Front mounted chipper on u900

[ACUF]

The beginning stages of chipper mounting. I have been maneuvering around, and cannot believe the high functionality the mog maintains, even the the protruding chipper. My counterweight does a great job of counterbalancing the weights as well. Still working on the reverser mount for the front.. Luckily, things are slow, and steady with my activities, and have the time.

 

Thanks for looking.

 

ACUF

[Stephen Blair]

nice one, i was wondering how you were getting on. looking great mate

[tommer9]

Looking neat mate. Thats an interesting(!) view from the drivers seat.

[Gareth Dalzell]

Yes, definitely the oddest of front views. Must put a couple of metres onto the front. Not one to take to the shopping mall!

[PeteB]

Blimey, that's an overhang. Nice one tho with the hot bucket as well. Do you have to move the front lights/indicators forward too?

[Stephen Blair]

it honestly makes very little diference having a chipper on the front of a mog when driving, strangely i prefered it than nothing at all.

[Arborist]

Do you have another truck to chip in to?

[ACUF]

Thank you all for the good encouraging words. Yeah, I can't believe the simplicity of operations, even with such a protrusion. At this stage I plan to chip into compost containers, or onto the ground. I will explain this in more detail once I have everything in place. I found that one of the feed wheels / hyd motors is not functioning properly, so another thing to fix.. otherwise, this same day I went and pressure washed the unit and chipper and it looks even better.. now to have it in service!!

 

Cheers!

 

ACUF

[Stephen Blair]

if you have the facility to remove chip off site, you will have too, if you dont and the customer wants YOU to be her contractor they will find a way to keep the chip.

[ACUF]

My method of removing my debris has been utilizing the cities recycling program for brush (bundled), and larger diameter bucked for firewood, which I have given freely to the public.

 

When I'm finished getting this together, the brush will be chipped into a container of the owners, or into a compost pile, etc. If they don't want the chips left on site, I will process them into 30gal leaf bags, and placed for city recycling.

 

I was considering a type of bin system, to allow for the self containing of the chips. I thought I could design something that would allow me to blow them over the cab, into a binning system that would be able to tip two ways, etc.

 

This is way down the line, and will be a very involved design, considering the lift being there..

 

ACUF