Wait I'm confused, does it require perfectly straight lumber or will it take boards from Home Depot?

At least you know it's never been used to dispose of a body.

I had a similar that didn't work for shit. I took it apart and took a grinder to the blades to sharpen them up again and it worked pretty good after that.

I have the next model up (400 Pro) so mine will likely accept larger diameter branches. But with that said one needs to learn the machine's limits in terms of both diameter and wetness.

Before I chip up a pile of branches I'll go through with a swede saw and lop off any parts that are too big. That'll let me breeze through the pile without fighting the machine too much. Also cut apart any wide crotches that won't feed through on their own.

I gave up chipping brush. Had the same problem with the Harbor Freight special. Easier to just throw it in a pile and burn it if that's an option.

If you got it for free then at least the value is still high

Maybe it needs new blades?

Damn I still want one.

Did anyone else think the rivets were bullet holes at first?

I gotta get my eyes checked.

The as-seen-on-tv products sometimes have good ideas but the execution is awful. Cheap materials or bad engineering/quality control, etc...

Dirty bich like to get fed

Like the Powerglove?

I modified a similar chipper by widening the feed opening, that helped. Also definitely worth sharpening blade(s)

I had something similar and it was about $500, thing was a piece of junk. Could barely cut a stick with a diameter of around 3 inches despite being rated for 6 inches (no it wasn't from a hardwood tree)

I ended up selling it for $250 and felt bad for the person buying it thinking that it will clean there yard up from the severe weather we had a year ago.

Bad as in "The Nintendo Power Glove is so bad?" bad?

I've got a 15hp chipper and need to be wary of my cuts so I can feed it nice branches. I've still got a bunch of "elbows" that wouldn't fit that I've turned into garden borders. It's nice to make mulch where you actually know what's in it and not ground industrial waste or whatever.

Oh joy! I was given something similar, not quite the same brand/model. I have it on my agenda for this week or next week at the latest to deal with a pile of fallen limbs I've collected over the past year or so. Granted, mine is specifically described as a limb chipper. I was hoping it would make my life easier.

I need to ask a stupid question. What is the purpose of chipping wood like this?