Latest reviews about Craftsman 42&#34 High Speed Sweeper

alexsbuddy says "First Timer User of a Lawn Sweeper-WOW!" about Craftsman 42&#34 High Speed Sweeper

alexsbuddy — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:57:54 GMT

This is the first time I have owned or used a lawn sweeper. I have numerous gumball trees in my yard (beautiful but extremely messy due to the gumballs) and use my Craftsman lawn tractor with bagger to mow up the leaves. However, a lawn tractor is not able to pick up the heavy gumballs and so I have always had to do it the hard way...raking, raking, and more raking. Not unusual to rake up 20 to 30 extra-large lawn bags of gumballs each season. Decided to give the sweeper a try and did lots of research before deciding on this one. Wow.....it really did a great job. Spent less than a couple hours doing a job that used to take 10 or 12 hours and left me sore for a week. Only problem that I had was the wheels locked up a couple of times (as mentioned in some other posts) but I am not sure if that was due to my inexperience with setting the height and/or driving too slow while trying to learn how it operated. Problem went away when I adjusted the height and learned which speed was most efficient...

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MsSteffy79 says "Love it, works great" about Craftsman 42&#34 High Speed Sweeper

MsSteffy79 — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:25:55 GMT

The sears store in Mexia had it put together for me before I got there, thank you. It works great. You can adjust the hight for the thickness of leaves you are picking up. Very satisfied....

cag4509 says "42" sweeper" about Craftsman 42&#34 High Speed Sweeper

cag4509 — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:57:21 GMT

So far so good. Works well! Easier to follow the online video instructions....

Kamikaze40 says "The Craftsman 42 in. sweeper does exactly what you need it to" about Craftsman 42&#34 High Speed Sweeper

Kamikaze40 — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:58:59 GMT

Would buy it again. Instructions aren't to hard to follow, but they could be a little more definitive in certain areas. I have a yard full of various assortments of trees/leaves and the lawn sweeper picked up almost all of them without me even having to use a rake. In some areas where the leaves are really deep and wet, the tires would lock-up and slide, but that should be expected to happen. I have always used a yard-vac in the past, but the leaves don't burn very well after they are mulched up, which is why the lawn sweeper is so much better. Plus, the lawn-vac was annoying because you had to find a place to dump all of the mulched leaves and you also had to break your back doing it. Overall, the lawn sweeper isn't flawless, but this was the easiest year of picking up leaves out of the past 8 that I have been doing it.

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geezer63 says "42 in. high speed sweeper is not worth the money" about Craftsman 42&#34 High Speed Sweeper

geezer63 — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:50:43 GMT

I bought this sweeper last year and about the third use one of the tires fell off and now I have to use a rubber mallet to put it back on. The bag is very low quality. The corners wear quickly and tear. I have not been able to use the sweeper this year, because one of the wheels keeps locking up. Not up to the standards that I had come to expect from Craftsman products. If you are consider one of these look the other way and run. I would have given it 0 stars if it had been an option.

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RobAllGood says "42" Sweeper, perfect way to take care of your fall cleanup!" about Craftsman 42&#34 High Speed Sweeper

RobAllGood — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:02:24 GMT

Overall I am completely satisfied with my new sweeper. Made a three day job into a four hour job. I would definetely recommend this product!

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JTfromOH says "42" Lawn Sweeper works well" about Craftsman 42&#34 High Speed Sweeper

JTfromOH — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 22:58:23 GMT

The lawn sweeper does a great job of picking up the leaves. We have very mature trees that dump many leaves on the yard. This product will save you much time and do a great job.

I have one suggestion for an improvement to Sears and that is to fix the height adjustment. You either need to shorten the bolt or add washers. I replaced the plastic twisted tightener with a 5/16-18 nut and it works fine....but I have to use a wrench adjust. Anyway, I had to do something because it slipped on me every time I used it.

Also the rope used to dump the leaves works well however you need to be careful that it doesn't drop into the sweeping brushes and get tangled. Find a place to hook it on the mower seat and you will be fine.

One MAJOR bonus for those that have black walnut trees or acorns, this sweeper will pick them up!!!! I was very happy to see this.

This is a very good product. With a little refinement(height adjustment and rope fix) it wil be a great product!

John from OH.....go...

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maanpa says "Great back and time saver." about Craftsman 42&#34 High Speed Sweeper

maanpa — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:27:46 GMT

We have 2 1/2 acres with over a hundred TALL trees. Mostly pine along with hickory, madrone, fruit trees plus unknown. With this red craftsman sweeper it make it fun cleaning up the place. Watch out when picking up pine needles due to their heave weight which make it harder to dump hopper. The other leaf fill it up. Well worth the money. It's time and back saving.

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snapper89768 says "small yards " about Craftsman 42&#34 High Speed Sweeper

snapper89768 — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:20:30 GMT

the craftsman lawn sweeper pulls the tractor down even the smallest hills. If you have to many trees or turns it barely picks up leaves.

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jjllyy says "Craftsman 42" lawn sweeper...tough assembly instructions" about Craftsman 42&#34 High Speed Sweeper

jjllyy — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:34:03 GMT

I just purchased this lawn sweeper. I haven't even used it yet, but I do have it assembled. I wanted to repeat what many others have said--the assembly instructions for the bag unit are ridiculous. The diagrams are not clear nor are the written instructions. I have a master's degree, so I ain't no dummy--but these instructions sure made me feel like one. (sarcasm, intended). Overall, though, I do believe this will be a quality product like most of the Craftsman brand.

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HomeEngineer says "Saves backache, works better than we hoped." about Craftsman 42&#34 High Speed Sweeper

HomeEngineer — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:50:57 GMT

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t2fuller says "The High Speed Sweeper is a time saver and very effective" about Craftsman 42&#34 High Speed Sweeper

t2fuller — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:25:50 GMT

A great device to clean up the yard. Well built, and the high-speed gearing means it sweeps well even at low speeds. Definitely harder to use and less effective on wet grass or leaves, but that's not a surprise. Took an hour to assemble, but the instructions were clear enough.

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Patches98 says "works well but has quirks" about Craftsman 42&#34 High Speed Sweeper

Patches98 — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:15:22 GMT

We have had the Craftsman Lawn Sweeper for several seasons now and it does a great job of picking up grass clippings, leaves and pine needles. You have to have the right angle on the hook up to your mower or it doesn't pull and sweep correctly and will throw the leaves over the bagger. You need to use it before the lawn gets totally covered up as it needs the grass to have the texture for friction to turn the wheels and sweeper bar. It tends to slide when the grass is covered up deeply. Overall, a much better way of handling leaves rather than hand raking.

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blacflht says "not perfect but well worth the money" about Craftsman 42&#34 High Speed Sweeper

blacflht — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:05:14 GMT

Had this for two years now. Works good not perfect but it is nice to want to go and do the leaves for a change .I Like the big bag and the overall build qualith is good . Adjusting it is a bit of a pain but with a bit of trial and error it works great. My tractor is small and it has no problems pulling it . Storing it is a pain but but it is nice not to have another motor to prep for the winter. Complaints are fiew but here goes 1 the instructions suck I had it assembled wrong fot the first season .Fixed it when i saw one in the store and works great . Second assembeling the bag was a nightmare but i did it on a cold day if your gonna buy this get it in the summer wen it is warm and leave the bag in the sun on a hot day or bring it in the house the night before you assemble it . Hope this helps...

Netwiz101 says "HUGE time saver" about Craftsman 42&#34 High Speed Sweeper

Netwiz101 — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 02:19:06 GMT

We are on about an acre, but have 8 large cottonwoods that have shed an incredible amount of twigs this year. (thousands of them). I raked about two weeks ago since my 24 HP Craftsman tractor (with Gator blades) was close to useless with the sheer amount of leaves (fills the bins after about 1 minute), but wouldn't suck the twigs off the ground. Spent about 6 hours raking and filling 20 lawn bags.

Last weekend I ONLY used my bagger since I wanted the leaves at least semi-mulched before bagging, this took me antother 6 hours, at least 40 stops to empty the bins into paper bags (messy, dusty, PITA!), and filled another 25 paper bags.

After many hours of research (vacs vs. sweepers) I decided to buy a sweeper (paid $239 after all discounts).

Couldn't wait to give it a try. So after a few test runs/adjustments I went to work. WOW!!! I left my bagger attachment on, but with no bins, so that way everything was getting semi-mulched, thrown to the ground (because of no bins) so...

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NoNamesPlease says "Craftsman 42" High Speed Sweeper - WOW!" about Craftsman 42&#34 High Speed Sweeper

NoNamesPlease — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 01:30:17 GMT

We've been considering one of these lawn sweepers for several years, but were skeptical how well they actually worked. Boy, are we kicking ourselves for not buying one sooner! We have a huge yard with old maple and pine trees (not to mention all the neighbors' leaves that blow into our yard). One pass and it looked like someone had taken a vacuum cleaner and sucked up all the leaves in that swath. And pine needles were always a chore. This sweeper picks them up with ease. We chose the Craftsman Sweeper because it had the high speed brush feature and is solid built. Works like a charm!

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Pete010 says "Craftsman Leaf Sweeper" about Craftsman 42&#34 High Speed Sweeper

Pete010 — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:45:30 GMT

So bought this a few weeks ago and used a couple of times now on my yard. Overall I would say it was worth the money but do not expect miracles. It did a great job picking up a lot of my grass shavings and leaves, but still left a few behind. I am not a stickler for it being perfect and at the end of the day I just wanted something that handled the majority of the chore and this tool did just fine. Make sure you have some room to store it though because it is rather large.... I put this together in about 1.5 hours but I have to say the directions were not that great. I assemble stuff regularly and this one was definately more tricky than it needed to be. I especially disliked putting the bag on and that the instructions kept telling me to reference a stamp for the left and right side of the frame that simply was not there. Probably could have been done in 45 minutes if not for those two issues. At the end of the day not a huge issue, just more annoying than anything else.........

gotnoscreenname says "Appears to work well but has some drawbacks" about Craftsman 42&#34 High Speed Sweeper

gotnoscreenname — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:10:14 GMT

Bought this from a Sears Outlet store in a damaged box (contents completely undamaged) and got a very favourable price, thank you Sears. Used it only once so far. It does make collecting the grass clippings much less of a chore, but it did cause the tractor to lose traction and slip on even slight inclines and you must be aware of difficulties when needing to reverse and not to make too sharp turns. Assembly was fairly easy, although the instructions for insertion of the suppport poles for the fabric grass-catcher were not very clear and I had to disassemble it and re-assemble it when it became clear as to how it should end up. Emptying the grass-catcher is not as simple a task as was explained and I had to dismount the tractor to use both hands to pivot the unit and dump the clippings on the ground. Still had to transfer the clippings to a re-cycling receptacle with a shovel...not as easy with damp grass...oh well. Would I buy this item again, knowing what I do now? Absolutely...

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BubbaW says "The Craftsman 42" Lawn Sweeper a great purchase" about Craftsman 42&#34 High Speed Sweeper

BubbaW — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 20:28:20 GMT

Just bought a house with big yard and pine needles. I researched lawn sweepers and decided to to purchase this one with the intent of being able to pick up the pine cones and straw and save all that raking. The instructional videos were a great help and I encourage anyone to review the segments before completing those steps. It especially helped me with the hopper assembly. The sweeper was together in an hour and half or so minus a couple breaks. The fit was pretty good and didn't need any help with assembly. I was completely impressed once I got it behind the tractor, I picked up two loads of pine needles and dead grass in just 15-20 minutes or so of going over part of the yard. This will save a bunch of time and get the yard clear before I mow. A great purchase.

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beehappy58 says "The Craftsman 42" lawn: BEST lawn accessory I've ever purchased." about Craftsman 42&#34 High Speed Sweeper

beehappy58 — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:54:36 GMT

I've had mine about 4 years now. Still works fine. I'm a small woman and I have no problem manuvering this sweeper. I have recommended this lawnsweeper to friends and family. I didn't have to for some neighbors that watched how quickly I ran over the lawn picking up debree, pine cones, pine straw, small sticks, leaves, while they are breaking their backs like I use to rakeing leaves and stooping over to pick up pine cones and sticks. One neighbor stopped me and said, I can't believe I've been out here picking up my yard for over 4 hours and still not through and you got on your mower and got up everything and was gone in 20 minutes. If ever there was anything I would recommend purchasing for anybody that spends way too much time working in the yard, it is this sweeper. It works better on level ground. But for low areas or ditches, I just rake debree onto level ground and then run over it with the sweeper. My bag is still good after 4 years and I use mine ALOT. I don't have...

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