[TheForge] Re: Burner angle

[schade at acegroup.cc]

On Jul 13, 2007, at 5:15 PM, schade at acegroup.cc wrote:

>
> On Jul 13, 2007, at 12:44 PM, Jerry Frost wrote:
>> A rototiller drag bar keeps the tiller from running away, with you 
>> flapping from the handlebars in a cartoon-like manner. It's basically 
>> an adjustable steel blade that drags in the turned soil behind the 
>> tiller to act as a brake.
>>
>>
>
>
> I don't know about a front tined tiller but on a rear tined tiller as 
> Troy Built the drag bar sets the depth the tiller is allowed to till. 
> Pull the drag bar up all the way and the tiller will till to the full 
> depth of the tines. Push the drag bar down and it will keep the tines 
> from going any deeper than the drag bar. Even a Troy Built tiller will 
> "run away" if it hits a root or other untillable object. Drag bar or 
> not.
>
> Bob
>
>

BTW unless you are veryveryvery young, and you till acre upon acre of 
very sandy rocky ground a drag bar could be made out of plain old A36 
and no worries about doing it again.

Bob