https://www.manualslib.com/manual/107331/Mtd-243-650.html

So you can't use it for people ala Fargo? If not, what good it is?

hi faust , why would you spend 15 hours trying to shred stuff , when you could put it in a 55 gallon drum and burn it in 15 minutes ? just thinking about your time ? ronnie

That is crazy. I burn dead branches several times a week during spring and fall. We have about 100 trees on our property and they are always dropping branches. Having the cops show up every time I tried to clean up my property would be very irritating.

fire dept won't even come to my place any more when they get a call . it's a CONTAINED fire , with everything inside and nothing anyone can do about it . Ronnie

I live in Illinois, out here in the sticks. In our town, we can't really burn anything, the only fire you can have has to be in a container or fire pit and is supposed to be used to "prepare food." If you have a fire, you better be cooking hot dogs. In the county, outside of town, you can only burn things that are from your property, and they get pretty picky about that as well, especially with the people just outside of the city limits.

We are suppose to drag tree limbs and branches to the street, within a couple of days after a storm and the city sends a truck around to pick it up. You are also suppose to rake your leaves to he street and they come by and vacuum them up, hopefully before the wind blows them back into your yard. Burning leaves is an automatic fine, and burning a big pile you get to pay for the fire department call to extinguish it as well. A few years ago they tried to pass a law where they wanted to fine you if you didn't rake your leaves to the street. That pretty well ended when someone pushed back "Mother nature dumped them there, she can clean them up." and it held up in court. The new people in charge of town have eased up on enforcing some of the laws, but its pretty inconsistent, a lot of it depends on who you are.