Cougar in its natural environment

[Gareth Dalzell]

Here's our latest bit of kit - verging on the Wee chipper club territory. Second hand with 26hrs on the clock - mint condition. 4" capacity 17hp diesel. Apologies to anyone who was expecting photos of any other type of Cougars:biggrin:.

[John Hancock]

Bugger! – Wasn’t expecting pictures of tractors and chippers...

[skyhuck]

Is it a chipper or a shredder??

[Gareth Dalzell]

Is it a chipper or a shredder??

 

Bit of both. It has a drum with two sets of 3 square hammer flails and then 2 blades like a chipper which are 210cm across their cutting face. The theory is when the materials too heavy for the flails they get pushed back and the blades take over. It explains it on the Saelem website a bit better, but I must admitt it wasn't until I took the cutting chamber inspection plate off and had a look that I realised what they were on about. A gutsy wee machine. We've hired the bigger ones before and we have a Schiesling ZX200 PTO tractor chipper for off road work, but needed something that was handier for smaller pruning jobs and hedges etc when the materials not so clean or woody. (I have the spares in the office - the picture might aid my poor description) Output material seems well chopped and hammered - should aid its breakdown for mulching purposes

Edited April 7, 2010 by Gareth Dalzell

[Stephen Blair]

now that looks good mate, looking forward to your feed back maybe even some pics and a video would be great

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

That looks really cool! What's the speed and chip throw like?

[arbclimber]

Thats an impressively large blade for such a little machine.

 

Stevie, I know what you are thinking and no, your wee chipper doesn't need a slightly bigger sister. I know it looks good but, YOU DONT NEED ONE.

[Gareth Dalzell]

That looks really cool! What's the speed and chip throw like?

 

The chip throw is powerful. The feed speed is good up to about 2 1/2" then the load sensor slows the feed roller. The spout is a little under 6ft at discharge height so it wouldn't fire over a high hedge/fence or into a high sided trailer, but it does fire it almost as well as our bigger chipper. Had it out today again (in fact we've had it out every day since we got it!) New toy syndrome:thumbup:

[Gareth Dalzell]

Thats an impressively large blade for such a little machine.

 

Stevie, I know what you are thinking and no, your wee chipper doesn't need a slightly bigger sister. I know it looks good but, YOU DONT NEED ONE.

 

The blade is also 2cm thick - it is truely mega for such a small machine. Exact dimensions are 200mm x 60mm x 20mm. Even if the machine calves tomorrow I'll be able to make a good axe out of the blades:lol: