Rear Tine Tiller

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What don’t you get with a Craftsman electric mini-cultivator?  How about noise, gass and funes?  Instead you get quiet power to make your garden peaceful again.

With a gas tiller such as mixing and storing fuel,starting the engine and dealing with smoke and noise.

Powerful but lightweight tills even the hardest of soils.  Easy to start and handlle-lifts easily into raised beds.

Just plug in and squeeze the throttle.120 volt double insulated electric motor is quiet, perfect for city and townhouse gardeners.

The 18V Garden Cultivator provides an effortless and quick way to weed and aerate soil. Its upright design and telescoping shaft lessens user fatigue while cultivating, while Counter-oscillating tines prevents weeds from tangling. Tines can be removed easily for use with a single tine for cultivating in tight areas.

This is a factory reconditioned product. Reconditioned generally means that the tool has been returned to the manufacturer, who brings the product back to like new condition. Some products may contain cosmetic blemishes. Includes 18V Rechargeable Garden Cultivator – GC818R, (2) Tines, 18V Battery, Charger

Factory-Reconditioned Black & Decker 18V Rechargeable Garden Cultivator GC818

If you’re in the market for an electric garden tiller/cultivator, you just might want to take a look at the Sun Joe TJ600E 14-Inch 6.5 Amp Electric Tiller.

Meant for smaller plots of garden ground, this electric garden tiller is lightweight and easy to handle.  The 14″ tilling width is a nice size for “between the rows” work.

Yard Machines 21AA40M1000 18-Inch 208cc 4-Cycle OHV rear tine gas powered garden tiller bites into the ground, turning it into the perfect garden soil.

The 18-inch tilling width means that you can do more garden tilling in a shorter period of time.  And who couldn’t use more time in the day, especially when it comes to planting!

The Yard Machines tiller has counter-rotating tines, which is great for breaking up hard soils.

Yard Machines 21AA40M1000 18-Inch 208cc 4-Cycle OHV Rear Tine Tiller

The Troy-Bilt TB144 26cc 4-Cycle Gas Powered Cultivator/Tiller is a newly designed 2-in-1 machine cultivates your garden AND makes a crisp bed edge. The versatile design means you can convert it quickly from a cultivator to an edger with no tools.

Plus, the Troy-Bilt TB144 is lightweight for easy maneuvering. That’s why it is a favorite of gardeners with small vegetable, flower or herb gardens.

Front bumper and border edger attachment included. 2-year limited warranty. U.S.A.

Troy-Bilt TB144 26cc 4-Cycle Gas Powered Cultivator/Tiller With Edger Attachment Kit

Rear tine tillers are definitely worth looking into, if you’re looking to buy a garden cultivator.  They tend to be able to take on the hard jobs of the garden, more so than some of the front-tine cultivators.

And although rear tine garden tillers can be used in any size garden, they may be “overkill” if you have just a tiny plot.  Unless, of course, your soil could double as concrete!

Rear Tine Tillers

What exactly are rear-tine tillers?  First off, know that cultivators some in three main styles:

• Rear Tine:  As you move foreward, the tine blades are behind the wheels.
• Front Tine:  As you move forward, the tines are in front of the wheels.
• Wheel-less:  These types of cultivators are light, so they have no wheels.

In general, the wheel-less tillers are best suited to loamy or sandy soils, and small garden plots (say, 100 square feet).

For a rear tine tiller, by having the wheels up in front of the tines, the tires can grab onto the un-tilled soil and pull forwards a little bit easier.  They also tend to be heartier machines.

Front tine tillers are well suited for medium-sized gardens, with soil that is somewhat compacted (just not quite to concrete status).  They are heavier-duty than the wheel-less cultivators, but a bit less developed compared to rear tine tillers.

Tiller Categories

Here are some of the tillers (both rear and front time) you can find on this site.  You can click on the links below, or you can also find them in the “Categories” section on the right sidebar.

Rear Tine Tillers, Including Tow-Behind

• Husqvarna
• Poulan
• Troy-Bilt
• Other

Front Tine Tillers & Electric

• Mantis
• Electric
• Other

Probably the leader of the pack are Troy-Bilt tillers, which have an excellent reputation as workhorses.  Still, BCS and Husqvarna are also great choices, usually just larger; it all depends on your own personal needs.

If you’re looking for lightweight and/or electric, Mantis is the most popular in this category.

There are plenty more tillers, as well!   So feel free to wander around and shop for the tiller cultivator that’s best for you and your garden.