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Your cart is empty.The Mantis classic gas powered tiller/cultivator from schiller grounds care, Inc. Is built with a powerful commercial grade 2-cycle engine to handle all your tilling & cultivating needs. The easy push button Priming, convenient on/off switch & ergonomic Speed control help make using the Mantis a simple task. Its features include molded grips, durable one-piece cast gear box, & 10" tine depth. Patented serpentine tines are guaranteed for the lifetime of the unit against breakage.
TC
2025-08-09 13:14:43
Open the top and the bottom of the box. Leave the motor assembly in the cardboard cradle to assemble. The nuts are lock nuts that barely start by hand then use wrench to tighten. No lock tite required. The tines are sharp. The 7920 does not have a kick stand. (Home Depot has one for the Echo TC tiller that fits the Mantis for 19.99) I use tru fuel 50-1 premix fuel. It started pretty easily. I tilled a 4’ x 20’ raised bed and it worked great. Took some effort to control. Way better than hand tools and it really obliterated the dirt clods. Also super light weight.
Ken Tanguis
2025-08-06 13:09:24
Not a bad little tiller at all! I own a larger self propelled rear tine tiller that I’d used previously that did a good job but was a work out to use and much larger than I really needed. I’ve since placed it for sale and purchase the Mantis. This is a perfect little machine for the average home or small homestead gardeners. Very simple assembly, I’m certain even the most non skilled person would understand the assembly instructions. Lightweight, easy to carry from shop to garden and if toting isn’t your thing, fire it up and lightly depress the throttle and the tines will walk itself, they will lightly dig in however. Probably not recommended but it works when moving around the garden for me. Fuel consumption seems adequate enough, I can till my entire garden on less than a tank. Quieter than I expected too. I like to till deep and this Mantis does the job, just remember that unlike a typical tiller, you will pull the machine towards you, it takes some practice to follow a straight line for uniform rows. Rock back and forth and even angle the machine in the row a bit to dig deep. I’m thoroughly pleased with this tiller and wish I had gotten on sooner.UPDATE:This spring we’ve had an inground pool installed and the process wrecked our yard and left behind are huge mounds of left over dirt. Solution, use this dirt to repair lawn damage and fill in low spots in the rest of the yard. Problem, that’s a lot of dirt. Problem, the dirt mounds are tough to shovel. Solution, my handy dandy Mantis tiller to the rescue. Since it’s to lightweight I can easily work it on these huge mounds of clay and dirt, bust it up and easily shovel into the bed of our UTV and transport where we need it. I’m working the hell out of my little machine and it’s a beast.
Amanda
2025-06-28 10:09:00
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Kyle W.
2025-05-24 21:36:01
Great in theory, great the first time, a little slow to start, now it won't start at all. Fires up for five seconds on full choke, then nothing. Outside the return window, not able to get any help. Pretty big waste of $400.
John
2025-02-14 17:08:15
I bought my first Mantis Rototiller in 1996, when you could only buy them from T.V. advertising. We grew a vegetable garden in our yard every year. My brother was a contractor who did landscaping in new housing tracts. He told me to put Blood & Bone meal in my garden in the spring. The Mantis is like a blender, light weight, easy to handle. And made growing a garden much easier. In 2011 I was retired, and we moved to the Kern River Valley, to a house with 1/2 acre of property. Around 2016 my Mantis quit working. I didn't see anything wrong with it. I looked it over again and all that was wrong was I left a full tank of gas in it all the time since I bought it. That would be 20 years, and the gas line in the tank dissolved. I still have the old one and it still works, and they recently had them on sale on Amazon. I couldn't resist buying another one. It was $349.00, in 1996 they cost $300.00. Not a bad price for 27 years later. Makes growing a garden and digging up weeds a lot easier.
John
2025-01-27 17:11:31
The assembly was straightforward. Found out that the shut off switch on the handle didn’t work. Found that the ground wire “looped crimp connector†failed. Replaced it and now shut off switch works.I filled up the gas, can with ethanol free gas, and added marine grade stablil. This thing runs like a champ, and it really works great. We removed 40 feet of old shrubs along the side of the house. Then we tilled the entire area with this. Very impressed. Time will tell how well it lasts.
Noreen
2025-01-10 19:21:48
These tillers are so light weight and easy to use. I was skeptical, but now am so impressed with the power and ability get the job done. Not fatiquing to use like the big heavy ones and much eaier to manuever. I have a full size tiller, but always reach for the Mantis, rarely use the big one now.
Customer
2024-12-08 17:24:07
I had one of these years ago when they were made in the USA. It is s tiny power house. I have done loads of good work with it this spring. Still have more to do. Sometimes I have troubles starting it, but I think it is mostly caused by "user error" LOL.
Persistent gardener
2024-11-19 11:02:38
Broke up some very hard ground. It took a bit of going over but did an amazing job. Easy to handle. Love this little monster!
Soph :)
2024-11-16 11:05:25
Easy to use. Very powerful. Attachments take only seconds to change.
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