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HomeGarden StoreMowers, Tillers & MoreTillersMantis 4222-00-02 Tiller Aerator Attachment |
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15 of 17 found the following review helpful:
 Awesome May 26, 2006
By dancedoc
You may not need this item, but if you do, you won't be sorry for buying it! Since I bought my current house, my lawn has been in sad shape. Patchy grass, mostly weeds, dead thatch-filled spaces that rapidly fill in with dandelions. Trying to dig out weeds has been nearly impossible, because the ground is solid clay with a tons of rocks. The white grubs only make matters worse. 3 years of overseeding, weeding, fertilizing has gotten me nowhere.
This year I bought the aerater attachment for the Mantis (bundled with the dethatcher). This thing kicks butt! No problem slicing through the dead matted thatch, cutting deep grooves in the clay. It tosses up rocks that can easily be picked up. It slices up weed roots (and dices a few grubs too) as a bonus. The weeds pull very easily afterwards, and the overseeding I've done all seems to be sprouting as the seeds fell into the grooves.
The grass looks very ugly after you run this baby, but a couple of weeks later it's looking like a new lawn. It helps to run it after rain, or water a little first. The only downside I can see is that it's pretty small, so I probably can't do the whole 2 acres every year!
14 of 18 found the following review helpful:
 Warning! Do NOT use on the following grasses Oct 22, 2008
By austin_Larry
I just called the Mantis customer service number because I had a technical question. When I was on the line I mentioned I was looking forward to receiving the aerator and the tiller was great, it cut through my Bermuda no problem.
The lady was very nice and said wait you have Bermuda? I said yes. She said do NOT use the aerator on Bermuda. And also do not use on St. Augustine, Zoyzia, and Centipede grasses. The way it works it will cut the roots and kill the lawn. WOW....This information was not up on their website nor on Amazon's.
To be fair to Amazon I am sure if the info was something Mantis put on their website it would have gotten here. Anyhow this is a well deserved 1 star because I could have killed my lawn. Very irresponsible for Mantis to not put the information on their website (their CS rep said she would ask them to put it on the website). Also one of the big reasons we got the tiller was because it also had an aerator attachment. Had Mantis been up-front on the aerator we might not have gotten the tiller.
That being said I have not had a chance to use the tiller fully because I just received it, but from my trial, it was very impressive. Cut through Bermuda like butter on the lowest power setting. But the aerator....very dangerous not to let people know. And now I have the hassle of returning it although Amazon is great in that regard. Still better if I had never ordered it in the first place.
Also I did some research. Slit aeration which this is, is not nearly as good as core aeration. I was trying to avoid renting from a home improvement store...but it looks like that is what I will be doing now. Thankfully though I will have a lawn to aerate. Almost lost it because Mantis did not provide needed information.
3 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Mantis Aerator Jun 23, 2008
By Allan H. Peterson
This attachment worked as expected. Saved me a lot of cash compared to having it done by a landscape group. I was able to swap the attachment onto the Mantis Tiller in about 3 minutes and it worked just fine.
Excellant Product Jul 08, 2011
By James P. Smith
The aerator also works as a tiller, it can handle all of the jobs that a larger tiller doe with these Aerator blades at full throttle. I needed to clear a area on my lawn and decided to use them instead of renting a larger tiller well the straight aerator tines worked great. I finished tilling up the area in no time at all
7 of 15 found the following review helpful:
 Good Deal !!!! Aug 29, 2006
By Denis Roussillon
"audiblu42"
If you're restoring a neglected lawn, this is an essential piece for your Mantis along with the dethacher. I've also used it in flower beds for light weeding as it's not as agressive as the tiller tines. Overall rating, 10+ and Amazon shipped the next day, FOR FREE.
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