Excellent machine.

I have a lot of shrubs, bushes, and trees in my little yard. It's difficult to deal with the different types of branches and sticks. This chipper makes it a snap to shred all that wood to a small volume so it can go in a lawn bag for disposal instead of being tied and bundled to the city's specifications. It's a good size for my needs, it's fast, and just makes my life easier.

Does a good job

We used it a soon as we got home to grind up bird feed that had large kernals of corn it it! Worked great! Also used it or little branches from our Sycamore tree. Our tree drops LOTS of small branches all the time. Love It and it will get lots of use!

this chipper is great for pruning limbs. I was hoping it would also have an entry point for leaves, but mostly small straight limbs. It does great on small bushes and crepe myrtle limbs. I haven't tries it on any larger limbs but am sure it will handle them too.

I used this shredder for the first time yesterday; it performed great on branches. I was disappointed in the way it shredded cardboard the machine would feed some through fine but the end of piece word does not go through without constantly tamping it down then it would spit out a unshredded piece. Overall, I think it was a good purchase.

I bought this primarily to make my own mulch and I'm glad I did. It's frighteningly powerful but it does require some effort to push the branches into it. I had hoped that it would do most of the work pulling in the branches. Just be careful pushing in the branches because it has some very powerful kickback.

It works just fine on branches up to 1.5". Not very good with leaves but I did not buy it for leaves. Used it twice and so far so good. Now blowback from bag is a nuisance. Only time will tell how the plastic holds up and I will not use it if temperature is under 50 F.

A lot of reviews I read were positive so I was hopeful this would be a good purchase. This is the first time in a long time I've been extremely disappointed in a product. I have lots of palm trees in my back yard, and I bought this to mulch up the fronds after I trim them. I don't even get a full bag of mulch before the blades start going dull and it stops being able to cut things. There is a huge gap between the anvil of this machine and the cutting blade, meaning it relies heavily on the sharpness of the blade to create mulch. This means after a period of time mulching branches (in my case, a very brief period of time), they start coming out in long strips instead of chips and I need to press firmly to get it to cut. I can clearly hear motor strain occurring when this happens. The first time out of the box it worked great for one full bag of mulch, after that it has worked absolutely terribly. I was opening it and clearing the clog after EVERY SINGLE BRANCH. It sure seems like others' experiences are more positive, but for my application this has failed with flying colors. Even when I replace the blades they are already dull before the bag fills up.

Stopped working after 1 month