Large cheap chipper - but what machine is it exactly?

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

wood chipper / shredder on eBay (end time 12-Mar-10 09:13:06 GMT)

[combined tree services]

that looks like one of the earlt tp road tow chippers john

[Peter]

Dont think its a TP, there arent many firms that made screw feed machines.

[salcey1]

I think the machine in question is a sasmo chipper which works by means of a cork screw blade which has a built up weld the machine will not have feed rollers as the spiral blade pulls it in,very good for cord wood but thorn apple etc would need a lot of snedding prior to chipping also the sharpening has to be spot on and the correct angle.

[skyhuck]

Yes I would say Sasmo.

 

They make chip the size of big lumps of coal, you can shovel it onto your fire.

 

The one I tried had no blade, the screw cut most of the way though and then a lump of steel on the flywheel batted the end off.

[PeteB]

I only know of two makes of "screw" chipper, Sasmo and Laimet. They absorb horsepower and make big chips which they use in Scandinavia for both biofuel and cattle bedding.