If any chipper is better than no chipper is your philosophy, then 1250s are fine. Ive been running one of those for a guy I sub for off and on for the last 8 years and I absolutely hate it. The chute clogs like nobodies bidness, the feedwheels are taller than the capacity so all sorts of stuff gets hung up on the "ledge" behind the feedwheels. The knives are single sided so you cant flip em when there dull. All the weight is on one side so you have to flip your tires all the time to keep from having a racing slick on the passenger side. If the pto ever goes out its a nitemare to re-align the belt. The bed-knife and the shafts are weak. There fine if you do alot of trims, and the occasional removal, but I would never buy one. The only nice thing I can say is you dont have to clean up a bunch of crap under the feed when your done, yet, with bandits horizontal feed, there is a chance that some smaller rocks that your groundies will inevitably throw in may fall out the bottom. (Yet another doom and gloom post courtesy of Prentice110) Oh, and they never put a support on the pipe comin outa the hyd oil tank so after a few bumps down the road it like to crack and dump oil on your customers nice expensive new driveway.