Hi. I'm Ted, from Everything Attachments. We're here today with the Phoenix brand of rotary tiller. This is made by the Sicma Corporation, in Italy. This is one of the higher-quality tillers that I know of ever made, and we've sold them for a long time here at Everything Attachments.

The 40-inch comes in an offset-only tiller. If you've got a tractor that's from 12-horsepower to 25-horsepower, and that's about all the tiller you would want is 40 inches, a lot of the new tractors are coming with the R4 industrial tires which makes your tractor wider than 40 inches. It being offset from the factory, from the center, will allow you to be able to clear one track out and never have a hard spot in your garden from your tires.

These are still adjustable, down here on the bottom, so you can adjust it for your narrower tractors. Especially when the BXs and the first New Hollands and all the little John Deere 23-Series; when they first came out, they were a low-horsepower, but still a wide tractor, so this makes a good unit with it being offset.

It is a 6-blade-per-rotor tiller; a very thick tine from front-to-back and that's your wearing distance, it's also thick in material. On this particular model, it comes with a kickstand here. Remember that this is like a wheel underneath here; without this kickstand, it's going to fall over. When you're measuring to make sure that your PTO shaft is the right length, remember to get this frame straight up and down, get it level, because if you've got it tilted real far forward, you're going to cut your shaft too much. If you've got it leaning way back, then you're not going to cut it enough, and if you shorten your top link it may kink up.

This does come with a sight glass in it, so you know it has oil in here. This is a chain-drive. People say, "I want a gear drive. I want a chain drive." The one thing I'll say about a chain-drive is I've never experienced a failure with a chain-drive, so I certainly wouldn't be scared of a chain-drive; and on a smaller tiller, it's just a better deal, I think.

This particular unit is powder-coated. I like the way that these are made as a clevis hitch instead of pin sticking out. Especially with the smaller tractors, like a BX or any of the subcompact models, your stabilizers are going to come from the center out to your drawbars instead of out to the rear axle, so this makes it real easy to where you're not having to loosen them up to get them over that outside pin, and then you can adjust them inwards real easy.

Another thing to think of for the length of your PTO shaft, as you widen these hitches here, this tiller's going to come closer to you. The closer your hitch is, the bars straighten up and become longer, so keep all that in mind before you cut your shaft. Come around to the side, if you would, Peanut.

On this unit here, it has an adjustable slide on it with 4 holes; that's going to adjust how deep you're digging. If you take a second pass at it, regardless, it's going to go deeper because it's already broken up. It does have a grease fitting here to grease this main side on the inside. It has a chain. Come on around to the back, Peanut.

This chain is adjustable right here, with the hook here. You simply put the chain wherever you want it, lifting that tailgate. The tailgate is what's going to control the consistency of your dirt coming out. Our red clay here, if you really pulverize it too much, when it rains, it gets hard, so you don't want to just continually . . . tilling it until it's like sand is not the right answer. Your tailgate and the speed of your tractor is what's going to control the consistency of your soil. Come on around to this side.

These gearboxes come full of oil, but always check them and make sure before you use it. You'll see that is your sight glass. If you see oil there, you know you're good to go. When this tiller comes, this hitch right here will be facing up, so make sure that you put it in its right position before you start measuring your shaft, and so forth. The Phoenix brand is sold through Unifarm; Wilson North Carolina is our importer. They're great to work with. They keep everything in stock. We keep some units here in stock for our local customers.

If you need any questions answered on the offset or for the size of your tractor, give us a call or an email at Everything Attachments. We'll be happy to make sure you get the right tiller for what you're doing.