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Making UK Gardening Easier for over 25 Years!
Over 25 years ago a small red tiller was first introduced to UK gardeners. Its manufacturer boldly promised that the little workhorse would make gardening easier.
Back then, all tillers were big, heavy and difficult to manoeuvre. After tilling a garden with a giant beast of a machine, every muscle in your body ached.
By comparison, the small red Mantis tiller weighed in at just 20 pounds/9 kg, and you could easily pick it up with one hand to move it from garage to garden. But when you pulled the cord to start the petrol engine, the Mantis Tiller’s patented tines chewed up soil with amazing ease. Here was a piece of power equipment that actually delivered on its promises. It really did make gardening easier by taking the backbreaking strain out of tilling garden soil.
When the Mantis Tiller was first offered for sale in the UK in 1990, no one could have predicted how popular the world’s first mini-tiller would become.
Today, gardeners are happily tilling their gardens with Mantis tillers. In fact, it’s hard to find a gardener who will say anything disparaging about a Mantis tiller.
Mantis receives hundreds of unsolicited testimonial letters and emails every year. Many gardeners become fond of their Mantis tillers.
For over 35 years and approaching two million units sold, the Mantis tiller is still assembled in the original factory by a longstanding and dedicated workforce. In spite of its many imitators, the Mantis tiller is still the best-selling tiller in the UK and the world.
The Mantis tiller is set apart from other tillers due to it’s the patented “serpentine” (curved) tines. These tines give it the ability to cut through sod, tough soil and even vegetation with ease.
The Mantis tiller’s high-quality craftsmanship and powerful commercial-grade engine consistently get rave reviews. And gardeners are pleased with the handy way the Mantis tiller tills garden plots and effortlessly weeds around trees and landscaping.
The Mantis tiller can effectively perform a wide variety of tasks. The tiller tines can easily be removed and many optional attachments can be quickly installed. These optional attachments convert the Mantis tiller into a border edger, furrower, plough, lawn aerator, lawn dethatcher or crevice cleaner. Thus, one Mantis tiller and its attachments can do the work of eight different power tools.
Over the years, the Mantis tiller has received many impressive official awards, including the 2009 Grow Your Own magazine Award for the best small tiller.
Mantis Tiller Trivia: Why is it called a Mantis Tiller?
Because the tiller handles resemble the shape of praying mantis arms, and the praying mantis is a beneficial insect in the garden.
For over 40 years the ComposTumbler has made it easy for gardeners to have a steady supply of compost.
The ComposTumbler is the best-selling drum composter in the world.
This amazing gardening product was developed in 1974, by an Australian named Peter Whiteside, who designed the drum to be the perfect shape and size to create fast decomposition of organic materials when turned daily.
Since 1979 the ComposTumbler has been manufactured in the United States and is sold all over the world.
Mantis products are distributed in the UK by Barrus. Barrus is proud to have achieved 100-years in business. Vision and innovation have always been at the heart of the company ever since it was founded by Ernest Barrus in the early years of the twentieth century.