I use a king kutter and do about 180 jobs per year. I've other brands but King Kutter is built the best.
I have a 60" king kutter from Tractor Supply for about 14 years. I have an 80x200 sweet corn patch/garden and an 80x60 pumpkin patch. I plow both in spring and then use the tiller when I plant my corn in stages and vegetables as well. I also use it for tilling under the sweet corn stalks and planting buckwheat cover crops as well as my winter wheat cover crop.
I have also found that it is a great tool for leveling and planting grass. I have planted acres and acres of lawn by tilling the soil, picking rocks, broadcasting grass seed and then running the tiller to only till the seed into the top inch or so of soil. I have found I need to use more grass seed but don't have to hand rake except for small areas or transitions to existing sod. In some cases I have tilled once, sown and tilled the seed in a very short time period due to threatening rain. I thought it didn't look great, but have discovered the grass comes in and the settling of the tilled ground is very even. As long as I don't drive over it and create ruts the end result is excellent.
The ground here in PA tends to be very rocky and I have excavated quite a bit so I am usually not planting in great topsoil.
The KK tiller has required zero maintenance other than greasing the bearings and checking the gear case fluid. I even have the slip clutch tightened to the point a large rock or root, etc will get jammed and stall the tractor if I don't kill the pto in time.
The outside tines are getting pretty pointed and so I may need to get replacements or weld on some potato digger rod, but other than that it is a great unit.
Prior to this I use to use an 8 foot offset disk with my 3000 Ford. This is much better for gardening and the additional use for grass, etc. is a bonus.
I even used the tiller one time on my stone driveway when we had a storm that left 4-6 inches of a semi frozen slush that the loader could not get through. I ran the tiller over it during the day and it broke it up enough that it melted much faster.
Some have said the paint job was cheap, but it has sat outside since I own it and doesn't look bad. I do try to clean all the dirt off that clings to the underside and rear flap every fall to prevent moisture against the steel, but I probably have forgot to do that a couple of times.
Hope this helps.
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