Patent ID: 8607889

Claim:
A method for operating a tiller having a tilling implement with a drive shaft and a set of tine plates, the set of tine plates comprising four identical tine plate structures, each tine plate structure having a plate member and a hub that is mounted to a side of the plate member, the plate member having a central body and a plurality of tines that are spaced circumferentially about the central body, each of the tines having a first portion, which extends outwardly from the from central body, and a second portion that extends away from the central body on the side of the plate member to which the hub is mounted, the method comprising: assembling the tine plate structures to the drive shaft such that each of the hubs is disposed on an inboard side of its associated tine plate structure; removing and re-installing the tine plate structures to the drive shaft such that each of the hubs is disposed on an outboard side of its associated tine plate structure.