Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #59439 in Home Improvement
• Brand: Troy-Bilt
• Model: 21B-643D766
• Dimensions: 24.75" h x 19.69" w x 43.19" l,

Features

• Rear tine tiller for cultivating bigger gardens
• 10-inch counter-rotating tines for breaking up rough soil
• Cast-iron bronze gear transmission for durability and performance
• 15-inch tine shield protects legs from debris
• Limited 2-year warranty

Amazon.com Product Description
The Troy-Bilt tuffy 4 HP rear tine gas tiller has counter-rotating 10-inch tines to tackle especially hard-packed soil. A 15-inch tine shield protects your legs from debris, and 10-inch ag tires can handle rugged terrain with ease. A cast-iron bronze gear transmission provides durability and performance, and the tiller is adjustable up to 6 inches deep. Power comes from a 4 HP Tecumseh OHV engine, and this tiller is backed by a limited 2-year warranty.

Customer Reviews

excellent tiller
I got this tiller factory direct from troy-bilt. It cost $499. No shipping charge, so it was the best price going.

I did a lot of research before I bought this. I looked at forward tines, rear tines, mid-tines. I looked at forward rotating tines and counter rotating tines.

I decided on this one because of the counter rotating rear tines. This is not a huge tiller. It is great for a small to medium sized garden. And because the tiller itself is not excessively heavy, the counter rotating tines are excellent for breaking up very hard ground and tilling very deep. This model has none of the problems i've read about that occur with foward rotating tines. That is, this model does not bounce along the surface when it encounters hard ground.

Because of the engineering, this model naturally wants to dig deep. I put it together in about an hour. Got it started fairly quickly and tilled a 20 by 20 foot plot over very hard ground in about 20 mins. Because this essentially is self-propelled, this tiller rapidly dug through old roots, dug up small buried rocks, etc.

If you have untilled hard ground, this is the tiller for you. If you have garden beds that need a good tilling, this is small enough for that, although it is considerably larger than a cultivator.

Could be better
Within 15 minutes of using it one of the tine spiders came off.. turned out the welds were in the wrong place and there was very little holding it on to the hub.. luckily the guy at the store I bought it from was willing to weld it back on for me so I could keep going. After maybe 4 hours of use the tires are slipping on the hubs so if I want to dig deeper than say 3 inches I have to push this tiller along to keep it going. It's not as if I'm pushing this tiller beyond it's limits but I did expect better from Troy Bilt.

Disappointed
After reading the other reviews, I thought this was going to be a super machine. For $600 this small tiller should have a few more features, such as reverse, a separate control for the tiller tines and free wheeling (It does have a "rinky dink" free wheeling system that requires lifting the wheels off the ground, pulling the lynch pin and then sliding the wheels in--very inconvenient.) I found it to be really hard to use and required extra pushing to get it through my garden the first time. Maybe I expect too much out of a $600 machine, but I am really disapointed in its design and performance.