This year I have decided to utilize a bigger part of our backyard for planting edibles.

Unfortunately my waste has been playing tricks on me lately and I wanted to spare some pain, eventually.

Moreover, producing more vegetables myself is good for the environment.

Another huge plus, gardening is such a great cardio!

:)))

The local hardware store where I usually shop garden stuff was selling three brands of electric tillers and Gardenia was the most expensive.

So I got the smaller model (1000W), there was a 1500W as well, but the difference was just a couple of centimeters in the width and depth of plowing.

The specs sound ok to me, this was what I actually needed, given the area in question is not so big after all.

Opening the box gives that view:

So I can tell, apart from the handle and the wheels, everything else comes pre-built.

Then...

WOW

How is this even possible!

Phew... I saw this sticker on the outside of the box

It says there is no oil on the gearbox.

WTF !!!

I was using the Bulgarian version of the manual to put everything up together and there was no mention I have to fill it up with "reductor" oil.

Bulgarian version of the manual was very poorly written so I double checked the English version as well.

That version also sucks, if I have to be honest. Probably auto-translated from Chinese, I don't know.

It was obvious nobody proof-reads those!

Also, in the manual there are instruction only how to replace the existing oil.

If I have to make a comparison, imagine you buy a brand new car and when unwrapping it, there is a sticker you have to fill it up with gearbox oil.

A total nonsense if you ask me.

Also, I bet if I haven't seen that and used the tiller, the warranty would be void if no oil is to be found in the gearbox/reductor box.

Another downside - it wasn't specified how much oil is needed.

5 mm hex cap so the hole is probably 3 mm.

Good that I had a syringe.

Also good that I had some leftover oil from my car.

Bad, it was only 2 ml so I had to repeat filling and emptying it more than twenty times.

The real cap is also different than the cap shown of the schema.

Reading the manual and putting up the handle and the wheels took me about 30 minutes.

Then, bumping on the missing reductor box oil problem, I had to reread the manual, checking the other language.

I had to remove a so called "strawberry" (the knives that cut through the soil) and they have direction of rotation, something that isn't mentioned in the manual either.

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Now, after a few hours of usage, the tiller doesn't look that clean already.

It saves a lot of time and efforts, and if it wasn't the crappy manual and the missing reductor oil, I would give it a five-stars review.

At the moment, I'd give it

3/5

For those reasons, I just felt the lack of respect for me as a customer.
I'd be very careful if I have to buy something from that brand again.

Ah, the tiller is quite noisy, but that is something I knew prior buying it.

93 dB, all my neighbors will know I am in the garden! :)))

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Here is an uncomplete list of some of my equipment I use on a regular basis:

Cameras
	Canon EOS 5D Mark III
	Canon EOS M5
	Canon EOS 550D
Lenses
	Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM
	Canon EF 135mm f/2L USM
	Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM
	Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
	Canon EF-M 15-45mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM
	Canon EF-M 22mm f/2 STM
	Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8
	7artisans 35mm f/1.2
Strobes	Dynaphos Speedster
Flashes	Metz
Tripods and Mono-pods	Manfrotto
	Benro

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