New chipper time..

[AHPP]

Don't worry. He'll have found your posts.

[woody paul]

150 diesel as they run Kubota, early 125 ran Kohler 23hp then switched to Honda they bought engines in bulk and what is cheapest at the time. 

Refurbished can mean anything, lick of paint covers up rust, 

If you can push to £10k you should get something. 

[parkertrees]

Theres no such thing as a chipper that's too big for the job,

 

just too big for the jobsite.

 

engine wise Kubota V1505 are great. 

 

TW150 are solid machines but the bearings are a constant battle, and theyre not exactly going to set the world alight chipping wise

[TheTreeWrangler]

hi all thanks for the replies some useful info ..     Im still on the fence which way to go, but going to have to make a decision soon ..  

 

been thinking ..   if the prices of a TW150 was cheaper then id be happy with that, but seems like a lot of money for an old machine , tho I have found someone who sells them fully refurbished ,  Have seen a fair few Forsts now, some scruffy looking ones, but cheaper than the TW230 about the same price as TW150 ..    I have been looking at some TW230 and I prob could stretch to around 10k  

 

Something id like to ask is there much init between petrol and diesel ?  what would you pick and why ..?  

 

thanks ..  

[TheTreeWrangler]

the above post was from early on, forgot to press the button...  

 

anyway , im going to look at a TW230 this week, has around 800 hours and looks ok from the photos , it was this or a Forst st6 which was a lot cheaper 

 

what to look out for, any one of two things ..  I know engines  

[MattyF]

I would go diesel over petrol any day of the week, they just chip better, petrol seems to lack torque. 
as said you can’t go wrong with the kubota v1505 in most chippers and pretty bomb proof.. only problem I’ve ever had with one and I’ve had 8 machines with them in is once had to do the crank seals on one machine. 

[GA Groundcare]

We have a nice GreenMech Quadchip 160 for sale. £7,500 + VAT. Ok it won't perform like an ST6 or TW230 but it has the benefit of a turntable.

[Mick Dempsey]

On 06/08/2025 at 15:59, Tree monkey 1682 said:

Coming from someone who changed career later on in life ..need i say more ...yeah I'm sure i don't know much about arboriculture ,only my first placement was when I was 13...I was using a chipper back then ..an entec 35 , some of the machines now built are 💩  built down to a price like everything ... but I'm sure you know best I'm always wary of people who change careers midlife ,or try and re invent themselves...me I'm neither...but European stuff is built better than British stuff ,in the way of chippers .

What do u want to know mick? Drop the bitchy carpy attitide first .

Everything is built to a price.

 

If you’d said the 150/230 was built to a weight, thereby compromising it’s build quality you might have made me doubt my conviction that you are a phony. 
 

Coupled with your addiction to the triple ellipsis means that Botty Cough has reappeared.  
Welcome back Walter Mitty!
 

Edited 8 hours ago by Mick Dempsey

[Tree monkey 1682]

1 hour ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Everything is built to a price.

 

If you’d said the 150/230 was built to a weight, thereby compromising it’s build quality you might have made me doubt my conviction that you are a phony. 
 

Coupled with your addiction to the triple ellipsis means that Botty Cough has reappeared.  
Welcome back Walter Mitty!
 

All of the new stuff was built down to a  price, one of the tw 150s locally had alloy vanes on the back of the flywheel, compared to the entec chippit 35 dh ,which was identical,  then u had issues with the bearings .

Then another associate had the early tw 150 tracked and it wouldn't hold on the hill (tracked version) shit hydraulics .

Tw 160 ph , is the new entec ch25 built with a decent kohler engine the were built well.

Then timberwolf brought out the same model as the tw 125  but available in petrol or diesel varients , diesel was lombardini  and shook it self to shit ,but with a single feed roller .

Then the was the 12 inch chipper, road tow but they were dropped, 

U had the tw240 but that's been stopped ,and the small shredder that's been stopped now .

That's timberwolf that I know  want me to go on about greenmech , quick chip/ts , tp lindana, pezzolato .

Surprised being in France your not pushing saelen.

Got to stop the slagging off its not clever and is poor form, just got admit other people sometimes have better knowledge about equipment and that's been gained over years and other people setups or business's. 

 

Edited 6 hours ago by Tree monkey 1682
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[Mick Dempsey]

Tell me about Pezzolato Walter.