My landscaper father once tried to have me run his very large rototiller. Catastrophe! A 155-pound teenager could not tame the raging beast, and probably neither will Evelyn.
When I was a kid my dad rented a roto-tiller and asked me to see if I could use it to break up the ground in our backyard garden. When he came out to check how I was doing he couldn’t believe how much I’d gotten done – he seemed to think using it was supposed to be hard work, but the tiller did most of it for me.
If only it worked that easily the first time. Past experience (watching my father) tells it is far more likely to be drug all over the place because the tines can’t break through the surface in the first place. Of course, that only happened once. After that Dad made sure he got out right after a good rain, before the clay returned to a cement like state. The first year he tried a garden, we had square and triangular onions. He also managed to break his shovel digging up those onions…the metal part where the wooden handle is inserted and attached, not the wooden part.
woodwork over 14 years ago
and THAT, boys and girls is why we own a Troybuilt Horse
pschearer Premium Member over 14 years ago
My landscaper father once tried to have me run his very large rototiller. Catastrophe! A 155-pound teenager could not tame the raging beast, and probably neither will Evelyn.
Nighthawks Premium Member over 14 years ago
just change the setting from “grave digging’ to “seed planting”
McGehee over 14 years ago
When I was a kid my dad rented a roto-tiller and asked me to see if I could use it to break up the ground in our backyard garden. When he came out to check how I was doing he couldn’t believe how much I’d gotten done – he seemed to think using it was supposed to be hard work, but the tiller did most of it for me.
boxbabies over 14 years ago
If only it worked that easily the first time. Past experience (watching my father) tells it is far more likely to be drug all over the place because the tines can’t break through the surface in the first place. Of course, that only happened once. After that Dad made sure he got out right after a good rain, before the clay returned to a cement like state. The first year he tried a garden, we had square and triangular onions. He also managed to break his shovel digging up those onions…the metal part where the wooden handle is inserted and attached, not the wooden part.
Trebor39 over 14 years ago
Knowing Evelyn, she’ll master that rototiller in no time.
rotts over 14 years ago
Troy-built = counter-rotating tines. Easy to control.
avonsalis over 14 years ago
I’m just glad that my dad stuck to showing me how to use chainsaws. Or, maybe that we lived on wooded land in the first place!