If your tiller is anything like I can recall before I got a mantis tiller, I can almost imagine what you're feeling! With old heavy duty rototillers, they are surely worth their weight in gold, but when the rototiller repair time outweighs the tilling project, something needs to change!
I know with our old tiller is would spit and sputter, and out came the rototiller repair skills whether we liked it or not! Seemed to be nothing to go through a can of starting fluid even in the warm 80 degree weather! We would generally spend a half hour messing with the throttle, and talk about a tough pull to get the blasted thing started! Once it ran it did an excellent job of tilling, but the time wasted doing rototiller repair was crazy! We just needed to be sure that we could finish once we started. Should rain come our way or a neighbor stop to visit, there was no way the old bugger would start again. I could say we were experts at rototiller repair at that point in time. We surely had plenty of experience to say the least!
I love gardening, and in fact, it's a good way to relieve stress in the summertime after work. I could spend hours outside just tinkering, but hated the rototiller repair in the end! It was getting to the point where it was almost quicker and more relaxing to just flat pull those weeds by hand. I flat did not want to mess with the rototiller repair unless my husband was around because the rototiller knew it had me fooled!
A year and a half ago we gave up on tough old rototiller repair and decided to purchase a Mantis tiller. There was even a book that came with this one. The old rototiller was just a hand me down, and there was no book large enough for all the problems encountered! The Mantis tiller is light weight, and is so versatile that it can do almost any job required! It's amazing that this little tiller can pull the weight and do a similar job in comparison with the old one. It's brought the word fun back to gardening. I can get my outdoor chores done in over half the time! The rototiller repair is not nearly the problem it was in previous years!
With the transition of tillers, we surely have a new understanding of rototiller repair. Simple yearly rototiller repair maintenance will keep our Mantis tiller around for years!
