- 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 saves hours of raking. This is the third season and it has held up well. No rips or holes in the fabric. It will pick up small sticks, pine cones, gravel & dog toys. On uneven ground it doesn’t pick up as well. Get the biggest one you can.

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.

A little tricky for assembly but wow. At first I was skeptical from price but between quality warenty and word of mout I bit the bullet. I have 2 acres and lots of trees. It paid for itself in the first 4 hours!!!! Clean, officiant and light. My 14 year old now can take care of the entire lawn himself.

On a positive note, it arrived within 3 days. I am the type of person who doesn't need to read directions a lot. When I have to, its' a bad sign. The assembly of this unit is not the easiest. Since I don't put them together every day, it all looked Greek to me. First, the red and black marks on the brushes. They are marked clearly. What isn't is where they go. Right side, left side. Wouldn't it be just as easy, since they are marking things, to mark the drive shaft as well to match the colors? When the unit is upside down, which is the right or left side? What side to look at it from, the front or back? After several attempts of assembling and un-assembling this part, I can only hope I have it right. If marking this part means so much, make sure one can assemble it correctly. This assembly took about 2.5 hours. The directions, all in pictures as one can say a picture says a thousand words (not in this case), could be better. The assembly of the basket went well. Though if one can put something together upside down, it's me I guess. The top tube I of course put in upside down making the holes not match the top and bottom frame. Also the greasing and oiling of this unit. I can not see most home owners do this task. Though I have done it, and will continue to do it several times a year, I see this an issue. Couldn't one have a grease fitting put in there some where instead to tearing the wheels off to do it? So, as far as it working or not. Too much snow at this time to try it. Maybe in a week or so I will get it out and do the final adjusting and get it going. I really can't wait. Update: I used this for the first time yesterday. Sweet! One has to adjust the height of the brushed to the height of the drawbar you attach it to, but then it works like a dream. It didn't skip around at all. I used my 4 wheeler and drove all around in every pattern, criss-cross, straight, circles. When emptying it out, it wasn't one handed for me. No big deal. It is still easy. Then I just kicked the dead grass into the manure pile and kept coming back with more. It will decompose and make good compost. I would buy this again.

Purchased this in July of 2018, this is now March of 2025. This thing worked excellently this whole time, until I thrashed it (yes my fault). It still works despite the fact that I backed this thing up and jack-knifed it. I would highly recommend this for yard work especially leaves (I do mow the leaves down to compact them first and this thing gets the bulk of them up. Also works well on grass clippings.

It was easy to put together works good

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.

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

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.

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