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This post is about me playing with my new toy. It's a lot of fun. This is the back of my house. Last weekend Julie and I trimmed those shrubs back a bit. Okay, more than a bit. I'd not trimmed them in 3 years and they were very overgrown. We trimmed off around 60% of the trees. Don't worry about those trees though. The last time I trimmed them, I pretty much cut them right down to the ground. You can't kill those trees. I sure did try---but they bounced right back so I gave up and left them there. So now I have two piles of limbs from the trees, which explains the timing of my chipper / shredder purchase. The goal is to grind down all that nasty shrubbery rubbish. In the picture below you can see me with my new toy, clearing a clog, in the midst of grinding down the first pile of limbs. You can see the other pile in the background. Below you can see what the limbs look like after being ground up. The chipper is supposed to be able to take limbs up to 1.5" in diam...

I bought a new toy on Amazon a few weeks ago. This is what it looks like. Pretty, eh? I have a lot of shrubs around my house and a bunch of small trees that need trimming. Up to now I've just trimmed them every so often and left the trimmed branches in a pile around my shed. Not very pretty and a rodent attractant so I finally decided to spend the money to remedy the situation. One of the reasons that I'd delayed is that I thought that the inexpensive electric shredders could only do leaves. They mostly use nylon fish line to do their work and that wouldn't do anything to branches. But I recently discovered that there's an inexpensive ($160 - 300) alternative to gas powered chipper / shredders ($600 and up)---and so I ordered one pronto! At $207 delivered, this beauty is well worth the money---assuming it works. The reviews on Amazon are fairly positive so I'm hoping for the best. This is what the sweet little thing looked like all splayed out on my living room floo...