The Wee Chipper Club

[dan494]

What's the price of the 18hp one thesedays then as was only a few hundred more than that?

[PeteB]

59 minutes ago, dan494 said:

What's the price of the 18hp one thesedays then as was only a few hundred more than that?

List price of the 18hp is £4,730 plus vat.

[GlobalNewark]

Keep your eyes peeled for some enhancements & new models from Jo Beau in the near future, lots going on. [emoji106]

[Nikos Papadopoulos]

What size of a chip does your machine produce ?
Can the size be homogeneous ? 
Does the chip size has variables that it depends upon, such as type of wood, dry,soft etc ?

Edited October 19, 2019 by Nikos Papadopoulos

[Josh u a Tree]

2 hours ago, Nikos Papadopoulos said:

What size of a chip does your machine produce ?
Can the size be homogeneous ? 
Does the chip size has variables that it depends upon, such as type of wood, dry,soft etc ?

Not sure if you meant in general.... This is for our machines.

Shreds will deviate in size, from 1 x 1 cm to 2 x 3 cm. However, the thickness is evenly around 3 mm. I tested wood chips in my own wood-burning stove and the heat that was generated was amazing. You will have to use a modern wood stove with an efficiency of over 90%, otherwise the consumption is too high. 

Here's a picture of the chips.

Or have a look at my Instagram 'haeckslercompany'     
You will find a short video with chips, 2nd in line or so.  

Have a nice weekend

[TuscanPhil]

How do you dry/season the chips before you use them?  I have a JB300 and a 25KW biomass boiler for my home setup but if I can use my woodchips in the boiler (and internal 5KW stove of high efficiency) before my wife uses them for top dressing the flower beds, I'm all ears!

[doobin]

On 18/07/2019 at 20:58, Josh u a Tree said:

Sure 4k is a lot of money, but still just the equivalent of about two big chain saws.

In my days in tree care I was pretty prudent before investing as well, but buying a good small chipper really saved me a lot of time and effort.

 

You must be joking. Surely you mean four or five or six big chainsaws? 

[PeteB]

Last time I looked, you could pay brochure price of a couple of grand for a big saw! Our Loncin engined CS80 is £3,600 odd pounds!

[Rough Hewn]

I've staved off buying a wee chipper for a long time,
Won't be able to for much longer. But what I don't get is a Hyundai/Rock 14hp 4" is about £1500, whereas the cs80/100/m300/m400 etc is 3-4 times the price.
I've used the cs100 on various occasions and it's a solid bit of kit which holds a decent resale price.
Just can't understand why they are so expensive?

[Ty Korrigan]

Any Hyundai class chipper owners with over 300hrs on the clock?

Our CS100 has...

   Stuart