Making leaf mulch with our wood chipper 

I use a DP power chipper for the job. They have that top hopper that works really well. I run the leave twice and end up with a really attractive mulch.

I did this for more than 25 years with my Kemp 8 HP chipper/shredder. Chopped leaves make wonderful compost, if you have patience, and good mulch. Now, I take my leaves to the township, where it's turned into compost, and I can get all I need.

Excellent!!! Leaves are not missing! But the shredder is excellent. I guess it doesn't take her long to assimilate into the existing land.

Wow, that’s the finest chop I’ve seen yet! I tried the walk behind mower with the grass catcher method, that is the roughest cut. Some of the leaves don’t even get cut. Bags full of air, sometimes hard to empty the bag onto my compost pile. Next I bought a leaf shredder, the kind with the big funnel on top and weed whip style shredder inside. This works pretty well, but the chop isn’t as fine as your chipper! I like experimenting with efficiency. I wonder what your technique would be like with a hose on the output of your chipper. Point the hose at your garden or compost pile and eliminate 1 step.

I have been doing something similar for years. Ergonomics and efficiency are the key. I fill several trash cans with leaves and than lay them horizontally on top of another trash can so I feed the chipper for a while. I don't use the bag, I aim the the shoot at a hillside or wheelbarrow and put a piece of panel on the ground to protect the grass, Still takes forever, but I have lots of oak leaves and a lot of area that needs mulch. And the poking stick and ear protection are essential .

DRT fan boy here. Only used the chipper for first couple years. Now it's shredded leaves forever.

Just use a lawnmower. Way faster and easier

Use a lawn mower. Almost everyone has a lawn mower. Just run the leaves thru the mower twice. Very few people have chippers. They’re quite expensive.

With this amount of dry leaves every year, you can not only make mulch, but also heat the house with it almost for free. But for this you need to grind the leaves into an even smaller fraction and have some kind of press for briquettes.

I add my unmulched leaves directly onto my garden beds. The question is whether mulched versus whole leaves makes a difference in the long run as far as breaking down and garden productivity. In my garden, the whole leaves are broken down by mid summer. Is the time and fuel costs to mulch leaves worth it?

That is a fine mulch just as good if not better than my lawn mower.

It is interesting how fallen leaves are used as natural fertilizer in agricultural work!

I just bury a layer of leaves about 8 inches belong my planting depth, and the worms have them gone by the next spring. It really is one of the best things I can do in my area for my planting soil..

Your chipper must have a larger opening in the hopper than most chippers. From the other videos I have seen. Many have abandon shredding leaves. The throat is to small. You can only put a hand full in at a time. With all the leaves you have. You would still be trying to shred Last falls leaves.

Wow! Very simple to do!!

Did that chipper cost much? Looks quite handy

Should have all those leaves cleaned up by next fall! At least you don’t have to store the shredder away 🤷‍♂️

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I prefer to compost them along with grass clippings and then add them to the garden at planting time.

Mantap kawan

Triple mulch with a standard mulching lawn mower

Have a DR chipper/shredder, model 400. The shredded product comes out much finer than the one he was using. There is no bag, so do not have to stop and empty it. Have a lot of leaves, but not like this gentleman.

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Why don't you just carry the chipper bag to the garden?

Turns out great stuff I'm sure,but man that looks time consuming

I have mountain of leaves in my back garden. Do you think this machine can handle it.

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I'm looking at the predator chipper shredder from harbor freight. This will be good for leaves too?

(please excuse my ignorance) What is this mulch used for? To enrich the soil, instead of a fertilizer?

l just use the bagger on rider to get where he is at ....

What kind of chipper do you have?

"limiting external inputs" .... Then smashing it all up with Fossil Fuels! Not exactly sustainable is it

What you are doing is ridiculously slow, labor-intensive and a pure waste of time. My yard is similar to yours and I just ride around on my lawnmower mowing the leaves while pulling the big lawn vacuum that sucks all the leaves up at the mower discharge and has an extra set of cutting blades inside, I get more of the same leaf mold with 1% of the work! What you doing would be a kin to painting your house with 1 inch paintbrush

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