Gas Wood Chippers

[Dressage59]

Any thoughts on a gas powered wood chipper? Ones you like? Ones to stay away from?

Electric ones are probably too small with some of our limbs and I don't think we need a PTO. Definitely want to get the max limb width possible. We have a fairly large area of trees by the road. When we came here, it just had tiny limbs and sticks - really wasn't even mulched. We don't want to continually put down pine straw. Have thought about a ground cover, but it abuts my large front yard and also my neighbors - don't want it growing in those areas. 

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

[Warmblood1]

I have a Pulsar wood chipper. It’s been reliable with few issues. It’s surprisingly powerful. I also liked that I could just return it to Home Depot or Lowes (can’t remember which) if we needed versus shipping it back to a company. We have about 15 acres of woods and clear land when we can. We really needed something for all the tree limbs because we could use the thicker cuts for firewood. It cuts up to about 3 or 4 inches.

[wsmoak]

I’m happy with the Cub Cadet. You can see it in this thread on DIY Chopped Hay – it has the upper chute for leaves and small stuff (which I also use for chopping hay for the really old horse) but it also has the lower opening for branches.

DIY chopped hay

I’ve been buying Triple Crown chopped hay for the ancient one. He still has some teeth and actually can still eat regular baled hay, but he doesn’t eat as much as he used to through the Nibble Net. He’s nearing 30 and it just seems like too much effort. I’ve upped his soaked senior feed and started the chopped hay, but it’s expensive and he doesn’t really need the “Safe Starch”. So I was reading about using a leaf mulcher and then realized… self, you have one! I usually use it for chipping …