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    From Ralph Mowery@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 30 23:05:05 2023
    How can a DR tiller with 13 inch tines till 11 inches when a Yardsman
    with the same 13 inch tines can only till 6 1/2 inches ? They both seem
    to be almost identical tillers.

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  • From Snag@21:1/5 to Ralph Mowery on Tue May 30 22:47:24 2023
    On 5/30/2023 10:05 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:


    How can a DR tiller with 13 inch tines till 11 inches when a Yardsman
    with the same 13 inch tines can only till 6 1/2 inches ? They both seem
    to be almost identical tillers.



    Theoretically possible but not fuckin' likely . I'm not sure what my
    tine diameter is , but I till to about 7"-8" . Looks more like 10"-11"
    because the soil is all fluffed up , but it settles with watering .
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  • From Ralph Mowery@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 31 10:42:43 2023
    In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] says...

    I have an old Ariens front tine tiller, late 70's / early 80's vintage
    and the tines are 10 inches diameter. 6 hp w/ reverse. Was given to me by someone too old to wrestle with it anymore. I'm 60ish and still have a
    whole lot of beast left in me. :) The shield over the tines is 12 inches
    from the ground. Doing several passes I can dig 15-18 inches with it.




    Maybe that is how they calculace the depth. One pass for the Yardmax
    and several passes for the DR.

    Just truth by one company and trickery 'truth' by another.

    I have a front tine tiller and never measured the depth but can go deep
    with several passes. Guess that the height of the shield on the rear
    tine unit is the real limit as how deep one can go with multi passes.

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Snag on Wed May 31 14:22:08 2023
    On 2023-05-31, Snag <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 5/30/2023 10:05 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:

    How can a DR tiller with 13 inch tines till 11 inches when a Yardsman
    with the same 13 inch tines can only till 6 1/2 inches ? They both seem
    to be almost identical tillers.

    Theoretically possible but not fuckin' likely . I'm not sure what my
    tine diameter is , but I till to about 7"-8" . Looks more like 10"-11" because the soil is all fluffed up , but it settles with watering .

    I have an old Ariens front tine tiller, late 70's / early 80's vintage
    and the tines are 10 inches diameter. 6 hp w/ reverse. Was given to me by someone too old to wrestle with it anymore. I'm 60ish and still have a
    whole lot of beast left in me. :) The shield over the tines is 12 inches
    from the ground. Doing several passes I can dig 15-18 inches with it.

    I have a Mantis cultivator tiller I bought new a few years ago. Is 10
    inches from the ground to the shield over the tines. I use it mainly in
    my raised beds to till in amendments and "pulling" the soil from one side
    to the other with it I can go about a foot deep with it.

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Ralph Mowery on Thu Jun 1 17:14:09 2023
    On 2023-05-31, Ralph Mowery <[email protected]> wrote:

    I have a front tine tiller and never measured the depth but can go deep
    with several passes.

    I use the shield to gage the depth I want to go. Knowing its height
    helps.

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