Shire chippers. Any good?

[njc110381]

I've just been looking on Ebay at PTO chippers and there is one on there for £1395 new! It's marketed as a Shire? I've seen other listings for the same price so it's not a typo.

 

I have several thoughts on this but at that price it must be made of plastic! Has anyone used one of these things? It chips 6" (roller fed) and weighs 370kg, so isn't that light. I just get the feeling that if you sneeze on it something will fall off? It looks good but it's just too cheap!

[bushy]

You get what you pay for mate. If it's too good to be true it will be, cheap import, probably not hse approved.

[Johny Walker]

chinky crap ,stay away no chipper is going to be any good @ that price ,370 kg steel quality will be naff

[njc110381]

I've looked at a few PTO chippers and the two I like are the TP200 and the Timberwolf PTO150H. I wouldn't need any bigger than those.

 

I'll wait for a well used example of one of those to come along. My Trukloder seems to have lead quite a busy life before I had it and it still works perfectly (touch wood)!

[Johny Walker]

go for the tp:thumbup1:

[PeteB]

Go for the GreenMech:sneaky2:

[njc110381]

Just a thought, but a lot of these PTO chippers have a power range. I can understand the minimum power as with less they could stall but why a maximum? Is the no stress controlled by engine revs rather than the strain on the chipper? So if you were to run a 6" model on a 150hp Mog and feed it tough timber you could break it?

 

I think a tuned up U900 gives about 125hp. So allowing the loss of power through the PTO this will still be over 100hp? Can you get a shearing link or slip clutch to go on a PTO shaft so you don't overload small tools on big machines? The maximum power listed for most 6" chippers seems to be about 60hp?

 

The other answer is a bigger chipper but I don't want to hang too much weight off of the back. With a chipper and load of chip it must really strain the back axle so having a 1000kg+ 9" chipper on there isn't going to help such a small Mog!

[Brushcutter]

Stay away i think it would break quite easily. There are some PTO kwick chips on Earborist going for 2500-3000 quid at the moment. Apart from being a pig to clogg they are really good. We use one behind a Massy 390 on brash i'm yet to clog it, however it is a slightly more frequent occurance doing saw mill offcuts.