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That’s an 82 or 83, 84 had a different style valve control lever. I’m a huge Work Horse fan, I bought mine brand new in 1984 and still have it.

Nearing completion, exhaust shop appointment in 2 weeks. Then it will be time to hear what Ruby has to say, hopefully nothing but good rumbles. I'm pretty confident that I did everything correctly but ya just never know.

If you could hook the blade up to the engine that would make a heck of a (nonOSHA approved) hedge trimmer1!!

I pulled the deck off of this RER 108-5. I need to replace the deck drive belt on it. Plan is to push it over on its side to make it easier to get to. Might bring the deck over to a friend's place to get it patched up. Funny looking with the deck on it but even funnier looking with it off.

A few days ago while I was complaining about my sore shoulders from wrestling this "killer tiller" through my strawberry beds along side my pole barn, Mrs. K made the comment " all those little tractors...can't they help you". Sure enough, the next day when I went to the barn, there sat the 314 Hydro with the blade off for a new scraper bar that a member made for me.........It looked like a mount for a TILLER. A little cutting with the radiac and its ready to mount up. Drill a few holes, add two braces, and make a belt tensioner. More seat time...less sore shoulders.

Thanks for all the comments. Maybe I should go for a patent and market it as "The MAD MAX KILLER TILLER"......... Naaww, I probably wouldn't live long enough to get OSHA approval. Anyway, who wants to go to work when this is so much fun.

As you are viewing the picture, the tiller is turning CW. This is the correct direction for the sharpened edges of the tines. For safety reasons, this requires the tilling to be done in reverse. You always want the tines to enter new ground on the down stroke side so if you hit a rock or root, the tiller lifts up over the obstruction as opposed to hooking it underneath and probably breaking the drive train. This is the opposite direction from the original walk behind where the downstroke was in front and it was operated in a forward direction. I had to turn the tiller around 180 deg. to get the drive pulley in line with the PTO, therefore the change in direction. Actually it works very well in reverse. I have found I can pull in to where I want to start tilling, put the hydro in neutral, and hold the brake, Then, using the hyd lift, slowly lower the tiller head to the depth I want. Then just using the brake to control speed, let the tiller push the tractor in reverse.

Nice job. If your wife hadn't said anything would you have built it? Seems like our wives have a way to get our brains in gear and sometimes they don't even know it.