IF you have difficulty starting up your gasoline-powered mowers, garden tillers, string-trimmers or other yard-care machines in the spring, you may have neglected them when you stored them in the fall.

On riding mowers and garden tillers, fill the tires with the air pressure recommended by the manufacturer.

These are also known as power tillers or garden tillers.

Magna American was a manufacturer of tractors, lawn mowers, garden tillers, and specialized products including the Amphicat and the Magna Duck Plucker.

Rider mowers, tractors, shredders and garden tillers usually require additional service.

"This damned thing looks like some sort of demented garden tiller," Machinist's Mate Gants said.

The switch was a built-in safety disengage like a bicycle brake leaver or, well, like the safety disengage on a garden tiller, and if it were let go of the chipper blades would stop turning.

Magna American built garden tillers and other items, as well as manufacturing the Amphicat in Raymond, Mississippi.

One advertiser, Mantis, a maker of garden tillers, plans to offer customers a free six-month subscription, for which it will pay a "nominal amount," said Stephen LePera, Mantis's media director.

On January 30, 2012, Power Equipment Direct launched its tenth niche web store, Tillers Direct, which exclusively sells garden tillers and cultivators.