tiller. I am ready to buy a tiller and get my garden tilled up this weekend and ready to plant. If you have any experience with tillers, please share what you liked about yours as well as what you did NOT like. Also, any brand or size recommendations would be helpful. I need to keep it close to $300, preferably under. As of now, I'm looking at this one: http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_07129701000P?keyword=tiller
My neighbor has a Craftsman front tine tiller and I borrowed it when I first started our garden and it really broke the ground, but I had to man handle it to get that Johnston County dirt first broken. It is a good tiller, but beware that the front tines are alot tougher to operate than a rear tine. Make sure that you can adjust the depth and get a Briggs and Staton engine. I was fortunate enough that my father in law won a Troybilt tiller like they sell at Lowes and he gave it to me. It is a Troybilt Tuffy model. It is rear tine with adjust tine depth, but it is not a gear driven transmission. It has a beltdrive pulley instead of a chain for the tine operation so if it gets in a bind it won't mess up the timing. It works great for me because the rear tines pull it forward. Have you thought about checking with Griff's small engine on Watkins Road he may have something there that you may be interested in.
My advice: Do not rest the meaty part of your little forearm on the hot, HOT motor. Bad idea. Very bad idea. Very painful idea.
Have you considered just renting one rather than investing the $ into a piece of equipment you may only use once or twice a year?
Thanks for all the info. I'll check out Griffs before I buy a new one. I did consider renting but I plan to set my garden rows so that I can just till the weeds down ever so often so I will want to use it pretty regular. Also, I'll be planting a fall garden so I'll need it again then. Wishing I could get one with rear tines but I have not seen one like that in my price range. I can't wait to get out in the dirt
