[knottyrope]

I wanted a tiller but the cost is too much for my little garden area to justify it.

So I went to a tractor sway and there is an old Sears walk behind tiller that's old and rust but has compression. took it home for 20 bucks. B&S coil shot so spent 17 on ebay and it popped with ether. next is to clean carb and tank then try it out after an oil change. looks like it sat a long time in a barn.

I noticed it has a frame to it and was thinking why not attach it to my 430 so I don't have to walk behind it. hoping the rock shaft and a pivot could do it with out the need of a 3 point.

I will try to get some pics up tonight

 

[showmeguy]

interesting.. lookin forward to seeing the pics.

 

[coalminer16]

Interesting. The biggest issue would be the 430 is too wide so you would be compacting the soil on the sides unless you off-set enough to cover one tire tract and started in the center of the garden and worked out like the 30 hydro tiller manual states to do since it also isn't wide enough. Buy another tiller to mount back there in tandem-oh now the ideas are starting to flow out.

Post some pictures. Sounds like a neat idea. I justified the tiller buy doing work for others-and that it doesn't beat me up doing the tilling.

 

[rustyknuckles]

Just buy two or three junker tillers, and gang them up behind the 430!

 

[knottyrope]

this is an idea to mount it. similar tiller to what I have

 

[woodpecker41]

I have the same tiller with a HF engine repower and it a heck of a walk behind tiller. The problem is it is just not wide enough for behind a tractor. Sears and Agri Fab both have made tow behind tillers similar to that are something like twice as wide (33 inches). The Sears version is sometimes set up for a Sears 3 point hitch. This is mine. Roger

 

[mikeduwe]

What does the shifter do?

You see the pull behind tillers at swap meets and craigslist once in a while for a few hundred bucks. At least there you would get something wider, and it would hook right up to the tractor or anything with a hitch with no fab work unless you wanted to 3pt mount it.

 

[knottyrope]

wont take much to make the red plate shown in my pic to use it with some bar stock and the rock shaft.

I don't have a 3 point and my back isn't what it used to be.

I think the shifter if for reverse and some had 2 speeds. I didn't try shifting it yet.

 

[mikeduwe]

You could always offset the tiller to one side too, similar to how the single extensions work on say a 30 or 33 mechanical tiller. Would have to till the same direction each time, but then you would till under that tire track. If you go in the middle, you will have tracks all over the place.



Speaking of home made contraptions. I found these pictures last summer, cant remember if someone had this rig for sale here on WFM, or craigslist:

 

[woodpecker41]

Mike the transmission in the heavy duty Sears tillers used the same basic transmission at the old Sears Suburbans did in the late 1960s through at least the 1980s and maybe longer. It only uses 2 of the forward gears and a reverse. You have a low range for breaking up new ground, a high range for pulverizing the soil once it is broken up and reverse to back out if you get the tiller stuck. Roger

 

[knottyrope]

there is also a recall on the sears tillers to remove the pin on the handle so you can not lock it in reverse and get run over with it

I will be removing mine as when I was a kid, I was once tossed by a tiller when turning and it walked half way across a field before I could get the dirt off my face and catch it. It was direct drive with no clutch.

 

[woodpecker41]

I have heard about that recall but my tiller still has the pin. I just don't use it. Roger