Choosing a chipper

[Orchard]

I am about to buy my first chipper, GM arborist 130. My reasons for wanting this one is cause it seems well engineered, has a soundproof cover over the engine and it's pretty light. But with so many choices its hard to know if I am making the right one, there is only 2 of us so I don't need a machine with massive productivity/capacity and the majority of my work is domestic however there can be some big jobs from time to time and I am in Cumbria so you can find yourself in some pretty out of the way places!! I have a ford ranger d/c pick up with a custom made canopy so my chip capacity isn't massive either. I was just wondering if some of you may be able to give me some pointers as to what I need to think about before committing to a particular machine. Any advice would be helpful, cheers. 😀

[Ty Korrigan]

An associate runs a 2014 model.

I like using it, it is quiet and makes small neat chips.

The only 2 issues have been a broken throttle linkage and cylinder head cover on the Vanguard engine but that is down to Briggs not G.M.

Excellent machine all round.

Ty

[dan494]

They're listed as Honda engines now but they dropped the hp from 23 to 21

[WoodED]

I am also looking at a gm130 in the next year. Good machine

[Orchard]

Had a demo it was great!

[PeteB]

We went from Vanguard to Honda to streamline the production processes and because of global backup! It is supported worldwide generally whereas Vanguard was not total. That is all.......