The Wee Chipper Club

[tractorboy1]

With all the effort you saved thought you wold be doing the hovering

[MaxJ]

did i mention we didnt sweat either and were home for 2.30pm woop woop and managed to do a job for the nieghbour for an extra £100:thumbup:

 

Just the job!! I would have thought you would have had the Dyson in Gloria's colour!!

[ad15]

still going well max, check the thread i just started,,, it would be impossible to get a tow chipper in there,, the owner has a little tractor, will tow the greenie around and chip in situ saving me a 300 metre brash drag...

[Theocus]

The little greenmech being force fed some brash!!!!! they dont like dead wood thats for sure!!!

Got a few decals for mine last week too.

[Stephen Blair]

whacky whacky fingers, dead stuff isnt cool.

[MaxJ]

Right I think this is the week I make my bloody mind up and get my first chipper. I have to say thank you to Stevie and Ady for turning me away from a trailed bigger machine and join the Wee Chipper Club!! Steve yours is the 14hp version? Is the bigger engine worth it?

[Stephen Blair]

if it isnt any heavier then a bigger engine will be better i reckon, it can drag itself down when it is really sharp so you have to hold the brash back, we carried the little chipper over a wall and took away a 100m hellish drag yesterday, we must of chipped about 4 ton in 3 hours and that was horrible old rhoddy and holly, then in the afternoon 3 hours solid chipping 4 years growth on sycamore polards, all on 1 tank of fuel, the sycamores were averaging 3 inch stems 12 feet long, it never ceases to amaze me.

[MaxJ]

Thats unreal!

Right gonna get one this week me thinks. I have my CS38 training all week but will hopefully get it sorted before the weekend. Got a big conifer topping/trimming job over Bank Hol sun/mon so will need it for then. Have persuaded the client to keep everything!

[tommer9]

I am probably risking being shot down in flames here, but i cannot see the point in these chippers, because the 2 occasions i have had first hand use of them, once a JBm500, and once a greenmech like steve's/ AD15's, there was still a drag to the chipper, as on both occasions the chipper wouldnt fit any closer than a trailed machine, and i lent my groundy to someone with a greenmech and he still had to drag up to the car park. On top of that they are slower than a trailed machine, dont spit the chip into the back of the truck- okay on the job my groundie was on, but the chip had to be removed on the other 2 occasions, and the groundy each time was raking mountains of chip around the bed of the landy. Am i missing the point, or are they ONLY and advantage when there is npo chip to remove and you can put the machine under the hedge/ tree that you are cutting. I just dont get it?

TBH i found them to be a TOTAL pain in the proverbials.

[Stephen Blair]

its very easy to make these little chippers frustrating and slow, it is all the preperation of brash and how you present it to the hopper, mix the brash up, if you have some dead stuff chuck it in and then let some green stuff carry it through and get yourself a good set of loppers too. look forward to the pics