Reviews:

Mantis tiller

I love this tiller, it starts easy not like the Murray tiller. The Murray sucked to start and sucked to till with, rocks getting stuck in it all the time. The Mantis tines spin fast and it digs down deep. I can spin around my plants in the garden chewing up the weeds as I go. The only bad thing I have found is, not like the other tiller that would walk over the soaker hoses, this one eats them. Should have purchased this one in the first place.

Mantix

I am very pleased with the Mantis Tiller/Cultivator. It is very light weight and easy to use, especially around our garden plants and down the rows that are now too small for our full-size tiller.

Mantis Review

A good product. Great for between garden rows and edges. Haven't used it too much yet, but know it will certainly save time and backache! Very bouncy and doesn't do very well in rocky gardens.

Older Mantis tiller still works great!

I bought my Mantis fourteen years ago for turning raised beds. During that time I've used it for that purpose plus one summer I dug holes for shrub planting in clay soil with my wife pushing down on top of the motor while I ran the controls! Insanity - but it didn't break. This summer I used it to break up old soil and mix in compost for rejuvenating old beds at a new house. I'm embarrassed to say that I've never had the machine tuned up. I drain the old gas for winter and only use good quality oil in the gas mix, and I clean the air filter. I've managed to break a couple of tines on rocks but otherwise it runs like new. It ALWAYS starts on two or three pulls when I bring it out of storage each year. It's light and hops around when it hits rocks but just chews the daylights out of anything in its path. If it was stolen or run over by a truck I'd buy a new one in a minute - one of the very best tool purchases I ever made!

Powerful but with a design flaw

I like the mantis overall; it's lightweight; pretty powerful, starts easily but the on/off switch is too close to the accelerator handle so if the mantis jumps (and it will) it can cause your hand to hit the cut off and shut the thing down. I understand why they put it there because of an emergency situation but man, when I first got it I was accidentally cutting it off like 5 times during while tilling my 30 x 30 raised bed!!!!