Which Chipper??

[Barney]

Really impressed with the Jensen A530. Regular maintenance wise there’s 3 grease points for the feed rollers that need greasing daily that are easily accessible and two blades that are easy to replace. We can happily tow it using a cab star. As long as you can get the butt to the feed rollers it will grab and smash any fork to fit through the 6x8 gap.

 

They have mobile workshops that will come out to you on site and they have any spare part available to bring with them, fortunately we haven't had to use it.

 

I have done work with a company that have a 7 inch schliesing. It’s a really good chipper but you need at least a 7.5 tonne to tow and compared to the Jensen they are more expensive, slightly bigger and heavier.

 

Used an old petrol timberwolf and was really impressed with it as well as an old N-tec but I think they were made by timberwolf anyway, advantages of them is that they are cheaper than the Jensen but I don't know about the maintenance of them.

 

First chipper we had was a 6 inch Greenmech but it spent more time in the workshop, had problems with electrics, bearings and it caught on fire. Had to snedd every single fork to get anything through it, bad times.

 

Heard good things about vermeer's, never used one. I would reccommend Jensen.

[igottacabstar]

Really impressed with the Jensen A530. Regular maintenance wise there’s 3 grease points for the feed rollers that need greasing daily that are easily accessible and two blades that are easy to replace. We can happily tow it using a cab star. As long as you can get the butt to the feed rollers it will grab and smash any fork to fit through the 6x8 gap.

 

They have mobile workshops that will come out to you on site and they have any spare part available to bring with them, fortunately we haven't had to use it.

 

I have done work with a company that have a 7 inch schliesing. It’s a really good chipper but you need at least a 7.5 tonne to tow and compared to the Jensen they are more expensive, slightly bigger and heavier.

 

Used an old petrol timberwolf and was really impressed with it as well as an old N-tec but I think they were made by timberwolf anyway, advantages of them is that they are cheaper than the Jensen but I don't know about the maintenance of them.

 

First chipper we had was a 6 inch Greenmech but it spent more time in the workshop, had problems with electrics, bearings and it caught on fire. Had to snedd every single fork to get anything through it, bad times.

 

Heard good things about vermeer's, never used one. I would reccommend Jensen.

 

The older Greenmechs were terrible, crap rollers, bad design, but the new ones are excellent - will p*ss all over the equivalent Timberwolf.

[tractor10_0]

Bottom line you can not beat a Jensen!

[bob]

Bottom line you can not beat a Jensen!

 

i beg to differ we have to beat ours all the time in frustration seems to like stopping inside workshops rather than going out working has had more replacement parts than i have

[Log-ologist]

Barney are you the Barney from Barnstable?

[Mesterh]

Bottom line you can not beat a Jensen

 

Dunno about that I know someone who's jenson snapped in half while he was towing it Good job he wasnt tonging it down the motorway.

Chassis on both sides around the mud guard area just snapped, think it was only about 3 years old, the machine looked fairly mint aswell.

[Steve Bullman]

funny you say that, we just had ours welded up in the same place today

[madmatt]

Dunno about that I know someone who's jenson snapped in half while he was towing it Good job he wasnt tonging it down the motorway.

Chassis on both sides around the mud guard area just snapped, think it was only about 3 years old, the machine looked fairly mint aswell.

 

And I know of a Timberwolf TW150 that did that to!

[Pete Mctree]

I think the best way of describing this roundabout of opinions is to say that it's like choosing a favorite colour. No right answer

[dazlog]

I think the best way of describing this roundabout of opinions is to say that it's like choosing a favorite colour. No right answer

 

DITO, Spot on.