PTO chipper advice

[hilltownorganics]

Hello arbtalkers, just wondering if anyone could give us a bit of advice regarding small chippers. It's not for professional use, but for chipping small size branches (both green and dry) in our small market garden to make 1)ramial woodchip to compost and 2) woodchip for mulching our paths between veg.  We've looked at WoodlandMills WC68 6″ PTO Wood Chipper but aware is chinese made and maybe cheap steel(?) so a bit wary although there are loads of good revies online. I have read loads of the threads in here and looked at the often mentioned GreenMechs but these although not doubt better are outside our price range I think (difficult to actually find prices for them online). The WM WC68 is about £2,600 plus vat that's our limit really. Anything else we can look at or is it just no possible to get a new small pto chipper for under £3,000 for small scale use? We would consider 2nd hand if we were a bit more clue up on these or had some better mechanic skills but we don't so wanting the safety of guarantee that comes with new as had in the past bought 2 pieces of equipment 2nd hand only for it to malfunction shortly afterwards : (  We have an old mf 135 to run it from. Anyway, any info would be great, thank you!

[Khriss]

Any cheap 6" pto chipper will do that job. Just make sure blades are readily available an yr Massey will drive it (  1000rpm pto ?)  if yr not familiar with woodchippers  sharp blades are everything. A new one will at least have a guarantee and should last you several years on the volumes yr producing.. K

[hilltownorganics]

thank you Khriss. No, we are not familiar with woochippers really, good to know about blades, yes it looks like Woodland Mills sell extra blades aswell. Now regarding pto our massey is 540 not 1000rpm but I thought these machines were made to be used with compact tractors and would be ok with ours, are you saying it won't work? we run mower and other equipment from it, but never tried a chipper so don't really know...

[Jase hutch]

All GreenMech pto chippers are designed to operate at 540rpm.

[topchippyles]

Is this any good and a third of your price 

 

Tractor Power PTO Wood chipper / shredder BX42 , Black Tools UK brand

[hilltownorganics]

thanks for that info Jase; we are going to go and visit our local GreenMech dealer just in case but we think they may be outside our price, but good to know they are ok with 540rpm..thus looking at the woodlandmills but didn't realised this needed 100rpm til Khriss said..don't know what other options may be there for us..

 

[topchippyles]

 

Edited December 17, 2020 by topchippyles

[hilltownorganics]

2 minutes ago, topchippyles said:

Is this any good and a third of your price 

 

Tractor Power PTO Wood chipper / shredder BX42 , Black Tools UK brand

(sorry, only just worked out how to reply directly!) Wow, thanks topchippyles, that looks promising, will have a more indepth look...thank you!

[topchippyles]

Video above and you will get a full warranty with it.Seems to have a lot of punch for just over a thousand pounds machine.I know nothing about chippers just to add.

[hilltownorganics]

is there any difference if one is going to be chipping mainly green wood with branches/leaves rather than dried wood? in terms of what I should look for? just noticed this blacktools video and others i've seen only show straight and what looks like dried wood? not sure if it's a silly question but better check i thought..