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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

I've owned and ruined several rear tine tillers.  The guards they put on 
the rear tine tillers trap rocks and it ends up destroying the tiller. 
I realize that rear tine tillers are easier to walk through, but would a 
front tine tiller be better in soil where rocks are present?  Front tine 
tillers don't have those guards and therefore rocks just get kicked out. 
 In a rocky environment, is there any preference?

B

Frank Fries wrote:

> perpendicular to the direction I run the rows.   In the spring, I rototilled 
> the charcoal in while working in some sheep manure and straw bedding.

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will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the 
world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone 
are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve 
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