Chipper Advice

[Mr Ed]

An acquaintance of mine’s little chipper

 

Where?

[igottacabstar]

Yeah, its a different market. But take a new TW - £15k? a new 10" bandit or morbark -£20k? not a lot more for a HUGE difference in performance.

 

Fair comment, but you've also got the weight of the machine to think about. A 10" Bandit must weigh around the 2 ton mark? Not ideal if you've got a transit type truck.

[b101uk]

Where?

 

<3 miles up the road from me

[Mr Ed]

Actually meant where was the pic.

As for the chipper, thats MWEN's musmax...?

IMHO, a pile of crap. its only 16" capacity but is as big as a 30yard skip. Also produces vast amounts of fines and dust, and needs a hooklift trailer just to move it round.

[b101uk]

Actually meant where was the pic.

As for the chipper, thats MWEN's musmax...?

IMHO, a pile of crap. its only 16" capacity but is as big as a 30yard skip. Also produces vast amounts of fines and dust, and needs a hooklift trailer just to move it round.

 

yes a mus-max MWF (MWEN)

 

16" x 30" (he chips a lot of wood waste for small saw mills etc)

 

its on a hook lift body as he spec it to fit his hook lift trailer & trucks witch he uses for other things as well, they do come on a normal trailer if needed

 

if you put 40m3+ of solid wood threw per hour your going to get a little bit of dust, however i would say that at the speed wood is turned to chip you don’t get much dust being ejected from the cyclone separator and I have seen a lot more dust coming from chippers ¼ of the size

[Mr Ed]

My bad. Pile of crap is rude and not accurate. I would however say that even the trailed engined models are much bigger than they need to be. and 16 x 30 is not great for chipping round wood. I also dont like the way the whole engine tilts on an air ram to engage the drive, nor the need for a huge propshaft, nor the open top on the engine 'shed'.

Just call it personal preferance.

By comparison, one of my coneheads would fill a 125 m3 truck in 50 minutes... with 40 hp less.

http://www.dynamicmfgcorp.com/video/565.wmv

http://www.dynamicmfgcorp.com/video/585.wmv

[skyhuck]

ain't we all had one of them!!

 

Only one! you've been lucky

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yank machienes are just to big end of we dont need 10 inch when 6 will do the same job if you plan your work well a 6 inch machine is a god send

 

remember 2.5 tonnes an hour 6 inch chips thats the days work you wont be chipping it all in 30 mins any how.

 

Myabe better for big jobs but we hire them in any way.

 

for the english market we love our compact machines that one man can carry my machine weighs 570kg

 

you need hgv to tow a yank and another one for the chips lol still they are mighty good machines.

[igottacabstar]

yank machienes are just to big end of we dont need 10 inch when 6 will do the same job if you plan your work well a 6 inch machine is a god send

 

remember 2.5 tonnes an hour 6 inch chips thats the days work you wont be chipping it all in 30 mins any how.

 

Myabe better for big jobs but we hire them in any way.

 

for the english market we love our compact machines that one man can carry my machine weighs 570kg

 

you need hgv to tow a yank and another one for the chips lol still they are mighty good machines.

 

If your work is mainly domestic then I agree:top:

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If your work is mainly domestic then I agree:top:

 

 

Yes it is my man i hate contract crap so much hse and paper and horse shite. and you have to wait for your money.

 

I love the domestic sector paid daily and you get appreciated.

 

I do it for other companies tho they get me in so i just climb just the way i like it.