My nephew was using our Troybilt and it hit a rock and headed for the fence ! When it went under it caused a shock to my nephew, when the spark plug touched the wire or something...He looked up towards the house to see if the old grouch was watching and we quickly got everything back in place...Yes , those little jewels will really travel if they hit a rock...On the commercial they must be tilling in top soil ! Hubby will no longer use our 'Pony' because he says it's no good..He wants to till very deeply the first time across the ground, and of course doesn't listen when I try to tell him what the book says..>Won't even get it out of the shed...and I'm certainly not able to use it in our rocky soil...A friend got one of those little 20 lb. tillers and she loved it...said if you hit a rock it would just stop , not jump and run ! Jeannie T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:21:21 -0400 "Mary R Mungo" <MRMungo@Comporium.net> writes: I was going down one of the rows with that TroyBilt Tiller > and got to the end. I raised up on it to turn it around and that rascal took off, just flying across the yard toward my chain link fence.

Jeannie T., I bought one of those small tillers a couple of years ago and was out 'doing my thing' one day wondering why it was making such a whining sound, when all of a sudden it just stopped, dead in it's tracks. I tried to start it but it wouldn't even let me pull the string/cord, whatever you call it. Found out later that you had to put oil in the gas! Needless to say that little tiller is useless now. The motor is locked up. Went and bought another one, but now I know what to do. You live and learn, but that lesson was a little expensive. I use that little tiller after my plants are up.... it's great with getting the weeds out that are up close to the plants... Then again, it'll grab a bean plant every once in awhile. I can't get used to pulling it backward though... MaryClyde ----- Original Message ----- From: <askgranny@juno.com> To: <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 11:52 PM Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Tillers... > My nephew was using our Troybilt and it hit a rock and headed for the > fence ! When it went under it caused a shock to my nephew, when the spark > plug touched the wire or something...He looked up towards the house to > see if the old grouch was watching and we quickly got everything back in > place...Yes , those little jewels will really travel if they hit a > rock...On the commercial they must be tilling in top soil ! Hubby will no > longer use our 'Pony' because he says it's no good..He wants to till very > deeply the first time across the ground, and of course doesn't listen > when I try to tell him what the book says..>Won't even get it out of the > shed...and I'm certainly not able to use it in our rocky soil...A friend > got one of those little 20 lb. tillers and she loved it...said if you hit > a rock it would just stop , not jump and run ! Jeannie T > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:21:21 -0400 "Mary R Mungo" <MRMungo@Comporium.net> > writes: > I was going down one of the rows with that TroyBilt Tiller > and got to > the end. I raised up on it to turn it around and that rascal took off, > just flying across the yard toward my chain link fence. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > --- > avast! Antivirus: Inbound message clean. > Virus Database (VPS): 080422-1, 04/22/2008 > Tested on: 4/22/2008 11:52:26 PM > avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2008 ALWIL Software. > http://www.avast.com > > >