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Size: Corded; 6.3 inch, 2.5 amp
Features
- [BEST USE]: Small gardens and flower beds.No Load Speed : 300 rpm
- [POWERFUL]: 2.5-Amp motor cultivates up to 6.3" Wide x 6" Deep
- [DURABLE]: Steel tilling blades
- [COMFORT]: Ergonomic handle design with adjustable telescoping shaft
- [GAS FREE, CORD FREE]: No gas, oil or tune-ups make it effortless to start
Description
Enrich your gardening experience with the aardvark TJ599E from Sun Joe. Cultivate your garden & get ready for planting with ease. The Sun Joe aardvark has a cultivating depth of six". The TJ599E features four steel tines for maximum durability. The TJ599E is powered by a reliable 2 5 amp electric motor. No more messing with gas & oil. The aardvark TJ599E comes with a full two year.
Brand: Sun Joe
Color: Black
Product Dimensions: 5"D x 8"W x 17"H
Power Source: Corded Electric
Material: Alloy Steel
Brand Name: Sun Joe
Model Number: TJ599E
Global Trade Identification Number: 66
UPC: 804067197075 181242569736 630224429037 787392915425 079531966611 044927691705 012300987318 680807899467 628304148152 707571932371 809395426927 846829955042 799321668944 702888982309 031112737300 080850217438 898029679907 163120541126 014445098003 863190088667 852137003566
Unit Count: 1 Count
Item Highlight: 6.3-Inch Wide Path and Heavy-Duty Electric Tiller Design for Soil Prep, Lawn Maintenance, Garden Beds, and Small Spaces
Manufacturer Warranty Description: 2 Years
Number of Items: 1
Number of Packs: 1
Included Components: 4x 6.5 in Steel Cultivating Blades, Safety Switch, Instant Start
Item Type Name: Sun Joe TJ599E Aardvark 2.5-Amp Electric Garden Cultivator
Manufacturer: Snow Joe LLC
Manufacturer Part Number: TJ599E
Color: Black
Material Type: Alloy Steel
Item Dimensions D x W x H: 5"D x 8"W x 17"H
Item Weight: 9.9 pounds
Power Source: Corded Electric
Operation Mode: Electric
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Size: Corded; 6.3 inch, 2.5 amp
I kept this tiller on my wish list forever... but finally the warehouse had a used one at a price I found very hard to resist. Wish I had bought it sooner! It is really easy to handle. My kids laughed because it looked like I was vacuuming the flower beds :) It is close to the size if a vacuum and I can manage it with one hand, although 2 hands is better. It doesn't "take off", which was a concern of mine. I was careful near tree roots and I kept an eye out for rocks. But I have to say, it couldn't have handled better! Even at tree roots I could do the surface dirt and just not push down to dig in deep. I was able to go right up to the flower bed edge and right up to the plants. I didn't feel like I was in danger of cutting off a foot either :) Also has very nice safety features at the handle so that the kids can't just push a button and accidently turn it on. If this lasts one year, I would concider it worth every penny, and would go ahead and buy another! I have very hard, clay like dirt, and generally have to put a whole lot of muscle into turning the soil. The ardvark ate into it with absolutely no problem and turned hours of my straining effort into 45 minutes of me letting the ardvark do it's thing! I couldn't be more pleased! Love it. Gotta say, this may be my favorite amazon purchase :) I'm a mom of 6, my youngest being 6 months and time savers are so wonderful. I really like things to look nice, but don't have time or energy like I used to :/ Ardvark made my yard look so nice, I just keep looking out the window and smiling :)
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Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2013 by SuperKaiaFragilistic
Size: Corded; 6.3 inch, 2.5 amp
I bought the Sun Joe because I wanted a light tiller I could use on three raised beds used for vegetable gardening with a total area of 100 square feet. Each bed is surrounded by a 3 foot rabbit fence so double digging with a shovel would have been difficult. The tiller arrived mostly assembled, all I had to do was position the handle and tighten it, and then telescope the handle to the right length. The tiller is quite light, feeling lighter than it's advertised 10 pounds. I have three 4 x 8 raised beds. Each one I had added composted manure that I needed to till in. One bed had just straight dirt, the second one had some spring wheat growing in it, a couple of inches tall. The third had last year's crab grass thickly matted (and dead) and I knew that one would be tough. The tiller handled the first bed with just dirt and manure easily. I found it was easy to drag the tiller slowly backwards and it would dig in anywhere from 4 to six inches, depending on how much you wanted to work it. The second bed, with some spring wheat growing in it, was a little tougher because the 5-7 inch roots would get mulched and stuck around the tines. I stopped tilling twice, unplugging the unit to clear the roots and mud clinging to the tines. The third bed was an even tougher job, and I had to move along much more slowly, again having to turn the tiller off and unplug it to clear the tines of roots and matted crabgrass material getting stuck and wound around the tines. All told, however, the unit worked very well. I was able to till three beds in about 10-15 minutes. If I had to double dig those beds, it would have been 1.5 hours of tough shoveling. I think this unit is fairly reliable. I put my hand on the motor and it was only slightly warm after five minutes of tilling without stopping. It's generally heat that kills off a motor but if you use this motor in the coolest part of the day and take a break here and there every 5-10 minutes, the motor should last a long time. The power of this unit is just adequate for the job. Any more powerful, and a lot of dirt would have been knocked out of the beds. This one knocks a little dirt of the beds but not bad because tilling tends to throw soil around. I probably would not use this tiller if I was planning to create a 1,000 square foot garden by breaking up lawn sod. Definitely look for a a unit that's 8-10 amps or gas powered for that sort of job. However for tilling small beds of soil that haven't been heavily compressed this unit does the job. It's fairly good for raised bed gardens.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2013 by Tezza
Size: Corded; 6.3 inch, 2.5 amp
I redid my backyard and without this it was a pain. My back was hurting from constantly using the shovels and pickaxe for hard dirt. After getting this tiller, it was so much easier. I can just plug it in and use it on the dirt and it works wonders! I found that pulling backwards towards you will do a better job of grinding the dirt. Going forward doesn't do too much other than scratching dirt. What I do is go back and forth and also learn it to the sides as the blades will almost pick up and grind the dirt as I go in all directions. This is a bit heavy if you are picking it up but what do you expect since everything is built in. Using the big tiller they have wheels to push around which you don't feel the weight but this is all in one so you have to carry it but it isn't bad. It works great and I can till an area with ease and quickly as well. I can use it to mix dirt or just if I need to grind and flatten an area for making a garden bed. My only 2 issues is that one, the locking button and trigger is a big hard and once you turn it on because this tiller is moving around, it makes it hard to grip it to hold it tight in order for it to continue on. Your hand gets tired trying to grip the trigger to keep it on. Also it would be nicer to have some type of adjustment or fins to add to this as dirt will come flying all over your shoes and the area if you don't angle it right. Other than that, it was a great product and I'm so glad I bought it as it save me from backpain and saves a lot of time tilling dirt!
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Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2022 by GauSung
Size: Corded; 6.3 inch, 2.5 amp
I bought this product "Sun Joe TJ599E Electric Garden Cultivator, 6.3-inch, 2.5-Amp, Adjustable Shaft" to perform small-scale tilling operations on my three small raised gardens, hoping that its small size and light weight would make it easier to perform the tasks of soil-loosening (tilling) and the mixing in of compost and mulch. The majority of reviews I read on Amazon made me think that this product could do the job, however I was still mindful of those other reviews that stated the product had insufficient power. The product was apparently shipped directly from the seller (Spreetail), not from Amazon's own warehouse. As it happened, it arrived by FedEx just as I had finished spreading a couple inches of peat moss across the tops of the three gardens, on top of the first few inches of garden soil that I had already loosened with a garden spade. I inspected the product, read the few pages of the manual that were in English (unusually, they were fairly well written in clear English). I adjusted the handle and the telescoping 'boom' or shaft, and connected the power cord. The trigger requires that the user press an 'unlock' safety button, which I did, and the product's motor ran and the 'tines' rotated as expected. But when I lowered the tine head to contact the top of the peat moss/soil, the tines immediately stopped, although the sound and pitch of the motor did not change perceptibly, as if a clutch had been released. I raised the head a few inches and the tines resumed rotation. I worked for perhaps five minutes, experimenting with how much down pressure could be applied and how deep the tines could be in the loose soil before they would stop, and the answer was that I could have stopped them by holding a pencil in their way. They essentially had enough power to rotate in the air, but not enough power to do anything useful. I called the "contact us" phone number listed on the user's manual, and was rewarded with 20+ minutes of loud, raucous 'music' before somebody came on the line. She seemed to have no actual knowledge of the product, and seemed to just be looking things up. After I described the problem, she seemed nonplussed (unperturbed), as if people call about this problem all the time. She suggested that I could have them send me a replacement unit, or return it to Amazon. By this, I concluded that they are quite aware of this issue. Nothing was offered in regard to applicability of the product to my application, which I had described to here. So, I initiated a return/refund request through Amazon, but had to send the unit back to the seller rather than to Amazon. Besides the product not working adequately, I can offer the following observations: - The plastic parts are cheaply made and had mold-flashing along the edges; one rarely sees such roughly made plastic parts these days. - From the sound made when I rotated the times by hand (easily done, by the way, and with the power cord disconnected), it seems that a set of gears (probably plastic ones) connect between the electric motor and the tines' shaft. - The telescoping handle worked adequately and did not slip back under use that way that some other reviewers have reported. - The left-hand handle (the other handle, with the trigger, is clearly designed to he held by the right hand) has a cheap and roughly designed angle adjustment. A knurled knob needs to be backed WAY off, and then the handle tugged forcefully into a new position before re-tightening the knurled knob. - The tines are only something like 2~3 inches long, so (power aside) this product can't be used to till deeply. - This product is variously referred to as 'tiller' and a 'cultivator'; those terms don't mean the same thing, and the design of the product makes 'tiller' the more appropriate name. The user COULD pull the tines between rows of plants to do some 'cultivating' (removal of weeds), but the description of the product's operation in the manual seems to be more about 'tilling'. In order to 'till', this product would need to have a much more robust drivetrain, even in shallow soil that is free of heavy clay and such.
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Size: Corded; 6.3 inch, 2.5 amp
purchased in 2022. it's now 2026. my gardening toy, but let husband borrow it for the first time. it died because husband thought tiller > rock + root stump. he deserves to have to dish out another $100. thanks for still selling the same exact model sun joe!
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2026 by Artemisia Moltabocca
Size: Corded; 6.3 inch, 2.5 amp
OMG! Best tool ever! If I could give it 6 stars I would! This tool just did in 5 minutes what it took me several days to do by hand last spring when I prepared neglected beds for new azaleas. My neighbor loaned me his electric tiller but it was so big and bulky, it was impractical for small space gardening. I’m 67 years old and consider myself strong, but this made clearing a 3’ x 12’ strip of hardened clay soil in an existing bed so easy. I love that it’s very lightweight, fits in small spaces so I could till hard soil without risking damage to the roots of existing shrubs. I do recommend watering hardened clay soil overnight as instructed before using it. I soaked the soil. The instructions say not to use over thick roots, stumps, and rocks, but it cut right through old dead roots that were choking out my plants. DOWNSIDE: Now that I can do this in an hour instead of days-long back breaking work, I will probably spend a small fortune next spring putting in new beds!
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Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2025 by Mary
Size: Corded; 6.3 inch, 2.5 amp
This tool is nice weight and easy to handle . The shaft extends to accommodate different reach needs. It is not a tiller, it is not powered for breaking g new ground, but for maintaining existing tilled garden. It's width is perfect for going between rows. It will jam up on any harder dirt clods if you let your soil go too long between cultivating passes.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2025 by Jonny AZ
Size: Corded; 6.3 inch, 2.5 amp
I bought this earlier this year and finally had a reason to use it. The alternative wasn’t so appealing - shoveling and turning several inches of compost into a garden bed I decommissioned a year ago in order to kill a mint invasion. It literally took me longer to locate and hook up three extension cords than it did to actually till the compost into the bed. It’s lightweight, simple to use, and very powerful but nimble. It’s also not very noisy. I was able to till down over 6 inches in the entire bed in a matter of minutes. It wants to move forward but it was very easy to pull it backwards in order to get a deeper till. I’m planning to use it again after I am finished harvesting the rest of my beds. I am super stoked that I have this little monster in my shed; it’s going to make my gardening tasks so much easier. For reference, I am a fairly strong female, over 60 years old.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2024 by Sandra