I purchased this a few weeks ago and it was going well. All the branches and brush from fire mitigation were being taken care of handily. I went to start it up today and the on/off switch isn't toggling...maybe the vibration shook something loose. I may be updating to 5 stars or 1 depending on how the warranty process goes.

I’m very happy with this wood chipper. I’m making my own garden mulch simply by cleaning up the sticks that fall from my trees. The chipper shreds the sticks into a nicely fine grain mulch that I spread into my garden beds, keeping all the goodness in my own yard. Now I don’t have to worry about pesticides that might be contained in any commercial mulch as I won’t have as much need to purchase mulch, saving a lot of money. This is much more sustainable and will pay itself back in a short time.

I got this chipper / shredder about a month ago and I'm really impressed. I run my palm fronds through it as well as the small branches from my tree trimming. It did jam up on me but I inserted branch that was too big from the recommendation of not over 2 inches. I was able to remove the "jam" and it is running fine. The shredded material it produces is great bedding for my flower beds and garden. And the unit is very light and easy to move around the yard. Just be sure to have a long enough outdoor extension chord

Used once so far for about an hour. Works well. But quality control is terrible. When first assembling, there was a rattle inside motor housing. Had to remove housing cover to find reason: There was a screw left inside, and the tip of broken screwdriver. Screw was not just in the motor housing, but was actually inside the cage surrounding the motor! Could have shorted the motor if I used it this way. Very dangerous, don't know how this could have passed QA inspection.

Maybe a little lighter duty than I expected but it does handle all small and medium branches well. I fed the medium limbs 1 by 1 as that worked the best. Also I liked the chip catcher bag (seems long lasting) and the chip size produced, those were small enough to use as wood mulch in the flower bed.

I hated throwing out pruned tree branches. This has helped me get those into my composter/mulcher. This is not heavy duty and needs to be cleaned out frequently especially with more fibrous plant materials which will wind up spooled onto the axle nut. But for a low cost, light duty chipper it does well.

DOES NOT COME WITH A PROPER PLUG. This needs an extension cord, the plug is like 2 feet long. Other than that, pretty great little wood chipper. It's smaller than a baby stroller and understandably handles small to medium sized sticks. Nothing larger than two inches in diameter. If you have a bunch of trees in your yard always dropping sticks, then this is for you. You'll neverhave to buy mulch, just make it yourself.

Have used twice. Produces very nice natural mulch and was excited to get rid of the many twigs and sticks that accumulate through the winter. We were in the middle of the second use, chipping and shredding sticks 1/4 inch to 1.5 inches. Shredder was having no problem with small and very dead wood but when we put in a 1.5 in stick of hard wood it jammed and within seconds seems to have burned out the motor. Automatic shut off did not happen and we turned off with the switch within 5 seconds. Starting the warranty process today. We'll see how they stand behind they're product. Hoping they do as we were really happy with the mulch it produced

Loved the mulch our first shredder produced but it quit working after second use. Fortunately, after trading a few emails with Westinghouse Service Department, they sent a replacement. Much appreciated. Time will tell if this one gives us several years of use.

I am impressed with the this small, electric wood chipper. I have many fruiting trees, Aspens, Pine & Oak to prune, so I needed a chipper to deal with the small branches. I have used the chipper many times, with very few choking problems. I did notice the blades stopped cutting the wood with ease & realized I needed to replace the blades, they had a few chips & had been worn down from all the wood chipping. I ordered 4 sets of new blades for future use.