Robert Walton wrote:
Same happens with me. I have a rear tine tiller. Mine cuts off when
a rock gets jammed in the tines.
Sounds like cheap bearings. A good bearing should handle shock loads.
I have a Troybuilt rear time.
It does have a problem now after several years in storage, the carburetor is plugged, the fuel pump diaphragm is holed, and the battery is dead. And it has a flat tire.
Good answers on this already. But I'd have to say I've had the same experience as Bev, even on very heavy duty tillers and expensive tillers. Yes, before I knew better, I used some monster tillers, some I owned and some I rented. When I first got this place I decided
to break ground for the garden in my selected spot and rented a monster Troybuilt. The ground (around here most of the bottoms are old glaciers) was so rocky that I gave it up and moved the garden. There the problem Bev reports was even worse because the rocks were farther in between. You'd be tilling along and then "chunk!" a fist sized, or two fist sized, rock would be lifted up by the counter rotating tines and jambed between the housing and tines or side of the tine transmission and the tine. Many times I had to get a 1" piece of rebar and a drill hammer to get the rock loose and sometimes
I had to take the pins out of the tines and remove them to get the rock out. In at least one case repeated lock ups from the rocks beat
the bearing race beyond use.
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