This is really good for tight areas. It isn't very heavy & this makes it manuverable. Given the price, the quality is overall good. The power is a little better than I expected. Starting was worse to begin with but was easier after it's warm. It's what I would expect of a 2 stroke because the gas must go thru the crank case before it gets to the piston. It's been used now more than an hour and so far, I would purchase again.

Tilled my garden area with ease for how compact this is. I am glad I made the purchase as it has saved me hours of digging. Is more powerful than I thought it was going to be and lightweight enough for one person to lift and handle. Very happy with it. It helped me to loosen the dirt and move it around to level my garden area. Went through alot of smaller rocks and dirt mix and didn't have any issues. All the rocks on the back wall are ones this small thing pulled out while tilling.

We were not impressed with its size at first but it is mighty, light and gets the job done.

I odder the one with out wheels as the cost difference is way to much .How ever I now wish I had bitten the bullet and bought the one with wheels

This product is a good value, easy to assemble, light weight, easy to use, powerful engine, and well written documentation. I bought this because the ancient front time tiller needed about the same money's worth of parts as just buying this. I thought I needed a bigger tiller but couldn't bring myself to spend so much on a big rear time tiller that won't fit between my rows and thus would only use once a year. I thought I'd give this one a try. I am very pleased with it so far. It was pretty easy to assemble. The only thing you putting together are the handle bars. I only needed scissors to cut packaging. The bars are attached with thumb screws making it not only quick to assemble, but portable as you can quickly collapse the handle bars for transportation. The tines are reversible for more aggressive tilling. It will just through grass and sod but it takes some time as this really wasn't intended to break unfilled soil, but I found it will do it just fine if your patient. I haven't tried reversing the tines yet to see if it makes a difference, but I'm betting it would. I just didn't need to as I was only breaking up an 8 ft strip. The store description AND Ardisam website tell you this tiller is not designed to break sod or compacted soil, and is recommended for previously tilled soil. That said I don't understand why there are complaints in the review section about this. It does what it says it does and then some. I've found mine will break up sod and compacted soil, but at a very slow pace. And that's fine. It has totally exceeded my expectations. I've filled for about 2 hours and only used 1/2 tank of 40:1 premix. It takes 50:1 per the manual, but I often run a higher oil to fuel mix on a new engine's first tank to help it break in better. The only teensy tiny quam I have is with the starting instructions. If you follow the instructions it can be kind of difficult to start. I've found if you follow the instructions but also give it about half throttle while cranking it usually starts on the first pull if not, the second. Overall I am very pleased with it. I was really expecting such and inexpensive machine to be this good. It's built well, nothing was off with the build, or fit and finish. It was packed extremely well. The owners literature is great. The instructions are clear and well written. There are good illustrations too. There is a handy supplement with replacement parts diagrams and part numbers. It was easy to put together. From unboxing to running was less than 20 minutes. It even came with a bottle of 2 cycle oil and fuel stabilizer. Using it is even better. It is light enough to pick up and put in the back of a car of truck easily. It has adjustable wheels that adjust pretty easily. You may have to knock some accumulated soil from the slide to get the wheels to lock back down but this isn't that big of an issue honestly. The engine is quite powerful for it's size. I tilled my 32 by 16 ft garden in no time. It's quite easy to maneuver. Just pick it up turn it when you get into tight spots. Most of the time it pivots easily around on the tines. The adjustable drag stake is really good at keeping it from jumping around when you snag a rough patch. I can't really think of anything that I would do to improve this little guy. I'm so pleased I just bought the edger attachment. TLDR: It's a lot of bang for your buck. It's built well. It's easy to use. Have realistic expectations and you will be pleased.

The one pull start up is impressive! Quality seems there with no difficulty assembling. Works the ground well for its size. Don’t try to compare this to some of the larger tillers it is smaller but VERY impressive! Takes a little longer to till some dryer soils but slightly dampened soil tills fairly easily. I’ve used some larger tillers and was actually looking for something larger however upon watching some of the YouTube reviews of the tiller and given the smaller size area I had to till I thought why not I’ll try it. Extremely glad I did. Not only did I save money I also attained an awesome lil tiller. Being patient and allowing this lil tiller to do its job at the impressive pace it can handle is all you need for this fantastic tiller. Already had the talk with the wife and we both agree we would buy it again!👍🏼 If you have a smaller garden and are short on time this lil tiller is for you. If you have a larger garden within reason and have patience then this little tiller is also for you as well. If I were retired I wouldn’t hesitate to purchase this to till a 20’ X 20’ garden. It was capable of tilling where a 15 foot diameter pool sat all season and only took me one hour to till. FYI the ground was not turned by shovel what so ever. This review was based on the job it did for me that day and I do intend on putting in the 20’ X 20’ garden I mentioned and I know this tiller will handle it! Oh don’t forget to use some motorkote in the gas oil mix it sure makes it pure like a kitten. Stands to mention also that I arranged all the tiller blades in the aggressive position which is easily accomplished but it’s not shipped or at least mine was not shipped in that position. It’s a fairly easy task to accomplish. Literally no complaints here folks!