My neighbor let me borrow his sweeper one day so I decided I needed one as well. With the amount of rain we have been getting in VA for the past several months, by the time you get a couple of nice days and the ground has dried enough to cut it is very long. Using his made it a whole lot easier to manage the leaves and clippings in the yard.

I was soo looking forward to being able to use this. As far as the instructions, if you look at what you have and the pictures in the manual and actually read the captions and instructions it has been a breeze to assemble by myself. But... while I was putting it together, I got to one of the last steps and found that it did not come with the short bars to attach the bag to the sweeper nor the rope. Reckon I will be returning it since that is the only option when you click "Return or Replace Items". If something changes I will update my review. Was looking forward to using it today as the ground was dry enough and rain is coming again. Very disappointed.

** Update ** I used the contact seller seller option on my order and they responded very quickly to my issue. They said they will be sending the parts out on Monday to help make this right. Once I receive those and get to use this I will update my review and score accordingly.

Update - seller got the parts I was missing quickly. I have used this a few times since assembled. It works great. I have a decent sized yard and use it primarily for grass clippings if we have he'd lots of rain and the grass is tall. I have to set it on the lowest setting and make several trips to dump but it works just fine for it. Picks up leaves better than grass, but gets the grass up pretty well once the grass has dried. The rope can be tough to pull from the seat abs I think a handle would have been easier, but I was expecting this from the rope. You just need to make sure you don't let the rope drag and get tangled!

Took maybe an hour to assemble. Saw a lot of reviews about difficult assembly and shotty instructions but I didn't experience that.

This sweeper is my second so I had an idea on how things should look when finished. The assembly manual is barely adequate. The illustrations are so small it was sometimes difficult to insure I had the right part (left vs right, etc). All nuts and bolts hardware is nicely sealed on a chuck of cardboard, clearly labeled and easy to punch out when needed. Took about 4 hours for assembly from start to finish. Sweeps very nicely.

The media could not be loaded. Jan '23 - Customer Service sent me another leaf hopper. Updating from 3 stars to 4 stars for customer response. Will update after more uses.

Dec '22 - Worked great, but the seam on the leaf hopper came apart, 1st use on 1.5 acres of grass.

Before purchasing this Yard Commander 48" sweeper I read the reviews and was a little hesitant because so many people talked about the instructions not being good. My husband has always been able to look at something & put it together so we purchased it. I will say once we got it together it works great but I will have to agree that the instructions are not that great. I did purchase an extended warranty since it only has 1 year warranty on it. Overall we have used the sweeper and it does what it is supposed to do.