Can She Operate This Wood Chipper?
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- Can She Operate This Wood Chipper?
Here is e physical test of the Harbor Freight Predator 212cc 6.5 hp Chipper Shredder. HF 62323
We are going to fire it up and run it through the break in period with some leaves and small branches, then feed it a few good sized branches to see how it performs.
This unit takes leaves and small branches (up to 1/2 inch) in through the hopper on top and claims to handle branches up to 3 inches in diameter through the front. We plan to mulch a lot of leaves with this thing this fall and to turn all of the branches from our winter tree trimming into chips that we can use in our landscaping.
Enjoy!
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Just a word of warning with chipper. As fast as it pulls it in to chip it’s just as fast to rip your hand open. ALWAYS feed with big end first. I had a branch that had a smaller lateral branch farther up broken off with a jagged point. As it got sucked in I could not get my hand out of the way fast enough. It ripped my hand palm wide open through my leather gloves. 37 stitches later and thinking about what had happened.
If the branch would have been the other way it would have been fine.
Be careful.
Thank you for posting that and saving someone else from a similar incident
thanks for the warning!
Is that what she said😂
Yea, I was worried about one of those cut offs hooking her glove and pulling her pretty hand in.
THANK YOU! Good advice.
Great video. Just a quick tip in your shut-down (O.F.F. settin ;) ) to help your engine last longer.
Idle the engine down for a minute or 2 to cool the engine down and let the blower dissipate the heat and hot spots. More importantly, because that setup has a huge fly wheel, it runs on for a while after power to the spark plug has been cut.
Here's what happens when you do this. The govenor senses the RPMs' slowing sown, so it opens the throttle wide open to compensate. What's happening at this stage is the carb is dumping gas into the cylinder, compressing it, then blowing it out the exhaust. During compression, some gas will be forced passed the piston rings (this happens in all engines, even when running in the O.N. position. This unburned fuel finds it's way into the oil, dilutes it, and shortens engine life. Not to mention, you could get an awesome back-fire out the exhaust as the unburned fuel ignites on the hot exhaust.
Cheers.
Keep your hair tied back before it gets sucked in the machine especially when leaning in to turn it off
I was about to leave exactly the same comment. Overall, when you work with any rotating power machinery, keep always your hairs tied.
About 15 minutes in I realized there is a wood chipper involved in this
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I've watched it three times now. I still haven't seen the woodchipper..
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What wood chipper?
What woodchipper?
I used to rake leaves then I discovered a mulching blade for the mower. Leaves seem to vanish before your eyes, no raking.
Love that you showed how easy it is to pull that thing with one hand! Good old American ingenuity - get those rubber flaps out the way! Thanks for showing all that could go wrong!
Gotta do what you gotta do
I'm sold, I've been looking into this one for awhile. Especially with that price point, and Harbor has a pretty good return policy.
I love that you actually acknowledge her as trophy/ click bait. Best channel.
It’s become a joke around here.... I raise the animals, he builds the enclosures and we but her together... So I can’t claim full useless trophy wife status but if click bait ain’t broke 🤷🏼♀️ 🤣🤣🤣
"Honey can you move that heavy thing across the yard"?
"HOLD MY BEER", " Never mind, I got it".
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She didn't spill a drop.
@@oneDonly ..must be related to Julian on TPB!!! LOL
I use my chipper to clean-up mesquite branches and pecan branch trimmings. I keep them in separate piles and when we smoke meat(s) we have ready made smoker wood chips. The garden and trees love the mulch too.
Yep that’s awesome ! We do that with our apple wood
This was unique. I'm kind of amazed at how fast it yoinks the wood. Some serious damage could be caused quickly if the operator is not careful. Nothing like the small Electric chipper they sell.
Truth 🙌🏼it’s a bit jarring at first
I about died when Syd said what I was thinking around 3:40.... "That's what she said." 😂🤣
Us folks from the Fargo area sure appreciate a good woodchipper video!
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HA HA HA HA ! Yes, indeed
That thing is heavy, Your ol'lady is a hoss. One handed and held her own beer!
I pile the leaves up and mulch them with the lawn mower. Much faster
After watching how much work it was to do leaves, I am going to stick with the lawn mower too =)
Depends on how many leaves why pile them up. Or you can mow and bag them.
Then dump into a big pile.
@mi channnal
Selectively pick the trees you want and stake them out becuse if you let it go, it gets so full you cant mow any of it.
In 10 years you have a ton of underbrush.
And thats a real pain in the ass to deal with unless you have goats.
City dweller here, but it helps to put sticks in with leaves because leaves are to light-weight to go by themselves.
Yes but these were raked up leaves with only small twigs mixed in ... just the way it was 👍🏻
Sure, the clickbait got me here but the drinkin' kept me here. I think everyone has a "drunk Matt". lol
Good stuff.
😂 thanks for watching
I've had two drunk Matts. One drank himself to death in 2000, the other shot himself in the head in 2015.
The middle school antics gets old after about 2 seconds into the video
Can’t please everyone 🤷🏼♀️
lolz props she didnt put the beer down once while moving the chipper
Mad skillzzzz son 😉
Now that it’s been 4 years, any updates?
I won’t comment on the wife any fool can understand she’s gorgeous but I will comment on the Predator engine. It’s extremely inexpensive and made in the same factory in China that Honda engines are made. It’s very popular in the go cart scene because hop up parts that fit the Honda also fit the Predators
Love the machine and the trophy wife is a wonderful bonus. Lol
The click bait worked lol
I dress myself , shoot and edit the videos ... I’m who I am and make no apologies but my husband has nothing to do with what I choose to wear or how I look ✌🏼
I just saw harbor freight and clicked
@@3MISSISSIPPI Syd hes just mad cause his mama wont pick clothes like that for him to wear. Lmao
I have the same motor on my snowblower and when it didn't start on the first pull I said to myself, 'it's not on'. It's a Honda clone that I lovingly refer to as the 'ol Chonda'
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he is working well into beer thirty hours. keep the beers coming lol
i couldnt watch this without grabbing a beer
Leaves just go in the pile straight away without grinding saves a lot of work. Need some moisture to get a good fermentation going. Throw in some high nitrogen fertilizer get it cooking in no time.
That’s a scary little chipper; keep hair bundled tightly to your head and take off rings, bracelets and such!
Lol the turkeys were laughing at you. Awesome video thanks for sharing with us. The wood chipper I have is about that size and I love it.
+Backwoods Raised they always do 🤣🤣🤣 yep so far so good 😊 SC
TheCrouchRanch hope y'all have a super awesome Thanksgiving!!
+Backwoods Raised thank you and to you as well ! -SC
Feeding those branches, she has great form.
am I the only one she's making HOT - I need my oil filter changed now LOLO
You're wife is a fox! I was really here for the chipper reviews though lol.
😝 thanks
The instructions may not say it, but hearing protection is also recommended with the engine and chipper noise. Good job on your first run with the chopper.
Live dangerously 🤣🤣🤣🤣 what’s that ? I can’t hear you ... jk and yes good point
Where is the ear protection, you will loose the hearing if do not start to use protection, says one that is suffering hearing loss .
Whaaaatttt!
I heard everything she said.
Was considering this chipper to mulch a brush pile left by the previous owner. After watching the amount of work to chip such a small amount of branches, I'm not convinced this chipper is a cost effective investment. During wet weather, I have been cutting up some tree branches and burning it in a barrel.
The machine works well but it does take a bit of wood to make a decent pile .
Waste of time running leaves through. They break down quickly with no help
But if your trying to get compost for the next season, this helps.
I could watch her run leave through all day. She has great branches.
If you take it apart close to the engine and branch feed chute. You can sharpen the two crappy blades in there. Then it will shred like a demon.
Sweet ! Sharpen those fangs 👍🏻💪🏼
click bait sooo good I just subscibed! nothing like a good looking lady!
lol thanks
same lol, thanks for the videos and hello and happy new year from south tn
at least you know if she comes at you with an axe, she'll be holding the wrong end and you WILL not get cut!!! lol
You don’t have to like me ... I didn’t get my tattoos for you 😉 ... I’m fairly sure you aren’t my cup of tea either ✌🏼
Dra O ... was that sarcasm or are you really that much of an uncultured, closed minded, judgemental prude? no one likes a prude.....
Haha! The on/off switch got me the first time, too! Pulled for 20 minutes.
"Trophy wife", indeed! She is the reason God created yoga pants!
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I love yoga pants, especially on her
I’m in the process of looking for a wood chipper!
Once you get 30 miles outside any big city we're all the same. Makes no difference if it's NY,GA or Cali we're all just country folk.
Truth 🙌🏼
ours was great best thing for clearing brush i ever used... i cleared a 1000 feet by 50 feet wide bunch of dead brush... i love ours..
Nice .... it’s going to get a lot of use tomorrow... that’s what’s on the agenda
be careful with 2" or bigger round branches don't throw them in it will stall the engine... little one you can feed them quick as you want.. but bigger than 2" you have to hold on two the branch and pull it back a bit while it is being pulled in.... its the only way... good luck...
Oh yep ! We learned that real quick 😉😝
if you really need branches get ahold of a landscape company and they will be happy to give you all the branches you need
Thanks for sharing. I'm buying the Champion wood chipper. The only thing good on the harbor freight chipper are the tires lol. 5 years later my Champion wood chipper is still going strong. Most amazing thing about this video is that the lady didn't spill a drop lol
Justa Drinkin and a chippin...what could go wrong?!!!
+Outside it was my first of the day and I had just opened so it was all good :.:. I did however drink a six pack later and run with scissors ✂️ 🤣🤣🤣SC
LOL too funny. Love your stuff.
+Outside thanks 😉SC
Outside there’s gotta be a country western song in this somewhere. Lol.
Didn't learn much, but was quite entertained.
Okay, maybe I learned my fear of commitment might be ill-considered.
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Some hearing protection would be good and always feed it with open hands and not gripping the branches. Stand to the side so when it whips the branch it doesn't hit your pretty face.
To heck with possibly flipping over this new chipper, cause i gotta protect this drink.
Not a chipper was harmed …. Moms can multitask 😉
Syd does everything with a drink in her hand. Mike puts literally everything in his back pocket. Lol!
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Wow she did that and held
onto her beer. Lol.
Real farm skills 😉👍🏻
Thats good click bait right there.
Beer and wood chippers that’s a great idea
Everyone has a beer on a Saturday when doing yard work ... no one was sauced 😉
I think I would go check my wife and friend
Wow, power equipment and alcohol, what a combo.
Who doesn’t have a beer or two when doing yard work 🤷🏼♀️😉
Took you all day to shred a half bag of leaves? I guess you'll be returning the useless machine?
No ... it works pretty well just a learning curve ... once you get a groove going it goes pretty fast 👍🏻
Looks a lot like my 5yr old Snapper. Shredded leaves take up less room in the compost piles. Don't overload the hopper and keep a stick handy to poke because twigs can block the chute. Once you get the hang of it things go quickly. As you can see the pull handle is awkward. A little ingenuity can solve that. Oh yeah, I wear a forestry helmet with hearing protection and face shield, that dude can spit out chips and such at velocity.
Gotta line up the crosshairs. I get my wife with stuff like that all the time. Too funny. You guys are great. Thanks for the laugh and hello from North Georgia.
+zim zim 🤣 hey thanks for watching -SC
I had a neighbor named Hugh Crouch many many many years ago. interesting coincidence.
It’s actually a very common last name in the south ...
It was in Illinois, quite possibly a relative then. Keep up the good work.
im here for the clickbait. And the shredder. Im NOT here to see a humanget shredded though whichis what happens when you put your own body parts in.
Ah yes ... no humans shall be shredded .
ClayZ PM
Pm = postmortem 🤣🤣🤣
That happens after a few BEERS
Right ... never on the first one ☝️
I've been using mine wrong, i don't THROW UP MY HANDS after each limb insert. Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
Ha ha it works better if you do 😂
Follow-up six months later...
How has it held up???
lol 😝 really well we have been chipping up a big pine tree with it 👍🏻
How much is that chipper?
I think it was about 2-3 bills ... I think there is more info in the description . This was a couple years ago now
@@3MISSISSIPPI thanks.. Im going to look into this i need a chipper.
Thanks for the video! I'm getting tired of burning branches all of the time. I think this machine will do. Hello from Loganville, GA!
i just came back inside and told myself to research this. i am in the same place, tired of burn burn burn, waiting all the time for what's around the pile to be wet enough for me to feel comfortable enough burning it all, rain and wind the two factors, this lil machine looks to be a good choice for me also
you do to much work to be a true trophy wife..as for clickbait well thats just smart advertising :)
+Eric Dixon right ? Where are my peeled grapes ??? 🤣🤣🤣SC
Shredding or mulching leaves is probably much easier with a lawn mower that has such capability & a bag attachment. If the leaves are tree trimmings with some pencil size or larger small branches, then the machine would be a better choice.
Yes , exactly. Works great for tree branches and bush cuttings
PS never stick your hand in there running or not
Whole lot less dust if you put the bag on right. It don't go over the cover/deflector. It only goes over the shoot
You need a beer holder on that there chipper
Game changer...
also may help to get blades sharpened I remember the one my boss had they didn't sharpen them
holy cow that thing is way stronger than i thought it'd be haha. i might have to get one after all. I feel bad talking crap about it the other day when my uncle said I should get this one since it's relatively cheap.
It’s served us pretty well we have used it quite a bit 😉
"wow this has crosshairs?" guy takes swig of beer... "i married her" lmao, if that ain't a SMH moment
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Hahaha this is awesome
Fine specimen the mulchers alright to
It is unfortunate that we have to be so PC these days, but I going to say it anyways!
That young lady is smoking hot! And the only reason any man wouldn't agree is because he is afraid of his own wife!...lol
Lol 😝 thank you 😊 screw being pc
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oh me okie dokie then!
PC is thought control and bans on "hate speech" is the end of Freedom of Expression. Get fuckin mad and say so out loud. Now let me check her out...
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I like it putting her to work.
Philadelphia PA
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need your ear covered to!!!
It wasn’t too loud but yes if doing a lot probably a good idea as well
Just one of em???
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Sure hope y'all have an awesome THANKSGIVING. We had ours today with the kids and grandbabies👍👍
+William Chesser nice and thank you -SC
lol nice click bait
on a scale 1-10, where 1 is the worst , this looks like a solid 2.
Harbor Freight tools are made for home owners that only use their tools two or three times a year. After about twenty-five or thirty uses something will fail and it will no longer work. If you are going to buy HF then you must buy the extended warranty, they honor their warranty very well. If it hasn't been too long you can add the warranty even after your purchase. Good luck, you will need it with that machine.
Hey there just a FYI for your safety when working around any moving machinery especially rotating style please remove all jewelry and fix your hair back if a branch would have got hung up in your bracelet or you lean in to close and your hair get caught no more beers for you ever
The chips will float and possibly get easily washed away on a good flood/rain. Good luck with that. The chips might make a very good foul being though. You might find better uses than you first thought.
Actually, we know other people in our same flood plain that use the chips and they don’t wash away ... they do prevent the heavy mud puddles .
I know from experience that it will not start with the switch in the off position. These are great little machines, I have only choked mine down one time. I also took off the useless rubber flapper whose only function is to keep you from putting debris in the hopper.
Wow, sticking hands in chipper and drinking beer while its running. Now that's entertainment.
This seems to be a good tool to chip large sticks and any stray cats.. but my riding lawn mower bags up all my shredded leaves. Plus it has a cup holder :) great video and thanks for sharing! Thumbs up!!
+Rob Donaldson 🤣🤣🤣no !!! Not my cats 🐈!!! 😝 thanks for watching-SC
Looks like all those branches had been stripped ahead of time so they wouldnt hang up?
No ... it just happened to be that way from that tree
5:40 I was waiting to see the bag sucked into the shredder.
😂 naw ... it was all good
hey you can use the mulch as bedding for your trees leafs can be use as bedding for your chickens
I do 👍🏻 but only in the run not in the nesting boxes
They finally put something in the damn chipper at 5:35.
😂 glad you kept track 👍🏻
Put the end of the weedwacker in the trash can, fill with leaves and in a few seconds you have mulched the leaves- lawnmower works too
Bikerchic
I tried that but had trouble getting the mower back out of the trash can. My wife said, “Put it in reverse!” 🤦♂️
Shouldn't she be telling Frankie to hold her beer and watch this
Does this chipper/ shredder need any fuel additive added to the regular UNLEADED gas ? I have this Harbor Freight chipper/ shredder machine, BUT, It has NEVER worked or me. I got it maybe 4 or 5 years ago, and had tried to chip some skinny branches and the to then shred some fall leaves, and the machine ended up getting "clogged up" after I had basically fed it a bit of "light debris" for it to make into small bits. I still have the machine, BUT, I am REALLY unhappy with how the machine has performed. It is a VERY clean and UNUSED machine, I just have to find a qualified person who can help me figure out just HOW to use it.
I HAD been able to at one point get it started, and to feed a few thin branched and leaves into it, BUT, not long after, the machine seemed to be all CLOGGED up.
I am JUST angry about why I can NOT just use the machine as I wanted to, to shred stuff into small pieces and compost them?
thats the way !! push it down with your hand
Don’t worry ... no one got hurt ... everyone was being careful 👍🏻🙌🏼😉
She can accomplish so much without setting down that beer !!!
Years of practice 😉SC
safety first all the time with these one arm bandits be well be safe hagd later
No worries .:. Everyone lived 👍🏻 thanks for watching
Gloves are recommended because sometimes those branches whip you so bad you'll bleed.
Seems to chip them up pretty well, but holy crap it's slow work.
It is a bit ... definitely for smaller jobs not for disappearing a whole tree 😉
Amen
I came here for a wood chipper... left with new found hope! Haha
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Alcohol and heavy equipment never mix ,we never learn do we, until someone gets hurt🤷🙇
Drinkin' beer and runnin' a wood chipper? Se ya later, Stumpy.
😝 simmer down prohibition sally 😉 no one was injured and no one was sloshed . A few sips of a drink when doing yard work never hurt anyone. Everyone does that .
I had something like this years ago . Same experience as yours. Too much TLC required. You have to dribble the leaves in and it's just not worth it.
Agreed ... not great for big jobs but decent for small ones .