Farmi

[woody paul]

Anyone run a Farmi  CH27DRM Chipper or old model are they any good, thinking of getting a PTO chipper for big conifer jobs.

Any problem is tractor is only 50hp not sure it big enough.

[s o c]

I think you’d need at least 90 horsepower for that chipper.

The older farmis weren’t the best on conifers 

[LGP Eddie]

I’ll second that, ran a Farmi 260hfc with conveyor and it was happiest on a 120hp Valtra. Larger tractors didn’t add anything apart from twisted lemon tubes!

You can run them on 540, and you’d undoubtedly do something even with 50hp, but not really a matched productive setup.

 

As for conifers it wouldn’t be the best, they have a habit of wrapping material around the feed rollers, easy to eliminate when you have the feed conveyor and can reverse it all out, but I’d imagine a nightmare by hand.

 

Not taking anything away from the Farmi, I had great success with it and wouldn’t hesitate to purchase if I needed another.

 

 

Eddie.

[woody paul]

So what chipper would you recommend for conifers.

[s o c]

Wilsons have a sheilsing 440 pto  at the moment.  Would handle most stuff you’d feed by hand