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Our house was built in 1944, so this house has had other owners. The soil in California Heights is clay and to compound our efforts to grow grass, a previous owner poured one inch river rock all over the sides and backyard. The rock works well for area's you don't want grass to grow but cannot understand why it was also poured in the backyard? 2010 I rented a industrial tiller but due to time constraints was not able to fully amend the soil, you can only do so much in one day. I should have rented it for few more days. So, I decided to buy a small tiller and see what I can do. I decided to do the backyard (since I have plenty of time) in 1/3 increments, see picture. I am totally impressed with the performance of this tiller, it goes fairly deep in two forward and two back motions on a 10 foot long lane. Move it over 12 inches and repeat. I was able to till a 20 x 20 section of the backyard 6 inches down in 3 hours (took lots of water breaks). Today I will till in 6 yards of soil amend plus 3 bags of sand. During the initial till I removed enough 1 inch river rock to fill a 40 gallon trash container. I would till a 10 foot section, turn off the unit and go rock hunting. The tins on this unit held up and didn't buckle or break. Really, I had considered buying replacement tins BEFORE I started this project as backup. Happy to say that will not be necessary. Cleaning was easy, I just used compressed air and blew off any dirt. I did soak the ground the night before but because it is clay and full of river rock, only the surface was wet. There are only two bolts holding on the tins. The bolts and nuts are 14mm and a impact wrench was needed because they are torqued on pretty tight. My breaker bar indicated it was 80 foot pounds of torque applied to the nuts. My only complaint: that On/Off switch. It is a 10 amp, wired normally open micro switch coupled with a interlock release button. Suggestion, move this switch to the middle of the handle grip so two fingers can be used to hold it down.