SuperHandy Wood Chipper Shredder Mulcher Ultra Heavy Duty 7HP 212cc 3 in 1 Multi-Function 3" Inch Max Capacity (Amazon Exclusive)

Works as well as it is claimed in the performance specifications, very easy to assemble, use, and move around. Very sturdy and compact machine. I am a 70-year-old person with no experience with gas powered machines, all my tools such as lawn mower, weed-trimmer, chainsaw, and pressure washer are all either electric or cordless. I was afraid of getting into gas, oil, maintenance, and repair situations, but I was in fact surprised on how easy it was to assemble the machine and get it started in the first try and ever since. It takes and grinds quite fast any sort of branches less than 2 and half inches thick dry or wet. In my first use I mulched all 2 and ½ inches branches of three medium size pine trees (cones and everything) in less than an hour. I have used it several times and never had a single hiccup. I have to say that it is in fact fun to use this machine, as long as you are wearing ear plugs and gloves. It does pull away fast from you the long and highly branched limbs as you feed them. It is the best large item product I have bought from amazon. During delivery the box was damaged and the filter box was slightly bent, however the manufacturer responded rapidly and courteously and is shipping a replacement part even though the machine is working perfectly as is.

I have used this 4 times since purchase of fall 2020. Overal, I like the chipper. Few notes: hopper needs to be fed as a continue stream of leaves and debris but not thrown in as a pile. A pile clogs the hopper shoot to shredder blades but continue stream sliding down the hopper chute works much better. The hopper does not do well with twigs per se. Feeding through the chipper work much, much better. Chipper chute works best with side branches trimmed off. You can push the side branches through but you need to use a push rod as self feeding mode works only with straight limbs. The bag is the weak point. Within 15 minutes of use the eyelet came out and had to manually hold bag in place. The draw string on the included bag is worthless. The included bag is small and fills fast. I purchased a bigger bag that fits chipper but in this case my wife sewn a inside patch over both eyelets and I used a bigger flat washer along with wing nut. This worked quite well. The larger back really helped. One trick is to attach larger bag and then leave zipper open. This way the bag absorbs the velocity of output chute and you do not have to empty bag. As bag begins to fill, I just grab underneath and empty enough so as not to block output chute. This worked well for volume shredding of one acre of leaves and then I would just rake out into gardens. The maneuverability was fantastic because I just move the operation to the next batch of leaves. To speed process up, I had my wife mow the leaves, being them to me and the I shred them to bits. This allowed me to use this a mulch for various yard gardens. One last thing that I am sure SuperHandy will not like is that in order to use the shredding hopper, I had to remove the protective straps. I am sorry to say but those safety straps made loading the shredding hopper very difficult and caused the hopper to plug every time. So what I did instead was use a 24 or 30 inch leaf rake, load the leaves on the rake, stand back away from shredder chute and off to the side and tilt the rake into the chute. This worked very well and allowed constant feeding of chute sped the process up considerably. Keep in mind, I am a 6 foot plus tall weightlifter and have long arms to do this and the leaf rake has a 5 foot broom handle.Overall, I am happy with chipper with the few modifications of use. I will say it is tough to feed a true 3 inch Queen or King Maple tree limb through chipper. Chipper bogs down and you have to slow feed. Douglas Fir was okay. I would say for continue use 2 inch would be max. Gas tank last quite a long time. To fill oil, you must remove chipper chute first or fill the oil then attach chute. Manual pull starting worked just fine. Would start on first pull. Not overly noisy but that said I used noise reduction ear muffs and face shield. I would recommend purchase with caveats mentioned above. My wife is 4'-7" so loading shredder was not possible for her because of safety reasons. Only I load shredder. She had no problem using chipper chute. She mainly brought leaves to me and I did the rest.

I gave it five stars because it works well and starts easily. Assembly was straight forward. Leaves: Trying to use it like a vacuum cleaner would work if it were not for small sticks. Don't know about anyone else but if you have leaves to mulch you probably have sticks mixed in with them. The sticks clog up the vacuum hose constantly. So much for that. The top loader chute: Yea, I get it, someone could stick their arm all the way up to their elbow and chew off their fingers so they put the rubber flappy thing there for safety. Well, that makes loading leaves a chore. Took ours off and now we just shovel the leaves in with an aluminum grain scoop shovel. Works like a champ! Branches: Just plain works and well. Mulch/Leaf bag: Fills up FAST, so we do not use it unless the master gardener wants some really nice mulch for her beds. It is a good machine, well built out of heavy gauge steel, nothing wimpy about it. We are very pleased with it. Since this is not our first time at the rodeo we did not have any delusions about merrily vacuuming up leaves to begin with.

The machine was surprisingly easy to assemble. Adding oil and getting it started was also easy. 20 hours of usage and no major issues. However, there are three minor issues that I have noticed.1) The machine can struggle with some 3" diameter branches. I recommend to feed it branches 2.5" diameter or less.2) The bag fills fast, is a pain to install/remove, and the mounting points are already tearing.3) Material is difficult to feed through the top hopper. The plastic guards in the top hopper are too stiff. The top hopper also has a slight jog which keeps material, especially small twigs, from flowing easily.

UPDATE: GOOD LUCK IF YOU NEED TO ORDER PARTS. I emailed customer service on Sept 2 and as I write this on Sept 23 I still haven't received a reply. So I figured I'd called because the SuperHandy website and the GreatCircleUS.com website have ZERO info on how to order replacement parts. So I call the support number and get the runaround from an automated system that obviously hateg my guts. When I FINALLY do get to customer service I get put in the queue and the system tells me I am [in a robotic voice] "NUMBER 1" so I sit there on hold for about 5 minutes where I'm repeatedly told I"m #1 in the queue and then I get a prompt that says "please leave a message after the beep".What an absolute joke for customer service. Do yourself a favor and buy a wood chipper - and anything else that SuperHandy, LandWorks, and GreatCircleUS brands sell - from somebody else because this has been an absolute nightmare and I regret spending this much money on something I can't seem to get replacement parts for now.****************************************IGNORE EVERYTHING BELOW THIS - IT MIGHT WORK JUST FINE BUT IF IT EVER STOPS WORKING OR YOU NEEDS A PART YOU ARE SCREWED****************************************I was kind of worried it wouldn't be able to handle anything bigger than what amounts to a "stick" but it handles thicker branches (like 1.5 inches thick) with no problem. This thing is a beast and I'm VERY happy with hit. It gets the job done quickly too.The only knock is that it works so good and so fast that the bag fills up quick, but I that's not a big deal to me.