This mower worked fine for a month or two for our back yard, then the handle (like, the whole top end, not just the grip) bent. The ground in our back yard is a little uneven, so I think all the bumping and jostling while pushing got to it. It cut the bluegrass in our back yard alright, but we have what I think is really beefy bermuda grass in our front yard, and this was reallllly hard to cut with the mower. We barely could get it done the first time through, then as the blade got more and more dull (we're talking like, after 3-4 mowings, not years here) it just wouldn't do it.