I have an ORC on my tractor. I probably couldn't get it back off it I wanted to. I was thinking about building a cutter head and using piano wire or guitar strings for the cutters. But I am not sure how they would hold up to cutting. Something like 3/8 cable is made up of several smaller strands of wire. What keeps it from fraying after a few hour's use. Maybe take a welder and fuse the ends so it doesn't fray. And that's awfully thick. More like beating the grass to death than cutting it. I don't have to worry about hitting anything solid. And I'm not looking to get a clean manicured look. Just something to keep the vegetation at bay. Use RoundUp around the house and outbuildings and such. But that's too expensive to use on fence rows and ditches. Once a month around the house is all it takes. I go through about 2 gallons of generic RoundUp a year. Pooh Bear

mailman I purchased mine brand new in aug /06. I am very satisfied with this tractor as i haven't had any problems with it so far. The manual trans with the hi-lo range was really the big selling point for me. I enjoy shifting my own gears, and I enjoy running something (In my opinion) that looks like a "real" tractor. Are you still satisfied with your purchase ? Did you run into any problems with it?

Here's what Sergeant (moderator at that other forum) had to say about it: "Bercomac tiller: I tested one out, it was mounted on a JD LT180 at a Deere dealer. It's as good as a 30-inch Belt driven tiller on the Deere X500 series. If the area you plan on tilling has never been tilled before it will take at least two passes just like the Deere 30-inch PTO tiller will. Bercomac is you're only real option with Craftsman products unless you have a current Craftsman PRO GT which is based on the Cub Cadet GT1054. Then you can take a 30-inch Hydraulic driven tiller or with the top of the line Pro GT you can take a 36-inch PTO driven tiller because the tractor is based on the Simplicity Prestige. With the exception of hydraulic driven tillers most belt driven tillers take about two passes to get a grassed over yard to the right consistency for planting. The nice thing about a tractor mounted tiller over the tow behind tillers is you don't need alot of turning space and you don't have to worry about a 2nd engine either, and you don't have to worry about the tiller jumping. And with the Bercomac you can put a little down pressure on the tiller where you really can't with that 5-hp tow behind tiller. Up until 2005 they did make a 8-hp sleeve hitch mounted tiller for the Craftsman tractors. Now the Bercomac will not mount to you're sleeve hitch. Most tillers with some exception by most manufacturers have had their own frame or they mounted to the same place as the sleeve hitch. The only exception now are Cub Cadet & Ingersoll. In the past the other MTD brands when they still had Garden tractors under those other labels did mount to the electric lift sleeve hitch as well. But you will find the Bercomac is very easy to mount & unmount once the brackets are installed. For the most part it is a universal mount, meaning you can take the bracket off of the Craftsman and put them on a Deere, Cub Cadet,Husqvarna and many other brands, even some shaft driven tractors as long as those tractors run a mule drive off the front. In most cases the only thing you might have to buy is a different drive belt if you run the tiller on a different brand, and in some cases if the tractor has a manually engaged PTO you would have to buy a $14 or $15 kit to use the manual PTO. Hope this Helps"

Do you have a Integral hitch (Sleeve hitch )for your GX345. I have owned Both the Agri-fab Box scrape and the Brinly-Hardy Box scrape. The Agri-fab does not work as well on gravel as the Brinly-Hardy Box scrape. The reason being with the Brinly you can add weight Concret cynder block behined the blade which helps it dig in and spread the Gravel better. I use a brinly one on a older JD 140H3 with a integral hitch and it does a great job grading my partial gravel driveway I have on either side of my paved driveway that runs down the middle. I use it every spring to grade the gravel, The Agri-fab just doesn't dig in enough to spread the gravel as well as the Brinly. Here is a link that might be useful: Brinly-Hardy