“It's been nearly a month since my first post regarding this product, I've chipped over 37 cubic yards of wood for my garden pathways. This included dead fall trees 6 "/ 15cm to approx. 8 "/ 20.32 cm in diameter that were dried to grey colour in forest, of 15' / 4.5m to 20' / 6.1m lengths. I controlled the intake of these trees and limbs with the Hydraulic F/N/R function, at their thickest points so as not to stall tractor, and it worked flawlessly. I've a few more days of work to do and give a final opinion. So far I'm completely satisfied with the capability of the DH8, It's a necessary tool providing needed wood chip's for composting, and wood chip ground cover for property and tree maintenance.”
“Product assembly is minimal though assembly instructions, could use more detail for those less mechanically inclined.
I'm running this Chipper with a John Deere 2038R @540 rear PTO. Rating HP: 37.8 PS (27.8 kW; 37.3 HP) at 2,500 rpm, Torque: 101.4 N·m (10.3 kg·m, 74.7 ft·lb) Hooked to rear PTO using a JD Quick hitch system, and front end loader on tractor. This machine worked flawlessly on 4" limbs whole with all branches, pulled in without problem at a inflow setting of 2. without drawing down RPM of tractor. This was plenty fast making short work of what would have taken an hour or more, with a 3" gas powered champion wood chipper that i've been using. I chipped up a moderately large pile of apple tree limbs, and large pear tree limbs that broke off a tree earlier this month. It took about 40 min start to finish. I've 3.5 acres and more wood to chip than the 3" chipper could handle. The ease of use with F/N/R of wood flow control, the Chain saw holder, fully adjustable wood chip chute, It's all a game changer for me on our property. I need the wood chips for my gardens and I need to clear the brush, in a timely safe manner. Looking forward to the coming weeks of use. Will give another review after a week of solid chipping.”
