When I received my Chipper, the crate had been damaged and the bottom had collapsed making it impossible to assemble according to the video. I was able to man-handle the 300lb base onto the ground and did the assembly from there. It was easy to assemble. I checked the hardware and none was loose. The blade/anvil settings were preset properly at the factory. It does not come with oil in engine, adding oil is a bit difficult without a flexible tube. I changed the oil at 5 hours and it was messy because the drain holes are flush with the base frame so you need somethin flat to wedge between the motor and frame to direct the oil into a container. If it drips into the drum, it will low through a hole in the bottom of the drum housing. I've used it for about 7 running hours since then on fresh cut cedar trees. Although it is rated for 5", it is more efficient with 2.5" and less branches. Larger than that you have to nurse the branches through. The big issue is short branches, the drum does not chip and auto feed without some initial pressure and manipulation, or pushing something else through that will completely out-feed and flush out the hopper. If you stop the system without clearing the hopper, you can't start it up cause the drum locks. You have to clear the hopper before you restart it. Once it starts autofeeding on the smaller branches it works well. For the larger (2.5 and above) the short limb will not autofeed, it just bounces around in the feed hopper. You cannot stuff the hopper with dense limbs (lots of small branches), it will stall. It serves my needs because I use the larger stuff for firewood. And I have time 'cause I'm retired. The smaller stuff makes a good mulch. Have not processed hardwoods yet.

Definitely a decent machine for what I paid for it. It will take most branches you throw in it. Anything bigger than 4-5” you’re going to cut into fire wood. It’s well worth the extra to have the power for marginal cost of the smaller 3-4” chippers!

We did a lot of research and selected this chipper - one of our best decisions! Our property needed a lot of clean up so we had piles of branches. This chipper is awesome chipping up to five inch branches - very easy to use - we added a hitch to our zero turn and we can pull the chipper all over our property when we want to change location for work. Would highly recommend!

This Power King chipper was easy to put together, was well packaged. It started right up the first time. I was amazed at how well it worked, this chipper is everything I hoped and more. Definitely recommend this product.

I needed a better chipper so I stepped up to the 14hp Power King, the quality is superb, and well designed and thought out. They heavy duty chute swings open with two 17mm bolts to get to the blades, and the same with the output chute. This machine can do 4” branches easily and even bigger depending on the kind of tree. You always know when it’s time to sharpen the blades when it doesn’t pull branches in. I’ve used it for a year quite a bit and no issues, pull starting is a little hard but starts 1st time most of the time. For the money this machine is a winner!