New chipper time..

[Tree monkey 1682]

3 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

What were the two later offerings?

I've had alot of mates run entecs , timberwolfs ,gravely ,tp lindana ,jensen, pezzolato, greenmech , kwickchip .. alot of the tw machines have alloy fans to eject the chip..

The are alot of decent refurbished machines for under that budget ..its knowing what your looking for ...would nt buy tw probably not nor would I buy green mech.

I'd only buy European,  better built like ts,lindana ...the pezzolato I have is alot better built than the current machines .

And like it or not where I didnt come into the career later on in life ive seen machines come and go , all you want is a basic machine that's lightweight,that also you can unjam should it get jammed up...and basic so easy worked on.

Only reason the isn't more European machines is due to a price ..id need to look at what ever I purchase next ..ie spares 

But alot of machines are built down to a price now.....

 

[Mick Dempsey]

12 hours ago, Tree monkey 1682 said:

I've had alot of mates run entecs , timberwolfs ,gravely ,tp lindana ,jensen, pezzolato, greenmech , kwickchip .. alot of the tw machines have alloy fans to eject the chip..

The are alot of decent refurbished machines for under that budget ..its knowing what your looking for ...would nt buy tw probably not nor would I buy green mech.

I'd only buy European,  better built like ts,lindana ...the pezzolato I have is alot better built than the current machines .

And like it or not where I didnt come into the career later on in life ive seen machines come and go , all you want is a basic machine that's lightweight,that also you can unjam should it get jammed up...and basic so easy worked on.

Only reason the isn't more European machines is due to a price ..id need to look at what ever I purchase next ..ie spares 

But alot of machines are built down to a price now.....

 

There’s something that doesn’t add up with you. 
That post is the post of someone who doesn’t really know much about or has even used a chipper. 
My bet is you’re a certain banned member on about his 5th attempt to pass. 

[Mark Bolam]

I was wondering exactly the same thing Mick….

[AHPP]

Duh. 
 

Perhaps we should need ID for arbtalk. You need it for all the other websites. 

[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 ..  

[openspaceman]

15 minutes ago, TheTreeWrangler said:

Something id like to ask is there much init between petrol and diesel ?

Dunno but are there any petrol ones that don't use the B&S EFI engine that lots report problems with?

[AHPP]

The petrol Hondas on the 125 and 160 are great. The bigger ones (makes escape me) less proven. A couple of clients with the petrol 280 have had hot starting problems, some vapour locky kind of thing I think. The Briggs EFI gets a pasting from one guy in particular on here but I have heard of others with the same problem. 
 

The Kubota diesel that goes in everything is well proven. Mick said the engine code. 1505?

[AHPP]

34 minutes ago, TheTreeWrangler said:

tho I have found someone who sells them fully refurbished

The bloke in Hartlepool comes across well (been to his workshop) and has a fair amount of stock throughput, suggesting competence. But he’s in Hartlepool. I’ve never found anything else good in Hartlepool. It’s a place of quite extreme indifference. 

[Tree monkey 1682]

5 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

There’s something that doesn’t add up with you. 
That post is the post of someone who doesn’t really know much about or has even used a chipper. 
My bet is you’re a certain banned member on about his 5th attempt to pass. 

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 .

[Ty Korrigan]

4 hours ago, AHPP said:

The Briggs EFI gets a pasting from one guy in particular on here but I have heard of others with the same problem. 
 

 

If that is a reference to me, I've long moved on from the Efi saga and joined the Kubota V1505 club

However during that Efi period of woe I did make contact with several others experiencing the same or similar issues.

Everyone, like me, found the dealers to be less that satisfactory and ended up trading their Efi powered chipper in for diesels.

Costly move but the stress and uncertainty was just too toxic.

I notice the posts asking about problems have largely dried up, hopefully the updated 40hp Efi will prove to be more reliable.

I liked the Efi when it worked...