Mighty Mac Lsc800 Manual 2016
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
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4.0 out of 5 stars Mackissic Mighty Mac LSC 1100 Leaf Shredder/Chipper October 10, 2012 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.