto tiller it can pull. im guessing 5 or 6 ft. what do yall think? also the tractor has outlets on it so im gonna buy a hyrolic harrow for it soon. but how big of a hyrolic harrow could it pull? thanks for any help yall can give me

Mike M · Dec 16, 2008

How slow will it go ? I used a 52" behind a Kubota B1750 which is only 17hp ? and it didn't even work it. But I had a hydro which you can go at any speed needed and these need slow.

VAfarmer16 · Dec 16, 2008

it goes preddy slow in 1st gear. this is an older tractor so it is made out of heavy metal and a big tractor size for the horsepower. also when i said 35hp i meant at the drawbar not the motor.

paul · Dec 16, 2008

How many gears does it have? Does it have a TA - aka hi/lo lever? I'm not too familiar with that model number.

A roto tiller needs a real slow speed, 4 or 5 speed trannys might work but often are too fast. Better to have an 8, 10, or 16 speed tranny, or a hydro setup for that work.

Also a live pto makes it a whole lot easier to use a tiller. You can manage without, but but it's a whole lot more fun with a live )or independent) pto.

Hp or weight of the tractor is less important than slow speed. A 35 hp tractor should handle 5 feet ok, maybe 6 _if_ you can drive slow enough. A 4 or 5 speed might not be slow enough tho, uness it has a creeper gear in ti or something.

Depends also if you are tearing up sod, or if you are working up already black & moreso soft ground....

--->Paul

VAfarmer16 · Dec 16, 2008

it has a high/low range. it has 10 gears total counting reveres. no t/a. has indenpent pto. im working up land that has already been bottom plowed. i plant 4 different field. 1)red clay/rocky 2)gray soil no rocks 3)red clay/sandy
4)gray/redclay . but all the fields have been bottom plowed. gonna plant sweet corn in spring.

JDemaris · Dec 16, 2008

I've got a five foot tiller I run on my little IH B-275 (around 30 horse). I've used that tiller in very hard rocky ground and the tractor powered it fine. Got pretty hot though after running steady for an hour or two - but like I said, this was on hard ground. Doing a field that had been worked before would have been easy.

Anonymous-0 · Dec 16, 2008

I'm vaguely familiar with that model IH. (Father-in-law had one) That's 35 PTO hp. It's "slow enough" for a tiller, but just barely. I'd suggest sticking with a 5' tiller. You can always overlap previously tilled pass or not till to maximum depth on first cut. As far as a "harrow" (guessing you're talking about a DISC harrow???) I'd stay with something in the 6' range. That tractor is light enough traction becomes an issue with anything much bigger.

VAfarmer16 · Dec 16, 2008

'em rocks didnt mess up the tines on the tiller did it?

Anonymous-0 · Dec 16, 2008

In heavy going, I think the rule of thumb is 10 HP/FT. A 6 foot is too big. I used to have a booklet on getting the most out of your Howard Rotovator. It said that a lot of people go too slow when rototilling. If you have to really creep along in order to have enough power, you've probably got too big of a rototiller. Another thing it mentioned is that people tend to rototill too fine of a tilth. A coarser tilth is actually better. Dave

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