Roto Tiller Doubles As A Power Washer

Roto Tiller Doubles As A Power Washer CLEANING EQUIPMENT Cleaning Equipment 30-2-10 Colin Plasch wanted a pressure washer but he didn't want to add another gasoline-powered piece of equipment to his workshop. The answer was simple when he thought of it. "I had a tiller sitting there that I only used once or twice a year," says Plasch. "Why not use it to power a pressure washing pump?" Plasch picked up a pump at a local farm supply store. He had no problem finding one with a bolt pattern and shaft sleeve that fit the bolt pattern and drive shaft on his tiller. To hook it up, he simply unbolted the drive pulley and attached the pump. "The pressure pump has an internal key way, and it simply slid right on the drive shaft from the tiller motor," says Plasch. "Now I till the garden in the spring and have a 2,650-lb., 2 1/2 to 3-gpm pressure washer the rest of the year." Plasch cautions FARM SHOW readers to be extra careful with any pressure washer. He recalls the FARM SHOW article about a farmer who nearly lost his foot in a pressure washer incident. "Pressure is important, but it's the volume that is really needed," he says. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Colin Plasch, 18440 County Hwy OO, Chippewa Falls, Wis. 54729 (ph 715 726-9124).

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