I always thought tilling was pretty easy with my 28" walk behind in the garden at the old house. Well, yesterday I needed to till a spot 25' long and 4' for a strawberry patch at the new place. I took the b7610 and removed the top 3-4" of grass and roots and commenced with the tilling. The soil was damp clay with a smattering of golfball to brick sized rocks. Well, the first attempt I didn't make it the full 8 seconds without getting thrown. It was bouncing, yanking, shaking gas out of the thing. Finally after picking rocks, and after a couple passes to break up some clay it got better. But, man my back and shoulders are sore today from wrestling that thing. The kicker is I've got a 48" KK II tiller sitting in the garage. I haven't taken the backhoe off yet because I want to build a dolly first. So, here I sit with tired muscles and a shiny new mustard yellow tiller.