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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

Oh boy, I sure wouldn't just a front tine tiller on rocks.  Nothing keeps 
them in the ground and you can't use your weight.  We had a section next to 
our creek out in Windsor that was really rocky and the ex tried a front tine 
tiller on it.  It knocked him around a bit which took some doing seeing as 
how he was an ex-football player and weight lifter!  He gave up tillers 
completely for a couple of years and borrowed our neighbor's little tractor 
and gradually worked all the rocks of any size out of the soil and then went 
back to the back tine tiller.

I've always thought that someday an archeologist was going to go digging 
around there and think they found some ancient civilization <g>  He had 
several piles of rocks and he dug some trenches (hey, he had a tractor to 
play with, ya know boys and their toys <g>) that he pitched rocks into also. 
I can see the head scratching now <g>

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "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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> are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve
> the problems of the human race"
>
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