The best home garden tiller, The Mantis tiller / cultivator 

The one I'm using is from 1994 and still runs great. Did you switch to a four-stroke model or stick with the two stroke

@@sololawnprofessional No, I bought another 2 cycle Mantis 2 stroke.

Sorry for the delayed response. You have to pull the tiller in reverse to make it work properly, I see a lot of people walking forward with them. It's kind of funny.

I really appreciate your comment. The Mantis tiller is also really great for doing seasonal flowers in garden beds.

This is a great tiller that will last a lifetime they sell them in two cycle four-cycle and now battery powered.

Thank you for your comment. I really appreciate it. One thing I recommend is upgrading the complete carburetor and air filter assembly to the echo version. You can get everything from Amazon for under $40. The mantis I'm using in the video has the upgraded air filter assembly.

This one I'm using here is from 1994 and from my experience, these engines were built to last. I've also gone through a handful of carburetors as well. I've never used it as a lawn aerator, but I do have the single-sided hedge trimmer accessory that works pretty well.

When you’re not using it (more than a month or more), take the fuel line off and put another hose down into some two cycle oil, and the other too the carb, and pump the primer bulb until the carb is full of two cycle oil and the excess starts to flow from the return. This will help neutralize and move out the fuel and keep the diaphragms pliable. Reassemble as it was and when you go to use again just use the primer to move the oil out. The small amount will be fine returning to the fuel tank.

I'm always looking for the good stuff at the yard sales myself. One of my best purchases so far was a cherry stihl MS250 for $25

Thank you for your comment. A lot of people's impression of the mantis tiller are from people that have never used it. A full size tiller can make short work of a big garden but there's nothing better than the 20 lb mantis tiller if you just have a small garden or flower bed to till.

Thank you. If you're starting with grass and weeds visible, you need to take a string trimmer and cut it down to the dirt before you start tilling. Makes it a lot easier. If you're going to be tilling an area that was previously a garden, you will have no trouble tilling down to 6 to inches deep. It really does a great job of even bringing dirt up to make the rows. You just drag the tiller towards you and it brings the dirt up. Really nice piece of equipment

There's no way to tell how many hours it has on it. They should last at least 300 hours or a lifetime depending on how much you use it

As an experienced Gardner, the best tillers on earth today are the BCS tillers. Nothing better. The mantis tiller is a great tiller for home garden use and is made in Japan, not China.

The mantis has spring steel tines that won't break. If the rock won't move the tiller will just bounce off, but if it's a potato size rock it will dig it up. If you're going to buy one of these, I would get a gas powered one because of these spring steel tines the battery version does not have them.