I have not used the sweeper yet but I feel I must  comment on the Assembly instructions. They are the most confusing instructions I have ever encountered. I went to the Web Sight to see if they had better instructions and downloaded the Instruction manual shown, as it was considerably better. NOT. after calling the factory it was determined that the web site had instructions from  2005 and did not have the same parts as the current unit. Even the factory customer service was confused and found it hard to believe that something that old would be shown. I was ready to pack up the whole works and send it back to Amazon but I went foreword and took the kinder garden instructions and started the four hour assembly of the unit. They should hire a six year old that had one semester of manual training to write a decent instruction  booklet. I hammered out some of the shipping damage and furnished some of the missing parts and walla, after much violent language, it is done. (I Think). I  will update the rating if the product performs better than the lousy instructions.
OK for the update. Used it today and does a much better job than I thought it would. Takes up a fair amount of winter thatch, picks up the little pine cones and most other debris. Still peed about the lousy instructions.
I have not used the sweeper yet but I feel I must  comment on the Assembly instructions. They are the most confusing instructions I have ever encountered. I went to the Web Sight to see if they had better instructions and downloaded the Instruction manual shown, as it was considerably better. NOT. after calling the factory it was determined that the web site had instructions from  2005 and did not have the same parts as the current unit. Even the factory customer service was confused and found it hard to believe that something that old would be shown. I was ready to pack up the whole works and send it back to Amazon but I went foreword and took the kinder garden instructions and started the four hour assembly of the unit. They should hire a six year old that had one semester of manual training to write a decent instruction  booklet. I hammered out some of the shipping damage and furnished some of the missing parts and walla, after much violent language, it is done. (I Think). I  will update the rating if the product performs better than the lousy instructions. OK for the update. Used it today and does a much better job than I thought it would. Takes up a fair amount of winter thatch, picks up the little pine cones and most other debris. Still peed about the lousy instructions.