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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2015 16:51:50 GMT
We don't use anything with fuel in our garden or on our lawn. It is bad enough to have to run a generator when the power is low. This is what we use to put our garden in with. It is so easy that I can even do it (and I can't walk real good).  @katlupe Can you tell me more about this? Is it homemade? What can it do? I like the idea! Thanks We started out with an old broken one that was wood and we got at a junk shop for hardly anything. My husband is very handy and he repaired it and he used it to plow our first garden at a house we were renting at the time. When we moved here, he bought a new one, but new things don't hold up so well if you use them. So he remade it and replaced the wheel with a bicycle wheel. We have been using it every since. We use it to plow up the garden. You can use it to go between plants for weeding, but if you do that, we take the weeds out, don't plow them under. Here is a blog post showing DH plowing up one of the beds for the winter, using the Wheel Hoe. Here is a post on my other blog, that I did about the Wheel Hoe for one of my readers. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2015 3:53:11 GMT
We had both front and rear tine tillers for years and sold them both this spring as we have all raised beds now. The front tine one was about 30 years old but ran like a champ. The rear tine was a Troy built tiller that was at least 20 years old. We sold them both for pretty hefty prices as tillers have gone up in price so much. We always kept them inside and they were very clean so sure that helped with selling them. Of all the things to mourn the loss of when selling stuff from our old homestead and moving to the burbs is the old front tine tiller aka "old red". I loved that tiller! I could never master using the rear tine one but sure could maneuver the front tine one. I am realizing now that I underpriced dad's old tiller. I am surprised what some older tillers are selling for at auction around here. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2015 4:06:36 GMT
We had both front and rear tine tillers for years and sold them both this spring as we have all raised beds now. The front tine one was about 30 years old but ran like a champ. The rear tine was a Troy built tiller that was at least 20 years old. We sold them both for pretty hefty prices as tillers have gone up in price so much. We always kept them inside and they were very clean so sure that helped with selling them. Of all the things to mourn the loss of when selling stuff from our old homestead and moving to the burbs is the old front tine tiller aka "old red". I loved that tiller! I could never master using the rear tine one but sure could maneuver the front tine one. I am realizing now that I underpriced dad's old tiller. I am surprised what some older tillers are selling for at auction around here. We priced new ones equivalent to ours and were shocked at the prices. We stuck a high price on them at our garage sale this spring and they both sold without issue. I really think keeping them in good shape helped with the price. |
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Post by Rustaholic on Jul 8, 2015 17:34:38 GMT
Very funny, Yesterday my friend brought me the tiller and the home built wheels are almost identical to the wheels on that guy's Merry Tiller in the video I posted. They are just not quite as wide. The engine is seized and not complete but I have three other ones just like this one originally was like. I will either put those steel wheels on one of my tillers or put one of my good engines on that tiller. These old tillers brand name is Rototiller. They have spring tines. The engine is like part of the whole tiller and it is a 2-cycle engine. The one year I took my first one to an engine show I got lots of feedback on these tillers. They were a true wonder in their day. This one doesn't have all of it's tines. It is one of the best videos of these tillers though. |
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