Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat

Chatting => Equipment Shed => Topic started by: mrsbean on August 25, 2013, 21:54

Title: mantis/?
Post by: mrsbean on August 25, 2013, 21:54

has anyone got any advice/opinions on the cheap tillers advertised in newspapers. the mantis has gone out the window due to having to replace shower, tv, washing machine,car exhaust all in last 2mths. thanks

Title: Re: mantis/?
Post by: Sparkyrog on August 25, 2013, 21:59

Yes don't the mantis is great I can't fault it ! save a while longer  :)

Title: Re: mantis/?
Post by: carlrmj on August 25, 2013, 23:44

Try ebay for a 2nd hand mantis , I got an old 2stroke a few years ago for 40 quid.

 It will last longer than the cheaper models you see in the paper.
 

Title: Re: mantis/?
Post by: Capt Zero on August 26, 2013, 05:57

I agree 100%...I did bite the bullet at the start of the year and bought one, their great, but they are only a tiller and not a rotavator.  Try your local papers, Gumtree, and the free adds....you may strike lucky. ;)

Title: Re: mantis/?
Post by: Welsh Merf on August 26, 2013, 09:51

I have a Mantis. It tills down to about eight or nine inches - but what do you plant that needs to go deeper than that?

Save and get one!

Title: Re: mantis/?
Post by: mrsbean on August 26, 2013, 15:54

ok thanks for replies, lots of people down plot have the mantis. we do have a rotavator,but they all ways seem to be wizzing around between their fruit bushes,potatoes and making seed beds. will check out ..bay, not heared of gumtree and start saving. thanks all glad we did,nt buy the cheap version.