Hi Hovey, i have the Agri-Fab orange sweeper which is the same as your John Deer and the cub cadet version painted in festive yellow lol ..... watch getting to much weight in the hopper, when its to heavy and you pull the handle to empty it. the tubular metal bends where the handle is attach with the pin and cotter pin.... just a FYI other than that i have used mine quite a bit, in the summer collecting grass clippings and just this fall sweeping up leaves i chopped up with the mower. Merry Christmas
The most important thing to check is that the bag doesn't drag on the ground! It wears out the very expensive bag quickly that way. I didn't want to dump stuff in a pile, so I just unhook the hopper and tip it back to throw it into the back of the pickup to dump it at the drop off site. If it's just leaves, it is very light weight.
