Easy to assemble. Seems to be a quality build. Moves a lot of air. Some distractive humming at the highest speed. I can’t speak to its longevity yet.
The tolerance for the brake is too tight.
I wasn't able to keep the saw running on the first day. It appeared to overheat / melt plastic.
I pulled the saw out of a pinch situation, and the plastic holding the adjustment screw failed. There's no way to get replacement parts, though. I had to remove the adjustment screw, and the brake, in order to continue using it. This is all in the first 3 hours of use.
After 3 hours, it just wouldn't start anymore. I suspect that the heat in the pistons was beyond tolerance levels, too, and that the pistons expanded till it was just too much. I did use 2-stroke oil in the gas.
I'll try again another day, but this is kind of what I expected. The adjustment nuts were too hot to "finger tighten" in the field. They should have plastic wingnut covers or something. The adjustment mechanism was terrible with the plastic parts near the hot engine, also expected. That really should be nothing but metal. It's unsafe.
When the chainsaw gave me problems to keep it running and to start, I lubricated the chain externally as well as put oil in the oil reservoir. That helped starting. I was disappointed in the reservoir capacity, for both lube and gas. I had to refill every 10 minutes. Again, it's what I expected.
When it worked, it cut through 15" logs very fast. I'd recommend buying 2 at a time, because the engine is only good for 80 hours, and you'll need spare parts.
Very happy with this chipper shredder, it's the best of the consumer grade units out there. The shredder is particularly helpful for brush, I use this the reduce fire hazards/overgrowth. Thanks very much for this solid and well designed product, glad I own one!
Excellent tiller lots of power . Thanks
My Bilt Hard electric log splitter that has served me extremely well for I think 4 years now. I've done at least 8 cords of hardwoods. Some of it was 24 inch rounds. No problems. I love it. If you have a problem with rounds slipping off the ram, I welded a castle nut to the center. No more slips. ALSO, using a chain saw, cut an X, 2 or 3 inches deep across one end of large rounds and place the slot into the wedge end of splitter you will find it much easier to split those big guys. Have fun! PHOTO IS OF 1/2 OF SECOND CORD FOR THIS FALL. 1 DAYS WORK WITH THIS GREAT SPLITTER. WOOD SHED( 1 CORD) IS ALREADY FULL
