Mantis 7920 2-Cycle Plus Tiller / Cultivator

This little monster exceeded my expectations. I garden in wood chip/chicken compost and in raised beds. I'm no spring chicken, and I have to be careful with my back. This thing is about 20 pounds and can fit in the back of a minivan or passenger car. I just packed it down to my dad's to work up his little strawberry raised bed. Two feet wide, eight feet long. About a minute with the Mantis and that ground is FINE! Lift it in and out of the bed with one hand. I used it in our woodchip garden to rip up a 10x10 space in about a minute, and it did a much finer job than than my heavy big old antique AMF front-tine monster that is more work to operate. My wife and 9 year old daughter both gave it a go, too. Talk about un-intimidating for such a powerful little package. The assembly instructions were the best I have ever seen on any product I have ever purchased that also required some assembly. There was a shipping problem, and Mantis wasted no time making it right. We used to laugh at these little things with my dad. What a comical little wannabe tiller next to a real 8hp American iron heavy as a tractor Troy-bilt horse, we would say...and not that those big tillers don't have their place, but this little tiller is a scrappy little fighter that punches above his weight, and in tight spaces, AND it is so portable. I couldn't be more pleased. If you are sitting on the fence about getting one like I was for years, just get it. You'll be happy with the machine.

I bought this Tiller to put up have one like it i bought in 2016 . These little things will surprise you how good they are for small jobs and some medium size jobs. Just ALWAYS use gas that’s already premixed for you and your carburetor will never give you a problem.

I've always wanted a Mantis tiller. They are quality built and surprisingly strong. We rented every spring (at $75 a day) to revitalize, cultivate and for adding peat moss etc. Small unit with powerful "tines" that don't rip your arms out. Love this little machine and now I have one. Get yourself one!

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.

Not built the way they used to be. I had a previous mantis that I bought in the 1990’s and lasted till 2024 with minor repairs. ( 2 carburetors at $15.00 apiece and a throttle cable. As well as filters. Usual maintenance) the new one didn’t last a dozen times before the motor has major repair. $275.00 worth. I have brought my items of yard equipment to them before and they are honest and reliable. I will investigate for a more reliable machine. Mantis was not cheap. But I thought reliable. Not anymore. Recommend looking at quality and reviews of other people on other machines.

Easy to put together, Fuel it up and it starts right away. Great little machine especially when you don't have a lot room in your garden or flower bed. Delivery was also fast

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 garden Tilling - 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.

Easy to assemble. Easy to use. It started right up and tilled up the garden in no time. Surprisingly quiet (not very loud) for a 2 stroke engine.

Broke up some very hard ground. It took a bit of going over but did an amazing job. Easy to handle. Love this little monster!

Easy to use. Very powerful. Attachments take only seconds to change.