I definitely recommend this spreader, but I demote it to 4 stars for a couple of reasons that shouldn't stop you from buying it.  The small criticisms of it that I have are (1) the assembly instructions aren't easy to follow in places, (2) the design makes it very difficult to spread the smaller of the two cotter pins used to hold the wheels on the axle, and (3) the matrix showing the suggested spread rate was not even close to what I found as being appropriate.