Features:

  • 301cc Viper engine with a 5-year warranty
  • Optional vacuum kit featuring a unique air gate and largest-in-class rotor, Tazz produces 20% more vacuum than similar chipper shredders
  • At a convenient 25.4" wide by 29.9" long, it takes up minimal room in your garage or shed.
  • Always-ready, 11" wheels will never go flat
  • Rugged easy-to-use debris bag featuring the Bottom-Out zipper and a quick Dock-and-Lock bag connector
So glad we bought it!

Love this guy!! We have a bunch of trees to take down and this thing is doing it’s thing! Won’t take big logs but for what we need it for, it’s perfect. We are also using it a lot for the immense amount of leaves we are getting dropped on our lawn. Chips them right down so it’s easier to fill the bins to waste pick up.

Definitely worth the extra power if you can afford it!

I have now used this for four weeks. Clearing out the forest that has taken over my backyard (I have a brook that runs through my property and lots of trees, wild bushes, etc. Putting this together was a bit of a task. Installing the damper was a bit confusing - the directions don't really make sense if you look at it. I tried three times to put this on properly but got it done in my own way. DO NOT ignore installing the damper as some have suggested - because something could fall down into the hopper without you realizing it causing you damage! Shut the damper as soon as you have it in place - less any nuts and bolts fall down in to the hopper. Overall, I have used this on branches, limbs at around 3-3.5 inches, creeping green ivy, and the dreaded bamboo stems - both old, dried out ones and freshly cut. I was able to easily shred the bamboo stalks in the chipper cone - one just needs to gently push it inwards - no need to force. They all got shredded nicely I would recommend to let you freshly cut clippings (vines, bamboo, whatever) to dry out a day or two. When I did the bamboo - I pushed the bottom end of the stalk into the chipper cone - and just before it reached the part where the leaves start to grow - I removed it and put that part in to the top hopper. Nicely shredded! Overall, I am really glad I bought this. I wish I had bought something like this years ago. I get a lot of tree debris and wild roses in my backyard which take over every so many years. My town makes it harder now to put this debris out for town pickup. Now I can just mulch and shred this all myself. It took me awhile to get used to "how much" I should be trying to put into the hopper - don't overload it as others have said. With vines, I found it helpful to bend the vines and put the vines into the hopper with the "bend" head first. Took it right in! I have gotten 3/4 of the way around my property. I still have a large pile of old twigs, branches from years of buildup sitting in a pile in my backyard. My goal is to get this all mulched and shredded by the end of the summer. I have made huge strides already! And I have now had piles and piles of mulch to spread around my flower beds and gardens. (All free!) I cut back about 150 bamboo branches - each about 20-25 high and put these through the TAZZ - this has made great mulch in a muddy walkway area I have. I really recommend this model. I definitely would get the more powerful engine if you have a large property. No need to wimp out on power.

HERE'S the beef!

Spent seven hours shredding and chipping with this beast yesterday, and so far I am impressed! Pay the extra money for the beefy motor, it is worth it. Not much bogged it down (within reason), and I turned a giant pile of debris into mulch to be spread in that time. Do not be a goof ball and try to put big ol' logs in the hopper or the branch chute, and all is going to go well. at this point, my only complaint is with the wheels. While well made, the way they attach to the body could be so much better. I am going to put a few more washers on them, and hope that it stops the wobble. Can't understand why they didn't just use a bearing system to give them a little more stability and muscle. Other than that, I am nothing but impressed. A few items of note. When assembling, don't fret that it looks like a returned unit has just been repacked. It was made in China, and I suspect it either is sent to the U.S. as a full unit (to help with import tariff's?) and then they test it, or whatever, but all the pieces will be there, and it IS new. When putting the hopper on, I found it helpful to have two Vice Grips on the outside edge smooshing the pieces of metal together at the point when you'll be putting the nuts on the studs. One thing I wish I'd done: There is a sliding hopper cover that goes on at this step. I would sand down the outer edges to remove the paint, and then put on a little lubricant so that it will slide easier between the metal. When you come to that step, you'll understand! When chipping, separate your debris into two piles ahead of starting the motor up, make sure the branches for the branch chute are clear of all the small shoots, and that they are fairly straight. Have all your smaller brush and the like in another pile ready to go. It will take a bit of time at the front of the project, but you won't be doing it while that monster engine is drinking fuel, and it is a little less time your neighbors have to hear it growling away. (Practice smart PPE, put in ear wigs, or put on muffs, or better yet, both, this baby is pretty loud.) Still have some more to hit today before the rain, and then it will get a little rest before next go around. I am hopeful that I am still enamored with this puppy a year or two from now, but I think they are confident, offering a five year warranty, which I find to be rare in power equipment.

Excellent machine for yard cleanup

Machine works very well, but only if you fully open the Hopper damper, even if you are using the chipper cone for feeding branches. The instruction manual does not discuss the damper at all other than to make sure it is closed if you are using the vacuum hose. With the Hopper damper closed, an exhaust vacuum is not established and the unit will quickly clog up. I selected this machine over many others with belt drive after reading horror stories of melted belts and broken pulleys. Direct drive makes a lot more sense. With the engine at full throttle, this unit will eat 3 inch branches like butter. I have about 40 Chinese Elm trees that require frequent trimming and this machine reduces branches to mulch in no time.

Does the job!

First impression: Very sturdy, solid machine. It has a powerful engine that may be hard to turn over, but mine started on the first try. The branches that I was able to fit into the chipper were converted to nice mulch in short order. The "before" picture shows about half the pile of branches that I chipped and the whole process took about one hour. Both, chipper and shredder, are almost self-feeding. Large branches have to be directed into the chute, of course, but the machine chews them up with a voracious appetite. Unlike dedicated chippers, it doesn't have a flywheel, so it is possible to kill the engine when the wood is fed too fast. The last picture shows the branches (or parts thereof) that didn't fit. I used the shredder for dry and wet leaves and ivy vines. It did a very good job of reducing the volume of the material. Overall, I'm pleased with this purchase. I was wondering if I need a much larger, more expensive chipper to handle the branches, but as long as the knives stay sharp, this will do very well!

Great value

I am very happy with this chipper. Assembly was time consuming but relatively straightforward. I had accumulated quite a substantial number of twigs, sticks and limbs, and I was amazed athow this beast gobbles them up. Stick selection and screening is key, ie you have to know if it isn’t fairly straight, it will be difficult to get the limb thru the chute. But if it is straight, and less than 3 inches in diameter, this machine will pulverize it in seconds. I even got into the habit of feeding 3-4 smaller sticks in at once and it never slowed down. Now I will say all of the sticks I was chipping were VERY dry, and some even starting to rot, as I had been amassing the pile for over a year. Haven’t really tried the shredder but will do so soon. For the money, I feel like this was a great buy. Have fun!

Powerful and clean.

This wood chipper made very short work of my large pile of tree trimming. The bag is a nice feature. It would fill up rather quick but was easy to remove, spread the chips around tree trunks, then place it back on and keep chipping. It was very nice not to have to clean up afterwards.

Earthquake Chipper Shredder 22754

This machine works great. The only problem with the machine is when you change the oil. Vary hard to do. Need a longer funnel. I went out and got a small plastic hose to fit over the end of the funnel. As far as the machine itself This is a great machine for small limbs up to 2". I went through 2 or three pine trees branches in no time at all. Robert

Works great and the Kohler engine is the way to go

Works great and the Kohler engine is the way to go. I ordered the optional leaf attachment which was worthless. Well made machine but has it's limits. Great for small to medium jobs and that's what I bought it for.

Very pleased so far!

After one day of use, I'm pretty happy with this purchase. I've used an MTD machine for years, and it finally became more trouble than it was worth. I have quite a few trees, with a backlog of dead branches and prunings. There were some minor issues out of the box: 1. The assembly instructions were hard to follow, mainly because the hardware was described by technical specs that are beyond my expertise. 2. As others have mentioned, the flange on the hopper was badly bent. I think this probably is due to factory handling, not shipping damage. To me it was a non-issue. Flimsy metal at that location isn't a problem, and it actually made installation easier. 3. As an older guy with big, clumsy hands, I had trouble with nuts and bolts in tight places. This may be more of an issue if I have to disassemble to clear jammed wood. 4. The user manual confused me, and I didn't realize that there was both an on/off switch and a fuel valve lever. With the choke lever hidden under cowling right above the fuel lever, I was turning off the fuel flow when I thought I was closing the choke. I must have pulled a hundred times and re-read the instructions 3 or 4 times before I caught on. I found no significant problems with the fit and finish. As for operation, it starts significantly easier, with one pull, than the MTD ever did (once I figured out the fuel lever thing). At my age, I was barely able to pull the MTD. The 301 cc engine of the Tazz is noticeably more powerful than the MTD, so it doesn't bog down as much, and even with fairly sharp blades on the MTD, I'm getting a much finer and more consistent mulch from the Tazz, especially with green branches. Maybe the biggest benefit of all is that the MTD was pathetic at bagging the mulch. It used a chute that was constantly bumping into things when I was moving the machine, and the bag just tied onto the chute and tended to let debris blow back out around the annulus between chute and bag. With anything in the bag, the engine had to be stopped and the bag removed in order to move the chipper. And the bag would only fill a half to 2/3 full, at best. The Tazz has no annoying bagging chute, and the bag seals well enough and is suspended well enough that it fills 100%, with no blow-back until it is full and debris starts to blow out the large branch chute. I also like the big wheels, the substantial handlebars, and the small footprint. The only operational negative so far is that hot air blows out the exhaust right where I would like to stand for loading the hopper. Not a huge deal, and probably keeps me away from the REALLY hot muffler. It gets your attention if you get too close.

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