Unimog U900. How many of you use them?

[tommer9]

Big chippers for serious conny bashing....wasted wood on anything else IMO.

[njc110381]

I've got a shed full of Thuja at the moment. I do wish some days that I'd chipped it, but then it's better than no wood at all!

 

The odd shaped limbs comment is very true. The less trimming up you can get away with the better I guess. Compared to my gravity feed anything with a roller is good though! Gravity feeds are great for connifer, hazel, ash etc is great but it takes an eage to get even a half grown hawthorn bush through it. Drives me mad some days, it'd be better off eating it I recon!

[Stephen Blair]

a firewood set up is cheap compared to a tree surgery set up, so if you are running a squad with loads of work, the profir from getting through loads of jobs in a day far exceeds firewood, firewood is a bonus. i gave away all my wood and chip for over 10 years, even if the demand was there i had too many tree jobs to do and wages to pay. big chippers have the power to drag through some ugly conifer and hoorible shaped stuff

[combined tree services]

i find that big chippers are great , just because you have a 12 inch chipper it does not mean you have to feed that size timber through it , but when you get called out in the middle of the night to a fallen tree blocking the road then the big chipper comes into its own , and yes for awkward shaped branches etc i would much rather have a big chipper to save trimming it out. but i can see your points as well

[Stephen Blair]

i remember filling my big chip box with one stem, it was a 10 inch thick conny, must of been about 70 feet long and bushy as anything, it had grown up under loads of big beech, i put £200 plus vat on it, i felled it and winched the base away and got it on the deck, reversed the chipper right to it and 3 of us got it into the hopper and i reversed onto it, it took about 2 minutes to go through with a bit of wrestling and reversing to get the brush through. quickest £200 i eve rmade lol

[njc110381]

A tree company local to me did something very similar a few years back. It's what started off my love of unimogs! They did exactly the same, slightly smaller conny and chipper perhaps? I was sitting in my Fiesta eating a sandwich and watching them back the Mog onto the tree. I remember being quite impressed by the no-stress on the chipper taking a bit then revving up again, over and over until the whole thing disappeared. They weren't there ten minutes!

 

At the time I had an MTD Lawnflite 2" chipper shredder which would just about go in the boot of my 1.1 Fiesta so you can imagine how impressed I was. It would have taken me a week to sort that lot out!

[tractorboy1]

At the time I had an MTD Lawnflite 2" chipper shredder which would just about go in the boot of my 1.1 Fiesta so you can imagine how impressed I was. It would have taken me a week to sort that lot out!

 

I had 1 of those MDT chipper when I first started gardening they were useless

[combined tree services]

well if it cheers you all up i was reversing the mog today with 2 guys wathcing me reverse back untill i hit a tree in the woods and bent the chip box door - 3 hours later loads of hammering and a new section of ally chanel and its all ok again . oh and the tp760 really is a pile of shite , im now thinking about getting a 10 inch kwick chip

[njc110381]

Sorry to hear you bent up your chip box buddy. Those two watchers need a kick up the arse by the sound of things! As for the TP760, if it's that shite do you want to swap it for my entec trukloder?

 

MTD chippers are classy if all you want to do is chip old bamboo canes and rose prunings. In a domestic setting they're great to turn woody material into compostable sized bits. I used to like the little bag that went with it. You could fit about two buckets of chip in there before it needed emptying!

 

It's interesting to hear how many of you use Mogs. It seems they either have a fan club or a wouldn't touch one with a pole club.

 

If you take them as what they are, a £100k new tool that's complicated and will be expensive to fix then you wont go far wrong. If you expect them to run for the same money as your Ford Ranger then perhaps you expect too much for too little outlay?

 

I'm hoping mine wont cost me too much when I get it, but who knows? I'll soon find out I guess! That's why I'm going for a cheap old one, because you can get cheap old spares!

[Stephen Blair]

not good cts, the joys of moging and dopey staff. kwick chip arent that great from what i have heard, you might aswell compliment the mog with a descent chipper to make the most of it. now tp, thats a good make:001_rolleyes: