The machines are well-built and do exactly as advertised...but do your homework first. In other words, demo it first.
Rarely is there ever a perfect machine and the Blecavators and Rotadairons have some drawbacks. Here are the ones that I see:
- Slow speed (Ground speed is very slow, it is truly a one-pass machine but you won't set speed records.)
- Power Requirement (The horsepower requirement is high per inches of working width.)
- FLUFFY Seedbed (A cat could not walk across the finished seedbed without making tracks. Sometimes this isn't important, but generally this is a killer for the North American market.)
- Soil mixing (Because these machines till so deep, they mix valuable topsoil with subsoil. This is bad because many times the excavator hauled the majority of your topsoil away already. You are left minimal topsoil and then you mix what little topsoil you have with soil of lesser quality.)
Real life example: There is a house located about a half-mile from where I live which was heavily renovated a few years ago. The renovation included the 1.5 acre yard. One October, a contractor took a 6 or 7-foot Rotadairon across the yard with a Deere 2950 ag tractor (about 85-horsepower). They left the soil settle all winter long until spring and then did the finish seeding with a Preseeder to finally complete the job.
