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Well Steve, I did rent a tiller from HD yesterday to finally tackle a bunch of flower beds that have been untouched and overgrown for 7 years. Uuhhg! With so much neglect on my part there was a lot of roots running everywhere. I spent maybe 1-2 minutes tilling and about 7 minutes cutting off the roots that had wrapped around the blades. I did manage to make a dent in the overgrowth but my expectations were lowered on the volume of work I expected to get done. I think in my case I would be better off with even a much smaller tiller like a Mantis. Next weekend!
BTW $34 for 4 hours for their smallest "full-size" tiller.
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If you have a split boom weedwacker like the cheap kind they sell at home depot the homelite brand and a few others I believe. They used to sell a small rotortiller attachment for. I think it was like $50 or $75 when I bought mine. Works really well for small areas.
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I do actually have a weedwacker that you can purchase attachments for. A tiller is one of them along with a power sweeper, edger and so on. The one that made me laugh is the snow thrower attachment. I'm sure that one works just great.
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I used mine to do a 2000 sq ft section at one of my old houses. I was suprised at how good it did...these days I use my skid steer with my grapple attachment to rip things up....
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I have a Mantis. It is a fantastic beast, you can't kill it. In real overgrown area it is more like 10 minutes tilling and 1 minute to pull the pin in each side, remove the blades, dump the junk the blades pick up.
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That makes so much sense.I was looking for quick release pins on my rental.I think they were missing cuz there were bolts that didn't look like they factory installed.
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