Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #146188 in Lawn & Patio
• Brand: Troy-Bilt
• Model: GC720R
• Number of items: 1

Features

• An ideal add-on cultivator for turning soil in home garden beds
• Compatible with most attachment capable units on the market
• Heavy-duty gearbox
• Heat treated 8-inch steel tines
• 2-year limited warranty

Amazon.com Product Description
The Ryobi TrimmerPlus Add-On garden cultivator features an 8-spoke design that bites into even the hardest-packed dirt and easily churns it up for next-step ready planting. Other features include adjustable tine widths from 6-to-9-inches, a heavy-duty gearbox, and heat-treated 8-inch steel tines. The Click-Link shaft allows the user to add or take off the attachment in seconds. When you're done, simply detach the cultivator head with a click, hang it on the wall, and move on the next project. The attachment can be used with any Ryobi TrimmerPlus unit, including electric, 2-cycle, or 4-cycle, most Yard-Man and Troy-Bilt attachment capable units. The attachment also fits most other attachment capable units on the market. This cultivator is backed with a 2-year warranty.

Amazon.com
Fear not: Your Trimmer Plus engine will have no trouble powering this add-on. Just click it onto the shaft and let the heat-treated, 8-inch steel tines do the work in the garden. The eight-spoke design bites into even the hardest-packed dirt and churns it up. We think women especially will love this attachment, because standard garden cultivators are impossibly heavy, a bear to start, and ridiculously difficult to control. It’s lighter, smaller and much easier to maneuver, but just as powerful, and the results are even better. When you’re done, detach the cultivator head with a click, hang it on the wall, and move on the next project. Superb product.--Kris Jensen-Van Heste

Customer Reviews

Very useful attachment to a great trimmer
I never thought that a small tiller attachment for a weed trimmer could hold up to my expectations, but I was definitely not disappointed with this unit.

I was amazed at how much I could do with this cultivator. Entire flower beds and even large planters can be worked without the effort of hand-tilling, and the compact size of this attachment allows it to get into corners a full-size tiller couldn't go.

There is plenty of torque to go through pretty compacted soil. Large, solid chunks of clay or stone will get stuck, but a little patience and common sense on the part of the operator will prevent that problem.

Well worth the money, definitely a must-have attachment for the Ryobi trimmer!

Works with the electric trimmer too
I own the electric Ryobi TrimmerPlus 132r and wanted to go with all non-gas for the power tools in my small yard. I planted a vegetable garden two years ago and rented a 5hp tiller to chew through the grass that was in place then. I decided to buy the cultivator attachment for the trimmer and have been extremely pleased.

I was concerned the electric motor would not be adequate for even minimal tasks but I was shocked (sorry) to find I could till through heavy dirt -- I even had to push on the back of the cultivator with my foot to get it to labor and eventually stall in the soil. I even tilled some moist but hard packed dirt without any trouble.

As other people have mentioned, the head on the unit was small enough to effectively turn over the dirt in a 30-inch wide planter.

If you're looking for a cultivator to handle a small garden, I would be surprised if you were disappointed by this product.

Durable and powerful
I really like the concept of the TrimmerPlus accessory system. I own the 875r trimmer motor (4 cycle), most of the other accessories, but I have to admit that I was a bit skeptical about buying this particular attachment. I didn't think the engine on my trimmer would be strong enough to power a tiller through my neglected & hard-packed beds.
None of the local stores which carried the TrimmerPlus line carried this accessory, so I thought I'd have to buy it online and didn't want the hassle of boxing it back up and shipping it if it turned out to be a disappointment. I finally saw it in a local store and decided to take a chance -- figuring it would be easy enough to return if it didn't work out.
Was I ever surprised.
The gear ratio in this little guy apparently gives the engine quite a mechanical advantage over hard soil. I just let the weight rest on the ground (I don't lift it up or push it down as I till) and let gravity and the tines do all the work as they till their way into the ground. Rock it back & forth slowly like you would a vacuum cleaner.
I use it in the spring to prepare my beds for planting, but I also use it in the fall. I don't throw out my leaves with the yard waste, I run over them a few times with the mulching mower to break them up, then let the mower bag them, then dump them all throughout my beds. I use this tiller to work them into the soil and enrich it. The soil quality of my beds was rather poor when I moved into this house, but has been improving year over year ever since I started doing this.
And now for the durability comment: I have run into burried stones and thick tree roots with it (another good reason to just let it "rest" on the ground -- it will just bounce up if I hit something) and was convinced I must have bent a few tines. I don't know what metal they use for the tines, but these things have yet to bend or dent. It's extremely rugged.
Even if I had a full size garden roto-tiller I think I'd still prefer to use this unit in the beds around the house. It's small compact size helps me prepare & enrich my soil for planting even in narrow spaces between my shrubs where larger tillers would never fit. It's lighter and easier to handle than a full-size tiller as well.
Finally, it hangs on the garage wall when not in use, so it takes up no floor space (I don't have much storage space in my garage). Since I already own the engine to power all my other accessories, this was definitely the way to go. If I had a large vegetable garden as I did growing up in the country, I'd want a large garden tiller, but for urban and suburban planting gardens this is the better tool for the job.
It's a great value and it really does work as claimed.