I am really surprised that you found this chipper useful? I have one and it is a really bad design, the engine is OK, mine is an electric start model, but the blades are held in a cheap and nasty sheet steel fabrication, that means that there is no energy in the cutter flywheel, as soon as a small branch goes in it can easily stop the flywheel, to the unsuspecting user the machine is still running, but of course the flywheel has stopped, and it is not until smoke starts to come out of the drive system that people will start to investigate, the flywheel being made up of a welder tube is not concentric, so any chunks of wood will stop it, results are the same as above, a totally useless machine unless shredding grass!
I am really surprised that you found this chipper useful? I have one and it is a really bad design, the engine is OK, mine is an electric start model, but the blades are held in a cheap and nasty sheet steel fabrication, that means that there is no energy in the cutter flywheel, as soon as a small branch goes in it can easily stop the flywheel, to the unsuspecting user the machine is still running, but of course the flywheel has stopped, and it is not until smoke starts to come out of the drive system that people will start to investigate, the flywheel being made up of a welder tube is not concentric, so any chunks of wood will stop it, results are the same as above, a totally useless machine unless shredding grass!
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