Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Chatting => Equipment Shed => Topic started by: jmx on January 26, 2007, 14:47
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Hello all,
I'm tempted to look for a good 2nd hand rotovator and/or tiller to help with the digging bit of preparing my new plot. I think I have mainly meadow grass to deal with, but I will examine it more thoroughly to check, as I have read alot of your postings and articles, and realise chopping certain weeds really helps to spread them! Are there any brands or types of machines I should avoid, or any I should try to aquire, as all the adverts make them sound great, but there's no substitute for experience!
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get ya self a mery tiller .. you wont need more than that if your just doing a plot , look on ebay . :wink:
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Yes I got mine for £120 in good nick
Kevin
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What petrol do I put in my merry tiller
and what oil do I top up with
Cheers :roll:
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Mine runs well on 4* (Sainsbury sell it)
Oil - not sure.
Incidentally there's a user manual if you don't have it for download on the site:
http://www.allotment-garden.org/articles/Merry_Tiller_Rotovator.php
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the oil is supposed to be a nonograde SAE 30.
you can use 20W 5o car oil at a pinch if you cant find the other. :)
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... does your Sainsbury's have a 4* pump John?? I have to travel far and blooming wide to find 4* for my old car!
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... does your Sainsbury's have a 4* pump John?? I have to travel far and blooming wide to find 4* for my old car!
It certainly does - I would doubt it's just our branch
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graham is hydraulic oil ok for your gearbox/chain box ?
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hi
can i ask what car you have wellingtons
cheers
jr
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graham is hydraulic oil ok for your gearbox/chain box ?
not really, shaun. best to use a proper oil for actual geaboxes like SAE90 or SAE80.
chains are best oiled with a chain oil. if you`re thinking of the drive boxes on say a merry tiller, because its a sealed unit, you can use a lighter oil. so refer to the user manual. :D
just had a look and they recomend SAE30 for the chaincase as well.
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graham is hydraulic oil ok for your gearbox/chain box ?
its better than none at all :wink:
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ive never used hydraulic oil just that this chap told me it was ok.
have you seen a spray rustproofer its called "waxoyl" by hammerite its realy good for linkages,cables and stuff that is open to the weather it clears the rust and lubricates at the same time also it stays there for a while
highly recomended :wink:
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ive never thought of using it on there.
its very good at rustproofing the parts on older cars that rot away, like inside the bottom of doors and so on. :wink: