Kind of review for tracked wood chipper SZ130

[green heart]

1 hour ago, covex said:

 

So far it's working and saving effort to make smaller branches and feed every piece manually but hey, the larger branches it can consume are heavy too...

 

 

It looks fairly slow operating in the video, only chipping a 2/3'' diameter branch -can you not increase the feed-in speed any more?

Also, I thought that the internal grill could be removed, to give a larger chip size? 

Not too impressed -I guess it's only powered by a 13hp engine tho.

🤷‍♂️

 

[covex]

Yes, its 13hp, the branch that was in there is cca 10cm diameter (4"). but you are right the end of the branch was thinner.... It can have a higher feed speed, but for this diameter it's having problem to discharge the chips and clogs because the RPMs slows down too much (nostress stops feeding but RPM drop anyway) - its visible on the video. I may try to fine-tune the nostress RPM low limits (its possible to set on this machine). 

I am yet to try to remove the internal grill...

Edited 3 hours ago by covex

[green heart]

1 hour ago, covex said:

Yes, its 13hp, the branch that was in there is cca 10cm diameter (4"). but you are right the end of the branch was thinner.... It can have a higher feed speed, but for this diameter it's having problem to discharge the chips 

16 hours ago, covex said:

 

 

Thanks for your correction -I didn't realise it was actually a 10cm thick branch .

So, that's actually quite good productivity, for a machine powered only by a 13Hp engine..

When I quizzed the Carlisle agents, they were insistent that their bigger 25Hp engine unit made no discernable difference to chipping performance, only to tracking speed up an incline.

Hence they would only now sell the 13Hp engined units.

 

Perhaps I'd better get up to Carlisle, to test out the demonstration unit.

 

Edited 2 hours ago by green heart
Afterthought!