The Wee Chipper Club

[Stoatally]

15 minutes ago, Khriss said:

You have only to bash a few jobs out to make them pay and the simple design is not much looking after, put drawbar on it and/or bigger tyres, not heard of them being knicked much as the pro thieves  going fr towed chippers,  only blades in yr running cost.  K

That's what I was thinking. Easy to store, suited to little jobs, easy access anywhere.

[stewmo]

15 hours ago, Stoatally said:

Are all of the 'chinese' ones pretty similar or is there a 'preferred' one e.g. rock machinery, hyundai? I've got £2k for a chipper and I reckon anything decent like a TW tow behind at that price will be absolutely knackered.

 

It's for our plot, about an acre with a lot of trees and very woody shrubs that need a lot of work, plus possibly some small local reductions etc. Happy with sub 4" as the rest will stay for firewood.

I can vouch for the Hyundai one. Had it couple of years, paid itself off pretty quickly. 3 year warranty. Each tool has its niche, don't expect too much of it, but it gets there in the end. Genpower have been good for spares and any warranty issues.

[peds]

2 hours ago, andyk12 said:

@peds Hi Peds, have you put any more time on you're little blue chipper yet - looks like the sort of thing that I could do with so just wondering how its going?

 

 

Yo,

Still plugging away with it, it hasn't fallen apart yet. The discharge is annoyingly low to the ground, so I've taken to lifting it onto a pallet so I can get more through it before the pile of chip needs sorting. This wouldn't be an issue if I was firing it into a dedicated pile on hardstanding, as I intend to once the house is built, but at the moment I'm firing it into ton bags so I can drag it straight to the area that I'm mulching (location for future vegetable beds and polytunnel). I've removed the outer plate covering the discharge chute, as I'm fairly sure the manufacturers expect you to do, and it's a thousand times more efficient. There's also a rubber collar guarding the limb chute that lasted a couple of hours before it got dragged down into the chipper, it should have been taken off before I even used it.

It claims up to 10cm, it'll defintely do that if the bits are straight as a die, but the size and shape of the limb chute really wouldn't cope with anything a bit twisted at that girth.

 

I'd happily recommend it because after all the reading I'd done, it is defintely the biggest and most capable machine that was available at my price point, but it'll be interesting to see how long it lives. I'll get some more photos and video of it in action the next time I'm up there.

 

edit

The shredder up top asks for nothing chunkier than 1cm, but it seems to handle things a bit bigger just fine.

Edited January 29, 2021 by peds

[andyk12]

Thanks for the info Peds - sounds as though you're using it in a similar way/intensity to what I'm planning - not really "commercial" scale use but I've got quite a bit of my own stuff to do and wanted to use it to mulch around the veg patch, I'm not often going to be moving it that far, so I might just give one a go

 

thanks again, Andy

[Little188]

Hello chaps 

 

I'm in the position to purchase finally a mini chipper. I read this thread a lot and as a consequence a few more options have been thrown into the mix. As it stands I'm thinking Skarper t120, JoBeau M400/500 or this italian tracked thing. 

 

Would welcome your thoughts. It's important I can get it in the back of my Renault trafic SWB. The skarper i have Beene told by FRJones is smaller (in height) when the spout is off but that's it is a pig to do. Does this sound right. I know the jo beau is smaller in height which is good. In discussion with Global Recycling about one currently. How much roughly is the m500 vs 400? Finally this Italian job looks great with the tracks but I'm sceptical about the talk re limited parts holders and people to go to in the event of an issue. ..... cheers all 

[Will C]

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If yo don’t need the tracks I would also talk to @GA Groundcare and or @Pete B about the greenmech cs80 or 100. 

[GA Groundcare]

CS80 & CS100 both in stock here currently 😁

[peds]

On 29/01/2021 at 19:58, andyk12 said:

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I made a short time-lapse earlier of using the machine, but I can't upload it direct to here. I'll see if I can get it up elsewhere.

 

Anyway, if you are chipping nothing but soft and brittle goat willow all day, then this wee chipper works like a dream. Anything with a bit of bite like holly or hawthorn though, honestly I'm just going to snip it up and poke it under a hedge.  With no feed rollers, getting anything other than perfectly-prepped sticks in is a big of a physical affair. 

But big, straight sticks that you can wrestle into submission, she goes just fine. I've been dropping in 10cm logs and they get chewed up without the machine slowing down at all. 

It gives much smaller chip than bigger chippers, see photo of hand for scale. The chip will break down faster of course, meaning paths etc. will need to be topped up more often. 

 

I've gotten around the chip shitter being too low to the ground by using it on a pallet and shooting it into an old dustbin I found buried under the hedge, which then gets tipped into the wheelbarrow. Obviously this arrangement looks a bit too jonky for any professionals to consider, unless you can buy a fancy orange bin and shtick a Husqvarna logo on it or something.

 

Edited February 21, 2021 by peds

[Dan Maynard]

Hello chaps 
 
I'm in the position to purchase finally a mini chipper. I read this thread a lot and as a consequence a few more options have been thrown into the mix. As it stands I'm thinking Skarper t120, JoBeau M400/500 or this italian tracked thing. 
 
Would welcome your thoughts. It's important I can get it in the back of my Renault trafic SWB. The skarper i have Beene told by FRJones is smaller (in height) when the spout is off but that's it is a pig to do. Does this sound right. I know the jo beau is smaller in height which is good. In discussion with Global Recycling about one currently. How much roughly is the m500 vs 400? Finally this Italian job looks great with the tracks but I'm sceptical about the talk re limited parts holders and people to go to in the event of an issue. ..... cheers all 

I have the quick release spout on my M500, quick couple of clips and it's off. If you go Jobeau well worth having as if you get a job where it blocks it'll block again.

Global are good for parts, I think the 500 is a lot more cash but I would not want to have to go to pushing the chipper myself now.

[andyk12]

peds - thanks you for reporting back - a lot of the stuff I would need to chip is actually hawthorn, so you have done me a huge favour - is it the shape of the hawthorn that makes it such a problem or the "hardness"/texture of it?

Its a shame, because we really could have done with the mulch for our veg patch!

 

thanks again, Andy