Chipper/shredder for large garden

[Guest Gimlet]

A client has asked me to recommend a chipper/shredder for him. He's putting a lot of work my way so I want to try and help him out and give him good advise if I can.

 

He's got quite a large garden, couple of acres, with a lot of trees. He doesn't like bonfires and wants to chip and shred everything for composting.

I've got to lay a very overstood hedge for him soon and there'll be masses of chipping to do and he's looking to buy a machine for that and do the chipping himself. 

 

He'll be putting all his woody garden waste through it for mulching down, including small green waste, leaves and hedge clippings etc. So it wants to be a self-feeding clipper/shredder not just a wood chipper. Needs to be a petrol machine with a discharge shoot so he can fire stuff into a compost clamp, large garden/semi pro quality but not a full pro £4000 Greenmech etc. And one he can wheel around the garden himself. Doesn't need to chip bigger than 50/60 mm because anything bigger than that he keeps for firewood.

 

For my business use I wouldn't be buying something that small and I tend to buy used from within the industry but he's not keen on that and wants a new one. I'm thinking he needs to spend a grand. 

 

I've found two that on paper are ideal and have Briggs engines, but other than the motors I know nothing about them.

Or there's a Forest Master

Anyone care to comment or have any other recommendations?

 

https://www.greenfingers.com/p42210/the_handy_pds65_petrol_chipper_shredder.aspx?ptm_source=google&ptm_medium=shopping&ptm_campaign=75to100_DD17146D&campaign=358074140&adgroup=71355493841&keyword=&gclid=CjwKCAiA1rPyBRAREiwA1UIy8L0upr1qUS_1XBeBl31AJVkrTCnXEGLwtbkv8NHpOR8CGitKX5z-BhoCn2oQAvD_BwE

 

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What would you blokes advise him to get? 

Edited February 19, 2020 by Gimlet

[Guest Gimlet]

Are Hyundai any good?

Hyundai HYCH6560 196 cc 60mm Petrol 4-Stroke Garden Wood Chipper Shredder » Product

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Edited February 19, 2020 by Gimlet

[Bolt]

33 minutes ago, Gimlet said:

A client has asked me to recommend a chipper/shredder for him. He's putting a lot of work my way so I want to try and help him out and give him good advise if I can......

 

What would you blokes advise him to get? 

 

 

Edited February 19, 2020 by Bolt

[dig-dug-dan]

Eliet will do all you want, but not cheap

[Dan Maynard]

I think there is a problem in what you are asking for really. Shredders which can take the leaves, roots, etc have to have blunt hammers so they don't get immediately blunt as they work, this makes the chipping performance terrible, the small chippers depend on razor sharp blades to drag in and keep the hp requirements down.

Seek out videos of Eliet or Bugnot chipping branches, but get a cup of cocoa ready first as you will soon be asleep.

Personally I would suggest he gets a wood chipper for the hedging and pruning, that Hyundai looks a bit small as 60mm capacity means it will struggle. Ideally get most hp he can afford which looks like 13hp, there is a raft of chinesium machines which are all basically the same at about 1200 to 1500. Jansen Rock Hyundai etc

Put all the leaves in the compost with the chip, no real need to shred them anyway.

[PeteB]

To be honest, with a grand to spend? He has to get real! He ought to spend more than that on something to do the proper job

[peds]

Please don't laugh too hard at this question... but has anyone got a favourite electric chipper they can recommend? 

The options are all fairly small, I know...

[doobin]

What Dan said. The 13/15HP Chinese type will be fine for what he wants. It'll keep him busy snedding nasty thorn so it actually feeds but unless he spends pro money on a pro machine with feed rollers, that's going to be the case with all small chippers.

[Guest Gimlet]

Thanks chaps. I'll pass all that on. 

A small wheel-around chipper isn't something I'd have a use for so I had no idea what to advise.

 

My local garden machinery workshop has recommended a garden tractor tow-behind 11.5 hp DR chipper, which is £2000. 

 

I guess he's got to work out how much he's really going to use the thing.

[doobin]

I wouldn't pay the extra for a DR chipper. The garden machinery places just recommend what they sell, and they exist solely for customers like yours..... Briggs engines are no better than a Chinese honda in my experience, probably less reliable all told. That design looks a bit dated too- a top chute makes it possble to chip into bins etc.

Edited February 20, 2020 by doobin