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Old 04-14-2013, 10:41 PM
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I have just purchased my first cub a 1978 1200. I'm interested in planting some small food plots with it at my hunt camp. Is this tiller adequate for a rocky soil or do I need something else. Not much of a farmer!
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Old 04-15-2013, 12:00 AM
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I have just purchased my first cub a 1978 1200. I'm interested in planting some small food plots with it at my hunt camp. Is this tiller adequate for a rocky soil or do I need something else. Not much of a farmer!
How rocky is it? You might have to use a plow to open the ground. You'll have to watch out for rocks getting stuck between the tines. You'll need a creeper gear for the tiller. The tillers work great but worried about how rocky the soil is.
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How rocky is it? You might have to use a plow to open the ground. You'll have to watch out for rocks getting stuck between the tines. You'll need a creeper gear for the tiller. The tillers work great but worried about how rocky the soil is.
I second that.
Being we put in acres of food plots a year, if it was me I would use the tractor and drag of some sort, and save on the tiller.
Rock are rough on equipment.
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Rocks+tiller= no problem BUT you've got to keep an eye on it. They get stuck very easily so be prepared to shut off the pto in a hurry. Also, they bounce around the tiller gearbox and that can come loose. It'll work, you just have to keep an extra eye on things.
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youd be better off with getting a plow, cultivator, and disc. or just one of those real fancy atv food plot discs. they run around 3 to 500 bucks but from what I hear they work great.
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I would think the real question is "Just how big are these rocks?"

Anything as big as a baseball will surly shorten the life of your tiller.

If you do have baseball sized rocks, I would suggest that you drag a curved tooth cultivator through it several times (going deeper with each pass) and stack the rocks in a pile at the edge of your property line.

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