The Wee Chipper Club

[PeteB]

19 hours ago, Rough Hewn said:

I present "sticky"....
Cos she can only chip sticks and she likes to get stuck.
???
New blades might help.
Tested her on this today.
She performed very well though.

Ex hire machine?

[Rough Hewn]

Ex hire machine?

Yeah, the guy who I got it from bought it ex hire.
But it has just chipped that whole pile of crap leylandeii.
Fitted in the transit in 1 load too.
However it was a case of spoon feeding it.
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[Conor Wright]

Yeah, the guy who I got it from bought it ex hire.
But it has just chipped that whole pile of crap leylandeii.
Fitted in the transit in 1 load too.
However it was a case of spoon feeding it.
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Now bolt on a 24 hp Briggs, upgrade the bearings and you'll have a proper chipper like this one! No more spoon feeding.

[Rough Hewn]

Now bolt on a 24 hp Briggs, upgrade the bearings and you'll have a proper chipper like this one! No more spoon feeding.

Damn that's tempting[emoji848]

[PeteB]

Save up and get a GreenMech?

[Rough Hewn]

Save up and get a GreenMech?

That was the original plan.
Spoke with one of their guys end of last year, with a mind to get one in spring this year.....
So it's this for a while yet.
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[Dan Maynard]

Welcome to the club!

Sharp blades make all the difference.

I work on the theory a bit like a chainsaw or penknife, if you give it a light sharpen often then it keeps the edge and doesn't take much doing. I lift up the hopper and give it a rub with a diamond sharpening pad every few hours chipping (ie every few jobs). Leather gloves else I cut my finger (which I've done a couple of times). Yours is possibly already too blunt for this to work, could be worth whipping them out and having a go, but hand sharpening works best if you start with new ones and keep them sharp.

I also don't like chipping dead stuff, blunts too quickly, and am scrupulous about keeping brash clean.

But that's just me.

[harvey b davison]

I present "sticky"....
Cos she can only chip sticks and she likes to get stuck.
???
New blades might help.
Tested her on this today.
She performed very well though.


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That's a nice handy size, what make is it ?

[william127]

On 29/05/2020 at 22:18, Rough Hewn said:

I present "sticky"....
Cos she can only chip sticks and she likes to get stuck.
???
New blades might help.
Tested her on this today.
She performed very well though.

I like the look of that, exactly the same design as my Hyundai but with Honda Gx reliability??

[Rough Hewn]

That's a nice handy size, what make is it ?

It's a Jansen GTS1300
Think it's German.(might be Dutch).
Found the wide throat is really good.
It's a drum chipper which I've not used before, but it's doing ok.
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