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Wow! If you wore the knives out after 1 year you've done a ton of chipping. I didn't make that video yet but perhaps I should. It's not a big deal to do but you need to be patient and the bolts may be frozen so you need to be patient.

Michael Corden it's a little time consuming to replace the shredder knives I've only ever done it once on my machine. The trick to removing them is to insert a rod into the small hole located to the side outer casing near the discharge opening, line your rod or bar up inside with the supporting bar holding each group of knives. Tap the rod through to release each knife until the bar goes out through the hole on the other side of the machine. I sprayed everything with a good release oil before carrying this out as you may find the bars are well in there. Also make a note of where the knife spacers are located on the supporting rod as you tap them out. Reverse the procedure to put them back in. Hope that helps.

I did it. Before starting I made a diagram of the spacer & knife locations on each rod. Then I flipped the knives one rod at a time. For each rod I used a new nut as recommended by Bear Cat. Done.

Very good Michael, I just reversed my shredder blades too, it's time consuming (pain in the butt) but I got it done. I'm going to order new chipper blades from Baileys .com for only $15 each

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***** The worst one I ever did was on the splitting wood video, I swing the maul pretty hard and the block basically exploded and a chunk of firewood flew and smacked the camera. Like you it was an old $20 camera at that time! Sometimes when I mill lumber and it's windy I worry about fine sawdust getting inside the camera, but so far it's been ok. Without risk there can be no reward! lol

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For a little chipper she certainly gets the job done. Slowly but surely.

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Having a chipper this size would be handy for you. You need one if dealing with leaves. I have an old Roto Hoe 5hp. It basically chops piles of leaves down in size down, (maybe 5:1 or more?). It also cuts the compost time way down. Like, instead of a a pile of leaves that sits there for weeks, my shredded leaves are steaming in a few hours if I wet them and add a little compost to the mix. The difference is really amazing. They are handy even if you don't compost - you can fit a massive amount of chopped leaves in a bin compared to moving them whole and loose. As you've said, the hopper is the bottleneck in the system. You have to tend the hopper on one of these, (I use a thin stick), but not that bad compared to the thousands of dollars a commercial unit costs. Also, even though they are made to chop branches it's not the fastest operation with one of these. It'll chop sticks and branches and pine cones, but it'll slow things down and it makes noise. They will chop leaves and small branches at just above idle. I don't even use hearing protection usually when there's just leaves, I can talk over the engine noise. All the videos show them running at high RPM for dramatic effect or something. I keep mine quiet. Dry leaves work faster than wet leaves. In fact when the leaves are dry and crunchy 3 people can work at a steady pace, one person loading leaves, one tending the hopper, and one moving the chips. I deal with the leaves from a white oak, red oak, couple apple trees, 5 maples, plus misc. - all full sized. A mountain of leaves compacts down to 2 small piles. (My bins are 2 foot by 15 foot rolled fencing. Makes a circle about 5 foot in diameter.)

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Only put dried vines into machine or they will wrap around the impeller. "Green" branches chip easier over dry ones, any type of vegetation is shreddable, if it is stingy, let it dry. Also a hint do not put material longer that 8-12 inches into shredder chute, will jam up. DO NOT put any thing 1/2 or larger in diameter into shredder chute, will damage the machine.

Yes like the other poster said, dry is best. I have a totally different machine all together but I experienced a situation where the bark from a large branch wrapped around the blade almost like a rope and then sandwiched between the blade/rotor and deck. Man was that a job taking that apart.

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+Land Designs Unlimited LLC Have you heard of PowerTek brush chippers? They are gas driven and are they good chippers like Bandit? I want to get a Powertek brush chipper one day. If they are not good then can you please tell me why?

The only way to adjust the size of what comes out is to get a different screen. If you go to the bearcat website they list the screen sizes that are available. The size that comes with the machine gives you fairly finely shredded material that is suitable for composting. A finer screen ( smaller holes) will give you a finer shred but there is more chance of clogging. I tend to put most stuff through the chipper since it results in a finer product for the same size screen. The big thing for the chipper is to keep the blades sharp. I got a spare set of blades and change edges every hour or two. I then sharpen both sets of blades and end up with four sets of edges.

No. Greener wood is easier to chip than dry, also pine is easier to chip over hardwoods

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