🌱 Cultivate Your Garden Dreams!
The Mantis 7920 2-Cycle Plus Tiller/Cultivator is a lightweight, gas-powered gardening tool designed for easy handling and storage. Weighing just 20 pounds, it features foldable handlebars and a durable construction, making it perfect for both novice and experienced gardeners. Plus, it comes with a 2-year limited warranty for added assurance.
Operation Mode | Manual |
Power Source | Gas Powered |
Item Weight | 20 Pounds |
Item Dimensions D x W x H | 54"D x 13"W x 40"H |
Material Type | Plastic, Metal |
Color | Red |
P**L
Great fo small gardens
We had one of these for about 40 years. Works great. We have raised bed garden boxes and it’s perfect for those. Goes deeper than most small tillers.
K**S
Great tiller
Not a bad little tiller at all! I own a larger self propelled rear tine tiller that I’d used previously that did a good job but was a work out to use and much larger than I really needed. I’ve since placed it for sale and purchase the Mantis. This is a perfect little machine for the average home or small homestead gardeners. Very simple assembly, I’m certain even the most non skilled person would understand the assembly instructions. Lightweight, easy to carry from shop to garden and if toting isn’t your thing, fire it up and lightly depress the throttle and the tines will walk itself, they will lightly dig in however. Probably not recommended but it works when moving around the garden for me. Fuel consumption seems adequate enough, I can till my entire garden on less than a tank. Quieter than I expected too. I like to till deep and this Mantis does the job, just remember that unlike a typical tiller, you will pull the machine towards you, it takes some practice to follow a straight line for uniform rows. Rock back and forth and even angle the machine in the row a bit to dig deep. I’m thoroughly pleased with this tiller and wish I had gotten on sooner.UPDATE:This spring we’ve had an inground pool installed and the process wrecked our yard and left behind are huge mounds of left over dirt. Solution, use this dirt to repair lawn damage and fill in low spots in the rest of the yard. Problem, that’s a lot of dirt. Problem, the dirt mounds are tough to shovel. Solution, my handy dandy Mantis tiller to the rescue. Since it’s to lightweight I can easily work it on these huge mounds of clay and dirt, bust it up and easily shovel into the bed of our UTV and transport where we need it. I’m working the hell out of my little machine and it’s a beast.
J**N
Will last for decades if you maintain it.
I bought my first Mantis Rototiller in 1996, when you could only buy them from T.V. advertising. We grew a vegetable garden in our yard every year. My brother was a contractor who did landscaping in new housing tracts. He told me to put Blood & Bone meal in my garden in the spring. The Mantis is like a blender, light weight, easy to handle. And made growing a garden much easier. In 2011 I was retired, and we moved to the Kern River Valley, to a house with 1/2 acre of property. Around 2016 my Mantis quit working. I didn't see anything wrong with it. I looked it over again and all that was wrong was I left a full tank of gas in it all the time since I bought it. That would be 20 years, and the gas line in the tank dissolved. I still have the old one and it still works, and they recently had them on sale on Amazon. I couldn't resist buying another one. It was $349.00, in 1996 they cost $300.00. Not a bad price for 27 years later. Makes growing a garden and digging up weeds a lot easier.
A**A
Best tiller anywhere!
The media could not be loaded. Each year I rent one of these to open my gardens. This year I decided it was worth it to me to own one myself.You can not beat the quality. It is very lightweight and easy to maneuver and it is extremely powerful and durable.Video is first time I started the tiller. One handed!Picture is exactly ten minutes later. I was able to open an entire flower bed full of clay and rocks.So very happy with purchase.Delivery was fast and customer service at Mantis was very quick to answer any of my questions.Very happy to own my Mantis.🌱
K**.
Quit working after one use
Great in theory, great the first time, a little slow to start, now it won't start at all. Fires up for five seconds on full choke, then nothing. Outside the return window, not able to get any help. Pretty big waste of $400.
S**R
Two thumbs up for cultivating, jury is out on tilling
Day One.Easy to assemble. Seems well designed and reasonably sturdy. Only odd thing was two acorn nuts that didn't get used. I plan to re-read the assembly instructions.Started very easily. Warms up to working level quickly.Set about two tasks -tilling a new bed and cultivating an established gardenTilling - I had previously broken ground with a broadfork. The Mantis tilled but lacks the mass to break up the bigger clumps. It also built up pretty regularly and had to be cleared. This was on moist kelechi clay with dead grass on top. Lesson learned - taking the tines off is an easier way to clear them then a pry bar. On dryer ground and smaller clumps it worked liked a trooper. It does bounce until you draw it towards you but that is to be expected given its mass. Bottom line I plan to stick with my ancient tiller for the first pass and then go to the Mantis in cultivator mode. It's low mass design is a feature in many ways but a liability for heavy tilling in tough soil. On the plus side a conventional tiller "pans" the bottom which is super undesirable. The Mantis is less guilty of this deficiency.Switching from the tiller to the cultivator is super easy.Cultivating - My garden has been worked for many years now and while the soil is not great is has lots of organics and is not longer kelechi. The Mantis made light work of it. What would normally take hours by hand was a 20 minute effort with the cultivator.Bottom line after the first days use I would heartily recommend it for working established beds and gardens. The jury is out for tilling as yet.
N**N
Great little tiller
These tillers are so light weight and easy to use. I was skeptical, but now am so impressed with the power and ability get the job done. Not fatiquing to use like the big heavy ones and much eaier to manuever. I have a full size tiller, but always reach for the Mantis, rarely use the big one now.
T**C
Two stroke tiller is killer!
Open the top and the bottom of the box. Leave the motor assembly in the cardboard cradle to assemble. The nuts are lock nuts that barely start by hand then use wrench to tighten. No lock tite required. The tines are sharp. The 7920 does not have a kick stand. (Home Depot has one for the Echo TC tiller that fits the Mantis for 19.99) I use tru fuel 50-1 premix fuel. It started pretty easily. I tilled a 4’ x 20’ raised bed and it worked great. Took some effort to control. Way better than hand tools and it really obliterated the dirt clods. Also super light weight.
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