From the moment we tried to open this up it was a tangled mess. We had to really work with it to get it to open. I thought maybe it was just jumbled up in shipping. However, after opening it the once and getting it straight the next time it did the same thing. I was frustrated and tried to force the crank a little and it broke a piece of rod as if it were no more than a pencil. I'm female I didn't crank it that hard. Its a piece of junk. Don't bother.