Bandit Chippers Any good????

[HRG Tree Services]

Ive been offered a bandit 65xl with 270 hours on it!

Does anybody have any info on them:

reliability

cost of parts and repair

etc.........

[tommer9]

Yes they among the best. Very well built in general, very reliable and parts easy to source through Global Recycling, probably others too.

[treequip]

Are they good?

 

NO

 

 

 

 

They are Superb, others may be confused and believe otherwise

[tomtrees]

I got the 65 xl or XP

 

Dont know what the diffrance between the XL and XP is.

 

Ive had it for about 2 months

 

Rollers block a lot with coniffer and dead wood but well priced for the chipper you get

[Jonny69]

Tomtrees,

 

Sounds like you need to mod the rollers slightly, and grind the stoppers so that the top roller comes lower and meshes better with the bottom one. Also never open the tray underneath as it packs up and provides a fairly solid surface so stuff doesnt get dragged round the bottom roller as much.

 

After being done mine has been perfect, only getting jammed with awkward bits.

 

HRG,

 

Nothing to go wrong as far a reliability is concerned. Cost of parts also not an issue because they dont go wrong.

 

The only thing a bit poor on mine is the drawbar. It bangs about a bit because it is not fixed, it has one of those swan neck type things that allows you to mount to chipper to bigger lorrys with high tow hitches. Not much of an issue though.

 

The chipper you are looking at appears pretty tidy, and the money looks about right. They are over 14K new now. (assuming I know the one you are talking about)

 

Jonathan

[Dean Lofthouse]

Ive been offered a bandit 65xl with 270 hours on it!

Does anybody have any info on them:

reliability

cost of parts and repair

etc.........

 

I have an XL with 270 hours on it also.

 

I had the usual issues with deadwood jamming all the time but after leaving the trap door alone and letting it pack solid, it isn't as much of an issue.

 

The only other thing I have had to do is extend the disharged shoot to make the chip disharge more directional and accurate.

 

Other than that, if serviced well, they are bomb proof

 

Oh....and conifer goes through really well if your blade are sharp, if they are dull, conifer will wrap and jam the rollers

[Brushcutter]

Bandits are bomb proof. I'm demoing a 150XL in the next few weeks.

[tomtrees]

Tomtrees,

 

Sounds like you need to mod the rollers slightly, and grind the stoppers so that the top roller comes lower and meshes better with the bottom one. Also never open the tray underneath as it packs up and provides a fairly solid surface so stuff doesnt get dragged round the bottom roller as much.

 

 

Jonathan

 

Will this stop the top roller jamming. The new lower roller seems to be fine and dosnt really block up. Am just going out to look at the stops now.

[Jonny69]

Tomtrees,

 

urrrr, I have never had a problem with the top roller jamming.

 

Have you got a pressure tester you can test the relief valve with? Or get someone to have a quick look for you?

 

It may be you have it set too low and the roller is stopping far too early.

 

Jonathan

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

too big, too heavy too long