1966 Simplicity LL 101 First time tilling garden

May 30, 2014

1966 Simplicity LL 101 First time tilling gardenSorry page may take a while to load, lots of pics. This is the 32" 990392 tiller & mule drive I bought back in late Febuary from Chris AKA "Bowhuntforlife" Thanks Chris! I bought the tiller, mule drive, & a mid mount 990237 grader blade all for $350 and it only cost $80 to ship from Wisconsin to eastern PA through Fastenal. I recommend Fastenal, great shipping prices & it only took less than a week to receive it. Nice looking tiller & everything seemed tight bearing wise, just had to buy belts & replace the idler on the mule drive, buy a pulley for the BGB, & found a NOS pulley to go on the tiller. The old one would have worked but where the belt rides was crimped in one spot but I could have simply fixed it with a hammer but I saw a NOS on ebay so now I have a spare. My wife's dog "Woodstock" wanted to help with the tilling but he doesn't think I'm doing it right. He barked orders at me the whole time & even tried biting the front tire of the tractor. When he tried to go after the tiller with the tines spinning we had to put him inside. I wish I had a float position on the lift lever, had to keep the button pushed down when tilling & my thumb got tired & arm got jerked back & forth. The first time I didn't & after a couple passes when the dirt got lower the lift lever went down all the way & locked down when I was at the end of the garden & didn't want to stop tilling untill it embedded itself in the ground after the garden.:I I couldn't lift the tiller because it was stuck in the ground. Had to shut the tiller off & put the tractor in reverse to get it out of the ground after the tines had locked themselves in the earth that was not part of my garden. Sorry I was to to show that video & erased it as soon as possible. I tried tilling with a 8" drive pulley on the tractor but it seemed a little too fast in 1st gear, so I put on my 10" pulley & that worked a lot better. I ran the tractor at about half throttle or a little less, thanks to reading posts on this site I know not to till to fast or run at full throttle. My garden isn't big only 8' wide X 16' long, but the tiller worked great! What a beautiful day for tilling!:)Enjoy,Tim