Tiller Five-foot Tiller with Ford NAA

[nodak58]

Will a five-foot pto tiller work okay with a Ford NAA? Tractor has 4 forward gears. I have clay loam soil.

 

[Baranx4]

Tractordata lists a Naa as having 30 PTO HP which is enough for a 5 foot tiller. I have a 66" tiller and 35 PTO h.p. and don't have any problems running it.

 

[atgreene]

It will do it, but a low gear transmission would really make it work better. Your ground speed may be a bit fast by the time you get the rpm's up. It may require several passes, but you have the ponies to turn it.

 

[Tritonman]

first gear is pretty fast in them but should work with multiple passes

 

[Soundguy]

You will hate it..

those fords with 4 spd trans have tall gears. there were aux trannes made to go behind the main trans in order to slow the ground speed down but not slow the pto.. howard made one to go with their rotovator tiller.. and everett made one for a trencher. either of those would work fine.. without it, unless the soil is loose sand.. you will be making umpteen dozen passes to get anything useable.

I've actually seen a guy till with 2 ford tractors one in neutral revved up running the tiller, and the other creeping along at idle pulling the other tractor.

At a MINIMUM I'd use a 5spd in an 800 series.. or more preferably, one of the 8spd machines.. alternately, the 10speed power shifting SOS trans would do it well.. if you could find a good working model.

soundguy

 

[Soundguy]

Tractordata lists a Naa as having 30 PTO HP which is enough for a 5 foot tiller. I have a 66" tiller and 35 PTO h.p. and don't have any problems running it.

You can't just read tractor specs and make those kind of recomendations without being familiar with the unit in question...

fords of that era were not rototiller friendly as stock.. they pulled a 2 bottom plow very well though.

soundguy

 

[ModMech]

A new-born can crawl faster than our WH C-16 moves at WOT in 1st. Ground speed is a bag factor for sure, one reason I dislike HSTs for tillage.

 

[Diamondpilot]

I agree with the guys. It will probably be too fast. I use 1st in low range on my tractor that has 12 speeds forward and 4 in reverse. Tilling requires slow ground speed. Its actually my 4th gear. My lowest gear is 60 feet per hour at WOT. Great for trenching and stump pulling/grinding.

I am like Soundguy and would use my 861 but its even too fast in 1st.

Chris

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

Tractordata lists a Naa as having 30 PTO HP

That sounds a little optomistic to me since the engine was only 31 HP

I dont think they will run slow enough for tiller work, even with the 2 speed transmissions

 

[Newtogreen]

I would think a HST is better for tilling because of the variable speed ability.