What Chipper?

[Yorkshire Brummie]

Hi Guys, We are a small Garden and Tree firm who are doing more and more Arb work. It will probably never be on a large scale but I am seriously thinking about buying a Chipper. I have a couple of jobs that I will have to hire one for which is eating nearly all the profit margin. I have a Ford Ranger doublecab with which I tow a TT85. So..... do I buy a tow behind, two journeys and tip into trailer? Or put greedy boards and chip into pick up? Or do what my budget is more suited and buy a good gravity fed and bung it into trailer or back of pick up? Is there such think as a "good" gravity fed? Green Mech CS-100 OR Jo Beau MS400 -500. We are a 2 man team , things are tight, but I don't want to end up buying a white elephant! Have read all the forums and are still not sure... Any experience or advice would be really appreciated.

[hazzygawa]

Maybe board out back of truck and have a 120 tw

[Peter]

A mini chipper will fill your trailer in a day, a good tow behind will fill it 5-6 times in a day. If your mostly doing small jobs then buy the GM or the JB, it will easily pay for itself, and if you find you need more chipping power in a few months or a year buy something bigger. There is always a market for secondhand machines.

[WoodED]

Second hand Jensen 750 contractor or a530 machine if you doing alot of tree work, if going for a new machine the new forst chipper looks inpressive or the new green mech arborist 150 is a good machine, I don't have experience with machines like the cs100 or jb,

 

 

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[gtmprofessional]

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Edited June 24, 2013 by Steve Bullman
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[phill]

Jo beua m500 would do the job

 

 

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[treefrog]

If it a small one your after I think the bandit may be worth looking at great warranty and dean at global is great to deal with.

[Jonny69]

A mini chipper will fill your trailer in a day, a good tow behind will fill it 5-6 times in a day. If your mostly doing small jobs then buy the GM or the JB, it will easily pay for itself, and if you find you need more chipping power in a few months or a year buy something bigger. There is always a market for secondhand machines.

 

Not 100% true, I can fill my trailer with the Bandit 490 (Know nothing of the Greenmech) in 1-1.5hrs with two people chipping. I reckon that is 6.5m3 of woodchip, which will quite a lot more capacity that a TT85.

 

The time difference come from prepping the brash correctly to allow you to chip that fast. It takes a lot longer to cut up neatly for a gravity fed than a roller fed machine.

 

The most I have done with two guys in a day is three loads of chip in my trailer, this included felling the trees, cutting the logs and a 30 minute round trip to tip off. I will say that I was pretty sure I was going to die though and the job would have been completed a lot more comfortably with a proper chipper, however sweat is free and running two vehicles to site is not, so....................

 

Pictures are posted April 11th https://www.facebook.com/TreeworxArb?fref=ts

[Le Sanglier]

My advice to the OP is get a proper ie not less than 25hp twin roller machine, you won't regret it.

[Peter]

Not 100% true, I can fill my trailer with the Bandit 490 (Know nothing of the Greenmech) in 1-1.5hrs with two people chipping. I reckon that is 6.5m3 of woodchip, which will quite a lot more capacity that a TT85.

 

The time difference come from prepping the brash correctly to allow you to chip that fast. It takes a lot longer to cut up neatly for a gravity fed than a roller fed machine.

 

The most I have done with two guys in a day is three loads of chip in my trailer, this included felling the trees, cutting the logs and a 30 minute round trip to tip off. I will say that I was pretty sure I was going to die though and the job would have been completed a lot more comfortably with a proper chipper, however sweat is free and running two vehicles to site is not, so....................

 

Pictures are posted April 11th https://www.facebook.com/TreeworxArb?fref=ts

 

Ok I'll correct that. The mini chipper will comfortably fill your trailer once a day, more if your a masochist.

 

 

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