Chipper/Shredders
Anyone own or use a gas chipper/shredder?
I am looking at home models up to about $900 or so. From reading reviews, most of these units claim to chip up to 3" branches, but anything over 2" might be difficult. That's ok as I will use any branches over 2" for a fire. The Harbor Freight unit gets pretty good reviews, and at $429 with a coupon its a good deal. The other unit I am looking at is a Champion ($790). I have several Champion generators and their tech support is great. I don't want to rent a larger unit because I will be needing it every so often and the cost would be prohibitive over time. Thanks Steve |
The vibration from feeding 1-2" branches will numb your hands in less than 5 minutes time... They don't "self feed" like big commercial chippers do. Small sticks and leaves do okay.
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Look at your local Pawn shops. Lots of landscaping guys use them as winter storage and the ones that went out of business should have defaulted by now.
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Good advice.
I remember back about 30 years ago, a Huge tree chipper was left running as the oiler came to service it. Yep, it somehow began shredding & that was the end of that guy. Not a pleasant memory. |
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