EARTHQUAKE Victory Rear Tine Tiller, Powerful 209cc 4-Cycle Viper Engine, Rugged Bronze Gear Transmission, Counter-Rotating Tines, Instant Reverse, Pneumatic Wheels, Model: 39381, Red/Black

OK, so its a name brand you might not be familiar with... i wasn't, turns out they are made in Minnesota or something... basically southern Canada. Anyhow its strong like bull, small tree roots? ha! it laughs at them... sprinkler system you didn't know was installed? Diced like a tomato on JVC! A family of burrowing rodents? SHREDDED! I have admittedly pretty soft soil to begin with it being mostly alluvial sands that are amazing to garden in and why we bought this property. However i wanted to put in a solid half-acre garden and by the time you rent a tiller for a few days that might not have been taken care of, then use and return it you might as well have purchased your own. I have a lot of experience with tillers and market gardening even big-time farming. This is easily my favorite tiller that i have used and i have used some big boys like the BCS series. A pro tip: You dont need to slam the reverse lever up, you just need to let go of the go bar, then smoothly and gently raise the reverse lever until it kicks into reverse then just let go when you are backed up to where you want to be. The only thing i don't like is that there is no neutral drive gear for the tine motion. if the critter is moving... its tines are moving. you can slip the cotter pins so the wheels don't rotate with the tines and then just push it wherever you want it to go. Screw that, raise the tines up to the highest they go, tilt her forward a bit and drive the beast to where you want to till. Remember: Tilling takes everything on top and forces it to the bottom. so on pass one, it will bury the stuff on top... pass 2 will bring it back up... pass 3 bury/mix, pass 4 bring it back up ETC so remember to put your adjuncts like fertilizer or whatever you want tilled and mixed into your soil on your LAST ODD NUMBER PASS.Other uses for the tiller i have found: It makes trenching a breeze! Just till the line you want to trench out, scoop out the now super soft dirt... bam ready to lay irrigation.. or fix the irrigation you destroyed tilling!All parts of the tiller that could be damaged by the weather or leaving it outside in the rain can easily be covered with a small trash bag, open the trash bag, put it over the head, pull the strings tight around the base and tie it off. good to go! Don't let the weather ruin your tiller and i see this thing lasting at least a decade of hard use... and i use it HARD. Also, this unit REALLY likes ethanol free gas.

Overall a good tiller, the wheelbase being wider than the tines does make it difficult to till up close fences and barriers but it fires right up every time, powerful, it did break a cable connection after starting couple uses but a message to earthquake had a replacement part in my mailbox within a few days. The furrowing attachment takes a lot of the work out of hilling my taters

It was easy to assemble with basic tools. Started up on the first pull. I used it for 5 hours straight the first day with no issues. It was lower cost than other options with smaller engines, it had plenty of power and dug down about 10 inches in the Virginia clay soil.It has thick metal and feels very solid when in use.

The first rock it picked up the drive belt snapped. Called customer support who notified me that I should have adjusted the belt tension when I received the tiller. Then told me it would be July before they could get me a new belt. By July I won’t need a tiller. The representative advised me to go to “Partswarehouse” to order a new be costing $65 with shipping for a 12” drive belt. My problems with this company are Why did they not have a belt for their own machine? Why should I have to adjust a belt right from the factory? It would be like buying a new car and having to adjust the brakes and do an alignment prior to driving it the first time. I will NOT buy another one of these machines. Poor customer service and my guess is that this is a defect in the machine itself and why they are back ordered on belts. Update .. put belt on tilled for about twenty minutes when the forward cable broke. They did send me a new cable at no charge and very quickly. I finished tilling and when I tried to shut it down the on off switch did not work. I have literally spent more time fixing this machine than I have tilling with it.Update: have owned the tiller over a year and have replaced three belts at $60 a pops forward cable and replaced a tire at$100 because the rim is so cheap that when I tried to replace the tube it bent using a screwdriver to pry up the tire. Cheap piece of crap and expensive to fix.

I like it. Fairly easy to assemble. Tine skirts assembly access kind of a pain but no biggie. Starts right up. I like the cleanable foam air filter. Quality 8.8 flanged screws & nylok nuts. Good thing it has a reverse since its a little heavy. Not under powered. Tills well for me. I've had to add transmission oil even though it's not leaking - pretty big transmission so that's probably why.

Excellent product, running great, eliminating so much manual labor work saving so much.

Strong machine. Dug rocky hard dirt really well.

A powerful workhorse tilled 2 foot long grass with no problem easy to assemble too, worked perfectly from first start. FYI wheels are meant to rotate freely until ready to start tilling then u lock them to axle 😅 instructions are on the tine cover not any where on the instruction booklet, carried the deam thing from the living room to the back yard 😅 before figuring it out.