Hi again it's Jason From Fraser Valley Rose Farm and i'm out in the yard with my loppers
pruning off stray stems of roses and damaged stems from shrubs and inevitably this time of year (and
pretty much year round) I end up with carts like this full of branch debris that i need to get rid
of but i've never had a good solution for and you know this is my hopeful solution this is a chipper
that i picked up off of amazon but if you recall on my previous videos i basically would have left
it in a big pile to look ugly in the yard for a long time become self-conscious about it and
eventually burn it that's not what i want to do anymore i'd feel a lot better if i had something
that i could deal with it straight away so this isn't a review video propper i'm going to save that
for my review channel i'll put this on it and i'll give you an in-depth and close-up review
of the product itself this is more of a practical question of whether using a home electric chipper
like this can match up to most of my yard debris reduce it down to a satisfactory volume and that
solves my problem so let me get right to it i'm going to fire this up and and see what it does
these are the branches i'm going to be taking care of if i don't find any more around the yard
and this is the machine on a close-up you just press the green button here
it comes with a paddle like this that helps you to
push the material in so you aren't trying to stuff your hands in there
energy
all right all finished and having a look at the final result here it is rather chunky there's big
recognizable twigs and chunks of wood in here not bad though i have to say in a rustic property like
mine i would have no problem using these on one of those pathways as a mulch in a different bed
or adding it to a compost system as the brown component of the greens and
the browns to balance out those higher nitrogen yard wastes or kitchen scraps
the other thing i wanted to talk about really quickly here is how the machine worked i'm not
going into a detailed review of this in this video i'll do that on my separate channel but
there are some general things i can say is that the electric chipper had no problem dealing with
the waste for the most part uh the thicker parts it had an easier time getting through actually it
was the little thin ones that were hard to get it to feed through the machine i had to bundle those
together to shove them through the other thing i did wrong was this waste uh shoot at the base
uh filled up a little bit because i let it pile up underneath and then it backed up into the machine
and i had to stop at one time to clear that it wasn't a big deal but you have to keep an eye that
it does actually put out a fair amount of waste fairly quickly so eventually i got to just kicking
it out of the way as i went the reduction in the terms of the waste well obviously i had
that whole big cart back there full of branches and it's turned into this and i'll give you a
close-up of of this pile and you'll see the volume and whether you can handle that as to pros and
cons between this and say burning and i know some people are critical of the burning thing i have
to say it's part of rural life so i've i've gotten used to it if i had burned i would have taken the
ash i would have spread it around the yard i would have had little charcoal bits in it and it also
would have released some fertilizer to the plants however it wouldn't have had the advantage of
acting as a mulch maintaining moisture in the soil it wouldn't have had the advantage of breaking
down over a longer period of time using bacteria and fungi as soil life and thus adding to the life
and the health of the soil and the organic matter long term so there's definitely a trade-off there
so that's all i wanted to talk about today is just to really give you a good idea of i mean
certainly for me i had to get rid of the eyesore in the property so this looks like a good solution
to that it looks like i can use it for a good portion of the yard waste unless it's you know
thicker than will fit into the top of the machine and for those i'll still have to have a different
solution uh for those maybe that maybe those will be a burn actually but for the smaller material
and being able to take most of what i do around the yard and turn into this that i can just add to
a pathway or as a mulch i think it's a win alright thanks so much for watching have any questions or
comments particularly about this please drop those down below the video see what i can do to help