You get what you pay for.
Overall, a good product - glad I bought it - beats hand plucking!<br /><br />It works well; I would like to add some more fingers.  The key is to get the scald correct.<br /><br />The only true criticism I have is it did not come with instructions of how to actually to use it to pluck a bird.  I think instructions on scalding and plucking would be greatly beneficial.  Planet Wizbang [...] has excellent scalding instructions.  I bought this plucker since it was only $100 more than the parts to build my own using the Wizbang Chicken Plucker plans; well worth the $100.<br /><br />I used it to process 25 Cornish Cross on 6/1 - worked very well on the big (7+ lbs dressed weight) birds; broke the wings on the 5 pound females.  By trial and error, we figured out pulsing it on the smaller birds works better.  Detailed instructions from the seller may have shortened the learning curve.<br /><br />Helped my neighbors process 30 Freedom Rangers 6/14.  We had some improper scalds; and I think we were using too much cold water in the plucker (again, detailed instructions would have helped).  Regardless, the Freedom Ranger are just a harder pluck compared to CornishX, and we had to hand pluck the backs of most, if not all, the birds.  We broke the legs on many birds; think we left them in the plucker too long trying to get off all the feathers.  Again, the seller should have provided instructions to help with these issues.<br /><br />A bit of an issue getting the thing.  CC ONLY did not provide full contact info so when I missed the call, there was no email for the shipper to use; it went into storage, but ultimately arrived fine.  Make sure your contact info in Amazon is up to date.
Rating: 4 stars