LawnMaster TE1318W1 Corded Electric Tiller 13.5-Amp 18-Inch Orange

I live Augusta, GA where my neighborhood was completely decimated by Hurricane Helene. Between that and a tornado ripping through my front yard, I lost three enormous, beautiful trees, one older than the U.S. Declaration of Independence. I decided to memorialize these beautiful trees with various fields of wild flowers, starting with the area directly below my kitchen window. I CANNOT say enough positive things about this tiller:1. It’s easy to assemble. 10 minutes from the box.2. It’s powerful.3. It’s easy to operate. If you can walk a dog or a precocious child, you can operate this tool.4. The breath and depth of this machine’s ability to unearth small/medium sized roots is nothing short of miraculous. Also surprising was its removal of the entire areas’s layers of anti-weed cloth that was laid down by the previous home owners. I didn’t intend on removing the layer of cloth, but the machine had other ideas so I went along with the plan. I’m glad I did because it’s one helluva cleaner area now.5. One of the most impressive discoveries early on was my walking backwards with the tiller and lifting slightly towards my chest which causes the machine to pitch forward and dig deeper to really loosen that rich and moist soil - - doing so removed the need for me to even consider buying any amount of new dirt for the wildflower seeds I’ll be throwing down. I think this was one of the most useful motions used during the entire process.6. Because my area was so packed with years of roots and layer of cloth, I did have to stop the machine three times in the 90 minutes I was tilling in order to remove the wrappings of the materials around the spool. But that’s expected.The area pictured (before and after) took me 90 minutes from start to finish. I am relentlessly meticulous about yard work. Someone else may have done it quicker. I promise you, had I not used this tiller, (a) my back would be shot by now, (b) I would be no where done - manually tilled, this would have easily been a 3-5 hour job and likely cost me a bad back for the next two weeks. I’m ready to start hitting the other areas where the tress used to be.Make no mistake, this tiller is the best decision you can make. It’s sturdy, effective, and the cost is WELL beyond reasonable.Happy Tilling!!!!

Well, I have to admit I did not think this little machine would do as well as it did. We decided to make a small vegetable garden between the house and our fence. Nothing too big but needed something to till it up and prep the area. The size of this was perfect. So easy to use out of the box. Just attach the handles and wheels and ready to go. Took all of 5 minutes. Seems very rugged for its size. I started tilling and it dug right in. This was a somewhat grassy area, so I was not sure it would handle it very well. I watered the area the night before to help soften the soil. It dug right in and did a fantastic job of tilling the area. Was very easy to control and comfortable to handle. It was finished in no time. Raked the area to remove any grass chunks and roots and it was perfect. Highly recommend.

Decades ago I rented a tiller = think it was Honda. Remember it was very heavy and literally pulled me around the yard -- like trying to hold on to a bull at a rodeo.After removing what little St Augustine grass was in the front yard, assembled this little tiller (took about 5 minutes). Doesn't say in the book when using if you "go forward" or "walk backward". Tried both ways,Found it wants to go forward, so 90% of time let it semi pull its self. It's light enough that you can control it completely, regardless of if going forward or pulling it back towards you.Occasionally, in tight corner spaces, let it run while pulling back and forth -- it does do fine and looses the dirt (as good if not better going backwards) but it sorta digs a hole in that spot.Tiller is not loud, and to my surprise it has a lot of power -- it never "bogged down" when it hit hard dirt or spider web type roots buried in the dirt. Took about an two hours to do 50' x 30'. Did a "cross" pattern as it suggests in the booklet.Tiller Does Bounce up and down. Discovered that occurs when it hits really hard compacted dirt. When this happened, it is best to just quit advancing forward, and also push down on the handle bars to raise the blades slightly, and then lower the handles slowly -- a little at a time -- giving the blades time to break up and loosen the hard dirt. A lot of my yard was very hard and going so slowly giving the blades time to break up the soil really added time to get job done.Hit a few roots about the size of my finger, and the tiller would generally just "hop" over them. Occasionally, it would break a root of that size, but not often. It does not do well in damp or kinda muddy dirt, so avoid those areas when using. A couple of times small roots had to be "unwound" from the blade shaft (note: these roots didn't stop the tiller from working, but removed them as preventative maintenance as instructions suggested)Actually, I was amazed this light weight small tiller is as efficient and effective as it is -- especially for the 150 cost.THE ONLY ISSUE I FOUND: --There is a cut out in the handle for your extension cord to loop thru to make connection to the tillers male a/c plug. The location of where the electrical cable goes thru the handle is right near where the power switch is located -- so, if your wearing gloves (like the instruction books said) it is very difficult to operate the switch. Even without gloves, the power cord still is "in the way" of the power switch. Also, the connection of the power cable from the tiller and the extension cord kept coming disconnected. Finally tied them together in a 'square knot'. That fixed the 'disconnect' issue. Be sure to keep the extension cord AWAY from the blades when your operating the tiller -- it will wind your extension cable up in the blades a heart beat (dont ask how I know)Overall, this little tiller did exactly what I needed it to do. Am very pleased, and think it was well worth the money. Would recommend it very much.

I'm impressed with the power of this little tller. It cuts through the ground nicely and doesn't get hung up on small rocks or clumps. It goes to a decent depth also and is small enough to fit in small flowerbeds or other such areas. We did a couple of those plus our bigger garden spot that's about 12x20 and it works nicely.The only thing I don't like is that there is one speed only and it's quite fast. It throws a lot of dirt and small rocks back towards you as you use it. It would be nice to be able to slow it down. To combat this I found that pulling it towards you tends to work better than letting it run forward, or you can let it go forward a couple feet then pull it back a foot etc. Overall we like this machine and saved quite a bit over a gas powered one.