I have owned several lawnmowers over the years, and they are always difficult to start, especially at the beginning of the season after sitting a long time. This one arrived, I put the handle on, added oil and gas, and with one pull, it cranked! It cranks on the first pull every time. I love it!.

Absolutely perfect, especially for the money. A lot of people say that it's too fast when engaging the drive motor, but I think I walk faster than it wants me to. 100% would recommend. A side note... the instructions are not clear about how much oil to add. It comes with a bottle in the box. Put the whole bottle in.

I find this a good lawn mower for our 1/2 acre lot with lots of trees and hills. It has enough power, is fairly light, is well thought out and executed, and the self propelled feature is solid. Returned a Greenworks electric mower for it’s for lack of sufficient power for tall/thick grass and probably also for mulching leaves in the fall.

It came pretty-much all set up as the handle is awesome, allowing for quick storage, just as advertised. It started right up and continues to, cuts great and moves along at a suitable speed. I wish the propeller handle was rounded at the sides, for faster slowing down and speeding up (at the end of "lanes", etc). I also wish the lower part of the handle loosened like the top). Overall, would recommend.

I guess you get what you pay for these days. We bought this, the cheapest mower we could find, to finish cutting my 1/3 acre yard after my John Deere lawn tractor died. I searched high and low for used mowers under $100 to no avail. Then I checked out Walmart, Home Depot and Lowes. Nothing under $350. I had no idea push mowers have gotten so expensive. Seeing this mower on sale at Sam's Club for $279 seemed like a bargain. First appearances were great. It is a beautiful machine and very easy to assemble. Start up took 3 pulls but that was acceptable. I didn't find the pace of the self-propelled mode to be too brisk for my 72 year old body. However, I am finding the engine to be vastly underpowered for my Texas grass. I often had to go over the same spot multiple times to get an even cut. When I hit a particularly thick patch the mower stopped and I had a helluva time getting it restarted in the 90+ degree heat. I did finally get the yard cut after far more effort than I had hoped. Can't wait for my John Deere to be repaired and returned because this baby just doesn't cut it (pun intended). Hopefully I can just use it to trim along my fenceline and house. Definitely not ideal for my full yard. As for the complaints about the blade - mine seemed a bit dull but I intend to take take it off and hand sharpen it in a vise next go 'round.

I have just used it once, mowed my 1/2 acre lot and it took 2 hours, my prebious machine from home depot would do the same job in 1 hr and 15 mins, this self propelled mower is rear wheel propelled, and if i raise the front wheels when i turn it just runs away from me, i have to hold it tight, but when it is mowing in the self propelled mode, it wont go any faster with me pushing, the speed is what it is set at and that makes it slower than the other machine, the cut was good. no other issues so far.

Delivery was delayed over a week, and when it finally arrived it has a defect. At 3 of the 4 heights the left front wheel hits the deck, causing resistance. With all the hassle of getting it, I opted to just carve a notch in the deck. Otherwise, it starts easily and cuts well.

Purchased this mower from Sam's Club online. It was shipped to our home and upon arrival we attepted to assemble it. A quick check of the box contents against the parts list revealed that the lower handle was not present. Three phone calls and three weeks later the missing part finally arrived and the assembly was completed at last. Alas, the handle does not lock into place for mowing, it still moves up and down. Perhaps another missing part we don't know about?

I ordered this mower online, for home delivery. It was supposed to be delivered in 3 days, but it took over a week. After putting it together, I mowed for about 5 minutes and I shut it down for a couple of minutes to talk to a neighbor, when I tried to re start it, it wouldn't start, after cooling completely down it started again and I finished mowing, I shut the mower off and tried re start it and it wouldn't start, I had to wait for it to cool completely down again before it would start. Needless to say I returned it, Sam's took it back and said that there have been alot of them returned.

When I received my mower, I noticed that the top of the box was taped along one edge making me think the mower had probably been previously returned and now reshipped to me. Order was shipped incomplete. Was missing lower bar handle so could not assemble mower. Called yard force and told them the problem. They said I would receive an email in one to two days. Four days passed and no email. I called customer service and told them. The representative was very rude and said it had only been one day since I had received the mower and I needed to be more patient. I said it had been four days and I had been patient. I never heard back from them. I received the needed part a little over a week later. After putting the mower together I discovered it had some major design flaws. I could not adjust the height of the deck because it was scrubbing against one of the front wheels and it could not roll. Further inspection of that wheel revealed the rod to the wheel was bent out of shape. Also the design of the handle bar was flawed. I could not tighten the upper and lower bars together enough to keep the assembly from slipping making it impossible to safely use it. At this point I returned the mower to Sams Club without any problem in getting my purchase price refunded.