Features:

  • Heavy-duty tool for the toughest branch and yard debris clearing jobs
  • Quickly turns rugged ranches into usable wood chips with little to no effort
  • Powerful 196cc Kohler RH265 engine
  • Reversible 2 position tow attachment allows you to easily move your chipper shredder around your property with an ATV or tractor
  • Bag included
Good

Very good product very nice

pro chipper Shredder

you won't go wrong with this chipper Shredder its cuts as good as my neighbor 2000.00 chipper with no clogs boy he not happy

a great tool

Out of the box the assembly instructions are clear and generally quite straightforward. The quality of workmanship and materials are high and assembly went very smoothly. Of note, there is a suggestion that two persons are required. If you're willing to cut the box away rather than lift the machine out, it's easy for one person to do it. Once assembled and filled with oil and gas, the little beast started up on the first pull. In both shredding and chipping it performs well making a nice mulch and dispatches leaves and the smaller prunings from our apple orchard without a hitch.

Powerful, Handy, Reliable, Efficient, Quality Built, Yard Tool

I wanted to wait until we used this chipper for a lot of brush clean up before writing a review. We rely on the experiences of other consumers reviews for so many purchases I felt it important to give this a fair assessment. How else do we know if an item, especially a higher priced one, will meet our expectations. This chipper shredder is not only meeting our expectations, it exceeds them. We recently moved to a property which had been neglected. The work to bring it back under control is being done by 2 almost 60 y/o people, my husband (male) and myself (female). It was important for us to have reliable equipment to do the job. The chipper is easy to move around, starts with one or two pulls from either of us, chips 3" diameter and under branches w/ease, shreds leaf and debris well, and has a huge bag that needs to be emptied after about 30 minutes of continual chipping/shredding. PROS: Powerful Compact Reliable Easy to Use Portability Loads of Safety Features Quality Design and Construction CONS: Very Loud (use ear protection) Top feeder has tendency to "spit out" small pieces (use eye protection) Full Bag is Heavy The good def outweighs any of the negatives. I highly recommend this wood chipper for home use. You won't be disappointed.

Solid performer

After weeks of rain, I finally got a chance to use my Dirty Hand Tools Chipper Shredder and wow.....what a hoss! Initially reluctant, I decided to go with the DHT product because it was a good match up between price and durability. My product came well packaged without any apparent harm. There was one nut loose in the crate what was from the deflector shield and that was easily re-attached. Personally I was a little confused with the oil fill position and it was a bit challenging to fill the oil chamber but I wound up figuring it out. Overall it came together fairly easily. The Kohler engine is a workhorse. My first pull on the crank was soft and it took me about 4 attempts to get the pull firm enough for the motor to turn over. That's because the flywheel is pretty heavy and that winds up being a really good thing because it can handle some pretty tough materials. Like any machine, you have to learn how to work with it. It took me a pile or two of brush to get the hang of feeding materials and the "feel" of the motor and she can be a bit heavy to roll around. The weight, however, is very helpful with operational stability. I had no problems with any undue movement of the equipment during operation. The only time it has choked out is when the materials are too big or you don't have the engine at sufficient RPMs. I've really had solid performance on this product both with larger branch (i.e. -trees) chipping as well as the shredding of smaller clippings from shrubs, etc. I cleaned up 4 brush piles in my back yard that were each about 1/2 cord in size and the total job took about an hour. I give it 5 stars.

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