How Wood Chippers Work
How Wood Chippers Work. Download our FREE eBook guide and learn how wood chippers can help you make your garden a beautiful landscape! It's not magic that gets your wood chipped, your lawn mowed, and your stumps ground away. . . it's a whole bunch of fairly simple mechanisms all working together to get the job done with as little work for.
Wood chips from a small garden chipper. A portable woodchipper and truck with wood chips collected in the truck bed. Watch this video about how to use a wood chipper to turn a big pile of tree limbs into a tidy pile of wood chips the right way.
Read the steps below to learn how to chip your own wood at home.
What are wood chip mulch pros and cons?
Wood chippers avoid the need to collect and bag all the debris remaining after you've cleaned up the yard, which saves a ton of time. However, if you have to do it yourself, you're probably well aware of how much work it is to clean up the yard and stuff the yard debris is those paper bags for the trash company to. Some wood chippers are very expensive, while others are surprisingly affordable.