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AS SEEN ON TV the DR chipper 375 can only handle perfectly straight manicured lumber.
Seriously the marketing video is offensive: https://youtu.be/8RXEFMmaeWA
He might as well be feeding 2x2s off the rack at home depot.
Wait I'm confused, does it require perfectly straight lumber or will it take boards from Home Depot?
At least you know it's never been used to dispose of a body.
Unless they got they're bodies off the rack at home depot.
Dead body? On the rack at home depot?!
They have it! THEY HAVE IT!
I had a similar that didn't work for shit. I took it apart and took a grinder to the blades to sharpen them up again and it worked pretty good after that.
The (one) blade is pretty close to sharp. I did reset the clearance after trying it once.
I have the next model up (400 Pro) so mine will likely accept larger diameter branches. But with that said one needs to learn the machine's limits in terms of both diameter and wetness.
Before I chip up a pile of branches I'll go through with a swede saw and lop off any parts that are too big. That'll let me breeze through the pile without fighting the machine too much. Also cut apart any wide crotches that won't feed through on their own.
I would think the point of these machines is to save me the labor of trimming them before hand.
That's not how wood chippers work. Not even the ones in the million+ € range.
Idk I was just watching the guy trim the tree down the block and was just throwing the whole branches into them. 🤷
You can throw whole branches in them, but not even whole-tree chippers chip every tree the way it came down. You're going to have to buck the logs sometimes. It's about using the right tool in the right way for the right job. Chipping brush by hand-feeding a tiny chipper like is always going to suck.
Yea, I was speaking of the branches. Not logs.
wetness
Uhhhhh.......does your wood chipper always get wet when you stick your wood in its hole?
Well you need to turn it on first
I modified a similar chipper by widening the feed opening, that helped. Also definitely worth sharpening blade(s)
I've been "blessed" with some steep slopes that could use some erosion control and some holes that need filling. I cut my branches as short and flat as practical and then cover the ground evenly with alternating layers of branches and green yard waste.
I got a chipper for free from a previous employer that shut down and pretty much only use it for mulching garden waste at this point. That seems to be about all it can handle
I had something similar and it was about $500, thing was a piece of junk. Could barely cut a stick with a diameter of around 3 inches despite being rated for 6 inches (no it wasn't from a hardwood tree)
I ended up selling it for $250 and felt bad for the person buying it thinking that it will clean there yard up from the severe weather we had a year ago.
I gave up chipping brush. Had the same problem with the Harbor Freight special. Easier to just throw it in a pile and burn it if that's an option.
Or, when local authorities don't allow burning, just throw it in a pile in a back corner of the property ... and let it sit. Over time, the pile grows and grows. But over even more time, it rots and shrinks. And in the meantime, it's animal and insect habitat, lol.
My parents had a compost pile. It was big enough that my friends and I would build forts with its components or even make paths through it.
Eventually my mother started noticing snapping turtles around it and we were no longer permitted to do so!
Now, or at least last time I was around that property, you wouldn't know it for anything other than a somewhat odd hill.
If it's small and you can spread it out (wooded area, on foot paths, etc), it will break down faster. The two inch rule is: if it's not more than 2" thick and not more than 2" off the ground, it should break down in 2 years.
We have forest fires here. Part of the reason I trim is to maintain the fire break around the house. Throwing the tinder into the woods would just make it worse.
Not the solution for you then.
I've got a 15hp chipper and need to be wary of my cuts so I can feed it nice branches. I've still got a bunch of "elbows" that wouldn't fit that I've turned into garden borders. It's nice to make mulch where you actually know what's in it and not ground industrial waste or whatever.
If you got it for free then at least the value is still high
Oh man. That design looks like shit. It seems the prioritized the size and price over anything else. It's so narrow and the feeder seems so small.
For branches up to 3.75", it also doesn't seem to handle anything actually worthwhile. Things that small are going to be relatively easy to manipulate with work. I actually tend to cut them into mini log lengths and store when I'm trying to get my fire pit going. It's nice to have medium/small size tinder at the ready when the fire isn't going enough to catch a proper log.
Dirty bich like to get fed
Did anyone else think the rivets were bullet holes at first?
I gotta get my eyes checked.
Better than it deserves. Waste of ammo.
Maybe it needs new blades?
It has no feeder of any kind despite the claim of “self feeding”. I checked the blade and set the gap.
Not sure what kind of "feeder" you're expecting, but I have a chipper that looks similar. For mine, the "feeder" is just gravity. If my blades are sharp, it feeds itself nicely. If they're dull or get too much caught in them, it stops feeding itself and needs a shove.
Like the Powerglove?
The as-seen-on-tv products sometimes have good ideas but the execution is awful. Cheap materials or bad engineering/quality control, etc...
