TR8 woes.

[Khriss]

6 minutes ago, Stubby said:

 Crazy Germans ! There is a thing ! 😁

Indeed. 

 

 

 

K

[Stubby]

2 minutes ago, Khriss said:

Indeed. 

 

 

 

K

Cant beat black and white ...but how did they manage to get Stephen Hawking out of that wheel chair ?

[Khriss]

3 minutes ago, Stubby said:

Cant beat black and white ...but how did they manage to get Stephen Hawking out of that wheel chair ?

He was brilliant  in that, played three roles. Went a bit downstairs after.  K

[openspaceman]

5 hours ago, Stubby said:

Its the ability to make brash go to nothing that does it for me >   Then I would keep anything that looks like fire wood  . 

That's okay for little fellas doing a bit of domestic but the big commercial guys want to push as much through the chipper as possible and away without the bother of handballing shortwood onto the truck and having to sort it at the other end.

 

When I was last working in November with the geriatric Dosko I reckoned I would be faster snedding out everything to 4" and putting the shortwood into the truck but for the fact I would have to bend over and pick up small branchwood to throw in the chipper. Also throwing roundwood into the truck and chipping as you go gets more weight for the volume of truck. This latter not being of value in a 3.5 tonne chipper as you are always overweight in any case.

[Stubby]

7 hours ago, openspaceman said:

That's okay for little fellas doing a bit of domestic but the big commercial guys want to push as much through the chipper as possible and away without the bother of handballing shortwood onto the truck and having to sort it at the other end.

 

When I was last working in November with the geriatric Dosko I reckoned I would be faster snedding out everything to 4" and putting the shortwood into the truck but for the fact I would have to bend over and pick up small branchwood to throw in the chipper. Also throwing roundwood into the truck and chipping as you go gets more weight for the volume of truck. This latter not being of value in a 3.5 tonne chipper as you are always overweight in any case.

The big commercial guys would not have a Forst .

[skyhuck]

Unless the law has been changed in recent time, once you have allowed a manufacture or supplier to carryout repairs to a product, you cannot then demand a refund or replacement.

 

If a new product is faulty you can demand a replacement or refund rather than accept a repair, but once you accept a repair, your right to a refund is lost and must allow continuing repairs. 

 

Not very fair IMO. 

[lux]

The big commercial guys would not have a Forst .

Big commercial clearance work will tend to be 12inch plus so yes, that excludes most chippers talked about in this thread.

All the commercial line clearance and rail work is nearly all forst that I’ve seen around this way. They probably by 5 to 10 chippers at a time so no doubt forst give them a very attractive deal.

[Khriss]

2 hours ago, Stubby said:

The big commercial guys would not have a Forst .

Sadly, we did.... 😕  not that we bigEnormous.  K

[openspaceman]

3 hours ago, Stubby said:

The big commercial guys would not have a Forst .

Actually we had two of  the first tracked 6" Forsts  for getting across fields but I agree with where you are coming from. The 8" chippers are for putting bigger branches through for productivity as well as not having to tote so much roundwood.

 

I only used a TR6 and felt it fed in more aggressively than the the Jensens they replaced, We had some problems including return to Forst for repair but they had clocked up 400 hours by the time I left. We had the tracked 9" A430 Jensens too but they began to have big bearing life problems so went. We also had 5 safetrak 1928 which ran well but had major repairs following "contraries" damage  and a couple of Heizohacks.

 

The tracked machines basically chipped everything they could and left it on site, for which the 13" Heizohack excelled but and 4 tonnes involved transport logistics which meant it was not deployed as much as it should have been.

 

All the while the small tree gangs used an ancient pair of Greenmech 6" chippers, which the mechanic somehow kept working, and they would bring back mixed transit loads of chip and log wood even though for disposal purposes chip could have gone on the biomass heap. A bigger chipper would have suited better but none of the younger guys could tow bigger. I disposed of 3 decent Kwikchip and Entec chippers solely because they weighed more than 750kg

[Mrblue5000]

On 04/01/2021 at 09:18, lux said:

Big commercial clearance work will tend to be 12inch plus so yes, that excludes most chippers talked about in this thread.

All the commercial line clearance and rail work is nearly all forst that I’ve seen around this way. They probably by 5 to 10 chippers at a time so no doubt forst give them a very attractive deal.
 

How did things work out for you lux? Hope you got a good solution to the problem.