A cultivator's job is to run its tines through soil ... as that's where you'll find the Ryobi 40V HP brushless 16-inch front tine tiller. This battery-powered beastie is intended to break ground ...

Cultivators are lightweight and easy ... a set of wheels and a drag bar in the rear at the operator's position. “With a mid-tine tiller, the tines are more directly under the engine,” notes ...

Prepping the soil in vegetable plots or flower beds is a garden task that's easy to overlook ... that using mechanized equipment, such as cultivators and tillers, is less physically demanding.