Recycling Chippers!

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We recently carried out a inspection of a customers chipper, which has had a hard life thanks to the previous owner who had rolled it at some point!
But it’s been a pretty reliable chipper over the past few years but is in need of some heavy TLC,.
So is it worth it? The chipper being narrow was favoured for rear garden access and the removable hopper also assists in the narrow side passages the engine is good and despite the track width being seized was working fine, so it was the rest of the working bits! Or in the case of some not working!!
 
First thing was a complete strip down, sand blast & repaint with a epoxy primer followed by a coating of stone chip in the high impact areas and 3 layers of top coat colour
 
With a lot of time spent fixing little details unseen like the corroded spool eternal indent locator, seized track sliders, dent body panels, twisted chute, deflector pivot & angle rod, stop bar seized pivots, flywheel top cover hinge, rewiring winch including installing a isolator switch,
 
We moved on to fitting new feed rollers, shafts, bearings, drive gears, flywheel bearings, blades, anvil, radiator mesh screen, drive belts, oils, filters it was starting to look the part!
 
Then came the decals and now we have a nice chipper recycled and ready to go back to action for a good many years.
 
 
 
 

 
 
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[swinny]

Looks a very nice job there  looks a lot better than my old shed!

[IronMike]

Agreed. I've a soft spot for the old A530T! 

 

Nicely done. Someone will be getting a good machine by the looks of it. 

Edited October 22, 2018 by IronMike

[Andyd1606]

 
 
 
 

 
 
We recently carried out a inspection of a customers chipper, which has had a hard life thanks to the previous owner who had rolled it at some point!
But it’s been a pretty reliable chipper over the past few years but is in need of some heavy TLC,.
So is it worth it? The chipper being narrow was favoured for rear garden access and the removable hopper also assists in the narrow side passages the engine is good and despite the track width being seized was working fine, so it was the rest of the working bits! Or in the case of some not working!!
 
First thing was a complete strip down, sand blast & repaint with a epoxy primer followed by a coating of stone chip in the high impact areas and 3 layers of top coat colour
 
With a lot of time spent fixing little details unseen like the corroded spool eternal indent locator, seized track sliders, dent body panels, twisted chute, deflector pivot & angle rod, stop bar seized pivots, flywheel top cover hinge, rewiring winch including installing a isolator switch,
 
We moved on to fitting new feed rollers, shafts, bearings, drive gears, flywheel bearings, blades, anvil, radiator mesh screen, drive belts, oils, filters it was starting to look the part!
 
Then came the decals and now we have a nice chipper recycled and ready to go back to action for a good many years.
 
 
 
 

 
 
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Nice work where are you based?

[Khriss]

Good effort an a shame more companies don't do this for their machine, lot of man hours, but result speaks fr itself, k

[Rough Hewn]

Great work, what did that cost?

[WeFixIt]

This is a Timberwolf 150 we did including the Hi Viz decals 

We also built the truck body prior so colour matching was easy!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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We even fitted orange ultra bright stobe LED lights to the tailboard wired in to the chipper for roadside work along with led side lights on the mud guards front and back to assist reversing up narrow driveways in the dark 

 

 

 

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On 22/10/2018 at 14:33, Rough Hewn said:

Great work, what did that cost?

One arm and two legs!!!