A few years ago I bought a shovel made in china. Looked good to me. Had a nice chrome finish. First time I stuck it in the ground the handle broke. My next experience was when I bought one of those garden windmills also made in china. My wife and I assembled it. That was some form of chinese torture I'm sure. Took forever to do. The instructions, although they seemed to be in english, made no sense. I ended up having to jerry rig and re-drill to get it together. Within 6 months the windmill fell off worn by metal fatigue. OK I don't learn easy I guess... A month ago I bought a chinese flail mower from a dealer who advertises on Kijiji. Looked like a knock off of a Europeon brand. Got it home and within 30 minutes of use it fell apart. The bracket that holds the machine to the 3pth failed and the bolts fell out. Either they hadn't been secured, they had been over torqued stripping the thread or the terrible vibration that the poorly balanced rotor created had jarred them loose. When I took the machine back to the dealer he looked it over and the hammers where nicked badly underneath. I wasn't mowing anything worse than I had done for years with my Kubota finish deck. He grumbled that he would now have to sell it as used. To his credit he gave me my $ back. On September 3 2011 I bought a Champion chinese wood splitter from TSC. We split 3 cords of wood last fall and it seemed to work well. I put it away in my dry garage covered til I hauled it out this year on Sept 2 for my wife to split some wood (she loves splitting and piling wood) I was pretty impressed it started on the first pull. About 20 minutes later my wife was drenced in hydraulic oil from a failed line. I checked the lines and both were badly cracked. looked like they were 20 years old and left out in the weather. Called up TSC store and they wouldn't do anything for me. Called Champion 3 days ago and they said they will consider covering it under warranty and get back to me within a day. Have heard nothing yet. What kind of luck have others had with Chinese products?