
Choosing Wheel & Tine Speeds
The tiller has four FORWARD wheel/tine speed combinations for handling a variety of tilling tasks and gardening jobs. Experiment with the tine depth, engine speed, and wheel/tine speed to determine the combination that provides the best results. Here are some tips:
1.Advance the throttle lever so the engine has sufficient power.
2.When tilling untilled or hard earth, do not set the Depth Regulator too deep. The tiller will buck and the engine will load down.
3.You will know your settings are ideal when the tines break- up the soil easily, the engine does not labor, and your progress is steady and smooth. See Fig.
WHEEL SPEED AND BELT RANGE SELECTION GUIDE
SLOW GEAR, LOW BELT RANGE | SLOW GEAR, HIGH BELT RANGE | FAST GEAR, LOW BELT RANGE | FAST GEAR, HIGH BELT RANGE | ||||
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1. | Tilling in sod. | 1. | Tilling in sod or hard clay. | 1. | Going over seedbed | 1. | Preparing seedbeds for |
2. | Tilling in hard clay. | 2. | Tilling under standing |
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3. | Tilling under standing |
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4. | Tilling under cover crops. | 3. | Tilling under cover crops |
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8. | Mixing in fertilizers, | 5. | Tilling in stony ground. | 6. | Tilling large areas. |
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Changing Belt speed |
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Your tiller has two | powered by a rubber reverse disc, not by the belt. Therefore, | ||||||
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LOW RANGE — you pick one or the other by deciding which set | the Wheel Speed Lever. |
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belt from one speed range into the other, in combination with | when using the two belt speed ranges and the FAST and SLOW | |
the FAST and SLOW wheel speeds, you obtain a choice of four | ||
selections on the Wheel Speed Lever. | ||
different forward wheel speeds and two different tine speeds. | ||
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warning! To help avoid serious personal injury, stop the engine, remove the ignition key, disconnect spark plug wire and move the wire away from the spark plug and let engine and muffler cool down before changing the belt speeds.
Changing the belt from LOW range into HIGH range (or back again) is a matter of moving the belt from one set of pulley grooves to a second set of pulley grooves. This change is done quickly and without tools.
Available wheel and tine speeds at 3000 RPM engine speed.
| Belt | Wheel Speed | Wheel Speed | Tine |
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| Low Range | Slow | .5 MPH | 146RPM |
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| Low Range | Fast | 1.2 MPH | 146RPM |
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| High Range | Slow | .7 MPH | 200RPM |
| High Range | Fast | 1.72 MPH | 200RPM |
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16Section 5— Operation