First, this is NOT hard to start. Saw a review someone had trouble. If you use the choke and set the speed to max, it starts on the first pull every time. Second, about the hopper. For sticks it's fine, but, if you are doing a lot of leaves, you can't push it. I was hoping with a chipper/shredder tha
t was not an upside down weed wacker, that I could freely stuff the hopper and get the job done quickly. It works better with small leaves, but we have leaves that makes you feel like you are raking 8.5x11 sheets of paper. So, the trick is, you need to pick up the leaves loosely, drop them in the hopper and let the "slide" in. The key word is slide. If you put too many in too fast, the leaves will clog the hopper and nothing gets to the blades. Think rush hour traffic and there are so many cars on the road that you aren't moving. Once you develop that pace of feeding the hopper, the job goes fairly quickly. I have an F350 with an 8 foot bed and normally fill it 4-5 times when cleaning up the front yard alone. With this, it was about 3/4 full. saves me a lot of walking from the yard to the truck filling it with leaves and mostly, only one trip to the recycle center to dump them vs. 4-5 that I used to do. A larger hopper would be nice, but this gets the job done and very satisfied.
...
show more
Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2022 by Rockville Couple