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Troy-Bilt Pro-Line 160cc Honda Engine Rear Tine Tiller #21A645A766
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List Price: $799.99
Our Price: $849.00
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Manufacturer: Troy-Bilt
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Binding: Tools & Hardware
Brand: Troy-Bilt
EAN: 0043033535101
Feature: Rear tine tiller with a 160cc Honda GC engine
Label: Troy-Bilt
Manufacturer: Troy-Bilt
Model: 21A-645A766
Publisher: Troy-Bilt
Studio: Troy-Bilt
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Features
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Rear tine tiller with a 160cc Honda GC engine
Loop and bail handle type
17" Tine shield
5" x 13" Wheel size
Bolo tines
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Customer Rating:
Summary: The Just Right Rototiller
Comment: The size and power is judt right for my 30 by 100 ft. garden. The Honda motor starts up on one pull and the convience components are very helpful. The quick and easy pin position clip allows for eacy changes between free wheel movement and ingear movement. This allows for moving the tiller much easier when it is not running. Also, very helpful is the bars on the front that allow you to pull the tiller into a shed when you have to move/pull over a step or maneuver into a tight corner.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Does a great job for its size.
Comment: Like many of you I bought this for my garden, but unlike a few of you I understand the correct way to use it. 1 - Don't till to deep when you first start out; 2 - Don't till wet soil as you're only asking for trouble; and 3 - Read and follow all the instructions! Trust me you'll be glad you did!
The video that many of you have seen online of this tiller at work is that of a prepared plating bed being tilled. Not one that is just at the beginning of its preparation. This tiller is for small gardens so if you want a Troy-Bilt tiller to farm with then you should look at the Horse model as it has lots of POWER!
Also, the current Amazon price is $50.00 over the MSRP. Lowe's sells this tiller for $729.00 with FREE shipping to the store. So does Ace Hardware and a few other stores out there! So shop around unless Amazon lowers their price first.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Has a few drawbacks
Comment: Works fantastic in some soils, Plenty of horsepower and mixes the earth to a fine soft texture. Normally it would be a great machine except when trying to till clay soils or soils with vegatation. The reverse turning tines pulls the vegatation to the front and builds up under the deck requiring frequent clean outs. The clay soil builds up under the depth guage and raises the tines out of the ground requiring clean out also.
But if you have a clean sandy soil I have found this to be a real good tiller.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Counter Rotating = Counter Productive
Comment: First, I should mention that I grew up running my dad's big Troy-Bilt forward rotating tine tiller. As a very young lad, I could handle the tiller with ease, and with only one hand on the handle. The tiller did all the work and needed very little human interaction. It served our family for 20 or 30 years. I have always been a great fan of Troy-Bilt tillers because of that experience, and that tiller will be a point of reference for this review.
Thinking the counter-rotating tine idea sounded like it would work well, I decided to try it in my garden. After a short time working with the new tiller, I decided that the "counter-rotating" should be changed to "counter-productive." I ran into two major drawbacks.
1) I found it almost impossible to keep the tiller headed in a straight line, even at a very shallow tilling depth. Because the tines work against the forward motion of the machine, any slight divot or furrow would send it off on a tangent, especially if the back end was hitting any hard dirt, causing the back end to bounce. Any time I would run onto an obstacle, such as a corn root from last year, the tiller wheels would dig in and the tines could not dig into or go past the root. I would have to lift the back end to get it to continue on. With a forward rotation, the tiller would just continue forward and perhaps lift itself over the root, but within a couple of passes it would chop it up, rather than getting stuck on it and sending the tiller on a curvy path. Even after a couple of passes, I found that I almost had to push the tiller to keep it moving in a forward direction.
2) I like to put organic material on the garden at the end of the season and till it in, such as the straw and manure from the chicken coop. With the CRT tines, the tines push this type of material forward and up rather than down and back, so soon the space between the shroud and the wheels is clogged, and the tires grab it as it is constantly pushed forward from the tines, so within about ten feet, the space between the frame and the wheels and the shroud and the wheels is clogged so tight with material that it won't hardly move, so I had to stop a couple times on every pass to unclog it.
Summary: This tiller is not meant for gardening. It took me at least four times as long to do anything with it than it should have, with inferior results. The inability to till in organic materials is a serious problem. The machine's inability to keep moving forward and in a straight line is very crippling to productivity. The counter rotating tines also seemed to transfer a lot more vibration to the operator. My hands were numb after running it for a while. I had no problem with the Honda motor or the power of the machine, which ran without a hitch (thus the two stars,) but it was just too hard to get anything done!
Thank goodness I bought it at Lowe's and they took it back!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Tiller!!!
Comment: I am a true believer of honda motors. This tiller tills will ease and the 5hp honda motor has plenty of power and is very quiet. I went from a front tine tiller to this rear tine and I will never go back.
Recommended!!!!
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Editorial Reviews:
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The Pro-Line CRT features a premium 5 HP Honda engine and counter-rotating design to break up hard-packed soil quickly and easily. Small enough to fit easily between garden rows. U.S.A.
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