I feel like I rode a bucking bronco yesterday!

[parallel]

I had begun to move the 18 cubic yards of dirt in my front yard to my back yard with a shovel and my lawn cart hooked to my lawn tractor. That is, until the lawn cart tried to gut me when I pulled the bone headed move of unhitching it fully loaded and trying to reposition it. I got smart after that and rented a small stand-up front loader. Of course this thing was so rough that I'm more sore today than I was after a full day of shoveling. Until I learned how to run it, this thing beat the snot outta me!

 

[milkman]

Had to have been fun though, that's the main thing.:laughing::laughing:

 

[keegs]

reminds me of my weekend match-up with the front tine roto-tiller a few weeks back...I only use it once, maybe twice a year and alway find myself saying ...I know there's got a be a trick to this thing...:confused3:

 

[parallel]

I discovered REAL quick not to make quick moves on the controls while the thing is in jack rabbit mode. It darn near threw me a few times. Of course... other lessons ensued.

 

[Bird]

reminds me of my weekend match-up with the front tine roto-tiller a few weeks back...I only use it once, maybe twice a year and alway find myself saying ...I know there's got a be a trick to this thing...:confused3:

Yep, there's a trick to it. The first few times I used one nearly beat me to death. I wondered why in the world my Dad and Granddad preferred the front tine tiller. And then I learned to use one right and not really very tiring at all.:laughing:

 

[keegs]

Yep, there's a trick to it. The first few times I used one nearly beat me to death. I wondered why in the world my Dad and Granddad preferred the front tine tiller. And then I learned to use one right and not really very tiring at all.:laughing:

Bird...I know there's a sweet spot in there somewhere. :laughing:

 

[Bird]

Bird...I know there's a sweet spot in there somewhere. :laughing:

It's kind of like using a big floor buffer; it'll run away with you until to learn how to handle it.:laughing:

 

[MossRoad]

reminds me of my weekend match-up with the front tine roto-tiller a few weeks back...I only use it once, maybe twice a year and alway find myself saying ...I know there's got a be a trick to this thing...:confused3:

There is a trick to front tine tillers.... the trick is to sell it and get a rear tine tiller! :dance1: Really! I mean it. :thumbsup:

 

[Bird]

There is a trick to front tine tillers.... the trick is to sell it and get a rear tine tiller! :dance1: Really! I mean it. :thumbsup:

The only real trick to it is to use the depth gauge (usually just a straight steel bar that sticks down into the dirt behind the tines). If you raise the handle, the tiller tries to run forward and you find yourself pulling back on it. Just push down on the handle enough to push the depth gauge into the dirt far enough to hold or anchor the tiller. Raise the handle slowly just the amount necessary for the tiller to move forward when it's tilled to the depth you want. You should never have to pull back on it.

 

[MossRoad]

What I like about my rear tine tiller is that you set the depth gauge, stand next to the handlebars, squeeze the hand lever to engage the drive and off it goes. One handed operation, walk along next to the machine and it does the work. Several of my neighbors have front tine tillers and they are amazed at how much easier the rear tine tiller does the job. I have to till my garden later this week. I just cleaned it out today. I will try to take some video of it if possible. It is a small, 5hp unit made by Weed Eater, which is Poulan, which no longer makes tillers (I think). Got it for $350.00 about 10 years ago. Best gardening tool I ever bought. :thumbsup: