chipper output

[THE88MAN]

as i don't own but hire chippers this one always makes me think.6" chipper hired all week or brash stacked and bigger chipper hired for a day or two? i have a large leylandii job on the horizon (good access) and could keep my one labourer ticking over all day on a 6" timberwolf,the job would take 4 days.are bigger chippers that much quicker if i just dropped it all in 2 days and went for a chipfest on day three? is this swings and roundabouts?

[Marc]

Big chippers are highly productive but you also really need big rigs 7.5ton and bigger really, you also need a way of getting the bigger bits into the chipper like a loader of some sorts or many guys.

 

With an 18" bandit and mini loader we would fill a 7.5t in around 20 minutes.

 

Another benefit is less cord wood to deal with.

 

If your talking about less than 10" say a 9" Jensen it just makes life a little easier and quicker but think of your groundie dragging brush and feeding chippers conifer allday is very hard and back breaking work, maybe the flop em over quick idea then both of you feeding the chipper is the most ergonomic and effcient way.

[Buzz]

What Marc said !

[nuggsy]

get ne of those big huge chippers like that yellow 1 at the apf that ate whole logs he he he

[tree_beard]

a question in the same area....

 

got a similar job coming up, approx 50metre stretch of leyladiii in blocks around a large industrial site with good access, 8-15 metres tall, all being cut to 2-3metres tall... also a few sycamore and monterey pine to drop... all 'logs' to be kept

 

 

this is not my gig, im being hired to cut for 4 days, and then help chip on the 5th...

 

all the chipping is meant to take place on the 5th day... 7inch tracked chipper (greenmech possibly), chipping into woodland in corner of site, all material for chipping being piled at the edge of the woodland thooughout the week by telehandler, ready for two guys to feed in on the 5th day and me cutting anything that wont fit...

 

ive personally hardly ever used a chipper, and not for more than a tree or two... (im from a background of mammoth bonfires)...

 

is this ammount of chipping possible in a day? with the size machine mentioned? or has that part of the job been grossly under-estimated?

 

im thinking 4 days cutting doesnt=1 day chipping, but then i dont chip.....

 

any input greatly appreciated

[skyhuck]

a question in the same area....

 

got a similar job coming up, approx 50metre stretch of leyladiii in blocks around a large industrial site with good access, 8-15 metres tall, all being cut to 2-3metres tall... also a few sycamore and monterey pine to drop... all 'logs' to be kept

 

 

this is not my gig, im being hired to cut for 4 days, and then help chip on the 5th...

 

all the chipping is meant to take place on the 5th day... 7inch tracked chipper (greenmech possibly), chipping into woodland in corner of site, all material for chipping being piled at the edge of the woodland thooughout the week by telehandler, ready for two guys to feed in on the 5th day and me cutting anything that wont fit...

 

ive personally hardly ever used a chipper, and not for more than a tree or two... (im from a background of mammoth bonfires)...

 

is this ammount of chipping possible in a day? with the size machine mentioned? or has that part of the job been grossly under-estimated?

 

im thinking 4 days cutting doesnt=1 day chipping, but then i dont chip.....

 

any input greatly appreciated

 

I wouldn't want to be doing that chipping:scared1: nothing worse, IMO, than chipping "piled" brash, far better to chip as the job goes on!!

[Lee Winger]

I agree with Skyhuck, I'll pass on the stacked brash idea , thanks very much, all that pulling , with branches breaking off in your hands, its making me sweat just thinking about it, a branch at a time suits me fine..

[arc]

I've cut and stacked on big jobs before but you do need a grab to sort out and present the material to the chipper otherwise it just becomes one big birds nest of back breaking work.

Better still get a chipper large enough to grab feed, I was feeding our 9" tracked jensen and schclielsing 440 on the mog last week without any real problems as long as your carefull and have someone with a saw to dress out as required,

[tree_beard]

i kinda gathered that anyone of sound mind would avoid 8 hours of leylanii chipping at all cost.... but

 

is it actually plausable to chip 4 days of hedge toppings in a day with a relatively small machine?

[skyhuck]

i kinda gathered that anyone of sound mind would avoid 8 hours of leylanii chipping at all cost.... but

 

is it actually plausable to chip 4 days of hedge toppings in a day with a relatively small machine?

 

I would say yes, but it will be a bloody hard day!!