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Startup of a brand new MTD Yard Machines Chipper/Shredder

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Uploaded by on Apr 12, 2008

Here is the first video of our new MTD Yard Machines Chipper Shredder. Purchased brand new at the Home Depot on April 11th, 2008, I should have a few videos about its operation. Powered by a 5.5 HP Brigs and Stratton Engine. The clicking on startup/shutdown are the beater bars on the chipper flywheel and is normal.

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  • Why not just burn the limbs? Most residential chippers are worthless.

  • It's a pain in the butt...most places need a permit or do it in a barrel, this unit does great, taking tree limbs and turning them into compost material for the garden. :-)

  • I'd love to have one of these machines with 10+ horses and OHV Briggs. I have one with 9 horses and it works well, only I'm not too fond of the tecumseh engine as the quality leaves more to be desired. Do you notice issues with timing with the briggs? My Tecumseh shoots fireballs out the exhaust from time to time (with default factory timing). My assumption is that tecumseh is crap.

  • No...she still runs just like in the video...very nice. It's always nice to have more power, but this machine was at the correct price point.

  • I have the 10 hp unit. Its a lot of fun. You want to split the unit each year and inspect the blades. I had one break lose and took me out for the day. I had to order everything from Sears.

  • Yep, that's good advice. Our unit ran great, but after a while we pulled the unit and sharpened the blades...wow...what a different that made. We'll do it every year as part of it's PM.

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  • At the end it sounds like a Listerine :D

  • @BulldogsRule12 But residential model is all some of us can afford, and it's better than not having one at all - I can turn branches & leaves & paper into worm food which those worms turn into brown gold: worm castings. Cannabis growers love the worm castings, that brown gold grows big, beautiful green gold.

  • @Marleyites

    Holy old post BATMAN! Wow that was a long time ago. I agree. Residential chippers just suck.

  • @BulldogsRule12 Burning just creates pollution & wastes a great resource. These wood chips have so many uses - mulch, worm food, compost addition, garden soil builder, use in still to make alcohol, plus more.

  • I have the 305cc 10HP B&G OHV engine, it's a beast

  • Need to get me one so I can make some wood gas. Then run it on that. check out wood gas videos. Its free fule!

  • i have an old one that looks alot like that its an MTD and its a bitch to start and its a 7hp briggs engine

  • My 9 HP Sears chipper works great. Most of us can't burn legally.

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