I bought this crazy homemade leaf mulching contraption because it was a good price for a big induction motor. But I had to try it out before taking it apart.
I use something similar to that, but slightly less janky, to suck leaves from my lawn mower chute and blow them into a trailer. I'm very surprised by how much air this seems to move even if it's not very good at chopping.
In most of the US, there would be 20 neighbor moms running toward you screaming vile things. One Karen would have already called child protective services. LOL
There are two or three main hazards for kids on this: 1. The open belt 2. Unprofessional wiring 3. The spinning metal wheel of death + 4. noone knows if its gonna tear itself apart... BUT I trust that everyone would 1. Make sure your kid does not get near the belt 2. Doesn't touch the motor or any cables 3. Make sure no limbs get too close to the sucktion port, i.e. use shovels instead of your bare hands and 4. Test the thing alone standing clear of it... Now tell me which did Matthias miss?
@@Tokaisho1 you would put the screen on the inside, around the exit from the blades. The reason is the blades can then clean the screen. Having a screen further downstream would clog
Probably not a "screen" but narrowing the slot on the long dimension would probably be simplest. Since it's wood, like a layer of plywood on each side of the output. You could experiment with the optimal aperture size pretty easily. I'd bet it could be narrowed down quite a bit. I think the intake might self feed better if it were at 9 o'clock also. The thing is probably in pieces at this point though.
@@TheVectorious That will probably actually work, as long as it's shredding soft material such as leaves as he can make shredder the same way metal shredders are made which munches stuff real good and consistently as it uses a very high torque and low speed
I think the issue is the bottom outlet, which lets the leaves out too quickly. If you moved the outlet up, only smaller particles would be able to escape and thus the leaves would come out smaller :)
In an age of helicopter parents that refuse to let their kids do anything remotely dangerous it’s refreshing to see a parent that teaches their kids to respect dangerous things, with close instruction, and also let’s them have fun. You are definitely raising them right! SN: $20 is a steal for that motor!
@@natalieisagirlnow so true. And our Amish friends can’t get enough of leaf blowers. I don’t get it. Blowing leaves a short distance over your yard into another part of your yard? I missed something.
That’s the “OSHA Chipper”. Just like our “OSHA Fan” that was an attic fan with 2 boards as feet and no shroud or protection at all, with stripped wires shoved into an extension cord.
I think it was used to mulch compost with big semidecomposed chunks and at the same time spreading it around the garden just by shooting it out of the machine.
I bought a new electric B & D vac/blower for $100, 25 years ago, that shreds "dry only" leaves 15 x1. Excellent, best mulch, better than compost, when you factor in the ease/nutrition.
That looks fun and kinda nice to see how the leaves burst out. Might not be super useful but still cool to play with. The thing looks very good for a home made machine.
To anyone looking to this for DIY ideas - The shredder needs a piece in the center where the blade attaches that almost looks like a blender blade( with the 4 blades that are bent up) except bigger, that's what does the leaf shredding. Look inside a commercially available one like the ones that look like a leaf blower that's exactly how it's shredded the other blade are for suction and clearing the shreds, nothing more. It's probably Missing that piece or the person didn't need to shred leaves and like the label said shredded compost, which would probably work better as its more dense and wouldn't fly out super fast like light dried leaves. Or they may lf had a screen system at one point to nit allow large piece through only small ones.
I have a Bosch garden shredder that it basically exactly this - the difference being that the stuff you put in the top has to go through the blade disk to get out the other side, instead of just being thrown directly out of the side 🙂 It's a Bosch Shredder AXT Rapid 2200. When you open it up to clear a blockage - yup, that's a lawn mower blade.
What size motor is that? How many amps? 220 or 110? I also think this is probably intended to mulch small branches and shrub trimmings more than it is to shred leaves. On a store bought chipper, there's the chipper side for branches that has cutter blades, and the other side is basically just a straight vained fan, like you'd find in a dust collector - I guess the fan vanes do a better job at shredding leaves than cutting blades do.
So, will the next video be on how to improve leaf mulching contraption? There is probably too much clearance between the blades and the housing for it to do an affective mulch. It would also benefit from being able to recycle the leaves through the blades multiple times the way a mulching mower does. I don't think that can be done with the blades on it's side. On the other hand, if took a drum fan(furnace air blower) and sharpened the fins, you may end up with a decent leaf mulcher due to the fact that the fins are so much closer to each other.
Maybe it's just me, but I was thinking that it might mulch better if you sharpen the blades. Also, if you replace them with "mulching" lawnmower blades. I'd check out that upgrade even if you don't decide to keep it. I'm curious.
@@korganrivera4659 I love mulching blades. Because I hate raking. LoL! Actually it's better for your lawn when you leave the clippings there as fertilizer. That is, if there isn't too much of it. Then it could choke it.
before you take it apart,.... route part of the output through one of your cyclones, and back to the input... I wonder if it could mash those leaves to nothing? edit: not sure where you would put the cyclone in the flow....or put a 1cmx1cm screen on the output so that only small pieces fly out? interesting video idea?
I grew up in that time before safety. Electrical cords had no ground wire. Tools had metal shells. And tape measures lacked PPE Advisories. It wasn't a better time. It wasn't a worse time. It was simply a different time, but we had a saying: "Don't stick your fingers in the fan!"
There was always those odd kids that didn't take instructions very well, they are the reasons for all these safety devices and warnings ! Here in the UK our 3 pin plugs are huge so that they can be wired up by an idiot and still keep all the wires separate but two of the pins have to have plastic sheaths partway down them because some kids discovered that a coin will fit neatly between all 3 pins and when it's plugged in it makes a firework show ! There will always be those kids that only do what they are told when the parents are watching and when they are out of sight they do exactly what they were told not to do, just to see what happens !
irony is sticking your finger in a fan does nothing. the blades are designed with the "cut" side away from you(unless you stick your fingers from the back)
My father had one that he was given. 2400 watt motor mounted to a large chunk of steel bar with articulated 'choppers' on the end - the business end was enclosed in a fiberglass housing cleverly designed so no normal person could shove their arm down the feed chute to reach the whirling blades of death and the outfeed was gravity assisted into a wire screened (2" x 2") outlet - it didn't shoot the mulch more than a foot but it would happily munch anything up to branches as thick as a man's wrist. Sadly the motor's electronics succumbed to the weather & I have never gotten it fixed.
My kids at that age were helping me split wood on a log splitter. :-) Yes they still have all their body parts 30 years later. Lol They also tended the woodburning stove, stacked the wood too... :-) They also have great work ethics and know what hard work is and what it will accomplish... :-) LLAP
@@matthiasrandomstuff2221 you clearly had the situation managed and under control, as you do quite often, and what's more, the kids listened and followed your directions.
I wonder if housing can be used for a blower? it seems to blow out quite a bit. Maybe if the blades were installed vertically it can drive water like a pump?
I shred bags and bags of leaves every year for compost, I was looking around to see if any good electric shredder has been made in the last few years...nothing that I could find, so the electric lawn mower continues the work. The problem with shredders is the leaves only go through once, need a large dry blender with a trap door arrangement or something.
It's a tricky thing to design. If the leaves don't have an easy eject, they'll clog it up. But that means they don't get that shredded. Same with the lawn mower, but it's dead easy to do multiple passes with that one.
I bet someone made this to mulch their tall ornamental grasses. I cut mine off near the base in the late fall and they are an absolute pain to get rid of. In suburbia I generally have to throw this kind of stuff out in my garbage toter. But these grasses are hard to pack in and would fill my garbage tote for like 8 weeks and I still need to get garbage in. Feeding the grasses into that machine would work great and allow them to be used as mulch or fit in the trash bin.
Really needs the blades to be , 1 sharper 2 feed from a different position, maybe in front of the blades rather than the side. But as your parting it out, the motor will suit a large bandsaw , or thicknesser
If the chute was re-engineered and the blades sharpened it could possibly be a small limb/wood chipper. Let's see what kind of leaf shredder/wood chipper you can come up with Mathias! 👍
I dunno, Matthias... you build all these big tools that run off of 1/2hp and 1hp motors.... WHAT possible use would you have for such a big motor!?!? 🤔🤔
Clearly leaves are not a problem or he'd have built a new one. I think there's actually a great opportunity here because all the ones on the market are bulky and loud or the DIY ones are just rigged up string trimmers.
I made a thing with an old mower, i put a metal tube trough de deck to feed it branches from the top ( the mower would sit on a big plastic bin ) scary stuff !!
I think it does a half way decent job. Not great, but not bad. Maybe if it had a restrictor on the outbound side that didn't let them out until they were smaller like a large system.
That’s one hell of a motor you got there! How the hell did you convince Rachel to let the kids use it 😂😂 my mom would have had an absolute fit if my dad brought one home when I was a kid and let me throw leaves in it.
Try sharpening the blades. Also, if you can cut down the size of the outlet or find a way to limit the air flow, maybe the leaves would get chopped a bit more.
I wonder how much better it would work if blades were sharp. Probably as good as a lawnmower but I guess this would be easier if you needed to spread it around a certain area. I’m assuming that was the intent of the guy who built it
I'm sure you can modify it, so it mulches the leaves better. My first guess would be to restrict the airflow, so the leaves circle around multiple times, therefore being hit by the blades more often. Another idea would be to stack multiple blades on the already existing ones.
@@jonanderson5137 In this case, it would even make sense to sharpen the blades on their full length and bend the edges 90 degrees. That's how some mulching blades are designed anyway. But yeah, just sharpening the blades should make a big difference already.
You know what Matthias? Something like that would be really useful for my mother... For her composting. 🤔 I'm going to think about that! 😃 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
when searching for cheap leaf mulching ideas for my neighbor i found this... the guy just gets a drum, fills with leaves, and uses his weed wacker to chop... it works just as well as the leaf vacuum we have ua-cam.com/video/PF-gDsyeQAQ/v-deo.html
A little modification to the shoot and blade sharpening, it should work good. My guess is it's more for brush then just leaves since it has a small shoot.
I wonder if it was mislabeled and is really more of a wood chipper than a mulcher. It would be 10x more terrifying throwing sticks in that thing though.
"I have to try it out because it looks dangerous"
The attraction a man cant resist ;)
Great for the kids!
"That was fun. Lets go play Lawn Darts!" ;-)
Like the notorious "don't touch this it's hot"
@@robwgeorge Blindfolded!
...and make sure you get the neighbors kids to test it before letting your own kids use it.
It does a great job of spreading the leaves around so you have to sweep them up again :D
I use something similar to that, but slightly less janky, to suck leaves from my lawn mower chute and blow them into a trailer. I'm very surprised by how much air this seems to move even if it's not very good at chopping.
He made little humans, he's put them to work.
Keeps the kids occupied, though.
point it toward the neighbor lawn while he's at work.
Matthias should have put a street hockey goalie net near the outlet so it would pile.
Besides the motor and base, you got an hour or so of entertainment for the kids. Very well spent $20
And a video 😂
@@Naiemaa and some comments on the video 😃
@@walterbrunswick And some comments on the comments 😁
It looks dangerous, so I should try it out... and let the kids play with it.
It even says "No KIDding" on the top.
Kids have to learn about danger too. Keeping them wrapped in bubble wrap does them no favors
@@jayoliver3734 Kids really can't do any harm without the arms
In most of the US, there would be 20 neighbor moms running toward you screaming vile things. One Karen would have already called child protective services. LOL
There are two or three main hazards for kids on this: 1. The open belt 2. Unprofessional wiring 3. The spinning metal wheel of death
+ 4. noone knows if its gonna tear itself apart...
BUT I trust that everyone would 1. Make sure your kid does not get near the belt 2. Doesn't touch the motor or any cables 3. Make sure no limbs get too close to the sucktion port, i.e. use shovels instead of your bare hands and 4. Test the thing alone standing clear of it...
Now tell me which did Matthias miss?
a screen over the discharge would keep the leaves in until chopped small enough to pass through. It is the strategy employed by most chippers.
Sadly that might block up very quickly on this particular mulcher
And sharpening the blades
@@Tokaisho1 you would put the screen on the inside, around the exit from the blades. The reason is the blades can then clean the screen. Having a screen further downstream would clog
@@bigiron4018 The discharge could also be angled a bit upwards, so anything that get stuck can fall back down into the blades.
Probably not a "screen" but narrowing the slot on the long dimension would probably be simplest. Since it's wood, like a layer of plywood on each side of the output. You could experiment with the optimal aperture size pretty easily. I'd bet it could be narrowed down quite a bit. I think the intake might self feed better if it were at 9 o'clock also. The thing is probably in pieces at this point though.
That the pumpkin didn't go down the funnel is the biggest tease of the year.
That would have been the pumpkin (mike) drop.
Huh. Interesting. I'd like to see a Matthias-built version of a compost shredder that works well
Out of wood
I was thinking the same thing
@@TheVectorious That will probably actually work, as long as it's shredding soft material such as leaves as he can make shredder the same way metal shredders are made which munches stuff real good and consistently as it uses a very high torque and low speed
@@jackmcslay looks like the one in the video is made from MDF
Am I the only one who feels old when seeing these kids. Feels like just yesterday etc etc...
I think the issue is the bottom outlet, which lets the leaves out too quickly. If you moved the outlet up, only smaller particles would be able to escape and thus the leaves would come out smaller :)
"I should at least try it out 'cause it looks dangerous" :D
"the kids want to play with it some more" haha, that's so great.
Woah! Awesome! Nice to see the kids havin some fun with Pops. My grandfather would make things just like that mulcher when I was a kid 😄💕👍
In an age of helicopter parents that refuse to let their kids do anything remotely dangerous it’s refreshing to see a parent that teaches their kids to respect dangerous things, with close instruction, and also let’s them have fun.
You are definitely raising them right!
SN: $20 is a steal for that motor!
it's like a helicopter
...is that "helicopter parent" a word joke? XD
@@adoraquodincendisti haha it could have been! Probably should have been!
@@adoraquodincendisti en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_parent?wprov=sfla1
@@natalieisagirlnow Well...a tail rotor on a conventional helicopter...
Shaft, bearings, pulleys, hardware, belt and a large quiet motor! Great find.
I'd call it an anti-rake
just as pointless as a real leaf blower
@@natalieisagirlnow so true. And our Amish friends can’t get enough of leaf blowers. I don’t get it. Blowing leaves a short distance over your yard into another part of your yard? I missed something.
@@pattysherwood7091 i have a neighbor that blows 12 hours a day this time of year, and he only has a 50x100 foot lot
@@natalieisagirlnow that is dedication.
Great to see your kids and Rachel again! That is one big powerful motor!
Cant wait for the 95'' band saw build that this motor will be used for!
That’s the “OSHA Chipper”. Just like our “OSHA Fan” that was an attic fan with 2 boards as feet and no shroud or protection at all, with stripped wires shoved into an extension cord.
I think it was used to mulch compost with big semidecomposed chunks and at the same time spreading it around the garden just by shooting it out of the machine.
Yes, I would say it's designed more for that. Like a manure spreader.
Id say it was meant to be a wood chipper for small trees and bushes rather than leaves
"Honey could you move some compost over here?" * compost cannon to the face *
It is at this point that I realize that I will probably watch anything as long as its from Matthias...
I realised this a long time ago (the mice videos stage...)🤣
About 45 years ago, I had a commercial version of this, powered by a horizontal shaft gasoline motor. It worked about as well as yours did.
Lol kids can have fun with anything, wish I still had that kind of fun lmao
20$for the motor a bargain never mind the rest of it 😀👍
What a fun childhood these kids are gonna have!!!!
I bought a new electric B & D vac/blower for $100, 25 years ago, that shreds "dry only" leaves 15 x1. Excellent, best mulch, better than compost, when you factor in the ease/nutrition.
That looks fun and kinda nice to see how the leaves burst out. Might not be super useful but still cool to play with. The thing looks very good for a home made machine.
To anyone looking to this for DIY ideas - The shredder needs a piece in the center where the blade attaches that almost looks like a blender blade( with the 4 blades that are bent up) except bigger, that's what does the leaf shredding. Look inside a commercially available one like the ones that look like a leaf blower that's exactly how it's shredded the other blade are for suction and clearing the shreds, nothing more. It's probably Missing that piece or the person didn't need to shred leaves and like the label said shredded compost, which would probably work better as its more dense and wouldn't fly out super fast like light dried leaves. Or they may lf had a screen system at one point to nit allow large piece through only small ones.
"it looks dangerous"....
Next scene...kids loading it with their shovel's lol
I have a Bosch garden shredder that it basically exactly this - the difference being that the stuff you put in the top has to go through the blade disk to get out the other side, instead of just being thrown directly out of the side 🙂 It's a Bosch Shredder AXT Rapid 2200. When you open it up to clear a blockage - yup, that's a lawn mower blade.
“Could you build a wooden leaf blower?”
“Uh sure”
Love how it says „no kidding“ on the yellow post-it note on top
Wow your kids have grown!
Whooo doggy that's a scary ass machine! But it does run smooth: purrs like a tiger and bites like one too! Great video Matthias, thumbs up.
You can gauge the RPM just by the ratio of the pulleys! That's a man what built a lot gears in his time! lol
there's also a tag on the motor, 1:1 is the rated rpm
I wish you would sharpen those blades. And then run it again and see what it does. Pretty cool find my friend.
Looks like it would work well at spreading composted material or peat moss in the garden.
That definitely looks right up your alley! LOL.
Showing the children how to use a dangerous machine safely.
What size motor is that? How many amps? 220 or 110? I also think this is probably intended to mulch small branches and shrub trimmings more than it is to shred leaves. On a store bought chipper, there's the chipper side for branches that has cutter blades, and the other side is basically just a straight vained fan, like you'd find in a dust collector - I guess the fan vanes do a better job at shredding leaves than cutting blades do.
So, will the next video be on how to improve leaf mulching contraption?
There is probably too much clearance between the blades and the housing for it to do an affective mulch.
It would also benefit from being able to recycle the leaves through the blades multiple times the way a mulching mower does. I don't think that can be done with the blades on it's side.
On the other hand, if took a drum fan(furnace air blower) and sharpened the fins, you may end up with a decent leaf mulcher due to the fact that the fins are so much closer to each other.
Maybe it's just me, but I was thinking that it might mulch better if you sharpen the blades. Also, if you replace them with "mulching" lawnmower blades. I'd check out that upgrade even if you don't decide to keep it. I'm curious.
I only just learned that mulching blades exist and came here to tell him the same thing. Would be an easy upgrade.
@@korganrivera4659 I love mulching blades. Because I hate raking. LoL! Actually it's better for your lawn when you leave the clippings there as fertilizer. That is, if there isn't too much of it. Then it could choke it.
before you take it apart,.... route part of the output through one of your cyclones, and back to the input... I wonder if it could mash those leaves to nothing? edit: not sure where you would put the cyclone in the flow....or put a 1cmx1cm screen on the output so that only small pieces fly out? interesting video idea?
I grew up in that time before safety. Electrical cords had no ground wire. Tools had metal shells. And tape measures lacked PPE Advisories. It wasn't a better time. It wasn't a worse time. It was simply a different time, but we had a saying: "Don't stick your fingers in the fan!"
There was always those odd kids that didn't take instructions very well, they are the reasons for all these safety devices and warnings !
Here in the UK our 3 pin plugs are huge so that they can be wired up by an idiot and still keep all the wires separate but two of the pins have to have plastic sheaths partway down them because some kids discovered that a coin will fit neatly between all 3 pins and when it's plugged in it makes a firework show !
There will always be those kids that only do what they are told when the parents are watching and when they are out of sight they do exactly what they were told not to do, just to see what happens !
irony is sticking your finger in a fan does nothing. the blades are designed with the "cut" side away from you(unless you stick your fingers from the back)
@@natalieisagirlnow NOW it's that way. Probably because of a few too many ER visits.
@@ian-c.01 I was one of those kids. My favorite things to play with were all the dangerous things: fire, electricity, sharp knives and chemicals!
Like how he switched from playful to father mode.
My father had one that he was given. 2400 watt motor mounted to a large chunk of steel bar with articulated 'choppers' on the end - the business end was enclosed in a fiberglass housing cleverly designed so no normal person could shove their arm down the feed chute to reach the whirling blades of death and the outfeed was gravity assisted into a wire screened (2" x 2") outlet - it didn't shoot the mulch more than a foot but it would happily munch anything up to branches as thick as a man's wrist. Sadly the motor's electronics succumbed to the weather & I have never gotten it fixed.
I'm here for all the comments from angry parents horrified at witnessing kids dump leaves in this contraption, much less the thought. 😁
Perhaps you should add this type of comment then? Surprisingly haven't seen that type yet.
@@matthiasrandomstuff2221 I came down here looking for it too!
My kids at that age were helping me split wood on a log splitter. :-)
Yes they still have all their body parts 30 years later. Lol
They also tended the woodburning stove, stacked the wood too... :-)
They also have great work ethics and know what hard work is and what it will accomplish... :-)
LLAP
@@matthiasrandomstuff2221 you clearly had the situation managed and under control, as you do quite often, and what's more, the kids listened and followed your directions.
im usually the safety dad posting it, but if anyones kids should be comfy around this sort of stuff, its Mathias's
this one could go viral
I see a new band saw in the future.
Holy cow, Matthias! I hear children are good for compost, so turn your back for two seconds and that thing will mulch them right up!
It needs your improvement for its true potential!
That's a big motor for only $20 - great catch!
I wonder if housing can be used for a blower? it seems to blow out quite a bit. Maybe if the blades were installed vertically it can drive water like a pump?
It's not a good mulcher so make it into a good one before you take it apart!
At least sharpening the blades is called for before condemning it as not working.
I shred bags and bags of leaves every year for compost, I was looking around to see if any good electric shredder has been made in the last few years...nothing that I could find, so the electric lawn mower continues the work. The problem with shredders is the leaves only go through once, need a large dry blender with a trap door arrangement or something.
It's a tricky thing to design. If the leaves don't have an easy eject, they'll clog it up. But that means they don't get that shredded. Same with the lawn mower, but it's dead easy to do multiple passes with that one.
What size of bandsaw will this motor be powering in a future video? :)
The 120" lumber mill!
Keith Rucker is rebuilding a 48" one; 54" ?
Interesting 🧐. Are you going to file the blades to see if it work better ?
Cool find!
Great Safety Lesson!
Wonder if sharpening the blades might help.
I bet someone made this to mulch their tall ornamental grasses. I cut mine off near the base in the late fall and they are an absolute pain to get rid of. In suburbia I generally have to throw this kind of stuff out in my garbage toter. But these grasses are hard to pack in and would fill my garbage tote for like 8 weeks and I still need to get garbage in. Feeding the grasses into that machine would work great and allow them to be used as mulch or fit in the trash bin.
That was fun!
What an odd and cool find!
It looks well balanced
OSHA definitely approves
Very impressed!
Man at yard sales near me people only sell shitty VHS tapes, $4 screwdrivers and half used boxes of nails.
It's a rare find!
In the uk we dont even really have yard sales!
@@bobcharlie7982 Bob it's because they would be called "garden sales" you've been looking for the wrong signs the whole time. 😁
As that sucker is well built it needs a test after the blades are sharpened and then yet another test with a 'dado' stack of six lawnmower blades.
Really needs the blades to be ,
1 sharper
2 feed from a different position, maybe in front of the blades rather than the side.
But as your parting it out, the motor will suit a large bandsaw , or thicknesser
If the chute was re-engineered and the blades sharpened it could possibly be a small limb/wood chipper.
Let's see what kind of leaf shredder/wood chipper you can come up with Mathias! 👍
I dunno, Matthias... you build all these big tools that run off of 1/2hp and 1hp motors.... WHAT possible use would you have for such a big motor!?!? 🤔🤔
Put a bigger motor on one of my tools
@@matthiasrandomstuff2221 Pantarouter could use an upgrade lol
@@matthiasrandomstuff2221 for the trolling factor, that tool has to be your smallest belt sander, right?
@@matthiasrandomstuff2221 I see the lifting ring... I think you now need to build a DIY shop crane for helping to lift heavy stuff... 😁😁
You need to
Make a new channel called “will it mulch”. At the end of it all the motor will still be fine.
Leaf smoke! Don't breathe this
Clearly leaves are not a problem or he'd have built a new one. I think there's actually a great opportunity here because all the ones on the market are bulky and loud or the DIY ones are just rigged up string trimmers.
I thaught you would try what happens if the blades are actually sharp
yeah i also thought it is not doing much because the blades are dull
wow i love this i hope i have this one too
I made a thing with an old mower, i put a metal tube trough de deck to feed it branches from the top ( the mower would sit on a big plastic bin ) scary stuff !!
BECAUSE it looks dangerous!😂
Great way to hide a body (unless it’s snowing)
Oh gees
it got plugged with leaves, so probably not
The woodchipper in Fargo movie was efficient
"And see what happens" copyright A.Camarata :D
Nice $20 motor find!
Next Matthias video: Watch as I attach this leaf mulcher to my homemade shed!
I wonder if it would shred properly if the blades were sharpened?
I think it does a half way decent job. Not great, but not bad. Maybe if it had a restrictor on the outbound side that didn't let them out until they were smaller like a large system.
Did you sharpen the blades?
Does it also work with paper? like printed documents... asking for a friend...
I suppose if you want to share those printed documents with the neighborhood. 😉
I think it's purpose is to throw the leaves onto to neighbor's property so they can take care of them.
😂
I was hoping the pumpkin was going to go in!
That’s one hell of a motor you got there! How the hell did you convince Rachel to let the kids use it 😂😂 my mom would have had an absolute fit if my dad brought one home when I was a kid and let me throw leaves in it.
Nice TEFC motor. I assume it's a 4-pole based on your estimated output speed, and looks like maybe a 145T frame? What is the power rating?
yes 4 pople, 120/240 volt, but only 1 hp. Must be pre-inflationary horsepowers!
@@matthiasrandomstuff2221 Was the motor a 1725 rpm one on this mulcher?
Wonder if it would work on branches
Add a coarse screen to the exhaust to reduce the size of the mulch?
Try sharpening the blades. Also, if you can cut down the size of the outlet or find a way to limit the air flow, maybe the leaves would get chopped a bit more.
I wonder how much better it would work if blades were sharp. Probably as good as a lawnmower but I guess this would be easier if you needed to spread it around a certain area. I’m assuming that was the intent of the guy who built it
I'm sure you can modify it, so it mulches the leaves better. My first guess would be to restrict the airflow, so the leaves circle around multiple times, therefore being hit by the blades more often. Another idea would be to stack multiple blades on the already existing ones.
Just flatten the blades a bit and sharpen them. No real modifications would be necessary.
@@jonanderson5137 In this case, it would even make sense to sharpen the blades on their full length and bend the edges 90 degrees. That's how some mulching blades are designed anyway. But yeah, just sharpening the blades should make a big difference already.
You know what Matthias? Something like that would be really useful for my mother... For her composting. 🤔
I'm going to think about that! 😃
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
when searching for cheap leaf mulching ideas for my neighbor i found this... the guy just gets a drum, fills with leaves, and uses his weed wacker to chop... it works just as well as the leaf vacuum we have ua-cam.com/video/PF-gDsyeQAQ/v-deo.html
Did you try small branches?
A little modification to the shoot and blade sharpening, it should work good. My guess is it's more for brush then just leaves since it has a small shoot.
Optimized compost mulcher build coming from Matthias within the next 4 videos. Calling it
Exactly what i thought. I‘m in
With wooden blades
It’s good to see kids learning / working with dangerous tools safely supervised. They’ll grow up with more understanding, more options and less fear.
I feel so old now! Been watching this channel since before these kids were born
Just add a few agricultural-style rake tines to the blades, then it will shred those leaves.
I wonder if it was mislabeled and is really more of a wood chipper than a mulcher. It would be 10x more terrifying throwing sticks in that thing though.