The Wee Chipper Club

[andyk12]

11 hours ago, Dan Maynard said:

If you can't find any, have you had them sharpened? Should be able to get some more life out of them. I don't know if you have anywhere locally but a few places will do postal service.

i had to blowtorch most the bolts to get the blades off so I think I'll have ruined the hardening on the blades, also had to grind a slot to get one of them out so overall blades are pretty knackered!

 

11 hours ago, PeteB said:

What happened to the folk you got it from?

I'm just waiting to hear from them.

 

thanks for the help chaps

[maybelateron]

If you have a diagram of the blades dimensions and angles there are plenty of firms who can make them for you.

[andyk12]

2 hours ago, maybelateron said:

If you have a diagram of the blades dimensions and angles there are plenty of firms who can make them for you.

This sounds like a good option.....

I did contact rotatech about having some blades made but the minimum order quanty pushes the price up to far more than the chipper is worth.

Any reccomendations for other firms to try?

 

many thanks

[spudulike]

6 hours ago, maybelateron said:

If you have a diagram of the blades dimensions and angles there are plenty of firms who can make them for you.

Probably the best suggestion and will probably be better than the Chinese ones.

I got some from [email protected] (JDnD Industrial Services) but it looks like they may not be trading now. I haven't used the blades yet but did test them with a diamond file and they were pretty hard matching their claims on being made from tool steel rather than mild steel or similar. Much cheaper than the originals as well.

There must be other small engineering companies able to make these blades, it is a pretty basic piece of engineering to them.

 

[spudulike]

Are these the ones: -

GTS2000LTE Chipper Blades Set of 2 - Blacktools

WWW.BLACKTOOLS.CO.UK

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Set of 2 blades to fit a black tools GTS2000LTE.

 

[andyk12]

14 hours ago, spudulike said:

Are these the ones: -

GTS2000LTE Chipper Blades Set of 2 - Blacktools

WWW.BLACKTOOLS.CO.UK

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Set of 2 blades to fit a black tools GTS2000LTE.

 

Unfortunately these are different……I think that they may be incorrectly listed.

when I bought the machine I also bought 5 sets of spare blades thinking that these would see the machine out, so I have 5 unused sets of the above!! (My fault that I didn’t check them at the time, which was a couple of years ago).

 

if the above blades are any use to anyone let me know😀

 

Thanks for the advice people 

[Nick703]

On 14/02/2025 at 14:39, andyk12 said:

This sounds like a good option.....

I did contact rotatech about having some blades made but the minimum order quanty pushes the price up to far more than the chipper is worth.

Any reccomendations for other firms to try?

 

many thanks

If you’ve got an old blade take it to Glyn at qrms,he’ll get some made for you,way cheaper than rotatech

[Mark Bolam]

Just use the slightly bigger blades.

 

It will make the machine more powerful.

[andyk12]

2 hours ago, Nick703 said:

If you’ve got an old blade take it to Glyn at qrms,he’ll get some made for you,way cheaper than rotatech

I'll get in touch with him, thank you!

[AHPP]

2 hours ago, Nick703 said:

If you’ve got an old blade take it to Glyn at qrms,he’ll get some made for you,way cheaper than rotatech

Oh aye. Chipper blades are a product you primarily want to be cheap. They go round at god knows what rpm, are subject to extreme violence from bits of tree jammed into them and rely on good, consistent, can’t-fail heat treating to not shatter and spray shrapnel fvckknows where. I’ll have the expensive ones please.