How to Use a 9HP Rototiller | Heavy-Duty Garden & Soil Prep Tutorial - video Dailymotion

Shiva Tanamala

Tackling tough, compacted soil or prepping a large garden bed? A 9-horsepower rototiller is a powerful, heavy-duty machine designed for deep soil cultivation. In this video, we’ll show you how to safely and effectively operate a 9HP rototiller for serious landscaping and garden prep work.  💡 Pro Tip: Till in overlapping rows and avoid rushing—let the machine do the work for a more even, effective result.  ⚠️ Safety Reminder: This is a powerful machine—read the operator manual, watch for rocks/roots, and never operate on steep slopes.  👍 Like, comment, and subscribe for more heavy-duty equipment tutorials and landscaping tips!  #Rototiller #GardenPrep #HeavyDutyTiller #SoilCultivation #LandscapingEquipment #DIYGarden

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00:00Hi there. In the realm of rototillers, this is what's regarded as the rear tine rototiller.

00:18In other sessions, we've done the mid-tine or the gardening tiller. When the gardening

00:25tiller or the smaller tillers can't handle it, this is what you move up to. And this is

00:30what you get when you use and you want to get into hard clay, you want to rototill your

00:35lawn, maybe it's dead grass or you want to redo it all, so you can chew it up, break it

00:41up, rake it, and this will at least get you started. This can do hard clay, this particular

00:46unit. This is a hydraulic unit, it's not like gears and belts or anything. So we've found

00:52that this machine is probably one of the best machines around. Now the drive wheels on these

01:00machines pull the tiller forward. You can lock them in so that you have positraction, like

01:08a car has positraction. Both wheels are turning and pulling you through the soil. You have

01:16cutters in the back of the unit. And you have your drag bar, just like you do on other smaller

01:23tillers, which you set your depth. So this is where you have it higher when you're using it,

01:29and allow the machine to go deeper into the soil. Again, like the other smaller tillers,

01:38you do not use this when it's muddy or wet or too early in the season. You'll find the dirt

01:44dirt will just accumulate underneath the guard, and it'll just be a ball of mud. So you can't

01:49till properly. Make sure your soil is tillable or turnable with a shovel. And then you're ready

01:56to till, or even the grass. It's not muddy or too early in the season. So if you want to do a good job.

02:04Now, this particular machine, the beauty about it is, is that you can run the tines any speed,

02:11forward or backwards. You can run your wheels naturally forward at any speed. So you can have

02:18complete control as there, and depending on the soil that you're tilling, how you till it. Now you

02:25can run it, the wheels very slowly. You can operate the tines forward. You can also go over it all,

02:32break it all up, and then you can go back and operate the tines in reverse. So the machine is

02:38actually working against itself. The wheels are going forward, the tines are going reverse.

02:42And in that case, you can do a really nice job breaking up the soil. Now, the purpose of this

02:49lever here is this is what usually starts everything turning, the wheels turning and the tines.

02:54And the levers on the back here will operate the cutters or the wheels going forward or back.

03:01And all it's doing is opening a hydraulic valve. Now, the nice thing as well is with this machine,

03:07is if you do run into something, rocks, roots, or the machine starts bouncing,

03:11you just let go of the lever and the engine keeps running. Some units, everything dies off and you

03:16have to restart everything again. But the unit is heavy enough and when you're using it, you push down

03:23just like you do on a smaller machine. You adjust your depth and you push down on the handles on the

03:29back to make it dig in. And then as the wheels go forward, you just keep pushing down on the handles.

03:35You don't have to lift up and down or anything. Just push down. But don't do tilling where you have

03:41a lot of heavy roots. The rototillers are meant to till dirt or soil. They're not meant to till rocks.

03:48They're not meant to till roots. Some people ask, you know, will it go through this size of root?

03:54Well, sometimes a fibrous root, it might cut right through it. But a lot of woods are different.

03:59A lot of tree roots are different. Some big, some small, some fibrous, some hard. And rocks,

04:07if it starts bouncing with rocks, you must stop and dig them out. Otherwise, you're going to cause

04:11damage to the machine. And one big don't is don't use a rototiller on your driveway to loosen up your

04:18stones. This has been seen and tried, but it's not something that's used to break up your driveway.

04:25This is packed down from the car's tracks to loosen them up and regrade a driveway. This is for soil and

04:31dirt. Keep it off the stones in the driveway if you can. So that's our session on the larger tiller.

04:39We'll see you in the next one.

04:41We'll see you in the next one.

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