The Wee Chipper Club

[Dilz]

True that, tbh I have never even looked at the battery on the wee chipper, worst case scenario would be then having to  having to push the thing about and then use the pull start on the motor like some un-evolved backwater savage. 

[Dan Maynard]

I have an M500 which moves itself around anyway using hydrostatic drive. Haven't put a winch on but have used it as an anchor point for pulling tops over with 3:1 pulley setup.

 

Think I saw Haeksler have an electric third wheel version which adds assist for slopes, it's not powerful enough to drive the chipper up much but certainly makes it easier. The owner was saying trouble with hydrostatic drive is just the cost. Presumably that charges off the engine somehow?

[Dilz]

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These are the dutch ones - They do models with a winch and even with hydraulic drive to the wheels, which my ever expanding waist line likes the sound of... other wise fairly generic design. 

[Dan Maynard]

33 minutes ago, Dilz said:

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These are the dutch ones - They do models with a winch and even with hydraulic drive to the wheels, which my ever expanding waist line likes the sound of... other wise fairly generic design. 

Yeah Haeksler, that's the chap. I would suggest this is not a generic design, but rather this is the one which the generic chippers have chosen to copy - Haeksler have been making them for quite a few years now.

 

Really exciting to see those new models, I demoed one at APF maybe 5 years ago and they are really nicely built but the reason I hung out for JoBeau was the hydraulic drive - up until now they were the only people to do it.

[osku]

I have run haeksler now about 2 years and if I should buy chipper now it would be some thing else. Its good machine but not worth of that price. Bad weldings and just not designed to end. Our has 18hp brigs and that destroys its own piston after 65hours of use..... Original spark plug just breaks and drop on cylinder head and after that it was done. Also the blades are little bit over priced imo. I think it is the same chinasium chipper what is just tuned in Europe and put some accessories to it.

[doobin]

2 hours ago, osku said:

I have run haeksler now about 2 years and if I should buy chipper now it would be some thing else. Its good machine but not worth of that price. Bad weldings and just not designed to end. Our has 18hp brigs and that destroys its own piston after 65hours of use..... Original spark plug just breaks and drop on cylinder head and after that it was done. Also the blades are little bit over priced imo. I think it is the same chinasium chipper what is just tuned in Europe and put some accessories to it.

I've been saying this all throughout this thread. They are all the same drum unit from China, these companies (Skarper too) just stick a totally superfluous stop bar on it so that it looks like a roller fed chipper, add a Briggs engine, then charge literally five times the price and make a big thing out of 'stafety features' and the 'proven engine'

 

Briggs engines are indeed proven- proven to be wank rubbish. The only people who still say proudly, 'It's a Briggs' are those who also wax lyrical about their Stanley tape measure and their Spear and Jackson spade. All crap riding the very last of the wave of a once good name.

[Ty Korrigan]

On 14/06/2022 at 09:46, doobin said:

 

Briggs engines are indeed proven- proven to be wank rubbish. The only people who still say proudly, 'It's a Briggs' are those who also wax lyrical about their Stanley tape measure and their Spear and Jackson spade. All crap riding the very last of the wave of a once good name.

Funny that, I've had a very troublesome Vanguard and now a new Stanley chalkline that that keeps snapping.

My life is one roller coaster of disappointments...

[Dilz]

On 13/06/2022 at 18:15, doobin said:

Sounds like a good idea. You wouldn’t need a crazy large winch, so the starter battery might be OK. 

So been eyeing up fitting the winch to the front - My chipper is the generic design - almost identical to the GTM. Reckon it should be easy enough (having near bugger all fabrication experience...) to cut out the metal under the hopper near the base for the wire and mount the winch on a bit of box thats part of the frame which sits infront of the battery - Its a 12v 18A battery - Reckon it should be able to run the winch for getting it up and down ramps into the side of the van or back of the trailer and up steps occasionally - so long as it gets a good run before being winched again - failing that there is always the pull start.   Cheapest ATV winches I've found are about 65 - 80 quid  and it looks like they should fit perfect across under the hopper. They pull just under 1t on paper so should manage the wee chipper easy...   Ive already bodge a jockey wheel for the front so if I have a third ramp in the middle I won't even need to lift it, and just mount the control on the handle. 

 

Will just add - I don't won't the winch to be just attached to the front as I won't be able to load the chipper side on  in the van or trailer and reckon it will look neater tucked away. 

Edited June 26, 2022 by Dilz

[Dilz]

[Dilz]

Finally got around to fitting the winch. Ended up sticking it on the front for ease of getting to the drum release. Cut a hole in the front to recess the winch as much as possible and tefuce how much it sticks out by about 1.5". Made a base plate out of 2mm plate and bolted it to the frame then mounted the winch on this. Ended up having to rewire the controller so the wires were long enough to reach the winch and had to switch the cable round on the drum which was the biggest faff.  i completely bodged one of the mounts  so its a little skew but it works well enough on its test run on the flat. Not sure how far i can move the machine with its little 18ah battery and still start it but if its an issue there is plenty of space to attach a bigger battery or a seperate one. Some point will give it the proper test of winching up the ramps onto the tipping trailer.