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From: mdash@mh3bc1.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: Re: Roto-tiller query
Message-ID: <114@mh3bc1.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Jan-84 14:11:46 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 11 14:11:46 1984
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Troy-built does offer savings to off-season buyers, but this is not
off-season.  Try late summer for the best deals.  I have used large
Troy-built tillers, a large Ariens, and several varieties of conventional,
small, front-tine tillers.  I leased them.  They all manage to destroy
shallow-rooted weeds and incorporate additives into the soil, though the
front-tine variety beats you mercilessly in the process.  Note, however,
I was tilling a rock-infested, 2000 sq. ft. plot of northern New England.
A front-tine tiller might be considerably less abusive in more favorable
conditions.

I doubt that you would find even a small tiller useful in your garden.
You might save some hand labor (weeding, hoeing, spading) but would have
the responsibility and headache of another internal combustion engine and
associated nuts and bolts.  I cannot imagine any way you could take advantage
of a large, rear-tine, Troy-built-style tiller.