I like the small chips disc chippers make. But they vibrate the wood as you push it in. Really hurts your hands my Janson gts 2000 drum chipper doesn't vibrate like that and once you put the limb in it feeds itself.
I hear that. I have an old DR 18 horsepower disk chipper that looks a lot smoother than this one, but it will shake your teeth loose if you have to push material through, like when it gets dull or when you get down to all the leafy branches and they simply won't fit easily down the chute. Hydraulic feed would fix that, but it is a lot more expensive and heavier to pull around.
It isn't misleading, it is reality for small chippers. In the USA, there are trees like hackberry that I won't even try to chip since there is no good organized way to pre-cut them so they will fit through a small machine. This one looks a little under powered to me for the size of wood it can take.
One more poorly engineered wood chipper. The reason this chippers fail is because the angle of the chute is wrong. Watch an old Austchip or Prochip 100 and see the chute is almost vertical and the flywheel sucks the branches in instantly. That thing needs the branches to be pushed in. Not good.
yes very true , i have this same model chipper and use it in the south of chile , and when my blades arent 100% sharp i have to force the branches in and essentially fight the chipper to get it to feed in properly. it makes the work alot harder, i wonder could it be modified somehow ..
Yes, I remember years ago using an Entec (now timberwolf) gravity feed chipper that looked very similar in design to this one but the Entec pulled the material in so much better. Such a shame all these new chippers on the market can't do a better job.
