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From the latest tomato tips to sweetcorn calamities, share your experiences in the garden.
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Bigfoot
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by Bigfoot » Sun Dec 10, 2017 11:21 am
Won't help you at all, but I've always wanted one. You sicked it on anything yet?
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by slick4591 » Sun Dec 10, 2017 11:37 am
I have had one for years and they are pretty handy when you can keep them running. I'm no mechanic and got tired of having to take it to one every year to get it back to running. We bought a small Honda and it beats the Mantis hands down. Mantis bounces like a golf ball when on hard ground but will eat up some dirt on soft. Oh, I would have sold you mine.
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by ga.prime » Sun Dec 10, 2017 5:15 pm
About the same amount of usefulness as a Garden Weasel.
where'd it come from, how'd it get there?
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by greybeard » Sun Dec 10, 2017 8:22 pm
I had one....it worked ok on flowerbeds, where the soil was loose. One day, I went to try to till up some harder clay and after hopping around like it had a burr under it's saddle, something inside came from together. Sheared a pin or key or stripped a gear..dunno. Engine still ran, but nothing rotated.
I gave it to my son to fix and keep (pretty sure he tossed the little popcorn fart into the first dumpster he drove by.)
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by callmefence » Sun Dec 10, 2017 9:25 pm
I'm pretty sure that thing is made to work in loose soil between the rows .Not break hard soil.
It's a cultivator.
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by jltrent » Mon Dec 11, 2017 11:19 am
callmefence wrote:I'm pretty sure that thing is made to work in loose soil between the rows .Not break hard soil.
It's a cultivator.
Here is my garden from this past year as it was coming up. It is about 2/10s of an acre. What I had in mind was going right next to the plants that need a little extra tillage after I tractor cultivate with the Mantis tiller (can carry it in the garden were needed) and try to cut down on the hoe work as you can't get real close with the tractor without damage to the plants. It may not be work any good and if so I have $50 tied up in the little tiller as it does run good and I noticed lots of parts on Ebay for these.

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by slick4591 » Mon Dec 11, 2017 1:57 pm
I think you'll do fine for those purposes. Like I said earlier it works great in loose soil.
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by ga.prime » Mon Dec 11, 2017 5:01 pm
where'd it come from, how'd it get there?
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by Ky hills » Mon Dec 11, 2017 6:21 pm
I got one soon after they came out, maybe 20 years ago, still working and running good. It is a pretty good little machine, but like anything else it's still work to use it. I let go forward a bit and then pull it back to work up the ground. If it hits a rock it will jump and sometimes cut up a plant.
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by skyhightree1 » Mon Dec 18, 2017 12:31 pm
I like them and use them a lot for flower beds and such but never for my garden too much work

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by snoopdog » Wed Dec 20, 2017 6:46 pm
I have had 2, sold them both , they just won't work in our rocky ground . It's wheelstand city when you hit a rock!
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by pricefarm » Sun Dec 24, 2017 9:41 pm
My dad has one and loves it.