I am a 62 year old woman and I had no problems using this tool. I pulled up 40 x 3 feet of 4-6 inch concrete, I did it over a holiday weekend and was able to complete the demo of my walkway. It was very easy to handle, not overly heavy, easy to control and the job went much smoother and quicker than I had thought it would have. It doesn't burn a lot of oil, very easy to store and it was much less expensive to purchase this than it would have been to rent one. My body recovered quickly with just two Tylenol each evening so didn't seem like an excess amount of jarring.