Chipper powered by Plutonium!

[tommer9]

Those chuck and duck bandits are pretty impressive...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8TkTpiLbcs]YouTube - ‪Bandit - conventional-drum-chippers‬‏[/ame]

[tommer9]

I reckon that they are chipping something really spikey, which is why they are handling it so gingerly. At 2.28 you can see that the material isnt actually being chipped- in the back of the truck is an unchipped bit! No wonder going through at that speed.

[Taupotreeman]

Yep, I use an old chuck and duck. 6 Cylinder 4.1 ford petrol engine so just a baby. Will take up to 8 inches if needs be and we can't feed it fast enough. Those guys in the first vid are just playing about with it. You're better off feeding nice long limbs in to give you a chance to get another branch ready. Small stuff is a pain in the backside cos it's gone in a flash. Not sure if that was a shovel they were using; we were always taught to use a wooden tool to shove smaller stuff through rather than leaning into the hopper, for blindingly obvious reasons. The chipper cost me less than a third of the price of a bandit and does the job just fine. Easy to fix too because there's no hydraulics etc. You should see the V8 versions they use in the US.

[Lumberjack Pad]

Yep, I use an old chuck and duck. 6 Cylinder 4.1 ford petrol engine so just a baby. Will take up to 8 inches if needs be and we can't feed it fast enough. Those guys in the first vid are just playing about with it. You're better off feeding nice long limbs in to give you a chance to get another branch ready. Small stuff is a pain in the backside cos it's gone in a flash. Not sure if that was a shovel they were using; we were always taught to use a wooden tool to shove smaller stuff through rather than leaning into the hopper, for blindingly obvious reasons. The chipper cost me less than a third of the price of a bandit and does the job just fine. Easy to fix too because there's no hydraulics etc. You should see the V8 versions they use in the US.

 

V8 powered chipper! I've thought about sticking a v8 on various things for a laugh, but that I would have to see!

 

Never heard about these chuck and duck thingies. How do they not eat themselves when big lumps are going through?!

[Taupotreeman]

You get used to what they can and can't do but generally they have plenty of grunt. Mine will take a 25 foot chunk of Oak six inches through at the butt end no worries and it's 16 years old. When I worked in Oz we'd have competitions to see who could through the longest chunk of wood through but it ended up that you couldn't lift a bit big enough to stall the thing. If you try and put something too wide through it spits it back out at you. There's heaps of V8 drum chippers for sale in the US for next to nothing but most people I know don't like using them because they are percieved as dangerous. Most drum chippers have heaps of torque so will chew up whatever you throw at them. Poplar, Birch and Gum are especially good.