The fabric is not strong at all. It only took a swipe across my yard that wasn't full of splinters to make a hole in the plastic. And the rope handles on the corner are all parts of the same rope, so when I pull the tarp curls into a ball, which then has to be painstakingly untangled before I can pick up another stack of leaves. I hoped it wouldn't at least blow away like the cheap tarp I used to use. But it happened. The slightest impulse would render it useless. My solution will be to find someone to clean my leaves for me.