At 5'4", I find the top shelves impossible to reach. This grabber is perfect. The magnetic edges are a nice touch. It is incredibly easy to extend or fold up the grabber. I was relieved that the locking mechanism is easy and very effective to use, even with weak arthritic hands. Yes, it costs a bit more than the cheapies, but the extra features are so well done and useful. It is worth every penny.

I bought this to use from the front passenger seat of our minivan while we traveled for the holidays. We have two toddler who throw/drop toys, books, sippy cups, etc. and I wanted to be able to reach things in the back seat without having to wait to pull over. It worked pretty well for us, but it did end up breaking when I was trying to reach an object. I was hoping it would be a little sturdier. I though the longer length of this one would be nice too, but it was actually a little cumbersome. But I did like that it folded up small enough to keep in our glovebox and it worked well enough.

Useful for picking up most small items. Appropriate quality for price.

The length of the grabber is really good for me. I'm short and have short arms and desperately need this item. I also love the way it folds into thirds and is easily stored away. it grips very well and it's so much much better quality wise than other grabbers out there that look like junk. This is a superior item. Thank you!

Our yard is home to a large number of very tall pine trees. They keep the back side of our house warm in the winter and cool in the summer. We love them!

Our front yard, though, is about 150 feet by 70 feet--and the glorious pine trees assure us a nearly continuous "crop" of fallen pine cones, pieces of bark, small-to-medium branches, and leaves.

The only problem? The year-round "harvest" of fallen pine cones, etc., is daunting!

I looked at numerous tools for picking up pine cones. Some are meant for large yards and need to be pulled behind a tractor. Others are specially made for raking large harvests of pine cones.

But our yard is littered with pine cones, etc., nearly year-round. In the few weeks of the year that hundreds fall every day or three, one of the "industrial-sized" tools might be useful.

For the vast majority of the year, though, we get 20 to 50 or so pine cones every day or two. That means that tractor-pulled solutions would be more work (and gas) than they're worth"”and that even the special rakes, etc., would only be worth the effort a few weeks of the year.

What to do?

I finally settled on this low-cost, lightweight tool. I carry it with me in one hand and carry the plastic top of our "yard waste trash barrel", upside down in the other.

The trash-barrel top serves as an impromptu "tray" that I hold in my hand not carrying the "grabber tool":

I walk around the yard, picking up pine cones with the grabber (never having to bend down) and then dropping the pine cones, etc., into the "tray" (that is, the upside-down trash barrel cover), one or two pine cones, etc., at a time.

On the busiest pine-cone days, I fill (and empty) the "tray" three times. On more typical days in the spring and early summer, I fill it once a day.

For my particular yard, this tool (plus my handy, inverted barrel-top) forms the ideal, economical, year-round solution.

The grabber tool is 1) lightweight, 2) long enough to avoid me bending over to pick up pine up the "pine tree gifts", and 3) easy to store. It works equally well (4) to pick up pine cones, leaves, modest-to-small branches, and bark, etc.

It' would not be ideal for a huge yard, I suppose. But it works great in our yard, and is useful no matter how many or few pine cones, etc., drop on any given day.

Inexpensive, light, and versatile: what more could you ask for?