Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I got this mower because I hate the noise of mowers and because I really like donuts. So, I figured I'd kill two birds with one stone and mow the lawn by hand. I like to do yardwork in the morning before I go to work, so firing up a riding mower would not be okay with the neighbors. I read the reviews from people talking about their small lawns and short grass. I have neither. My lawn is about 1/2 acre and the grass is over a foot tall right now, because it's the first mowing of the season. It's not nice grass, either. It's a thick assortment of vegetation of widely varying cooperativeness. This mower assembled easily and quickly. The height adjustment levers are easy to reach and move freely when asked to. It takes quite a bit of work to cut my Lawn of Evil, but that was the point and this mower does indeed cut that lawn! Highly recommended! [Edit - added later] I think that some of the frustration people are having is that they push the mower across the thick grass, look behind them, and don't see a perfectly manicured swath of lawn. This kind of mower doesn't really work like a motorized mower, where you guide it along and the blades makes many passes over the grass as you walk. It works more like a vacuum cleaner. You make short, back-and-forth strokes until you've cut (or crushed) all the stems. Then you move to the next section. Once the grass is short and you're in maintenance mode, then just pushing the mower up and down the lawn should do fine.