The Wee Chipper Club

[Rough Hewn]

Any Hyundai class chipper owners with over 300hrs on the clock?
Our CS100 has...
   Stuart

This is exactly what I'm wondering about.
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[Ty Korrigan]

Chinesium lustre is only as deep as the price is low...

   

[Rough Hewn]

But aren't all chippers produced in China?
I presumed it was only assembly in the uk?

[Jase hutch]

No , the GreenMech chippers are all completely manufactured at Alcester in the UK.

[Rough Hewn]

No , the GreenMech chippers are all completely manufactured at Alcester in the UK.

You make everything?
Castings, sheet work, electrics, hydraulics all from scratch?

[Jase hutch]

Within reason..

Designed in house , steel is laser cut , folded and welded and finally powder coated.

Obviously various components are brought in such as engines and hydraulic valves and motors. 

[doobin]

16 hours ago, PeteB said:

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!

You could pay brochure price. But let’s be realistic.  Even an ms880 is under a grand. So that’s almost four 880s. Call it a pair or 880s and a pair of 661s. Four big saws, not two as originally claimed.
 

unless... how much off the brochure price will you give off a cs80? 

[Cheesy pete]

3 hours ago, Ty Korrigan said:

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

Our CS100 has...

   Stuart

most of us have no real way of knowing how many hours as most don't come with a clock  unless your really anal  and look at your watch before and after firing the chipper up and then adding it to a log book ,most of us would just  be guessing but I would of thought as long as you don't have a catastrophic failure and you repaired and maintained it as you go you could get those  hours easily . I've had my Chinese generic chipper for 3 years and it was second hand when i got it  yes i have repaired it  and modified it as well . I expect to run it for a number of years as there's not alot to them and the spare parts are available from a british company   . even if the engine fails it's only going to cost me £300 for a new engine from them ...... not bad really as i only paid £700 for it originally  off flea bay 

 

[Ty Korrigan]

Nothing 'anal' about a Tinytach unless you use it for felching with your boyfriend.

Another aid to estimating hours would be the number of blades used.

  Stuart

 

[Khriss]

2 hours ago, Rough Hewn said:

You make everything?
Castings, sheet work, electrics, hydraulics all from scratch?

..... That Scratch is really useful stuff ? made a kennel from it once. K