I've had this splitter for 6 years and I'm very pleased with it.
Primarily have used it on oak and I try and keep the diameter of the oak 12 inches or less and 15 -16 inches in length. Occasionally I will have to use a wedge to break down a round but that is seldom and that is to be expected spltting oak.
Overall I'm impressed with the power and reliability that I've experienced with the Boss.
Wood chipper arrived promptly. Communication from both shipping carriers was excellent.
The only very slight negative were a couple of minor dents in the chipper, due to the machine components' movement within the 1/8th inch thin plywood-crafted box. I assume that was the manufacturer's responsibility, not Wood Splitter Outlet's.
The machine itself has been outstanding in cleaning up a very high volume of branch-slash piles that I left last year, while clearing a one acre lot's survey sight-lines inside dense north-eastern US forest.
Favorable demonstrations and reviews on YouTube have been entirely accurate. The 14 hp PowerKing is perfect for a small wood lot, farm use, and so on. Provided, of course, that one understands the machine's limits and does not expect it to gobble logs, like an arborist's commercial chipper will.
QV Tool's customer service for the PowerKing brand was also exceptional. For example, the kill switch on my chipper stopped working properly almost immediately. QV Tools responded to my email asking about the proper way to disassemble it within 1 hour.
They provided me with a diagram and saved me some time by indicating that I should access the switch's components through the top, rather than the bottom of the box that holds it. The shortcomings on the switch were minor: loose assembly of the two-component shaft and two too-shortly stripped wire ends. Easy fixes, both.
Overall, this chipper ranks, so far, as one of the best consumer grade rural property aids that I have ever owned. It has saved me (literally) enormous amounts of time and effort, even on hard-to-chip seasoned branches.
My only caveat is that this PowerKing chipper is unwieldy and heavy (reportedly 430 to 450 pounds). These qualities make it difficult to move (by hand) on uneven boggy ground, between trees, and so forth. Getting it up a short (but somewhat steep) berm -- using the manual trailer dolly that I use to move it -- was almost impossible.
So, if you are going to use the big PowerKing in forest, like I have been, you should consider pulling it with an ATV or UTV -- if you have access to one. I don't and am elderly, but I would still buy this challengingly heavy wood chipper again. It is that useful.
Was challenging to assemble. Need to include instructions. Works well
Thanks Steuart for the feedback.
As a note for everyone, I have the manual for every unit linked at the bottom of the description for download.
Best,
Ryan
The wood spiller meet my expectation