The spreader on its overall merit is very good. I did ~3,000 square feet of my yard in under 20 minutes with 2 bags of milorganite. You gotta haul tail on the medium setting (3.5mph). I knocked one star off for exactly what the other reviewers have already stated...the instructions are terrible. It took me 2 hours to go back and forth between YouTube videos and these instructions to figure out how to get it together. At least three times, I had to undo several bolts because I'd put them in the wrong place or installed in the wrong order. For example, the arm that connects the lever to the hopper hole opener was very difficult to determine the exact orientation for install. I spent 20 minutes just trying to understand the order of the parts that need to go on before you put the wheels on and put the pins in place to hold them in. There are only two videos on YouTube and both apply to slightly different models of Earthway spreaders, but it helps to give you the general idea. The included instructions have no dotted lines to help you follow what connects to what in which order. The videos also show that different models of Earthway will apparently come with more parts too. Like washers. I guess the 2150 requires no washers because I didn't get any.