tomatoes and
other
crops. Make terraces 3
feet wide,
with
two
rows
of
plants
for
each
ter-
race. Or, you may wish
to
use
your
Dozer Slade
to
make terraces.
UPHILL TILLING NOTE
IMPORTANT: Always make sure that
you
check
your
engine
oil
level every day that
you
use
your
tiller
and
bring
the
oil
up to the
"Full"
mark
of
the dipstick. But,
it
is
especially
impor-
tant while
tilling
up
and
down
a slope.
When
you
are
tilling
at the deepest
setting
of
the depth
regulator
and
going
up a steep hill,
you
seriously increase the
incline
of
the
engine
on
the
tiller. As
you
know,
the
engine's opera-
tion depends
upon
its
ability
to
splash
oil
to
its
moving parts
to
properly
lubricate
itself and
prevent overheating
from
friction,
or
bearing
surfaces
from
"burning
out"
from
lack
of
oil.
Tilling
deep
enough
for
the
cover
flap
to
flatten
out
the soil while
going
uphill
will
seriously
increase the
engine's
incline, so
the
oil will
slant away
from
its normal position.
The
en-
gine's oil
dipper
will
not
be able
to
reach it
un-
less the
oil
level is kept
properly
up close
to
the
"Full"
mark. Keeping
engine
oil all the way
up
to the
"Full"
mark
on
the
dipstick
while
tilling
uphill
is
absolutelynecessary.
When you are
tilling
across a hill
or
downhill,
you need
to
exercise
normal
precautions
about
engine oil levels,
but
need no
more
concern
than when
tilling
on level
ground.
Tilling
uphill in
high
gear
and
lifting
up
gent-
lyon
the handlebars prevents
the
tiller
from
digging
in
too
deeply
and keeps the
engine's
slope from reaching an extreme angle. So, both
will
help to keep
oil
up
where it
will
provide
the
desired
lubrication.
Keeping
the
length
of
time spent in
uphill
tilling
at a
minimum
will
also
work
in
your
favor
if
you
level
out
the en-
gine base in between passes.
This
will
bring
the
oil
level back
to
a
normal
situation
and make a
full
supply
available
for
lubrication
momen-
tarily.
SPECIAL
TROY-Bll
T METHODS FOR
EASIER, MORE ENJOYABLE GARDENING
Your
Troy-Silt
Rota
Tiller-Power
Composter
with
tines in
the
rear and
tractor
powered
wheels is
actually
two
machines in one. First
of
all, it's a
superior
rotary
tiller
and secondly,
(Photo 5/19)
Hood
aids in pulverizing.
....
(Photo 5/20)
Crop
residues
enrich
soil.
it
is
an
extremely
efficient
compost-shredder-
chopper
that
will
easily
cut
up
all
garden
left-
overs
right
in the garden
plot
and
turn
your
garden
into
one big
compost
pile.
The
fact
that
the
Troy-Silt
has
tines
in
the
rear
and its wheels are
power
driven is
the
secret.
The tines are separately geared and revolve at
a speed
13%
times faster than
the
wheels. See
Sketch on page12. These
tine-speed-to-wheel
speed ratios are
for
low
gear
tilling
at a full
throttle
engine
speed (3,000 R.P.M.).
The
13%
to
1 ratio will
do
a
magnificient
job
of
busting
up the soil and
chopping
up
crops
and
crop
residues
to
provide
compost
material
for
your
garden.
At
this ratio, the tines break
up
the soil
evenly and
thoroughly,
turning
and
tilling
it
into a fine, soft texture.
The safety
hood
further
helps
ground
breaking
as sod, soil and vegetation are
thrown
up
a-
gainst it by
the
revolving tines.
The
hood
traps
this matter
momentarily
and allows
the
tines
to
further
pulverize
it
and
put
it
back in
the
gar-
den-see
Photos 5/11 and 5/19.
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