hey everybody Sam here from Green Acre Homestead and welcome to a video
that has honestly taken about a month and a half to make this video is all
centered around let's say world events and how we as a family and a little
homestead have reacted to them we decided to expand our food growing this
year and that meant coming down to an area that is called the lower garden
it's kind of a family area that we used to garden several years back kind of
quit doing it because of the distance from the house but this year decided
it's a good time to bust up the ground plow it till it and start doing a garden
we are undergoing a little bit of a break here the tractor got high-sided
on a big ol amount of dirt right below the rear axle differential and the hitch
for the tiller I was using a little chintzy shovel and it broke in half so
thankfully Elijah's run up to the house to get me to the shovel I'm go ahead and
dig it out and then we should be able to continue to keep on keepin on because
life's a garden dig it or till it here is a look at the progress so far it's
going good honestly it's going really really well I just had to hop off maybe
- okay maybe five times total to restart the tiller if it gets bogged down and
kind of kind of chokes on itself or dies but other than that it's doing it smooth
it's doing it pretty good I have the tiller set shallow so it's not going out
as deep as it can because honestly I got to get through this first layer and I'll
do that a couple times and then I'll go down a little bit more do that a little
bit more and do that and slowly work my way up to tilling this thing to its full
depth the tiller doesn't have a ton of horsepower but it is still doing very
well and I'm very thankful for that the tiller way back over there hello guy
right there I bought the wrong size belt for it so that's why this sidelined the
original belt when it wasn't broken but just wore out somebody forgot it up at
the house so that's why I'm not using it but it will have a part to play in all
this I'm sure it's as far as a lot easier finessing of the edges perimeters
and tighter spaces as well as honestly probably these things start to grow I'll
probably use it as a cultivator type thing to weed out any kind of weeds
unless we can get ourselves maybe something like a wheel hoe there's
something long those lines that is more of a mechanical wieder and something
that works good but for right now we were making do with the tools that we
have so we don't have to spend a lot of money all right my helper is back with a
shovel let's get this thing dug out and keep blowing
let's give that a shot
that worked out pretty good I tell you a lot easier than having to do it
walk-behind tiller style even with the hassles I had of getting caught up and
getting stuck and have to dig out a few times honestly I wasn't that bad the
worst part about this job was the heat something it's like mid-80s right now in
May third hot I am ready for this heat I don't know about y'all but I'm not ready
tell you what I'm proud of the old cub cadet it did good this year even with a
broken spring on the clutch I'm gonna take the whole thing apart again to fix
the spring on it I'll still be able to kind of limp by and get it to do its
work still did good out here I'm surprised it plowed this up plus it
tilled it it did get bogged down or once a while we kind of just kind of start
slipping and that's because the springs broken I've got one at the house I've
already got another one bought and all that I just wanted to get this done
before I tear the whole tractor apart again which means hood grill engine
driveshaft all this stuff has to come out but that
being said Cub Cadet did really good and yeah I guess he's worth keeping around
you might have noticed while I was working around and tilling a bit that
there was someone in the background kind of doing some stuff so let me let this
little guy tell you what he's been doing while I've been down here tilling I've
been painting in a creek a whole time and pretty much a whole time and also
what I've been doing also is digging in the dirt getting covered of dirt and
then I've been rinsing off in the creek and playing in and and the fish got like
um three um and she's close to me which was awesome don't worry little buddy I'm
gonna come back and fix you don't worry the tillers gonna get fixed and we're
gonna use it down here still I'm sure that little guy will do much better on
finishing the edges and helping us to find the rose as well as evening out any
really big humps and undulations in the ground that the bigger pull behind
tiller just can't do as well so don't worry the five horsepower lazy boy will
return
well it's been a long day and yeah I couldn't stay away I came back down here
after Angela got home from work use the pull behind tiller again for a while it
did pretty good the cub cadet clutch is slipping again some more so that was
probably the number one problem that and the tiller also getting bogged down and
dying but we found out by accident actually that you can roll start a
tiller again I was a it got bogged down for like the 20th thousandth time I was
like I'm done just leaving Reb doesn't throttle start driving away and it
started back up I was like that's weird so cool little trick we learned that the
tiller so the other lazy boy tiller did pretty good it doesn't do very good at
all in the parts that I did not get to till up so I don't know I don't think
it's the tillers fault necessarily I guess it's just not made for busting up
really hard ground and tilling it up then it worked great for existing garden
beds as far as rototilling them that by the way we're done down here and we're
let it sit for a while what we'll probably do as far as finessing with the
tiller in the future has probably used the lazy boy because we can smooth it
out better with that but for the majority of the garden tilling we're
done how about you guys and I think that looks pretty I hope you enjoyed this
video you have any questions or comments leave them down below otherwise I'll see
you guys next time on the homestead or down here in the garden take care
you