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I was told by a friend that he had read on the web that he should not use a rotary tiller on his 8N because the gearing was not good enough. This made me courious about what you guys would say about using a tiller on my super dexta???

You are comparing apples and elephants

As long as you don't go too large, the Dexta is perfect on something like a Howard E50 Selectatilth or one of the smaller horticultural ones.

Since I don't have a rotary tiller, I was just courious, so in your opinion, what lenght is to big. Or does it have much to do with speed?

The E60, 60" is too big in my opinion. She will drive it but it is a big load. Even makes the Nuffy puff at times and she is nearly 60hp on the PTO.

We used to have a 60" horticultural rotovator with straighter tines, angled at about 40 degrees rather than the 90 degrees of the E60. That produced a good tilth but was far easier to drive.

Howard produced a sandwich box for the Fergy and I think, for the N range of Fords, which slowed them down considerably. I have seen a similar box on a Super Dexta.

A rough estimate that I normally use is 10 horsepower per foot.So I normally use a 4ft Howard rotary hoe behind my Super Dexta or 3000.TSG.