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I have the soil cultivator, and can say that I'm currently 60% enamored with it and 40% undecided. I need more time using it to figure out the quirks before I up my percent approval, which I know I will.
What is the goal of the soil cultivator?
To keep some shmoe (ME) from hand raking a lawn. Labor intensive and tiring. I would rather use the soil cultivator for an 8 hour stretch than a grading rake. I darn sure would get a lot more accomplished.
The hidden benefit of the soil cultivator is you can add a few inches of good soil or compost and mix it all together and come out with an awsome finish grade. Toro pushes that you can make good soil out of bad, but if you have no organic matter the soil is going to remain poor.
There will be some hand raking, but hand raking fluffed soil to level a few high or low spots beats tilling soil with a walk behid tiller and hand raking afterward. It is also quicker.
Rocks over baseball size will get dragged by the machine. Stop the tines, pick up the rock and put it in a wheelbarrow, keep going. This is definitely not the machine for super rocky new construction sites.
Here are my most recent, and best, results with the soil cultivator.
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Last edited by jwholden : 05-10-2006 at 11:39 PM.
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