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I can't believe you've used the Greenmech and are considering anything else! The TW and Jenson are both very good machines but don't offer anywhere near the all round use-ability of the Safetrak. It will out-chip both, and has the best off-road capabilities of any chipper I've used. It is phenomenally powerful in the tracking department too - we've dragged some seriously big timber with ours and it keeps on pulling. It is heavy though, which I would say is its only real downside when it comes to towing it around.

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I can't believe you've used the Greenmech and are considering anything else! The TW and Jenson are both very good machines but don't offer anywhere near the all round use-ability of the Safetrak. It will out-chip both, and has the best off-road capabilities of any chipper I've used. It is phenomenally powerful in the tracking department too - we've dragged some seriously big timber with ours and it keeps on pulling. It is heavy though, which I would say is its only real downside when it comes to towing it around.

 

Totally agree AND disagree. The Greenmech is in a league of it's own on a side slope. But where out and out chipping productivity is concerned the Jensen A430t buries the GM19-28, and they have the same 50hp engine. Even with a square hole it is angrier, feeding faster and with less snarl ups. GM has annoying electronic preset throttle and u can't track and chip at the same time :sneaky2:

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Oh come on John!

 

Common sense says that chippping and tracking is not right.

 

Plus, (to me anyway)

 

The 430 that I had in stock was painfully slow across the ground, painful to track on a hard surface,painfully expensive to buy, had no local dealers, was a pita to look after and was heavier to drag about too.

 

I thought that some of the engineering did not represent value for the money paid, in fact, I thought that someone was having a laugh when I looked closely at the infeed chute, roller controls and discharge chute.

 

Just my thoughts tho.

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Oh come on John!

 

Common sense says that chippping and tracking is not right.

:sneaky2:

Plus, (to me anyway)

 

The 430 that I had in stock was painfully slow across the ground, painful to track on a hard surface,painfully expensive to buy, had no local dealers, was a pita to look after and was heavier to drag about too.

 

Agreed its painful to commute on. Dead easy to work on imo tho.

 

I thought that some of the engineering did not represent value for the money paid, in fact, I thought that someone was having a laugh when I looked closely at the infeed chute, roller controls and discharge chute.

 

Just my thoughts tho.

 

But it works!

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Used the big green mechs whilst working on M25

Heavy and Big, eats wood but ours had a few issues, probabley because it was worked hard and used by alot of half sharp labourers, also I think Greenmech chip is always stringy and blocks the shoot to often.

 

 

The way you have to re raise the engine revs after tracking is a massive pain

 

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