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Rotovator/Tiller Recommendation
Greetings
I have been considering the purchase of a 5 HP rotovator and I am looking for a product recommendation. I like the idea of a Honda FG500 (with the reliability and 5 year warranty) but the best price that I can find is approximately 670 UK pounds. Can you recommend such a machine? Thanks in advance. Maurice Bishop |
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Rotovator/Tiller Recommendation
The reason for asking about other usage is that there are several Italian
machines on the UK market that are multi functional, that is you can change the implements on the one power source, I use Renovator, grass cutting bar, plough and trailer(Ride on), and you can get rotary mower, snow blower, brush and other attachments as well. It saves buying several engines etc and I find it good, but for multi user probably a fixed machine will be a better buy, still worth looking at some of the Italian machines, as well as Honda. -- David Hill Abacus nurseries www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk |
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"Maurice wrote in message ... I have been considering the purchase of a 5 HP rotovator and I am looking for a product recommendation. I like the idea of a Honda FG500 (with the reliability and 5 year warranty) but the best price that I can find is approximately 670 UK pounds. Can you recommend such a machine? We have a Honda F210 which has been totally reliable (touches wood) except I wore the first lot of tines out on our clay soil, yes, it can get that hard. Coincidentally "The Kitchen Garden" has an article on Rotovators this month....... Honda... www.honda.co.uk/ sell 6 different ones in the UK. from £379 to £1,799. Camon... www.tracmaster.co.uk/ also sell 6 at prices up to £4,346 !!!. SEP.... Tel:- 01793 710212 for information on their range of 9 machines. Viking.... www.stihl.co.uk/ looks interesting with 2 new machines at reasonable prices too. -- Regards Bob Use a useful Screen Saver... http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ and find intelligent life amongst the stars, there's bugger all down here. |
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"Bob wrote in message Coincidentally "The Kitchen Garden" has an article on Rotovators this month....... Honda... www.honda.co.uk/ sell 6 different ones in the UK. from £379 to £1,799. Camon... www.tracmaster.co.uk/ also sell 6 at prices up to £4,346 !!!. SEP.... Tel:- 01793 710212 for information on their range of 9 machines. Viking.... www.stihl.co.uk/ looks interesting with 2 new machines at reasonable prices too. Actually I have found a better site for the last one http://www.abbeygardensales.co.uk/su...s_0000480.aspx and it includes others if you check out the bottom of the page. -- Regards Bob Use a useful Screen Saver... http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ and find intelligent life amongst the stars, there's bugger all down here. |
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On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:29:01 -0000, "David Hill"
wrote: The reason for asking about other usage is that there are several Italian machines on the UK market that are multi functional, that is you can change the implements on the one power source, I use Renovator, grass cutting bar, plough and trailer(Ride on), and you can get rotary mower, snow blower, brush and other attachments as well. It saves buying several engines etc and I find it good, but for multi user probably a fixed machine will be a better buy, still worth looking at some of the Italian machines, as well as Honda. I purchased a BCS tiller in the US got absolutely NO SUPPORT!!! Their small chipper shredder failed after 4 uses and I took a $500USD loss peddling it off to someone willing to **** around with a poorly made and unsupported piece of equipment. Perhaps in the UK there is better support! |
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Well I had a Troybuilt Hosre, Pro model that really did not hold up
long, or as long as it should have for what I paid for it, and was more a pain to use than was worth, as it was always going out of adjustment. I then sold it and bought an off brand tiller named ATLAS. It has been in use now over 6 years and every bit of it trouble free. It does exactl;y what the Troybuilt did, and in some cases more, such as tilling depth and forward speeds etc, is just as manuverable as a Troy is, and it only cost 1/2 as much to buy. It was sold by the local farmer Co-op. Its 8 hp and tills 26" wide, and utilizes the same type bolo tines as TB does. Have yet to make any adjustments or repairs on it. Powered by B & S industrial commercial castiron sleeze ball bearing engine, and if memory serves me right I gave abaout $800 USD for it new. I had looked at BCS and like others support and prices were bad in my area. Honda also makes a pretty nice unit and should be available most everywhere. On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 18:03:25 -0800, Tom Jaszewski wrote: ===On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:29:01 -0000, "David Hill" wrote: === ===The reason for asking about other usage is that there are several Italian ===machines on the UK market that are multi functional, that is you can change ===the implements on the one power source, I use Renovator, grass cutting bar, ===plough and trailer(Ride on), and you can get rotary mower, snow blower, ===brush and other attachments as well. ===It saves buying several engines etc and I find it good, but for multi user ===probably a fixed machine will be a better buy, still worth looking at some ===of the Italian machines, as well as Honda. === I purchased a BCS tiller in the US got absolutely NO SUPPORT!!! ===Their small chipper shredder failed after 4 uses and I took a $500USD ===loss peddling it off to someone willing to **** around with a poorly ===made and unsupported piece of equipment. Perhaps in the UK there is ===better support! Visit my website: http://www.frugalmachinist.com Opinions expressed are those of my wifes, I had no input whatsoever. Remove "nospam" from email addy. |
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