Big (but not MASSIVE) chippers

[Arboricultured]

Let’s keep it that way

How come?

[woody paul]

Get your self a list of what makes you want to try and get a demo a on each.

10'' chipper will take some feeding by hand but you did say machine to feed it maybe used so it will need to be digger / loader friendly as well.

[jmac]

Vermeer ax 19 ????

[wicklamulla]

On 03/11/2019 at 09:10, jmac said:

Vermeer ax 19 ????

yer an August Hunicke fan too i see!

[jmac]

10 hours ago, wicklamulla said:

yer an August Hunicke fan too i see!

I sure am Mr wicklamulla ?. Shame we don't have the space over here for massive chippers like that, I get plenty people moaning about how much wood I chip with the old safetrack! They would have a fit if I turned up with ax 19 and proceeded to chip there whole tree in one go ???

[Treeman123]

I have had my 12 inch drum bandit a couple months now and its a game changer! good on domestic and commercial jobs. Its built like a tank and doesn't vibrate it self to bits like my Timberwolf does. I dont think you can go wrong with it!

[Fred Elliot]

Hi Ben

As a timberwolf tw250 owner myself, I would say you would be disappointed with an 8 inch machine like a tw280 or st8, although the capacity of the 280 or st8 in only 2 inches less , the machines differ greatly, the flywheel on the 250 is twice the weight, the engine on the 250 is twice the size, the st8 or tw280 will not chip a near capacity pole at near the same rate as a 250. If you don't want to deal with logs like myself the smaller machines would be a mistake, there not an efficient means to deal with logs in terms of the time you would be waiting for the stress control. I would miss the huge hopper and huge rollers of the 250 and the relative ease they accept material that is offered to them, vs the fight you would have on your hands trying to force something comparable, for example a bundle of previously reduced conifer hedge tops into a 8 inch machine.

You will have no doubt become accustomed to the processing speed the 250 offers, the 280 or st8 will create a bottle neck in the days job in comparison, you will have to reduce the size and the amount of material that is put into the hopper, feeding it with a larger number of smaller bundles taking more time, the stress control will kick in more often and you will be waiting for this as your ready to feed the next in.

The smaller machines like the 280 or st8 cant been seen behind a 7.5 lorry or bigger when reversing, one of the reasons I got rid of my tw230, the 280 or st8 being similar in physical size to the tw230 are not practical behind a lorry nor are they practical to handball on a gravel driveway etc. A bigger machine you can see is far easier  reversing into driveways in my experience. 

I would have thought an 8inch machine would feel like a step backwards in reality and cost you time that would certainly add up over the course of a week. 

 

A clean bandit 990xp may be a consideration if you can find a new low hours example if you are in the market for a used machine. 

 

 

 

[Rough Hewn]

If you've got the workload a big bandit (11-17") is in a different ball park to 6-8" chippers.
You could fill nearly any legal chip box very quickly.
Machine feeding is a must,
or that will bottleneck.
When you can just cut,drop, pickup n chip whole trees, your work rate is phenomenal.
[emoji106]

[benedmonds]

11 hours ago, Fred Elliot said:

 

As a timberwolf tw250 owner myself, I would say you would be disappointed with an 8 inch machine...

 

Cheers for the feed back. It's been a few years since I have been on the tools so my decision making is perhaps biased to £'s it's going to cost.. I do remember the increase in productivity moving from a tw190 to the tw250. I was hoping the 8 inch machines of which there are many  had increased in a similar way the little ones had. The tw230 is imo as productive as an old tw190.

[tonytree]

Not used one myself but have you looked at tp, looking on there website they do a 10 inch machine. The tp280