EFCUT C30 Wood Chipper Shredder Mulcher 20:1 Reduction Ratio 7HP Gas Powered Heavy Duty 3" inch Max Capacity 114 lbs New

Not too difficult to assemble. No more than 30 minutes. First test all went well. Engine easy start and plenty power. Chewed up some oak and willow limbs. Naturally the oak makes it work more, but it did it with easy. Harder wood you have to help feed it as I expected. I'm happy with it.

Is it a perfect wood chipper? Of course not. But for the price of this thing, absolutely ZERO complaints. I'm really happy with it. For an affordable new wood chipper, this thing does a great job with brush. I bought it specifically because it has the chute to blow chips into my tracked wheelbarrow, and it works great. I bought a house 2 years ago with a huge yard that's over-grown (with tons of Oriental Bittersweet - yuck) so I've been pulling and digging out literal tons of brush and weeds from my trees and perimeter. This little chipper handles these tough stringy vines surprisingly well without clogging or binding up, which REALLY surprises me. It easily handles the 3" branches too. It's not a fast process, but if you're patient and feed the chute with care, this thing plows through everything i throw into it. For every 8 hours of weeding and brush clearing I do, it's about another 4-6hrs of chipping after. For a tiny little thing that fits anywhere and costs next to nothing compared to a full-size chipper, I'm fully good with that. The blades have held up very nicely too. I've put at least 4 cubic yards through it so far without having to resharpen yet (probably getting there soon though). This isn't a self-fed commercial machine, so set your expectations reasonably. I mean it does gravity feed to some small extent (it does VERY well on its own with straight hard wood between 3/4 and 2"), but it really wants to be carefully hand fed. If you can pass something through a 3" hole, this thing will chew it up without hesitation and spit out very nice fine chips. Branches get turned into some pretty useable mulch.