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Mantis 4-Cycle Tiller/Cultivator with Border Edger and Kickstand #7262-15-02
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$479.95
$437.00*
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| Part No: | B000FIV272 |
| Manufacturer: | Mantis |
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| Customer Rating: | 4.5 / 5.0 |
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- 4-Cycle Gasoline-Powered Tiller/Cultivator
- Tills 9-inches wide and 10 inches deep. Tines are reversible to shallow cultivate and weed up to 3 inches deep.
- Unit only weighs 25-pounds for easy use and transport.
- Powerful, 4-cycle Honda 25cc Engine offers easier starts, quieter operation and gas only fuels (no oil/gas mixture).
- Optional attachments make the 4-cycle Mantis Tiller/Cultivator a versatile all around lawn, garden and yard care tool.
The Mantis 4-cycle gas tiller features a 4-cycle Honda engine, augmenting all of the great features and benefit to the gardener as the original 2-cycle tiller. It's easier to start, quieter in operation, and fueled only by gas (rather than a gas/oil mixture). The 4-cycle Mantis tills 10 inches deep and 9 inches wide; its patented tines are reversible to cultivate and weed up to 3 inches deep. This handy, sleek, lightweight unit can fit into narrow areas with ease and is ideal for raised beds as well. With optional attachments, the tiller can also aerate, dethatch, plow, furrow, and more. The 4-cycle Mantis weighs a mere 24 pounds and comes with border edger and kickstand. It comes with a 2-year warranty and a lifetime guarantee on its tines against breakage.
| The most useful piece of lawn equipment I have. | 2008-12-06 | 5 / 5 |
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I bought the Mantis with Honda GX25 engine. I bought the dethatcher and aerator tine also. My original intension is to use it as a dethatcher only. It worked very well. It pulled out so much dead grass in incredible. The good thing is it did not beat up the lawn. THe lawn looked good right after dethatching, not like the big dethatcher that put bare spots on the lawn and you have to wait weeks for the lawn to recover.
What surprised me was how well it work to cultivate weeds. It take some getting use to, at the begining, I have problem of it jumping. But I soon learn all you have to do is pull it back slightly and it will stop jumping. It takes some getting use to but it work. I even remove one tine and put the edger wheel on one side and I can get a very narrow line of tilling into nerrow space. I use it to dig holes for planting also.
Bottom line, I am using it all year round.
I know there are always people complaining about engine hard to start. My suggestion is read the manuel on how to start or ask someone that know small engines. Both the Honda GX25 and the 2 cycle engine on the cheaper Mantis are ALL tried and true COMMERCIAL engine. They both have iron clad reputations. If you have problem starting, chances are you are doing something wrong. Make sure you use fresh gas with StaBil fuel stabilizer. Stale gas is the main problem of gas engine. You have to do maintenance like washing the air filter or changing it in the 2 cycle case. Follow the instruction. If you don't maintain the gas engine, all will die in the first year. This is not for taking it out every few months, use it for 10 minutes and hang it up for another few months. It will die!!!
If you think it is too much trouble, get the electric version. |
| Mighty Mouse | 2008-07-25 | 5 / 5 |
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| Easy to use, works really hard, can carry around to different spots in the garden. How did we manage before our Mantis? |
| Little bouncer | 2008-07-13 | 4 / 5 |
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The Mantis is a nice little tiller, but I am spoiled after having a Troy Bilt tiller for 40 years. The mantis is so light that it bounces off small stones and into your garden plants before you can regain control. Because it is plagued with "Ralph Nader save the operator controls", it is difficult to control the throttle position easily. It also gets stones jammed in the tines easily.
I'm not knocking it, because it makes a nice BACK YARD tiller for the home owner. Just be aware of its shortcomings. |
| 4 cycle mantis | 2008-06-05 | 5 / 5 |
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| Best tiller I have ever owned. Very light and very powerful. Starts on first pull. Very easy to use. I would recommend this tiller to anyone with a vegtable garden or flower garden. |
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Well it never worked for me at all to rate all its features.
I wanted to clear the 'weed garden' leading to the water in our backyard this winter. The idea was to till the land and seed grass. I read reviews and reviews on the internet about how great this product is. So I went the extra mile and paid hundred dollars more for the 4-cycle.
Setup took me about couple of hours. Don't miss watching the DVD; this will save you more time than you can think. The hardest part of the assembly was bolting the stand to the handle as the access becomes limited once you have the gas tank and main body mounted.
I bought gas and filled the tank. As easily demonstrated in the video, I pulled the starter 3 times after priming. The engine wouldn't start. I tried again several times that same day after giving some gaps. There wasn't the 'purr' of the motor I liked to hear. I called customer service. She started giving me instructions and asked me to yank something (I don't remember now after 4 months) the top. I told her I don't see the part she was talking about. I told her my Mantis was a 4-cycle Honda motor. She realized the problem - she was giving instructions for a 2-cycle Mantis! She gave me two dealer names that will take care of the problem. Both dealers said it will cost me money to have them fix it as I didn't buy from them. I had, had enough.
I returned the product back and the great customer service at (the best out there. Why can't Comcast and Verizon have such customer service?) promptly gave me back all my 450 bucks back. I would rather have had a working product and cleared the backyard and see the grass fill up than the weeds. Hmmm... |
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