New Chipper

[jose]

5 hours ago, Moose McAlpine said:

 

The TW230s are a good machine but riddled with issues and rattle themselves to bits.

funny ive heard this aswell but my 230 which was one of the first (touch wood) has never had a weld go or anything else like that in over 4 years of hard work. 
Same with the 125 i had before that.

Have i just been lucky? 

[Al Cormack]

funny ive heard this aswell but my 230 which was one of the first (touch wood) has never had a weld go or anything else like that in over 4 years of hard work. 
Same with the 125 i had before that.
Have i just been lucky? 

Same here Jose. My 230 is 5 years old this month, and has not let me down once [emoji1360]

[mtt.tr]

have you got to undo the chute adjuster to lower the chute?

 

 

we had a timberwolf then the chap who left bought a greenmech was lovely 

[s o c]

3 minutes ago, Al Cormack said:

 

Same here Jose. My 230 is 5 years old this month, and has not let me down once

 

 

14 minutes ago, jose said:

funny ive heard this aswell but my 230 which was one of the first (touch wood) has never had a weld go or anything else like that in over 4 years of hard work. 
Same with the 125 i had before that.

Have i just been lucky? 

Same here. 
did look at Greenmech but no comparison in the way 230 can pull in branches.

[5 shires]

1 hour ago, mtt.tr said:

have you got to undo the chute adjuster to lower the chute?

 

 

we had a timberwolf then the chap who left bought a greenmech was lovely 

No it just breaks from we’re you can see about 12”/13” above that.

Edited December 24, 2020 by 5 shires

[mtt.tr]

1 minute ago, 5 shires said:

No it just breaks from we’re you can see about 21”/13” above that.

 thats good,they worked it out properly looks pukka

[Rich Rule]

The thing is you only ever really hear about the bad issues out there.  If some one is happy with a brand or particular machine they don’t really shout about it.

 

Plenty bash TW 230.  I have used quite a few different ones.  We have heard the stories but never experienced the issues myself.  
 

Plenty go on about the Forst, same again, I have used ST8’s pretty much solid or the last3  years.  Owning one myself and one of the guys I work with a lot, has one.   Neither has missed a beat and will pretty much out chip equivalent models on a daily basis.

 

The main brand I have used and haven’t really had great experiences with have been Greenmech.  But then they have been hire machines and not worth the cost of the diesel to run them, extremely slow at chipping and having to reverse the rollers a lot to get bit to go through.  No doubt just because the feed rollers need touching up as they were hire machines.

 

Take everything with a pinch of salt.
 

Horses for courses really.  

[allseasons]

We have a greenmech and its amazing and will be buying naother at the end of next year service is outstanding from peteb and jasehutch and for that reason i will buy another one but like you say everyone has different experiences and most of the time it is down to how they are looked after i think imo

[5 shires]

1 hour ago, mtt.tr said:

 thats good,they worked it out properly looks pukka

Yes it does look good and the offset infeed hopper and rollers are a good idea...haven’t used it yet but will give an honest opinion on how it works.

 

 

[josharb87]

7 hours ago, Scottish Cleaning Service said:

Aye, I bought a TW 13/75 one at £3.6k and its great but what a jump to £20k for TW230 one, nice mark up for an extra blade. 🙄

3,6k for a machine with the features of a 13/75 is bloody expensive IMO. Give the industry a few years and you’ll look back and understand
 

17k inc vat for that new greenmech is pretty good value. Over here that’d easily be be 22-24k plus 25% vat.

 

hope it serves you well