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It's a pain to turn tractors pulling equipment around too. What they do is make a loop at the end of the row and are straight again a few rows over. Too narrow of a field and you can't loop back.

I've watched farm equipment videos.

The problem is they need to plow, but the tiller he is using is not meant for plowing. It is meant for surface tilling soil that has already been plowed.

Trying to plow with a tiller like this will beat the fuck out of you. He is not able to keep it in a straight line because the tines are under the motor, the whole thing is too light, and they aren't counter-rotating. So, his tines are hitting hard soil and rather than digging, the machine is trying to 'walk' over the ground. To oppose this, the nig has to use all of his pulling strength to encourage the tines to dig rather than walk. It would wear you out in a very short amount of time. He is fighting the machine every second he has the throttle open. When you finally do get penetration, it is usually uneven, so if the rightmost tine digs first, the whole machine will whip to the right side (and vice versa).

He would be better off with a rear-tine version that is heavier and more powerful. These will try to dig on their own, making it very easy to plow straight lines. But with as much to plow as I am seeing in this video, a walk-behind tiller is impractical no matter what you have. You'd either want a tractor w/ pto or something drawn by mule/horse.

I've used a mid-tine tiller to smooth out stump holes after tree removal. It was a big mistake. The blisters on my hands (I wore gloves) were fucking unreal.