New chipper time..

[TheTreeWrangler]

Hi all   ...    

 

Im new to posting in the forum, tho have gained a lot of useful info in the past from here.. was hoping to get a little advice on some chippers from some more seasoned guys ..   

 

I run a small part time tree business, only modest  but the time has come that we need to upgrade from our old faithful gravity fed chipper, we have put this off for a while now..  

 

looking at buying second hand,  our budget is around 8K,  we have seen some nice looking fully refurbished TW150's and we have seen a few Forst ST6 for much the same price..   both look like they would do what we need, I'm guessing the ST6 is better and much newer, but would a fully refurbished TW150 be a better buy? that a STW with around 1000 hours on it..     ? 

 

any thoughts and experience on these would be great and much appreciated ..

[Steve Bullman]

The Timberwold 230's have been out a few years now, im sure there must be something out there within the 8k budget? Its a whole different animal to the old 150

[TheTreeWrangler]

this is what I thought, the ST6 was much inline with the Tw230 ..   which is why I was thinking a Tw150 at 8k is on the higher side ..    

 

[AHPP]

Forsts are shit. 150s are good. 230s are great.

[Mick Dempsey]

The 150s are crazy money for such an old chipper.

Forst can be a lottery, cheap for a reason.

230s are superb.

 

[TheTreeWrangler]

oh..     I know the paint flakes off a fair bit, can you tell me more ..   thanks .. 

[openspaceman]

I was more forestry  than arb and retires 8 years ago but did use small chippers on arb jobs; Forst have an aggressive feed but poor reliability reputation, 150s were my favorite, never got to use 230.

[TheTreeWrangler]

the TW230 im only seeing them around 12K ..  which is more than we had budgeted for ..  

[Mick Dempsey]

5 minutes ago, TheTreeWrangler said:

the TW230 im only seeing them around 12K ..  which is more than we had budgeted for ..  

agreed, you need that sort of money for a decent one

[AHPP]

Timberwolf 125 and 190 are both good too. 125 light to move around. 190 will make you look at the job a different way coming from a gravity feed.