Agri-Fab 45-0320 42" Tow-Behind Lawn Sweeper, 12 cu. ft Hopper Bag Capacity; Leaf & Grass Catcher, with Adjustable Brush Height and Easy to Use Dumping Rope

It took me about two hours to assemble this item. The intructions are quite straightforward but it does take time to get it all together. This isn't a half hour project. Every nut and bolt was in the bag of hardware which always makes for a pleasant experience. I hitched it up to my Sears garden tractor and took it for a spin around my one acre lot. It picked up leaves and grass like a dream... much much better than those vacuum pickups. I did my entire acre with room to spare in the bagger. I merely pulled on the emptying rope and voila! To those people here who complain about quality, I can only say it's a great value for the money. It is well constructed and perfectly suited for the job. For those who complain that it doesn't do a good job, all I can say is that you probably should check your assembly. It's virtually impossible for it not to work properly if you assembled it correctly. And to Amazon, I can say another perfect transaction. I have bought everything from books to flat screen tv from Amazon and have always been totally pleased. If only Sears and HomeDepot could perform the way these guys do. I am a 100% happy customer of this AgriFab lawn sweeper and of Amazon.com.

I know, cheesy title. But... it gives you a good picture of what this sweeper was able to do for me. My review will be kind of long to get into the details, but if it's too long just don't read it :) Here's my review from set-up to putting it away. 1. Set-up was horrible. The pictures weren't that clear and the parts are all thrown in one bag. You'll have to use the picture of the screws to match up which is which. Agri-Fab has partnered with a video "how-to" company so you can watch it get put together. This helped during some of the process, but the guy in the video moved really fast and didn't spend much time on the details. Different viewing angles, for example, would have helped quite a bit. I had a hard time fitting some of the parts, but most of them fit. There are two cleaver pins to the canopy bag connection poles that didn't go far enough through for the cotter pins to go through. However, the cleaver pins were able to hold the bag onto the sweeper itself during use without the cotter pins. I will be contacting Agri-Fab about this. I was able to get this set-up in the end (obviously). 2. Connecting the sweeper to the lawn tractor was easy. Push the pin through and you're good to go. The instructions for this were clear and the video was even better. Common sense would probably even work with this one. 3. My yard was (is) the perfect test yard for this sweeper. Due to the hot summer last year I literally had thousands of acorns fall from my oak trees. Several winter storms brought down numerous sticks/twigs. My yard had/has debris all over (I still have a ways to go). I raked most of the leaves up last fall, but there were too many acorns. The sweeper did really well considering it's at the low price point for a sweeper. I had to make several passes and acorns that were dug down into the dirt didn't come up, but it was impressive how much did. Within one hour I had multiple trash bags worth of acorns, sticks, pebbles, and bits of leaves. This thing even picks up larger sticks. As far as leaves, yes... it works. 4. As I said before, it's not a miracle worker. Acorns that are dug in obviously don't get swept up. When you turn sometimes the wheels to the brushes don't turn (which means the sweeper doesn't work). However, if you keep it in a pretty straight line you'll be okay. The height settings are easy, you just need to play around with them to find the best height for your grass. If you have bumpy parts of your yard like I do, don't be surprised to see missed spots from where the brushes didn't touch the ground enough. 5. Storage is easy enough. You can detach the canopy bag and collapse it. I placed the sweeper itself on it's side in my shed so it took up minimal space for it's size. Overall I'm pleased with my purchase and don't regret it. I gave it four stars because of the two cleaver pins that didn't fit and the difficulty with putting it together. It's performance met my standards, but also didn't exceed them enough to warrant five stars in spite of the previous noted problems.

Some of this review won’t make sense until the sweeper is in your possession because of the number of parts involved. I (84 year old) started assembly alone, late in afternoon when tired. I made mistakes because the non precise drawings are not clear enough showing certain parts true shape. The small bend at end of two tubes where the hitch tubes connect the hopper to the tractor is an important factor. I mention working alone because help would make putting the hopper part together far easier because it’s big and floppy. Rested next morning I watched the video, its necessary for things. But the man in the video shows the ends of the tubes facing down where the hitch tubes attach to the hopper, both sides. See Picture where persons left hand is. That tube must face up on both sides, not down like he is doing. It’s that first time assembly of something with not so good instructions that’s hard sometimes. My second picture shows the tube end facing up before he installed it on the hopper as they should. A retired jet mechanic, I’ve worked in aviation all my life, so I thought, how hard can it be to put this beast together—wrong!! The hopper for example is best assembled with two people, I did it alone and was difficult because it’s big and floppy and hard to see what to do while putting it together. One person hold it open would make installing the parts much easier. An important comment the manufacturer makes, if wheels won’t turn, they lock up, brushes don’t spin when pulling the sweeper first time is because the brush setting is at lowest setting for shipping and must be readjusted, calibrated before use and best performance. About half inch from ground. I have since used this sweeper in Florida and on St Augustine grass. This is a creeping type grass, not typical vertical growing so this sweeper won’t do a perfect cleanup. But with huge Florida oaks dumping hordes of leaves on to our yard, I’ll take any help I can. Go slow to keep from having to redo from mistakes like I did. The last pictures, my garage is full as it can get, the sweeper taking the last couple feet of floor space available. That space between my chipper and a cabinet. As shown, the hitch tubes removed from the hopper. A little extra work but like that chipper, it’s same issue, a little extra work removing the feed tube so it fits in that space. I recommend this sweeper, once you get the beast put together. It and has a three year warranty.

It was easy to put together works good

Wow, what a fantastic (not) cheap and fragile assembly that is so incredibly easy to do, especially with the oh-so-amazing YouTube video tutorial! I mean, who needs a properly made instruction manual, right? It's not like it's important or anything.

va très bien pour ramasser les feuilles mais après quelques heures d'utilisation les roues sont lousse car il n'ont pas mis de roulement à billes au centre, mais seulement du plastic comme roulement c'est pas fort comme idée, déçu de mon achat

Cannot pick up wet or embedded leaves. Need to be able to disconnect the brush-rotating feature so it can be hand-pulled for storage or exact positioning.

this item arrived in a completely damaged box, the leaf or catch basket is broke in 3 different places, the assembly instructions were very hard to follow which never made sense most of the time, would i order it again, no, worst item i have ever purchased, i could not return because the delivered box was so damaged the leaf or catch basket is now duct taped inside and out, not impressed