Life with your tillers...............

[plumberroy]

  I think the best built walk behind tiller made today is an BCS.  No belts and it has bearings all through it.  VERY well made.
 
  DM

BCS and grillo worked together from the 60's to the ealy 80's  the BCS  tiller is a grillo design  BCS  actually sold two models here in the states that were grillo units rebadged . BCS and grillo are  of similar quality   because grillo is not as well known  because they have only been imported since 2005  you can get a little more tractor for the same money in a grillo .  I have studied these things since 2008  and As much as I hate to admit it  both BCS and Grillo may exceed the usefulness of my old gravely
Roy

[keith44]

  I think the best built walk behind tiller made today is an BCS.  No belts and it has bearings all through it.  VERY well made.
 
  DM

+1, the grillo is similar and is a fine machine, but looks to be built lighter (IMO)

[Drilling Man]

  After i quit useing walk behind tillers, a "like new" BCS came up forsale locally.  It was powered with an 8hp Honda OHV and had extra tools with it.  So, it was a tiller with opt. wheels/tires, sickle bar and i forget the third tool, all for as i remember, $1,000.00.
 
  I almost bought it, but i'm alergic to walk behinds...  lol  I hope someone bought it that really needed it.
 
  DM

[Drilling Man]

  I just wanted to add, as a tiller, i think the Grillo tiller would out last most owners, and as they are a lot cheaper to buy, if you are buying the tool to use as only as a tiller, it's probably a lot better buy than a BCS.
 
  It's hard to beat, being built plenty good enough to be a tiller, and then being much cheaper to buy.
 
  BCS just has too many middlemen pushing the price higher and higher...
 
  DM

[plumberroy]

Grillo 85D with  22" tiller It will run a 26 " tiller but 22" fit my needs better mowerdecks are out of stock till june . Planted taters ,and several type of acorn squash today tilled anything dry enough to till today . I have used many tillers, this thing ever out preforms my old gravely
Roy

[Drilling Man]

  Hey, those are some fancy wheels!  lol
 
  That should last you many years, keep us posted on how you like it.
 
  DM

[longwinters]

That does look like a great tiller. 
 
Long

[cjclemens]

One of my colleagues at work has a BCS with the sickle bar mower on it - that thing is a beast!  If I were going to get a new tiller, I'd get a BCS or Grillo, too.  They're expensive, but they're also what a tiller should be.  I think it would be the last tiller you'd ever have to buy.