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5
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5
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5
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3
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4
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Great Performance; Hard to Work On
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Date: July 26, 2009
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"This machine does everything I expected, and more. I am cleaning up 2 years accummulation of dirty, sometimes wet, leaves with small sticks in them. The machine chews up everything I put in. After clogging the interior by feeding wet and dirty leaf trash, I found two significant things:
1. The internals are extremely well designed and well constructed for the rugged work. I am a mechanical engineer with major in machine design, and I am impressed by the excellence of design.
2. It is very difficult to get the hopper off for access to the interior, because the 2 bolts turn with the nuts on the machine side of the hopper. You have to get a wrench on the bolt heads in a very tight space to remove the nuts. After the nuts are off it is still difficult to remove the hopper because the bolts on both front and back are fixed in place and it is hard to get the hopper free on both sides. Also difficult to remove the shredding blade for sharpening for the same reason -- have to get a wrench on the back side nuts to remove the two screws holding the blade.
You have to be a fairly skilled mechanic to work on this machine, but it performs the task for which it is designed admirably."
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2
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3
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3
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1
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5
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It is ok but...
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Date: July 2, 2009
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"We enjoy having a chipper shredder but, the tall upright main hopper is horrible! The design of this hopper makes it so even pine cones, leaves, 5" twigs get clogged up in the narrow upright design. I'm hoping Troybilt makes a redesigned hopper that one could buy. It is only comfortable to load up this hopper when one is over 6' tall. We may return this item as the above design flaw makes it useless."
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2
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bad investment
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Date: March 27, 2009
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"I bought a new Troy-bilt CS4265, which I use to shread corn, sugar cane and grass for animal feed. It was awesome at first. I loved it. After 3 weeks the blades became dull and had to be sharpened. It then worked for 3 months then one of the small blades broke. Since then it is in the storage shead as I am waiting to get the replacement blade from the local dealer. Three months have now passed and i am still waiting."
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