chipper running costs

[Le Sanglier]

TW blades are a doddle, an absolute doddle.

[Hodge]

The TW 150 is a great chipper, very easy to maintain, I have had 2 and love em. The blades are not hard to change so long as you keep the fixing bolt heads clear. People keep going on about the bearings and yes I have had to change mine but it has done 700 hours in 5 years so that's not that bad really.

 

 

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[Le Sanglier]

The TW 150 is a great chipper, very easy to maintain, I have had 2 and love em. The blades are not hard to change so long as you keep the fixing bolt heads clear. People keep going on about the bearings and yes I have had to change mine but it has done 700 hours in 5 years so that's not that bad really.

 

 

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Exactly. WD40 and an old file, plus tap in the torque drive with a light hammer before applying pressure.

[Gray git]

A good tip I got (prob on here) is fill the bolt heads and around them with silocone sealer which is easier to clean out than hard dry sap when next changing them.

[Hodge]

Exactly. WD40 and an old file, plus tap in the torque drive with a light hammer before applying pressure.

 

That's what I do mate, I use a dentists tooth pick to clean mine out.

 

 

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[Shane]

I used to use an old chain file, pointy (handle) end sharpened on the bench grinder then a 45 degree bend set in it - home made dentist pick.

Worked fine.

 

TWs are OK - but once you've used a better chipper how many would go back to them?

Maybe some but not me (this is just an opinion, before the tw fan club goes ballistic)

[RobRainford]

I used to use an old chain file, pointy (handle) end sharpened on the bench grinder then a 45 degree bend set in it - home made dentist pick.

Worked fine.

 

TWs are OK - but once you've used a better chipper how many would go back to them?

Maybe some but not me (this is just an opinion, before the tw fan club goes ballistic)

 

I was always neutral about TW. 190 and bigger ones have always been alright and been good to use. The 150 is a bit weedy IMO. Used a quadchip for the first time today chipping shrubs that have been used as trimmed hedges for a few years. Most of it was Laurel. I think 2 or 3 pieces wouldn't go in properly out of at least 40 of them which were multi stemmed. The strength on the rollers is immense. Good thick spring. The ones on a tw150 I can pull off with one hand. Says a lot about them really. I would have been there forever today with a 150.

[treequip]

The quad chips discharge is too far away from the vehicle and makes for a messy job at the back of the truck, it also encourages the fines to drop short, right in front of the radiator, it's like it was designed to get blocked.

 

Apart from that its as competent a machine as you could wish for.

[treequip]

The TW 150 is a great chipper, very easy to maintain, I have had 2 and love em. The blades are not hard to change so long as you keep the fixing bolt heads clear. People keep going on about the bearings and yes I have had to change mine but it has done 700 hours in 5 years so that's not that bad really.

 

 

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The bearings are a bit on the weedy side, but.........I think the people who complain about bearings also complain about changing blades, run em blunt and the bearings will suffer.

[Dowie]

Re: chipper running costs

The quad chips discharge is too far away from the vehicle and makes for a messy job at the back of the truck, it also encourages the fines to drop short, right in front of the radiator, it's like it was designed to get blocked.

 

Apart from that its as competent a machine as you could wish for.

 

 

I had a similar problem with the TW chipping conifer, just would not throw it to the back of the truck, so had to keep shovelling it to the back, suppose connie is just very dense. The rad on the new quad chip looks like its to the side of the infeed chute so may aleviate the problem a bit, have noticed the TW rad gets dusty but would have thought that's inevitable given the job it's doing.

 

Thanks for the replies