SuperHandyWood Chipper Shredder Mulcher Ultra Heavy Duty 7HP 3 in 1 Multi-Function 3" Inch Max Capacity

Make sure to follow instructions.It seems they made changes on the device but forgot to adjust the manual. It is easy to figure it out during assembly.Using the top for pinestraw clogs it sometimes. Make sure to have a wood stick to assist.It is strong and loud, neighbors can hear easily.The bag looks sturdy, but it could not hold the power of the machine and tear apart the beginning of it after some days of use.Make sure the wood are not too thick. It can manage up to 2” easy. But after that, you are working on its limit and it might clog. I try to avoid to make it last longer.For now, I am really enjoying it. It saved me a lot of money already.

I have used this 4 times since purchase of fall 2020. Overal, I like the chipper. Few notes: hopper needs to be fed as a continue stream of leaves and debris but not thrown in as a pile. A pile clogs the hopper shoot to shredder blades but continue stream sliding down the hopper chute works much better. The hopper does not do well with twigs per se. Feeding through the chipper work much, much better. Chipper chute works best with side branches trimmed off. You can push the side branches through but you need to use a push rod as self feeding mode works only with straight limbs. The bag is the weak point. Within 15 minutes of use the eyelet came out and had to manually hold bag in place. The draw string on the included bag is worthless. The included bag is small and fills fast. I purchased a bigger bag that fits chipper but in this case my wife sewn a inside patch over both eyelets and I used a bigger flat washer along with wing nut. This worked quite well. The larger back really helped. One trick is to attach larger bag and then leave zipper open. This way the bag absorbs the velocity of output chute and you do not have to empty bag. As bag begins to fill, I just grab underneath and empty enough so as not to block output chute. This worked well for volume shredding of one acre of leaves and then I would just rake out into gardens. The maneuverability was fantastic because I just move the operation to the next batch of leaves. To speed process up, I had my wife mow the leaves, being them to me and the I shred them to bits. This allowed me to use this a mulch for various yard gardens. One last thing that I am sure SuperHandy will not like is that in order to use the shredding hopper, I had to remove the protective straps. I am sorry to say but those safety straps made loading the shredding hopper very difficult and caused the hopper to plug every time. So what I did instead was use a 24 or 30 inch leaf rake, load the leaves on the rake, stand back away from shredder chute and off to the side and tilt the rake into the chute. This worked very well and allowed constant feeding of chute sped the process up considerably. Keep in mind, I am a 6 foot plus tall weightlifter and have long arms to do this and the leaf rake has a 5 foot broom handle.Overall, I am happy with chipper with the few modifications of use. I will say it is tough to feed a true 3 inch Queen or King Maple tree limb through chipper. Chipper bogs down and you have to slow feed. Douglas Fir was okay. I would say for continue use 2 inch would be max. Gas tank last quite a long time. To fill oil, you must remove chipper chute first or fill the oil then attach chute. Manual pull starting worked just fine. Would start on first pull. Not overly noisy but that said I used noise reduction ear muffs and face shield. I would recommend purchase with caveats mentioned above. My wife is 4'-7" so loading shredder was not possible for her because of safety reasons. Only I load shredder. She had no problem using chipper chute. She mainly brought leaves to me and I did the rest.

I have a large yard that's heavily wooded with firs and cedars. Wind storms are always dripping branches, this shredder handled the shredding/mulching very well. machine was easy to start and use. Very satisfied with this purchase. Good value purchase

Works as well as it is claimed in the performance specifications, very easy to assemble, use, and move around. Very sturdy and compact machine. I am a 70-year-old person with no experience with gas powered machines, all my tools such as lawn mower, weed-trimmer, chainsaw, and pressure washer are all either electric or cordless. I was afraid of getting into gas, oil, maintenance, and repair situations, but I was in fact surprised on how easy it was to assemble the machine and get it started in the first try and ever since. It takes and grinds quite fast any sort of branches less than 2 and half inches thick dry or wet. In my first use I mulched all 2 and ½ inches branches of three medium size pine trees (cones and everything) in less than an hour. I have used it several times and never had a single hiccup. I have to say that it is in fact fun to use this machine, as long as you are wearing ear plugs and gloves. It does pull away fast from you the long and highly branched limbs as you feed them. It is the best large item product I have bought from amazon. During delivery the box was damaged and the filter box was slightly bent, however the manufacturer responded rapidly and courteously and is shipping a replacement part even though the machine is working perfectly as is.

Assembly was easy. Some have complained that the oil dipstick is inaccessible under the Shute, they failed to notice there is a dipstick on both sides of the engine.It took me a day to realize the machine utilizes a vacuum to help feed the machine. So when using the top shut the cove must be on the side shut, conversely when using the side shut the sliding door on top must be closed.There is a learning curve to feeding the chipper, ideally, creating a continuous column of mixed (leaves, sticks some bottom first some top first all overlapping. That way there is always something pushing from behind. Sticks with forks or sharp bends won’t feed.I’m not sure what the large top shut is for, perhaps dry leavesChanging the chipper blades is a bit challenging. The machine is all metric, and a metric Allen wrench is required. The back and Shute must be removed. The bolts are partially cover by the machine and it’s very easy drop them into the enclosure.It’s loud, ear protection well advisedUpdateI used the chipper about 6 days over a 2 month period. It was sometimes hard to start, but ran well. Yesterday I tried to start it and was unable, tried everything. I finally did a compression check, result 60lb dry, 80lb wet. ie the engine is shot, the return period has closed, no warranty support. Buy at your own risk.Third updateThe problem turned out to be a bad ignition coil, it failed after just 6 daysFourth updateUpdate to engine problems, eventually the engine would not start at all. I’m a don’t your seller, I methodically checked everything to find the cause, in the end it was a faulty spark plug.