Manual

TILLING
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Now You're Ready to
Use *four Mantis Tiller.
If you've seen other tillers,
your Mantis Tiller may surprise
you. It tills best when you pull it
backward! You see, when you
pulI your Mantis Tiller backward,
you give extra resistance to the
tines, so they dig deeper.
(Picture 1)
What's more when you go
backward, you erase your
footprints. So your soil stays light
and fluffy. With other tillers, by
contrast, you walk right over the
soil you've just tilled, packing it
down, so it's less plamable.
Run Your Mantis Tiller
like a Vacm_lm Cleaner.
Place your Tiller at the head of
the row or area you want to till
Start it up. Then use an eas?
rocking motion. First. pull your
Tiller backward. Then use an
easy rocking motion. Again, pull
your Tiller backward. Then. let il
move torward just a little bit.
Then pull it backward again.
This will h@ you till deeper.
Keep repeating these steps
until you've Oiled an enure row:
Start again on the next row. It's
much like running a vacumn
cleaner[ (Picture 2)
You Can Even Control
Depth.
For Deeper Tilling:
Move your "Filler slowly back
and forth, as you would a
vacuum cleaner, Work the same
area over and over until you've
dug to your desired depth.
For Shallow Tilling!
Switch the tines tO the
cultivating position. (Seepage
15 to learn how.)Then move
your Tiller quick!y over your
soil surface ...............
For Big Weeds or Tough Roots:
Let your Tiller rock back and
_orth over the tough spot, until
the tines slice through the weed
or root.
Your Mantis TNer Handles
Want to turn part of } our lawn
into a color[;al flower border?
Your Mantis "filler makes _t easy!
Just run your Tiller back and
[)rth until the sod begins to
break up. Then continue tilling_
Your 7[ilter will chop the clumps
of sod until they're line, Then. :it
-will work them into the soil
Pretty soon, ym£1t have a soft.
fresh planting bed.