Corded Electric Garden Tiller & Cultivator with Steel Tines, 16 Inch, 12-Amp Motor - Heavy-Duty Tilling Machine for Lawn, Yard, and Gardening Care, TJ603E

Wonderful machine and the company and it's distributors stand behind their product and offer excellent customer service. Over the years I have purchased a couple Sun Joe products and have always been happy with them, so when I needed a new tiller, I went with Sun Joe and I'm glad I did. This machine has a lot of power, yet is not unmanageable. It has various settings to allow you to dig deep into the soil, or just scrape the surface for things like seeding. I was using the tiller on the deepest setting to dig a vegetable garden from scratch. The tiller dug deep down on the first pass and totally turned the turf, mulching it up as I went. Then "BOOM", I hit a rock, and then another one, in all honesty, the tiller took a pretty significant beating but kept on working. Apparently however, the beating took it's toll, and eventually, the tiller assembly sheared off. Again, it took a beating before getting to that point. I notified the distributor SpreeTail through Amazon and they were extremely responsive. I admitted to them that I had hit some rocks, but they didn't seem to care. They immediately started the process for me to return the tiller free of charge and they replaced it with a brand new one. In all honesty, I think my tiller endured more than the normal wear and tear covered by the warranty, but within a week of sending it back, I had a brand new tiller. I will be much more careful with this one, starting at a lesser depth so that I am not surprised by big rocks buried deep underground that the blade encounters full on. Bottom line, I recommend this tiller and Sun Joe products without hesitation. This thing is a power house and gets the job done... Just be more careful than I was and should have been.

So this is now the 3rd Sun Joe tool I've purchased. I also own their 40V battery electric push mower and their 2000+psi electric pressure washer. My expectations were low on the first two products as they were electric and not as much of a "name brand" as others. However I was pleasantly surprised with the performance of both of those. So this time around, I had much higher expectations of electric tools from Sun Joe. To say I was impressed would be an absolute understatement. I've used large gas tillers/cultivators growing up to turn over a decent size garden so I wasn't expecting anything close to that. However, this 16" beast blew me away and performed MUCH better than the old gas ones I was used to. I had 3 specific projects in mind for it, a small stone-lined bed for strawberries alongside my garage, a larger area that used to be a dumping area for grass/leaves, and a larger area to loosen up soil so we could level the area for a playset. This performed exceptionally for all 3 tasks. For once I avoided Murphy's Law and the tiller was the perfect width for the strawberry bed. That was done in less than 5 minutes and probably could have been quicker if I didn't encounter a few large rocks that I had to dig out. Smaller rocks (about the size of a deck of cards) were no match for this tiller and came out easily making it simple to rake them out. The dumping area I had expected to take a few hours, but finished up in less than 20 minutes. I even hit some large branches that were buried under old leaves and they simply got stuck in the tines (locking up the tilling blades) so I stopped, pulled it out, and kept going. Didn't bend or damage anything, even though these branches were about 2" thick! The playset area again I expected to take hours, but was able to do the few smaller high spots in 30 minutes and have it leveled out in under an hour. My wife who was out running errands came home and asked how far I had gotten and I just smiled and said "Done!" If you're debating getting this one, just stop and order it already. Grab a decent power cord (I bought a 100' 12/3 one with lighted ends now) so you don't end up chaining them like I had to for one area and you'll be good to go! I'll definitely consider Sun Joe for my next electric power tool purchase, although I think my expectations will be even higher!

Overall, this is a good tool at the right price. I just used it for several hours in a row on the hardest dry clay I can imagine (I literally had to work for several minutes with a hammer and chisel to clear clumps from the blades the few times it got jammed up), and it worked quite well. It did take some time and technique on the extremely hard, dry clay, but I imagine it would make short work of any other soil situation, and I probably could have saved some time by hosing down the clay a bit first. Assembly was quick and easy, and although you should read the manual and understand the hazards of a tool designed to tear stuff up, operation is pretty obvious. I was also careful to use an appropriately sized extension cord. There are two problems with this tiller: By far the biggest one is the design of the handles. The part you hold is a round cylindrical shape oriented pointing away from you, and the motion of the blades makes the tiller pull in exactly that direction, so it is very difficult to hold the round handle without your hands sliding to the back of the handles, which makes you fingers slide off of the trigger that keeps it running, so it turns off. I almost immediately gave up trying to use it as designed, and duct taped some blocks of wood inside the backstop of the handles so my hands wouldn't slide back off of the trigger. I was surprised how well that worked for such a simple solution. The second problem is in how the manual says to route an extension cord to it. There is a small square hole in the handle back, with a hook inside the handle area. The manual say to form a loop in the exentension cord (which is not included btw) and use the hook to grab the cord. However, never have I seen in my whole life an extension cord designed or able to be bent at such a sharp angle as would be required to pass a loop through the tiny square hole. Furthermore, when I tried to ignore that hole and just pass the cord through the handle to at least use the hook, the hook was such a tight fit on my 12-gauge (with ground, which is not needed for this two pronged, double insulated device) extension cord that I think it may have damaged the extension cord.

As a starter, I am not one of those people who frequently comments or rates things that I buy on Amazon. We received our Sun Joe today (lovingly named Josephine), and tried it out on our raised beds. Like a lot of other reviews state, this thing is a beast! If you are looking for a smaller tiller, this is your choice! A few things I love about her: 1. It's light. I can easily pick this up and set it into my raised beds, and move it between beds. It's got great handles on it to grab it with (nothing that digs into your fingers, bonus!), and isn't awkward to carry. 2. For being a tiller, it's fairly quiet. Has that electric motor sound to it... think Shop Vac, but a little quieter. 3. It really chews up the dirt. Our first bed, we thought would be easy. Previously an onion bed, with little 'garbage' left from last year. No issue. Finished with our last bed, which didn't work out last year, and had a summer's worth of hard grass mat and clumps of old beets. Boom. Done. Another bed had last year's big tomato stems and root balls in it, and Josephine easily tore through it. 4. Although a little rough at the start (legit, this thing is powerful, like powerful), once you figure out how to use it, it's really easy to use. Watch it around the wooden borders of a raised bed (nothing major will happen, but it will bounce off the wood and surprise you), but it gets really close to the edges, meaning less weeding! It moves through soil like butter. I recommend doing a couple passes if you are looking to break down/incorporate new soil, but that won't take long! I will be using this in my in-ground bed for weeding between rows as the summer passes, but require the depth of my bigger Honda to work in some new manure and dig the clay of Northern Ontario. That said, this tiller would be great for any gardener looking for an easier option to work the ground.

Me gustó su potencia, es ms fácil dar tierra cuando riegas unos 2 días antes de usarlo más fácil para el equipo y menos cansado para el operador .... Muele las hojas de los árboles no al 100 pero ayuda a iniciar el proceso de compostaje generalmente en de 15 a 30 min me llevo darle tierra a cada árbol... Yo lo ame me ha servido mucho

I have a gas powered cultivator, good for open beds but too heavy for raised beds This is easy to lift into raised beds and does a VG job of stirring the compost pile It mixes better if dragged backwards. Has enough power to do the big beds if they are not compacted Easy to cleanup and move Recommended

Muy buen producto, trabaja muy bien, trabajamos en un jardín como de 500 m2 y en 2 días lo terminamos, mucho muy fácil el trabajo con este aparato

I was sceptical but watched a lot of reviews and ordered the unit. Works fairly well, you need to handle it while you are in the garden but nothing overly complicated. I bought extended warranty just in case through the manufacture rather than on Amazon because the Amazon one is money back and what uses that to me later down the line. The manufacturer one is a little more expensive but they will give you parts and replace the entire unit if it fails. So far I’m happy with this tiller and I only use that the one season twice so far. After a long debate about gas I don’t wanna go down that route and cordless is just too expensive. Happy so far!