Scotts Outdoor Power Tools TC70135SS Garden Tiller, 16", 13.5-Amp, Green

Initial testing review, April 2023: Build quality such as steel handle thickness and fit are better than expected. Tines depth is a little smaller than expected. Compared to long tine gas tillers the Scotts rotation speed is much faster. The result is it kicks out rocks and roots pretty fast. Also the dirt gets thrown around more. The depth of effective tilling is roughly 4-6 inches. If dirt is pulled away using the tiller it may go to 8 inches. It doesn't like being buried and bogs down. It works great to mix and cut up leaves and clippings in the 4-6 inch range. As is always the case with electric, cord management is a challenge. With rock and root free soil, it's very fast due to the fast rotation speed. I wouldn't use it in soil with lots of rocks and roots. It gets pretty jumpy with anything it can't break up or cut. No tiller does well with hard materials but this one reacts badly. This tiller worked well for my needs. Roughly 2+ inches of leaves, grass, and compost bin materials were quickly mixed into the top 6-8 inches with a few passes. One 12-2 50 ft cord was used. To the main panel maybe 100 ft max. No over heating issues were observed. I wish Scotts would make optional longer inner tiller tines to be used with 2 tines. Deep tilling is rarely needed but it's nice to get organics deep once a year or so.

This tiller does an amazing job, plus it is so easy to start since it’s electric!

assembled it (easy) tried it out Wow for an electric tiller it is GREAT tilled up my garden in about 15 minutes it even tore through the grass roots and was easy to clean the tines good value for the money very powerful for its size works great compact design made it easy to use am very happy with this purch

I watched many, many videos on the use of small corded tillers, and most people simply are not using them to get the best job done. To launch right in with a small tiller in packed uncultivated ground is very, very difficult. What I did was to first turn the soil over with a shovel down about 6-8 inches and break up the soil. Then I was able to pulverize the dirt for a perfect garden. Yes, I took a good effort to turn the soil over, but then the small tiller just cut through it like a knife threw butter. Notice how fine the soil is as a result. The Scott’s 13.5 tiller is really well made- a lot of metal, some plastic, and very powerful. It is slightly heavier than a lot of these small tillers, but that is a plus in my book. It takes less work to get it to dig into the soil. It cost a bit more than some small tillers, but the superior quality and power justify this.

This proved to be a much heavier duty tiller than I expected. Works great, so far no job too tough for it and I have put it to work. After being heavily used one thing that seems to be more of a flaw in the design is that the pins that hold the wheels slip, so they don’t catch after awhile, so they just collapse and you can’t roll it on wheels, you have to carry it. So you are tilling holding the unit upright, not rolling it on 2wheels. I’ve seen this happen to 2 of these tillers, mine and my sister’s. We just rigged something to hold wheel bar in place, and just keep using it…. so you might want to support the wheel brace somehow so they hold up longer, like with zip ties on each side.

Bought this on sale for less than 100 and it worked exceptionally well. I used it to till up my chicken run and it exceeded my expectations. Easy assembly and feels like it’s built well.

The electric garden tiller is very easy to handle and performs great!

I'm basically happy with this. It required purchasing a special extension cord (note it requires a 12/3 15-amp cord), but I like that I don't have to deal with maintaining a gas engine. It's fine on ground with short mowed grass or bare earth. If you try to dig up ground that's covered in tall grass or weeds, the greenery gets wound around the tines and needs to be cut out periodically. I did this anyway, and it worked, but next time I'll mow or clip weeds first... Had to go over the ground again after the weeds were torn out to really get the tines in as far as they will go. Worked perfectly for the (mostly bare) garden. It does BOUNCE around a bit if there are any rocks, roots, etc. If you have any experience walking a rambunctious dog, you should be fine.