Vermeer or Bandit?

[Taupotreeman]

I'm currently helping set up an arb division at the local council and they are pruchasing all the gear from scratch (Oh Yeah ) I've got about $50K to spend on a chipper. The choices are Vermeer BC1000, Vermeer BC1200, Bandit 90XP, 95XP or 150XP. Now I know I'm probably pushing the proverbial up hill with a sharp stick asking this but has anybody used both and which, if any, are the better machines or are they both pretty much the same?

[atree]

Haha awesome.

 

We got the new bc1000 which is heaps better than the older version,and have only used that and the 6" bandit,but dont know about the bigger bandits.Happy shopping

[Taupotreeman]

Cheers bro, can't wait. Just started looking at new trucks today. I offered to buy second hand but they were having none of it. Put in a shopping list the other day for $15k worth of climbing gear, you know, saws, harness, boots, ropes etc. Didn't even blink.

[atree]

Awesome,What council do you work for now?Ive heard that the vermeers have few more breaking parts over the bandits??.Our new bc1000 doesnt even struggle on big bits of wood,If it fits in the infeed it will go through no bother

[atree]

What truck have you got or getting to tow the chipper?are you going to be doing park and street trees?I go between the 95xp or the 1200

[Taupotreeman]

Working for Taupo District Council and keeping my own gear to do weekend work and maybe the odd bit when I'm on leave. I can keep the business running and put all by expenses through it

 

Council is currently looking at a Hino truck. Nothing too big but enough to pull a 9 inch or 12 inch. It'll be based on the split dumps Asplundh use as we can use the same body fabricator to spec up our truck to save designing new plans for an engineer. We still have to look at Mitsi and Isuzu but should be a 4 litre turbo diesel with about 6m3 bin on it give or take. Just don't want to get a 12 inch chipper if we aren't going to use it that much as we will still be contracting out the bigger work. If the inhouse team proves to be more efficient than contracting then we can look at setting up a second crew in a couple of years time.

[atree]

Cool.We have a mitsi canter turbo with 6m3 bin,Tows the 1000 no worries,we use 12" chippers,far easier and quicker to havine big chippers.

[Adam Bourne]

hi mate why don't you go for 2 BC150 vermeers and 2 trucks would of thought that would be more usefull instead of one big 1 of each,

[atree]

hi mate why don't you go for 2 BC150 vermeers and 2 trucks would of thought that would be more usefull instead of one big 1 of each,

 

Pencil sharpiner

[Adam Bourne]

:lol:

 

still dam good chippers:thumbup1: