You bring up a very good point.
The O/P didn't disclose any details about WHAT he hopes to til.
If he wants to go into business tilling unknown lots that have been private backyard land fills - that is ONE thing, though using a tiller for the FIRST pass may be less than wise.
If he wants to do fields and food plots that have already been worked - quite another.
I have done a bit of both, as favors, not commercially.
I think the WORST things I have "discovered" just below the surface has been bicycles, they bend and wrap up into the tines - a B*tch to get out, sharp bits of rusty metal too.
Second is probably rocks that are JUST small enough to "swallow" but too big to "digest".
As I said, I don't til commercially, if I did I would probably run a plow through first, maybe a ripper.
So, lets have it Smok, wadda Ya gonna til ?
IOW will you NEED a light, medium or HD unit ?
In my OP i stated HD. I want it to hold up under all conditions . I am thinking along the same lines Sawyer Rob when he says in his reply to this thread that when someone mentions HD tiller it should hold up like the ones on his trailer that are used in the conditions that he mentions.
And yes i do feel VERY STRONGLY that American factory workers are intellectually superior and do have greater pride in their products.
As far as the substantial evidence on education goes i myself would not put much faith in what i read about that. After all there are no other Nations on earth that are any more powerful than the U.S. and you don't get a reputation like that from it being populated with a bunch of morons and fools living there. So yes in my opinion i would say U. S. factory workers are by FAR more intellectuall superior and have way greater pride in their products than the majority of the Western world. That is just my opinion as an American consumer who is tring to sort through all of this garbage that is being imported into the U. S. and passed off as American made products.
If what you are saying about where these products are being manufactured at does not make a difference and these products being imported into the U. S. are as good of quality as what was once produced here in America and all of these other countrys in the Western world are equal to or superior to U. S. factory workers. Then why don't they advertise where they are made rather than try to pass them off as being made in the U.S. ? like KK for example. They advertise it as being made in the U. S. but negelect to say that the gear box on it is made in china. The gear box on a tiller is a main component on a tiller. If i were a manufactuer and had such a great product to sale, I would want that point brought out by my sales department. But KK does not do that. I guess that is where part of their superior intellect comes into play. Make sure your sales department only mentions the good parts to promote sales, tell the consumer it is made in the U.S. but dont mention the china made gear box. I will give you credit for that, that is pretty smart saleing something by hiding the bad point of the product.
I hear now that the government does not even require it to be stamped where these products are manufactured at. In my opinion FWIW(for what it's worth) That is where our government has let America down. If someone has a product that is worth being sold at any market they should not have nothing to hide. By not discloseing where that product was made tells me they have something to hide about it. That is something that has come into play from lobbyist that represents more than likely the manufacturing companys.
If these factory workers in other countrys in the Western world are so prideful, why don't they display slogans on their products or at the very least the country that they were built in ? I will tell you why, it is just as someone mentioned. These big companys shop arround the glob for cheap labor, cheap materials to make cheap products and sale at premium prices. If you look on the side of a Kuhn product you will find a logo that says " 175 years excellance."
Kuhn use to be owned by just a couple of brothers and owned their own foundry. But eventually if it has not yet already happened someone will buy them out. Find cheap unskilled labor to manufacture the parts that goes in the construction of Kuhn and sale as many of Kuhn products as they can before word gets out that Kuhn has sold out like alot of other reputable companys have done before them.
And i think you can find out alot of valuble information on this sight. Just like the information Sawyer Rob has shared which i found to be very helpful. You just have to sift through it to find the information you are looking for. And that is a shame that todays market place has come to this. Exspecially here in the U. S. and using the global market as an excuse to allow this to take place.
