Customer Reviews

Troy-Bilt Tuffy 4 HP Rear Tine Gas Tiller 21B-643D766

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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.

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.

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.

Fast shipping and easy to assemble. My yard is red clay and this machine tilled my garden area with minimal effort. My wife uses it for all her flower beds and has no problems. Great product for the money

I am in love with this tiller. The counter-rotating times are a quantum leap forward from the standard. You can literally drink a beer while tilling even in virgin ground!

This ended up being a terrific purchase. This tiller is small enough to be manageable (I'm only 5'3"), and it easily dug through our hard Georgia clay that is literally filled with rocks. I can hardly wait to use it again - I highly recommend it.

The only down-side was the shipping. The company only delivered between 8 and 5 Monday-Friday. We missed the first attempt at shipment, but the driver was kind enough to come back to our house after he finished his route.