SS MAYFLOAT
Admiral
- Joined
- May 17, 2001
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I purchased one of these from Home Depot that was a reconditioned one. They took a hundred off the price of a new one.<br /><br />Took down a medium sized maple tree from a residence and moved all the wood and branches to my property. <br /><br />The chipper did impress me on how well it was mulching up the small limbs. I almost had everything done when it bogged down and quit. I opened up the outlet shoot to find the deflector place bent out of shape. Then I noticed a piece of wood about an inch in diameter caught between the shroud and the cutter. As the cutter rolled this piece around the shroud, it pushed out on the housing breaking the intake housing. When I first looked at the intake housing it looked like it was made of pot metal. Then after a day or two I took it to the repair shop.<br /><br />The part I thought was pot metal was plastic. The man at the shop said it was under warranty and he would fix it and send the bill to Home Depot. He then went on to say that it will happen again. He has fixed several of these units in the last year. It is a common thing to break. Other than that, it is a good machine he says. <br /><br />So I told him after the warrnaty is expired, I'm going to fabricate one out of metal. He said that I should do it now because he knows that part is going to break again.<br /><br />I just thought I would pass this on to those that maybe thinking of purchasing one. It is the style that has a intake for branches and then it has another intake for leaves and small twigs. It is the shoot that takes the leaves that is made of plastic that breaks. <br /><br />It is almost like using plastic gears in a outdrive! It won't work!
