AS SEEN ON TV the DR chipper 375 can only handle perfectly straight manicured lumber.

Seriously the marketing video is offensive: https://youtu.be/8RXEFMmaeWA

He might as well be feeding 2x2s off the rack at home depot.

  • SteveOP
    12·
    8 days ago

    To avoid the work of making it ready for trash day.

    To make it go away.

      • SteveOP
        5·
        8 days ago

        Have you really never trimmed a tree or bush? They just keep growing!

        • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          8 days ago

          Ok, so, not much, not for a long time, and never on my own property, which I did not own before a year ago. But I feel like I would just put the sticks in the woods, or burn them.

            • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
              1·
              8 days ago

              Also wanted to verify OP’s experience. The deal here is we just fill up a big green trash bin with sticks and yard trimmings (it takes a couple weeks to fill up a large 55 gallon (i think) tote unless we’ve just yanked out a bush or something, and we are on a small lot) and let the city mulch and compost them for us. If we want, we can go pick up a pickup bed full of mulch from the dump for free any time we want. If we want more than a pickup bed full in a day (they check your ID), we have to buy the mulch. it’s a pretty nice system.

          • PNW clouds@infosec.pub
            4·
            8 days ago

            And where I live, we frequently have burn bans due to dry/windy weather. The city will pick them up if piled properly and make mulch that can be bought.

            It’s easy to end up with too much debris and not enough places to put it if you prune like you should. A little mulcher/chipper would save some space, be easier and quicker to compost…

          • SteveOP
            4·
            8 days ago

            We have forest fires here. Part of the reason I trim is to maintain the fire break around the house. Throwing the tinder into the woods would just make it worse.