I purchased an old tiller and flail mower. The tiller is a Kubota FL1000 and the flail mower is a Vemco which has Kubota stickers on it. An original owner traded in his mid 80s Kubota and these came with it. I am now running these on my BX1860 and I am wondering at what RPM the tiller tines and flail blades should spin at. I see that some older Kubotas had PTO speeds of 540/750/1000 and I am wondering if maybe these implements were originally meant for higher RPM PTOs.
The tiller is a forward spinning tiller so it doesn't do as good of a job as a reverse spinning one but it seems to leave very large sod lumps and just seems to be spinning slow when operating at 540rpm PTO. I have never owned a tiller other then this one so maybe its spinning at the right RPM but it just looks slow visually. Reversing with the tiller slowly does a much better job as its then acting like a reverse spinning tiller, just leaves tires tracks so I have to run forward over it again so maybe this is the issue. On a new garden running forward I have to do many passes.
The flail mower seems to need the blades to be freshly sharpened or it just rips the grass out in full lengths and tangles up into a ball of long blades. Thinking the same thing maybe its not spinning fast enough so its not properly cutting.
I am not near the implements right now but I will check when home what the ratio is by spinning the PTO by hand.
The tiller is a forward spinning tiller so it doesn't do as good of a job as a reverse spinning one but it seems to leave very large sod lumps and just seems to be spinning slow when operating at 540rpm PTO. I have never owned a tiller other then this one so maybe its spinning at the right RPM but it just looks slow visually. Reversing with the tiller slowly does a much better job as its then acting like a reverse spinning tiller, just leaves tires tracks so I have to run forward over it again so maybe this is the issue. On a new garden running forward I have to do many passes.
The flail mower seems to need the blades to be freshly sharpened or it just rips the grass out in full lengths and tangles up into a ball of long blades. Thinking the same thing maybe its not spinning fast enough so its not properly cutting.
I am not near the implements right now but I will check when home what the ratio is by spinning the PTO by hand.
