I purchased my Mackissic LSC 1100 Shredder/Chipper in October 2011 strictly to make oak leaf and pine needle mulch for flower and azalea beds. Mulch quality is absolutely superb (i.e. Fine, but not too fine) and I especially like the lay-down hopper feature which permits raking the leaves and pine needles directly into the machine. Welcome to MackissicChippers.com! Mackissic, Inc. Is the exclusive manufacturer of the Mighty Mac and Merry Mac brand of Chipper Shredders, Leaf Shredders & Blowers, Garden Sprayers, Stump Cutters, and Turf Vacuums, as well as the Merry Tiller brand of Premium Garden Tillers.
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I purchased my Mackissic LSC 1100 Shredder/Chipper in October 2011 strictly to make oak leaf and pine needle mulch for flower and azalea beds. Mulch quality is absolutely superb (i.e. fine, but not too fine) and I especially like the lay-down hopper feature which permits raking the leaves and pine needles directly into the machine. As long as they are mostly dry, they self-feed into the shredding chamber with minimal additional assistance, though the needles feed a bit more slowly than the leaves due to the greater density of the needle piles. I use the collection bag almost exclusively and have found it to be a good functional size for distributing the shredded material around shrubs and flowers. If the bag were any larger, it would get too heavy to carry and empty comfortably. I have rated the LSC 1100 at 4 rather than 5-stars, however, for only one reason: There is no clutch or similar mechanism to permit disengaging the 17-pound cast iron cutter flywheel when starting the engine. Hence, when pulling the recoil starter rope you must overcome the inertia of not only the engine, but also that 17-pound cutter wheel. This might not be too big a problen if you are a decade or two younger than me (I'm 66) or have to start the engine only occasionally (as when shredding a large quantity of material in one spot and simply blowing it into a pile), but that collection bag fills up pretty quickly and I found it necessary to stop and restart the engine perhaps 15-20 times in a typical day of shredding. After only one season, all those recoil starter pulls had caused major chronic shoulder discomfort which still plagues a year later. (I've so far avoided a visit to the orthopod fearing the conclusion will be surgery). Mackissic advised there was no way to install a clutch to remove the cutter flywheel from the starting equation and so I concluded that I had two options: (a) convert the machine to electric start, or (b) sell it on eBay. My local Briggs & Stratton mechanic studied the situation and concluded he could make the electric start conversion so long as: (1) I was willing to sacrifice the chipper tube to make room to mount the starter motor on the engine block (not a problem in my case since I never use the chipper feature anyway) and (2) I could live without an on-board alternator and battery because there was no place to put them. (I could.) So he made the electric start conversion and it WORKS BEAUTIFULLY!!! He connected a push button switch to the starter motor, mounting it on the frame, and installed postive and negative pigtails that I connect to a 12-volt garden tractor battery via homemade jumper cable extensions. The battery has plenty of power for a full day's work and I simply connect it to a NAPA charger each evening to be ready for another day of shredding. The whole arrangement is slick as a peeled eel, BUT the down side is that the electric start conversion is expensive. Total bill was $500. The parts came to about $400 with the two most expensive items being the starter motor at $200 and a new toothed engine flywheel at $95 (the original equipment engine flywheel has no teeth to mesh with the starter motor gear). Overall, the LSC 1100 is a really sweet machine, but it could have been a near perfect machine if only Mackissic had equipped it with either a clutch or electric start.Virginia Gardener