Will it mulch live oak leaves, which are very hard when they dry?
1749552
Sucking up and mulching Live Oak leaves is a strength of this machines performance. I have a Live Oak and it does a great job. It also does very well with Crepe Myrtle and clippings from shrubs. A bigger challenge is the large leaves of Magnolia trees - it picks these up "most of the time" but occasionally if they get positioned wrong in the intake, you have to give them a little help to get sucked in.
463039
Yes, but it is more useful for hard, woody stuff - twigs and small branches. Leaves don't compact so much and tend to fill up the pile at the output rather quickly.
361819
Yes but not for real hard hard woods it's good for small jobs and softer woods like pine and oak.
1154925
In very hard, dry soil this instrument would not do a good job. It needs to get down, grab the weed and then pull it out. It the soil is hard and dry the week will break and you would not be able to pull it out. Works better with a wet soil.
3323
If the leaves are dry and not too large it should be able to do it. Remember to empty the compartment that fills up the vacuumed items.
1278453
It should, it does everything else. Probably have to keep chipper rinsed out. It does oak fine.
1494822
this chipper works better on branches and twigs. Just mulching leafs would be difficult because of the narrow opening and nothing to feed the debris into the mulcher. It does cut like a champ on the thicker stuff though.
1631413
Yes, it will pick up small amounts of leaves; this a feature I like since we have a number of trees on or behind our property.
717574
So sorry, really don't know. Our yard has thin/sparse grass and lots of oak leaves and this picks up everything real well from leaves to twigs. Since artificial turf is dense, don't know if it would work for you or not.
36714
If you look in the instruction manual under "warnings", it says not to try to mulch anything hard like acorns or pine clippings, as it will damage the impeller.
1494826
NO, and doesn't work for dry leaves ether! This product was only good for small twigs 1/8 in size, no smaller or bigger!
2225434
Yes I have picked and mulched very small branches. I have not picked up heavier debris with it.
980445
Yes it does mulch. The bag it a bit small but the unit has great suction power. The unit overall is a bit big but does the job.
512481
It will cut dry branches up to 3/4 ", fresh ones to 1/2". You have to hold branch so blade doesn't bind which makes this a 2 hand operation. It's fine for dry wood like plywood sheets but not a real outdoor unit. Jack Schmidt
980444
It does mulch leaves well... Unfortunately it has the plastic blades (as do most of the blower/mulchers) so you want to avoid sticks. It also does not do well with wet leaves, but none of them do. Make sure you give the engine a rest if you feel it getting warm or if the turbine starts whining. It is a a good idea to give it a rest every hour or else the bearings can burn out. Our lawn person used our last blower/mulcher to blow the autumn leaves into 4 huge piles, and then sat on the ground and fed the leaves into the the tube until the engine burned up. It took 4 hours to do it, but you get the picture. One word of precaution... this unit is EXTREMELY HEAVY, so if you don't have strong arms your going to be sore after an hour of use.
1829847
It will handle them, the vac function works very well and the mulching blade is durable. However it will be very noisy with the acorns being ground up! On the down side, the blowing function does not work well for anything heavier than dry leaves - the end of the nozzle is too small to allow a lot of air out.
36709
It will definitely mulch and chop up dry leaves. I tried some slightly wet leaves and it worked so so depending on how wet and heavy the leaves were. I trimmed my shrubs and tried to suck up and mulch the clippings. If the clippings were short it worked just fine, even tough they were still green. The bigger twigs with sticks and leaves would get sucked up but NOT mulched and eventually plugged the input. Thus I would like to modify / sharpen the blades to cut up small fresh cut and still green shrub clippings. I will need to research this option further.