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BRAST BRE-AF 1500 review

The only tiller here with a weight, a speed and an anti-jam clutch: 11 kg, 400 rpm, 24 blades on 450 mm.

The bottom line The most completely specified machine on the shelf: 1500 W, 450 mm, 220 mm deep, 24 blades of 205 mm diameter, 400 rpm, 11 kg, with folding transport wheels, an anti-jam clutch and a guard plate. The maker also states it keeps spare parts and runs its own repair workshop, which on this shelf is unusual enough to matter.

What the maker prints on its own page

An electric tiller for loosening soil, preparing seedbeds, weeding and mixing in shredded material, fertiliser and peat. Twenty-four rotating blades with a guard plate against flying stones, a 450 mm working width and a 220 mm working depth. The maker states an award from a German consumer test body, folding transport wheels, a cable strain relief for long cable life, an extra carrying handle and bike-style grips. Spare part supply is stated as secured long term, with the maker’s own repair workshop holding all parts.

The technical data given: 1500 watts (2 PS), 450 mm working width, 220 mm working depth, 24 blades of 205 mm diameter, ergonomic bike grips, weight about 11 kg, 230 V / 50 Hz, no-load speed 400 rpm. The listing covers four models between 1050 and 1800 watts and 36 to 45 cm.

The complete specification

Weight. Tine diameter. No-load speed. Nothing else on this shelf gives any of the three, and this listing gives all of them.

11 kg is the number that matters most. A tiller pulls itself forward when the tines bite and pushes back when they hit something hard, and how much of that reaches your wrists is decided by the machine’s mass. Eleven kilograms is light for a 450 mm machine, which cuts both ways: easy to carry, livelier to hold.

The clutch

An anti-jam coupling is the component that separates a machine built to last from one built to a price.

Tines meet stones, roots and buried rubble. Without a slipping coupling, that shock goes into the gearbox or stalls the motor; with one, the drive gives way and picks up again.

It is not a figure and it will never appear in a comparison table.

Four models in one listing

Width and wattage depend on which variant is selected. This page reports the figures the listing’s own technical data block gives and states the ranges — a comparison built on the top of a range would describe a machine nobody bought.

The workshop

The maker states it holds spare parts long term and repairs its own machines. On a shelf where several entries are single-season imports with no parts anywhere, that claim is the most valuable sentence in the listing — and it is a claim, which this page reports rather than verifies.

Availability

Around 110 €, read at the German Amazon store on the day of the survey.

Listed and unsold: the French and Spanish Amazon catalogues hold the reference with nobody behind it.

Nothing came back from the American, British and Italian Amazon stores at all; the buy button there runs a search rather than opening an empty page.

Taken from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and prices move without notice.

Prices quoted in this text were read on 26 September 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.

The declared figures, and the point they stop at

Strengths

  • The only machine here with a weight, a tine diameter and a working speed
  • An anti-jam clutch and a guard plate against thrown stones, both stated
  • The maker states long-term spare part supply and its own repair workshop

Compromises

  • The listing covers four models at once, so width and wattage depend on the variant
  • No handle-height adjustment stated, on a machine with bike-style grips
  • Mains power at 1500 W with 24 blades will meet the limit of the motor on hard ground

Specifications

Working width450 mm on the model described; the listing covers 36–45 cm across four models
Working depth220 mm, as stated
Power sourceMains 230 V / 50 Hz, 1500 W / 2 PS input as stated
Tines24 blades of 205 mm diameter, with a guard plate and an anti-jam clutch
Transport wheelsFolding, as stated
WeightAbout 11 kg, as stated
Amazon referenceB07B9L92X6 (one reference across 3 Amazon marketplaces)
EAN4260491656575

What this machine usually gets asked

What is an anti-jam clutch?

A coupling that slips when the tines hit something immovable instead of transmitting the shock into the gearbox or stalling the motor. On a machine whose tines are the drive and which meets buried stones and roots, it is the component that decides whether an obstruction is an event or a repair.

Is 400 rpm slow?

It is the only speed published on this shelf, so it has nothing to compare against here. What a tine speed tells you is how the soil is worked — slower turns chop and lift, faster ones pulverise — and publishing it at all is more than the rest of the shelf does.

Does the spare parts statement mean anything?

It is the maker’s claim about its own supply and this page reports it as one. It is also the kind of claim that costs a company something if it is untrue, and on a shelf where several machines are one-season imports it is worth reading.

Who this one is for

A large vegetable plot worked every year, by somebody who expects to own the machine for a decade

Guides that feature it

Price and availability

A reference exists on these Amazon stores: France, Germany, Spain. Listed is not the same as in stock — availability changes daily.

Details checked on September 26, 2026.

Sources

Specifications: manufacturer sheet and Amazon product page. Prices and availability: Keepa. No product on this site has been physically tested.

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