Question about troybilt and its tillers

JOCCO · Jan 20, 2010

I am not a guru of troy bilt. So here goes back years ago they had a wood splitter that hooked to the tiller? How did they power it? What happened to the tines when using it.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 20, 2010

I remember that splitter too, I think the splitter was powered by an ad on hydraulic pump, I dont remember if the tines were removed or put in neutral.

JOCCO · Jan 20, 2010

There was a bunch of other gadgets for Troy built too seems it was on later machines.

BCnT · Jan 20, 2010

i've seen the TB youre talking about...i THINK the late 50/early 60's models had a PTO drive you could hook different implements to...ie: remove tiller and install pump drive.
if you have one or dealing for one,its a very valuable machine...collectors pay big bucks for old TB machines.

Leland2 · Jan 20, 2010

back in the late 80's early 90's you detached the tines and you could add a generator pressure washer or splitter as this tiller had a pto .

Anonymous-0 · Jan 20, 2010

I have a frend that has the spliter with his troy tiller.He split wood with it a copel of dayes be for the big freeze her in east texas last week.The tines come off and the spline that operates them also turnes the pump that splits the wood.

bill mart · Jan 21, 2010

newer models had a pto shaft that you exposed by removing the tiller part,older models did not have this feature. bill m.

Billy NY · Jan 21, 2010

Early 80's, maybe late 70's, the horse model was offered with a pto and you could power the splitter, I have seen them for sale on occasion, they were built near me for a long time, til '97, MTD picked up the line when they could no longer operate here, NY sucks for business, so many great companies folded and people lost good jobs around here, lot of people were proud employees of GardenWay/Troy Bilt.

Bill(Wis) · Jan 21, 2010

My 1984 Troy Bilt Horse was one of the first ones made with the detachable tine unit to allow powering of other attachments. I never opted for anything else and have never removed the tines but thanks for reminding me. I think I'll check to see if they still have a wood splitter. Although I'm only 74 years old, one of these days I might need one. Been using a monster maul for about 30 years.

Bill(Wis) · Jan 21, 2010

Hey Billy. I stopped at the Troy Bilt plant in Troy when they were still in business to visit many years ago. I was very pleased with my tiller and while there (July?) I bought a snow blower and loaded it on my truck. A real nice unit that they had on a big left over sale. When I got home (1300 miles away) I discovered that the snowblower I picked up in New York had been made in Wisconsin. Pretty funny.

rockyridgefarm · Jan 21, 2010

Hey Jocco,

As others said, the entire tiller box came off at the back of the transmission and a hydraulic pump was bolted up in its place. You could buy a Super Tomahawk chipper, wood splitter, blade for the front of it, and several other options.

Troy bilt offered this to compete with BCS, an Italian manufacturer, who was importing a superior machine. With BCS, you could run a splitter, chipper, snowblower, sickle mower, tiller, moldboard plow, cultivator, etc. Eventually Troy bilt went out of business, but you can still buy a BCS. There's a dealer in Owenton KY who has a full line of BCS stuff. You can buy a ROUND BALER for a two wheel walk-behind BCS! That is, if you've got $9200 to spend.

http://earthtoolsbcs.com/html/bcs_implements.html

TonyIN · Jan 21, 2010

I have a somewhat related question on the Troybilt tillers...

I have an old one (my grandfather"s) with a Clinton engine. I believe it"s about a 5 or 6hp. I have it stored for the winter, so can"t see all the markings real good right now.

Still works great and as far as I know, never been rebuilt.

Where can I get parts?

How can I tell the year the it was made?

Thanks

Tony

supergrumpy · Jan 21, 2010

Clinton's were 5hp

for parts, go to MTD, lots of parts still avaialable, if you have the G/W manuals add GW to front of part # and it should cross right over to MTD part number

Sten's has some wear parts also

TonyIN · Jan 21, 2010

Great! thanks.

Billy NY · Jan 22, 2010

LOL, thats funny, figures doesn't it ? I used to go down there and get parts, boy things have changed. That is an interesting place, years back I used to deliver there too, it really hurt to see them go, the senate majority leader did try to help GardenWay too, just was not in the cards. I often wish we had things the way they were, theres not even any mom/pop auto parts places around anymore for the most part, same with hardware stores, and boy years back we had everything.

What did you think of the area ? I've been to Milwaukee & Wausau myself, used to deal with Moduline/Vistawall in Wausau, used to fly out for meetings etc. The Hereford & Hops was a great place to eat and have a cold on afterward.

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