any one no anything about this chipper??

[Mike]

The chipper is a 1997 Entec CH25PH. Battery is in the wrong place. I suspect this was put there because of the new fuel tank being a different size and taking up the battery space. The battery where it is now will get cooked by the exhaust as there is no shield. My main concern is the price. From a dealer in good condition this machine would retail at approx £3500. The chippper needs a HSE Kit. This would need an Entec Stage 1 kit I think. Can't be 100% sure without seeing valve on the machine. This is in the region of £1000 + vat fitted. There is a no-stress visible. Does this work. New replacement £300. Then there is the bearings / fans etc. To be sure the only real way is to have them done by someone who knows how to do it properly. There goes another £250 minimum. Then there is the rotor itself. How worn is it and the shafts. If it has never been replaced and sharfts / pockets are worn a new replacement is the best part of £550. This is because at that age they were a one piece design not the new 3 piece.

The sums don't add up. Unless you are good on the spanners so alot of labour can be saved or don't mind using an illegal / non conforming machine my advice would be to stay clear.

 

Regards

 

Mike

Edited December 7, 2009 by Mike

[Mike]

Yes, its either an early entec (now timberwolf) or its an ex hire machine. The ones for hire come direct form entec instead of through the timberwolf dealership so they remained yellow (and called entec) after the same model had changed to orange timberwolf.

 

Its hard to tell from the pics if its a newer hire machine but the respray might be trying to cover up that fact.

 

Rupe

 

I love it. Have not heard that version before. There are some classics out there. In brief this is how it happened.

 

In 1999 Entec decided to explore the dealer network as chipper sales were expanding very rapidly with a diversity of customers not just Entecs main customer, the tree surgeon. Entec wanted to explore this market without damaging the Entec (Yellow) brand which was still sold direct from the factory.

 

A few machines were made orange as demonstrators named TW and dealers approached.

 

This was just to test the water as to say, but it went mad. The TW marketing animal was born.

 

2001 saw huge TW sales and it became more difficult to produce 2 colours. The bits needed were always the wrong colour, so in Oct 2001 the last official yellow Entec was produced and all production changed to TW and machines sold through dealers.

 

Simple. No buy out, No American Takeover, No Family Splits and the other 100 versions I have heard. Just a bit of good fortune and some excellent marketing.

[not for sale sorry]

hi peeps,

 

thanks soooooo much for all the replys, alot of mixed comments lol maybe a poll soon well i am going toleave this one,when i spoke to the guy, he said it did not get used much and he used it last week on a job, and need a new fuel pump, so my thort is that the guy/gal who did the pump prob said look mate the thing is going to start going wrong soon, so flog it on fle bay asap, so i aint going for it, keep my eyes out for somthing decent

 

many thanks shane

[Mozza]

Have a look in the plant section of the Autotrader mate, Theres normally a few go threw that site,

 

Heres one i spotted the other day

 

Auto Trader UK - KWIKCHIP 222

[not for sale sorry]

thanks mozza only prob is that i need one that is 750kg atm, i really need to do my trailer test

 

i will have a look there though thanks

[Johny Walker]

Have a look in the plant section of the Autotrader mate, Theres normally a few go threw that site,

 

Heres one i spotted the other day

 

Auto Trader UK - KWIKCHIP 222

 

looks like a 750 kg chipper to me

[Mozza]

looks like a 750 kg chipper to me

 

I wasnt meaning buy that one, its the wrong link

[not for sale sorry]

well i will have a look now bein busy, do you reacon that 750? i thought it might have bein more as its on that trailer as well ??

[Arbocop]

looks like it has not had the retro kit fitted to it so it complys with HSE rrules regarding stop bars, als ohas the in feed shut been extended i think from memory that machine should be 1.2m shut and they are 1 m

 

have a look hear

 

http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/ais38.pdf

 

can be pricy to bring it up to spec

 

ask does it comply???

 

cheers

 

kev