LawnMaster TE1318W1 Corded Electric Tiller 13.5-Amp 18-Inch Orange

If you are considering to use this machine in Australia, it’s not right machine for you. Even if you are buying for different country other than USA to use check if it’s suit there. Check Plug, voltages also amp as well. Bought it for use in Australia, unfortunately couldn’t use and had to return it.

I bought this electric tiller 2025 for the veggie garden season. It worked beautifully. If your soil has been already broken, this is the tool but I wouldn't recommend it for 'breaking ground'. Take great care of it to last. I brought mine inside the house into the basement for storage to ensure it doesn't experience too cold of weather. I am in my later 60 's and it wasn't too heavy to manipulate getting down the stairs into the basement.

This little rototiller is terrific. It came mostly assembled. There were just a few pieces I had to put together. I wanted to get a corded unit and I use it close to the home. So one cord length is all I need. It is easy to pull and it digs down into the ground easily. My garden/yard does not have large rocks or stones. But there are areas of clay, and this was a little more challenging. But with enough passes, it was okay. It chews up the dirt clods and produces a somewhat uniform consistency. I may have needed to make more passes but I stopped when I thought the soil was what I needed. I would highly recommend this unit.

Decades ago I rented a tiller = think it was Honda. Remember it was very heavy and literally pulled me around the yard -- like trying to hold on to a bull at a rodeo. After removing what little St Augustine grass was in the front yard, assembled this little tiller (took about 5 minutes). Doesn't say in the book when using if you "go forward" or "walk backward". Tried both ways, Found it wants to go forward, so 90% of time let it semi pull its self. It's light enough that you can control it completely, regardless of if going forward or pulling it back towards you. Occasionally, in tight corner spaces, let it run while pulling back and forth -- it does do fine and looses the dirt (as good if not better going backwards) but it sorta digs a hole in that spot. Tiller is not loud, and to my surprise it has a lot of power -- it never "bogged down" when it hit hard dirt or spider web type roots buried in the dirt. Took about an two hours to do 50' x 30'. Did a "cross" pattern as it suggests in the booklet. Tiller Does Bounce up and down. Discovered that occurs when it hits really hard compacted dirt. When this happened, it is best to just quit advancing forward, and also push down on the handle bars to raise the blades slightly, and then lower the handles slowly -- a little at a time -- giving the blades time to break up and loosen the hard dirt. A lot of my yard was very hard and going so slowly giving the blades time to break up the soil really added time to get job done. Hit a few roots about the size of my finger, and the tiller would generally just "hop" over them. Occasionally, it would break a root of that size, but not often. It does not do well in damp or kinda muddy dirt, so avoid those areas when using. A couple of times small roots had to be "unwound" from the blade shaft (note: these roots didn't stop the tiller from working, but removed them as preventative maintenance as instructions suggested) Actually, I was amazed this light weight small tiller is as efficient and effective as it is -- especially for the 150 cost. THE ONLY ISSUE I FOUND: -- There is a cut out in the handle for your extension cord to loop thru to make connection to the tillers male a/c plug. The location of where the electrical cable goes thru the handle is right near where the power switch is located -- so, if your wearing gloves (like the instruction books said) it is very difficult to operate the switch. Even without gloves, the power cord still is "in the way" of the power switch. Also, the connection of the power cable from the tiller and the extension cord kept coming disconnected. Finally tied them together in a 'square knot'. That fixed the 'disconnect' issue. Be sure to keep the extension cord AWAY from the blades when your operating the tiller -- it will wind your extension cable up in the blades a heart beat (dont ask how I know) Overall, this little tiller did exactly what I needed it to do. Am very pleased, and think it was well worth the money. Would recommend it very much.

I've got about 3000-5000 square feet of front garden and a very overgrown 2000 square feet at the rear of the home. I bought a really nice if badly maintained home in the mountains, really great soil, superb place to grow flowers and weeds! We've used the tiller three times at this point and its converted scrubby ground into loamy soiled area. We pre-weeded where we could and then ran this over the stubborn deeper rooted grasses and then pulled out those weeds after going over them a few times. It does a really nice job. Only one issue I'm finding and its because I'm probably at fault tilling the aggressive way I am is it gets choked with weeds that wind around the claws. So it takes a few minutes to unwind the mess each time. But well worth the work to clean up the tiller such is the lovely ground its left us to seed with wild flowers. All in all a solid addition to my gardening tools.