Mantis 7920 2-Cycle Plus Tiller / Cultivator

Warranty registration is impossible. Won't accept model number. Second one I have owned. Hope it still has the Echo chain saw engine.

It is a great gardening tool

It's a Mantis, tills up dirt like nobody's business. Make sure the soil you are tilling is free from rocks and tree roots. It's like hanging on to an angry goat by the horns.

Extremely disappointed in this product. We have had it for a year and it has very little hours on it. Today, it locked up and won't start.

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We had one of these for about 40 years. Works great. We have raised bed garden boxes and it’s perfect for those. Goes deeper than most small tillers.

Day One.Easy to assemble. Seems well designed and reasonably sturdy. Only odd thing was two acorn nuts that didn't get used. I plan to re-read the assembly instructions.Started very easily. Warms up to working level quickly.Set about two tasks -tilling a new bed and cultivating an established gardenTilling - I had previously broken ground with a broadfork. The Mantis tilled but lacks the mass to break up the bigger clumps. It also built up pretty regularly and had to be cleared. This was on moist kelechi clay with dead grass on top. Lesson learned - taking the tines off is an easier way to clear them then a pry bar. On dryer ground and smaller clumps it worked liked a trooper. It does bounce until you draw it towards you but that is to be expected given its mass. Bottom line I plan to stick with my ancient tiller for the first pass and then go to the Mantis in cultivator mode. It's low mass design is a feature in many ways but a liability for heavy tilling in tough soil. On the plus side a conventional tiller "pans" the bottom which is super undesirable. The Mantis is less guilty of this deficiency.Switching from the tiller to the cultivator is super easy.Cultivating - My garden has been worked for many years now and while the soil is not great is has lots of organics and is not longer kelechi. The Mantis made light work of it. What would normally take hours by hand was a 20 minute effort with the cultivator.Bottom line after the first days use I would heartily recommend it for working established beds and gardens. The jury is out for tilling as yet.

I bought my first Mantis Rototiller in 1996, when you could only buy them from T.V. advertising. We grew a vegetable garden in our yard every year. My brother was a contractor who did landscaping in new housing tracts. He told me to put Blood & Bone meal in my garden in the spring. The Mantis is like a blender, light weight, easy to handle. And made growing a garden much easier. In 2011 I was retired, and we moved to the Kern River Valley, to a house with 1/2 acre of property. Around 2016 my Mantis quit working. I didn't see anything wrong with it. I looked it over again and all that was wrong was I left a full tank of gas in it all the time since I bought it. That would be 20 years, and the gas line in the tank dissolved. I still have the old one and it still works, and they recently had them on sale on Amazon. I couldn't resist buying another one. It was $349.00, in 1996 they cost $300.00. Not a bad price for 27 years later. Makes growing a garden and digging up weeds a lot easier.