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crankcall said:
I dont know your nieghbourhood , but if a 12yr old put a sign up on my street he'd be doing every house. Nobody on this street mows their own lawn. At least 10 different property manitenance groups , they all own stihl backpack blowers with H-D straight pipes on them . All hours of the day . every day
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I love the smell of 2-stroke in the morning.
 
ReSTored said:
I'm looking for a lightweight electric chipper for cottage cleanup. This one says capacity is 1.8", but virtually everthing I'd be shredding would be less than an inch. Anyone using this one, or something similar?

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Looks much like the one that i got from crappy tire around 10 years ago. Used it probably more than regular homeowner use and the only issue was the power switch started acting up and was not staying on. It was around $15 for a replacement switch
 
ReSTored said:
I'm looking for a lightweight electric chipper for cottage cleanup. This one says capacity is 1.8", but virtually everthing I'd be shredding would be less than an inch. Anyone using this one, or something similar?
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I was in the (used) market for a gas powered chipper. We have 3 acres, lots of trees, and lots of wood debris.

The advice I got from the people I knew who did this sort of work was to rent a commercial unit - basically to go big or go home.

I was looking at 3" gas-powered units.

My BIL had rented one at something crazy like $500/d. It was him, his wife, two grown daughters and their boyfriends pushing wood through that thing all weekend long. Me, I don't have enough hours or hands to justify that kind of cost.

I wanted to have one that I could casually pull out for a few hours when I happened to have time, with no commitment. But I also don't want to have to put in a lot of work to maintain or learn how to change knives. I've gone down similar rabbit holes before.
 
oioioi said:
It's going to be a 12 year old.

I don't expect him to be doing 5 lawns a day.
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Let me know if you end up getting one. I regularly get offered no-name batteries for power tools for review and might have some laying around. I think I may have some Dewalt 20V, for instance.
 
NuggyBuggy said:
..............- basically to go big or go home.

.............................It was him, his wife, two grown daughters and their boyfriends pushing wood through that thing all weekend long.

I wanted to have one that I could casually pull out for a few hours when I happened to have time, with no commitment. But I also don't want to have to put in a lot of work to maintain or learn how to change knives. I've gone down similar rabbit holes before.
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I ordered the electric chipper in my post. Hopefully it will work as described. I'll give it a try within the return window and it will be returned if it doesn't work as expected.

I'm not looking for and don't need a marathon event, just a chipper to use a few times a season for general cleanup of small brush. There's a finite need for firepit kindling and things have been are piling up.

We have an arborist come by every 3 - 4 years or so for tree trimming / removal and he has a huge Vermeer chipper. Anything that doesn't fit in the electric chipper I can just set aside until the monster unit shows up.
 
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