wood chipper/log splitter petrol/diesel or tractor powered??..

[treenerd]

Its all about cost, a towable machine is cheaper but in terms of performance theres no competition. You wouldn't take a tractor round london all day cos theres no room, but you'd soon see the benifiet if someone asked you to clear fell 20 big trees!

[jnoon]

Thanks for the replies

does anyone know the best tractor splitter to get??

thanks josh

[agrimog]

if you do most of your work within about a 20mile radius, a tractor could be a good idea, but any further and your going to spend most of your time traveling(forget all the thoughts of a fancy tractor with a 40/50kph gearbox--you can only do 20 mph , and unless your doing forestry, youll be runing on white!!!), some of the older 50-80bhp tractors will run a chipper all day on not a lot of fuel, but be very carefull with the splitter, some of the older tractors dont have the flow rates or pressures to run the bigger splitters(you can get round this with pto driven pumps, but it will add to the cost)