Agri-Fab 45-0365 Push Spike Aerator, 16 Inch Walk Behind Lawn Aerator with 5 Aerating Spikes and 7-Inch Spikes, Steel Weight Tray, 2-1/2 Inches Aeration Depth, for Lawn Care Maintenance

The assembly instructions are helpful to an extent, then it comes down to you. Reading the reviews for this gives you a good glimpse of what's wrong with the world today. If you are looking to shed some weight and don't like the high cost of a gym membership this is the item for you. Hell go the extra mile and do the neighbors yard too. This works very well for the price and will be beneficial to both the lawn and person dragging it. You will need to reverse the lower handle bolts and maybe bend the tray lip to fit your desired block or weight. And I found the pins weak that hold the roller in place. Zipties have worked well, not sure about the long term durability of them though. Will work on a more long term solution to replace them. Watered grass a normal amount and pulled not pushed this around the yard in the evening The next morning there was a noticed difference in the perkiness of the lawn. Worth the money if you ask me.

Right out of the gate, the instructions are not done well. They have you put the cutting blades on the bar and affix that to the side plates. Sounds good, right? NOPE... Why, do you ask? Because you have to attach the main plate to the side plates, and the cutting blades are in the way. Then you have to attach the 1st section of the handle bars to the side plates. Sound good, right? NOPE... tiny nuts need to go onto riny bolts, and that's right, you guessed it... THE CUTTING BLADES ARE IN THE WAY! Now, onto the use. Works as expected, put a cinder block on it and went to start in on the lawn. I am 6'3". I know that most standard lawn tools will be a little short for me, I have to hunch a bit, it's fine, I'm used to that. What I did not expect is for the top of the push bars to come to my frickin' knees! Is this a child's toy? Is this for little people, and I missed that in the description? My wife is 5'6" and had to severely hunch over to get any kind of force behind this thing. Finished the entire back yard, and my back and shoulders are trashed. This thing needs a whole nother section of handle bar added to it. Don't purchase this, unless you are 5' tall, or shorter. I'd return it, but I ordered this to get the job done, and no matter how much it SUCKED, the job got done.

Details on each score below: -Performance: 4 stars -Ease of assembly: 5 stars -Speed: 1.5 stars -Value for money: 2.5 stars If you have a very small yard, this can be effective and save you money. BUT, to get an effective result, you are going to work your tail off. This arrives in a MUCH smaller box than expected. It was nicely packaged, the parts were all there, and the assembly pretty straightforward with very solid instructions. The results are effective, and I believe that if I can run it through my yard both on the X and Y axis twice a season, it will be a great replacement for plug aeration. Now the not-so-great... This is spray-painted, stamped steel. I would expect to pay $30 for this quality of materials. The handle is at least 12" too short to give effective leverage and the cheap feel really comes through when you try to use it. The bar stock that they use is too small a diameter and there is no form of grip or cushion for the handle. Also, since the handle is three pieces due to the box size, it doesn't feel solid, even when it is torqued down solidly. I'm 6' tall, so not short, but not exceedingly tall. I tried using it without a weight on it, and it is too light to dig into the soil, pushing or pulling. With the cement block on it, pushing it is worse than shoveling heart attack snow. I had to sit down after pushing it less than 50 feet. In this case, pulling the unit instead of pushing it was about the same a pulling a heavy carry on bag through a carpeted airport. I am going to look into putting a longer, cushioned, one-piece side rail on it and playing with the amount of weight on the unit. That won't make the job easy, but I believe it can make it something I can complete without killing myself. If I come up with any handle/weight "hacks," I will add them to the review.

Alright so my backyard's lawn is dry af. I live in the desert and every winter->spring my lawn kinda half dies. Cuz I'm lazy and dont water the lawn cuz it needs so much water here, but then again I can just say I'm being ecofriendly er sumthin and get away with it. Anyways short story looong my soil is dry and compacted af from years of abuse. The aerator is solid and has proved itself by taking on two 45lb plates, four 5lbs plates, and an oversized cinder block that looks normal to me but doesn't really fit on the damn thing. Just kinda threw it on top of the weight plates. ~~NOW BEWARE ~~~this weight will give you that needed penetration for that tough dry crusty soil, BUT IT WILL BE A WORKOUT given that it will only work with enough load ...(this will depend on your soil's density) IMPORTANT: I PULLED THE THING WALKING BACKWARDS instead of pushing forwards(this is good for your knees! Look it up) pushing that amount of weight forward on this thing is almost impossible. Deep water lawn before using the aerator makes to get the most spike depth. As for durability, idk based on my experience and the materials used it seems like it will be handy for a couple of years if stores properly.

Es una herramienta manual, eso significa que hay que ejecer algo de presion para lograr una mejor perforacion en la tierra, mas si la tierra esta un poco dura Cuenta con una base, donde se puede hacer presion, aunque tambien se puede uno ayudar amarrandole algo pesado, lo cual, sin duda, va a facilitar el trabajo Funciona correctamente y se logra airear la tierra. En mi caso el pasto estaba poniendose un poco amarillo y despues de utilizar esta herramienta, logre que el riego mejorara y que el agua penetrara mejor en la tierra. Ahora el pasto se ve mejor, recupero su color verde

Great quality

Works well, a bit hard to push, but it’s OK

Easy to assemble and better than my last aerator

As a person reading this review the goal is to understand if this will work for your yard. I can say for my 12k sf yard I pushed this through and it did a great job of breaking up soil, particularly I'm dead spots due to pee. Pushing requires practice to get the right downward pressure without coming to a stop, but I found it less tiring that loading 2x25L bags of soil on top, which worked much better than the cinder block. It is work vs a powered machine. Ground must be have sufficient moisture / not granular for holes to form properly.