Urgent Jensen Failure Check yours ASAP

[Kev Stephenson]

Throwing a bucket of soapy water and sponge around the machine once a week/month will give you a chance to visually examine the externals, greasing and blade changing is all well and good but is only half a maintenance check.

 

If I was a Jenson rep coming to check this I would immediately think neglect compared to a nice clean machine

[Treegeek]

Just putting it out there as it could have ended been a whole lot worse.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

hard 300hrs

 

What he said.

 

Don't tell me that filthy chipper is well maintained; the dirt on that chipper is a disgrace

[Gareth Dalzell]

Throwing a bucket of soapy water and sponge around the machine once a week/month will give you a chance to visually examine the externals, greasing and blade changing is all well and good but is only half a maintenance check.

 

If I was a Jenson rep coming to check this I would immediately think neglect compared to a nice clean machine

 

If we had a machinery rep making comment on a bit of dirt on our machines being the reason why a major component failed I think I'd chase them out of our yard. Yes it;s nice to keep machines clean but it's not reason for them failing, only a means of observing a fault.

Treegeek is simply passing on his experience and for that I appreciate his information

[Steve Bullman]

dont take the comments to heart treegeek....thanks for posting.

 

a similar thing happened to my jensen 518......but they have a very different chassis design which to be honest looks like its asking for trouble. im surprised to see this happen to your model.

[MaxJ]

I have to agree with K S. That crack looks like its been there for sometime judging by the rust. By giving it a good powerwash/sponge off you may have seen it even sooner.

 

I would love to own one of those, if I did it would be cleaned off daily like my little CS100 is!

[jpbeaver]

Looks like this thread is going the same way as the snapped wire strop thread.

Thanks for the heads up, I'm sure there will be plenty of people checking there chippers over tomorrow.

[Lyn Ed]

i hired a 3 ton digger off my mate today but the cab was a bit dirty and it had mud on the tracks so i think it must have been poorly mentained!

[Ian Leach]

Here you go

[Kev Stephenson]

If we had a machinery rep making comment on a bit of dirt on our machines being the reason why a major component failed I think I'd chase them out of our yard. Yes it;s nice to keep machines clean but it's not reason for them failing, only a means of observing a fault.

Treegeek is simply passing on his experience and for that I appreciate his information

 

I agree but that is more than a bit of dirt, that's months worth. All I am saying is you cannot say the machine is well maintained and looked after when it looks like that. Swapping the blades every week isn't always necessary if the machine is only doing a few hours chipping a week. If I dip the oil on the truck every week but do nothing else does it make it well maintained? A wash off every so often will show up areas of rust etc which are sometimes the precurser to a failure.