Colt Case Ingersoll Garden Tractors

It was a nice weather weekend for us here in WNY. Saturday, I moved ten bucket loads of firewood with the 644. Then used the 444 and cut the backyard grass weeds and the hydra bagger cleaned it up nicely. On Sunday afternoon I removed the hydra bagger and mowing deck on the 444. Then installed a tiller on the back and started to remove the top layer of grass and weeds from an area that use to be a garden three years ago. The pumpkin garden will be there next summer. It was nice to get some seat time on the 444 which I hope has finally been debugged. I will get some pics today of the 444 tilling the garden area today and post.
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Harry

That is very decent seat time @Harry! Are you going to use your Troybuilt tiller for the garden area? I had a little seat time on Saturday, moving boxes from one tent to another, using the Case trailer hooked up to the 444, and a little on the 644 moving some gravel. These days my seat time involves two toddlers in my arms, there is just no way I start a tractor without these little guys running to me and wanting to be on! It is great fun, no matter how little we get done. I am planning to prepare the garden area in the next few days, hopefully the weather cooperates.

The game plan was to strip off the sod with the 444 then to use my troybilt to dig a little deeper and use the furrower to make some trenches. Today I made four passes across the garden. Two lengthwise and two widthwise. It appears that most of the sod is stripped off. I was surprised it took that many passes to get the sod off, but I've got clay soil so it was tough going. I'm going to let it set for a day then run the Troybilt over it. I'll post some more pics when I get it done.

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Harry

That tiller does a nice job. Your gonna have a nice sized pumpkin patch

It's tough on any tiller to do virgin ground like that. I have best results with one run of moldboard plough and then one deep tiller run.