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Comes with a handy carrying handle
Entire unit weighs Only 24-pounds
Handle Bars fold down for easy storage
2-year limited Warranty
Come with standard kickstand
Powerful Honda 4-cycle (gas only, no fuel mix required) 25cc engine spins the tines twice as fast as other tillers
Weighs just 24 pounds. Tine speed up to 240 rpm

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Style:Cultivator

Get to the fun part of gardening faster and easier than you ever dreamed possible! Easy to start, quiet and with no fuel mixing required, the Mantis 4-cycle Plus Tiller weighs only 24 pounds. It's one of the lightest small tillers you can buy. Featuring a premium 4-cycle engine powered by Honda, this lightweight powerhouse is tough enough to till through sod and compacted dirt, but is easy to carry, easy to start and easy to use. Forget old-time tillers - this work-saver has soft, sure-grip handles that are ergonomically flared for fatigue-free operation. Infinite speed means you can power your tiller up when you need to, or work more gently if the situation requires. Digging by hand or renting a giant, hard-to-handle behemoth tiller is no fun! Live your Dream Garden! The Mantis Tiller takes on heavyweight projects like busting established sod and compacted dirt or digging a planting hole with ease. The unique, curvy tines (blades) can till a full 10 inches deep. Then with a simple flip of the tines, you can precision-weed around delicate plants and seedlings! This is a gardening tool you'll use all season long! Don't hold back! Put this tiller through most any challenge! The Mantis Tiller is the tool you've been waiting for - the missing link to the greenhouse quality soil every successful garden needs. Convenient, Versatile, and Durable the Mantis Tiller/Cultivator features folding handle bars which make it convenient to store in a garage or tool shed. An innovative transmission design is what allows such a lightweight tool to provide heavyweight performance. Plus every tiller that comes out of our Southampton, PA facility is built with the lifetime service of the user in mind. Get the garden of your dreams. You can do it!

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Style:Cultivator

Product Dimensions

29.25 x 13.5 x 9.5 inches

Item Weight

24 pounds

Manufacturer

SCHILLER GROUNDS CARE INC

ASIN

B00N6X9VY4

Item model number

7940

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791 ratings

4.7 out of 5 stars

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#11,376 in Patio, Lawn & Garden (See Top 100 in Patio, Lawn & Garden)
#8 in Power Tillers

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Myrna

Horrible experience

Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2019

Style: CultivatorVerified Purchase

We purchased a Mantis tiller many years ago and had good feelings about the company and product, including their service online. We just got our new tiller yesterday and spent some time putting it together and went out to happily use it today. It won't start. The old one was never a problem to start. So, we confidently called Mantis - only to get a person on the other end who couldn't care less and offered no help. Told us that since we did not purchase it from Mantis, there is no warranty and no help. Said we could take it to a service center to get it started and pay them. We were totally taken aback by the lack of product support, but the attitude was that if we didn't choose to buy it directly from them, we were now on our own and seemingly an enemy. Amazon is, of course, good for the return, but it'll be another 2 hours of taking it apart, draining the fluids, etc. We are sending it back and will purchase a similar item from a different manufacturer. Disgusted and angry.

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Daniel J Harriger

Better options to a Mantis

Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2018

Style: CultivatorVerified Purchase

Comparison between Mantis 4-Cycle cultivator and Earthquake 2-Cycle. I've had an Earthquake 2-Cycle cultivator for 2 years. However, recently it began acting up and I ordered a replacement carburetor, which was back ordered. So I purchased the Mantis 4-Cycle. Determining factor was the Mantis uses a Honda engine. I have 5 other pieces of equipment with Honda engines ranging from 2 hp to 6.5 hp and have found them highly reliable, easy to start and problem free. The Earthquake has a Viper engine, which has started fine but would now not run full throttle. I have used the Mantis now for a couple of weeks and find that it "bounces" way more than the Earthquake (2 lbs lighter). This is a problem if you are working close to plants as I am in my garden. The Mantis also uses twice as much gas as the Earthquake. The slicing tines on the Mantis work OK, but really only work when pulled backwards (as the manual states). You must work side to side to get all the weeds as the gap between tines misses a lot. The Earthquake tines are standard rototiller-type tines and work going both forward and backward with the only gap between the 2 inner tines. Only drawback I have found on the Earthquake is the spark plug wire, which has a coiled wire inside that wraps around the top of the spark plug, will pull out of the magneto assembly when removed to install a new spark plug (learned from experience and had to replace the magneto assembly for this problem). All-in-all, I cannot justify the $345 for a Mantis versus $135 for the Earthquake as the carburetor and magneto assembly cost me only $50 including shipping to replace. The Mantis has now become an expensive backup if the Earthquake has future problems.

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FGG448

This Little Tiller Really Chews Up The Soil.........

Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2016

Style: CultivatorVerified Purchase

This 4-Cycle Tiller runs great! I had the 2-cycle version and it also worked very well, but it was sometimes difficult to start. This spring the old, 2 -cycle, tiller would not start at all. I was searching for repair parts when I found the new 4-Cycle version. I was concerned that the 4-Cycle would not be as good, but finally decided to order it anyway. I'm very glad that I did. It took me about 20 minutes to put it together, add the included engine oil and put gasoline into the tank. It took 2 or 3 pulls and the small Honda engine was running.

In my opinion, this 4-Cycle engine runs every bit as well as the old 2-Cycle does. It chews through almost anything you put it into. However, shallow tree roots will jam you up and you may need to shut down and unwind them from the tines. Some larger stones will sometimes get jammed in the tines, but they're not difficult to remove.

I'm very, very pleased that I purchased the Mantis 7940 Tiller and the fact that I no longer need to mix gas and oil makes my life a little bit easier.

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Silke Soellig

Most frustrating piece of equipment I own.

Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2018

Style: CultivatorVerified Purchase

I was so excited getting this Tiller after reading the many positive reviews. After we assembled the unit it took many pulls for it to start and then it would stall out immediately. After finally getting it going this Tiller could not even make it 5 inches across a previously tilled plot of land before some weeds wrapped themselves around the tines tighter than a gnats arse. It took me about 15 minutes to free the tines and after repeating steps 1 thru 3 a few times I hauled this piece of vein buster into the shed. Today I felt courageous to try one more time....after pre-weeding my potato field for two hours of course. Easy peasy, right? Heck no....this times there were some unseen roots and a piece of bark hidden in the soil that made the Mantis Tiller come to a screeching halt once again. This was after me trying to get it started for 5 minutes. Right now it is sitting on top of the compost pile waiting for its final fate once I decide where to bury it. I can not recommend this machine at all.
March 27, 2019 Update...After being in storage all winter and wanting to give it one more try in the greenhouse where the soil is soft this thing no longer starts and is leaking oil. I want my money back.

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Tim

Probably the Best Small Tiller on the Market

Reviewed in Canada on June 11, 2017

Style: CultivatorVerified Purchase

I bought the 2 cycle version of this tiller some 18 years ago - was the best smallest and deepest tiller on the market and was extremely pleased with it. I hadn't had much use for it since moving, so sat in the garage for 13 years unused until last year when I tried to start it again - obviously after all that time it needed some repairs and did remind me of it's particular starting method (choke, pull until it fires, choke off, 2 pulls and starts). However, after 13 years of disuse, it just wasn't working the same, so needed to replace it.

Doing some more research, this is still the best option on the market for a small tiller that will till deeply. When I saw Mantis offered a 4-cycle engine (no more 50:1 oil mixing) using a Honda engine (regarded as one of the best small equipment engine manufacturers you can get), I decided to get the upgraded version of this tiller.

Package showed up via UPS within a week of ordering it - faster than the expected delivery time they originally advertised. Didn't take too long to assemble it (attach handles and kickstand, really). Used it yesterday for the first time and works like my original did 18 years ago, if not even better with the 4-cycle engine. Very pleased with it. If tilling in heavy weeds, you will have to stop from time to time to clear the weeds that get wrapped around the shaft, but is relatively easy just by taking off the tines and cleaning it out.

One concerning item is that it was tagged with a warning on the engine to avoid gas with ethanol, which is not an easy task since most places in Canada have now mandated 10% ethanol in gas...and many companies also use it as an octane booster. Issue with ethanol is that on some engine components (some plastics), it dissolves and picks up traces of the plastic molecule and when burnt, will gum up the carb and other systems over time. One upgrade might be a metal fuel tank as is likely the greatest exposure and don't see people draining the tank between uses.

Overall though, very pleased with it...

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Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada on February 27, 2018

Style: CultivatorVerified Purchase

Easy to assemble, Arrived on time, Can't wait for spring, tough stuff.

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