Bugnot chipper

[Ty Korrigan]

We had this on a brief demo recently.

 Bugnot 25hp 3 pot deeezle.

Made in France

6 fixed blades like wee adzes.

Roller and toothed belt.

No braked chassis but a parking brake acting on the tyres such as the fsib20 grinder has.

We where the first users so blades nice and sharp.

In the 30min it was on site we chipped alot of tough springy red oak I'd stacked.

The chip was fine with a good throw.

Conifer the client produced dropped well short of the pile so in real terms alot would miss the truck.

It was noisey, a metallic quality which penetrated my non-chipper muffs.

The chip chamber seemed to resonate, the engine housed in a metal bonnet also didn't help.

The chute also rattled adding further unwelcome decibels.

The actual machine seemed well made and solid although I have a friend whose same machine regularly shakes bits off the engine.

The chip chamber opens up wide.

The 6 knives can be changed for 18 free swinging hammers.

6 knives cost €1200 

The machine, discounted is €22k ht (plus vat)

I have the quote before me.

It was interesting to use a toothed belt with single roller which is offset the right of the infeed.

This seemed to work well with forked material.

The stop bar operation felt archaic and clumsy being reset with both a lever and button press.

Having said that, it didn't trip as often as our GM150 would have.

These are popular in France but normally sold with the hammers.

 

 

 

 

[Mick Dempsey]

Have you ever used a TW230 Stu?

[Ty Korrigan]

Not had the privilege as yet.

I demoed a TW150 once and thought it a fine machine but went for the Quadchip.

 Stuart

[Mick Dempsey]

Get a demo on one before forking out for that steam punk piece of junk.

 

They are astonishingly good.

[Ty Korrigan]

A Bugnot wasn't a machine I'd seriously consider. 

I was curious to try a Bugnot so grabbed the chance to demo a new one and take a little pressure off the team who were feeding the CS100 whilst the Efi was being neglected...

Stuart

 

[richy_B]

So Bugnot isn't highly regarded? I did look at a BVE 11 PTO before but was put off by the lack of dealer back up in the UK. Seemed like a decent enough machine. I ended up sticking the Timberwolf S426 shredder.

Edited November 18, 2019 by richy_B

[Ty Korrigan]

Bugnot is very popular here in France.

I saw one today being used in town.

However, I think them expensive to buy and run.

The hammers and knives being eye watering lucre.

  Stuart

 

[Khriss]

48 minutes ago, richy_B said:

So Bugnot isn't highly regarded? I did look at a BVE 11 PTO before but was put off by the lack of dealer back up in the UK. Seemed like a decent enough machine. I ended up sticking the Timberwolf S426 shredder.

They are crackers. Hired one once ate everything. Not seen one since. K

[richy_B]

20 minutes ago, Ty Korrigan said:

Bugnot is very popular here in France.

I saw one today being used in town.

However, I think them expensive to buy and run.

The hammers and knives being eye watering lucre.

  Stuart

 

I was quoted - PTO version, on a single axle, no crane £33k ex tax. Saw one in France that looked to be newish with low hours for €22k.

 

No idea on hammers cost etc but they must last a while? I appreciate it's smaller but on my TW S426 it's on 570 hours on original hammers. I just put a bit of an edge on them with a grinder occasionally. 

 

They are painfully slow on 15cm+ stuff but for big bundles of brash they do a great job. We use it for all our basal/ epicormic prunings, hedge cuttings and general wood waste (pallets, old tree stakes, etc).

[richy_B]

20 minutes ago, Khriss said:

They are crackers. Hired one once ate everything. Not seen one since. K

Yeah, they seem to be rare. I haven't seen a PTO one come up for sale in the last 18 months. Thats agriaffaires and mascis as well so covers most of Europe.

Edited November 18, 2019 by richy_B