Chipper Purchase Advice

[CJM]

I'd rather sweep up a few chips than change flywheel bearings any day (or most days)

Tin hat on!

If I had millions of pounds and a 30 ton truck I might go for a big bandit.

 

We all freely offer our opinions on here, but after looking and trying some you may find something different. Go look and try. Good luck

 

That's true, why is the timber wolf so prone to this bearing failure and those find attached to the flywheel like to come off now and then, just jogged my memory there haha, the jenson a530 though I can't think of any major issues with them actually I've always found them the best small tow along chippers solidly built easy to maintain/access and if you go big the a540 is a great chipper too

[Tree:Tment]

don't buy a timberwolf. cheaply biult and fall apart from vibration

[Kenty]

Hi William, I have a Timberwolf TW 125 with a 25hp honda engine instead of the usual 20hp. They are good entry level machines & will chip 2 tonne an hour if needed. They weigh around 625kg so easy to manouvre on your own & can be picked up second hand refurbished for around 4 grand. I have used all other makes in this size range & found TW to be the better and it shares most parts with the TW150. I did like the greenmech though.

[Ty Korrigan]

[quote=CJM

I'll just air my views of the the current green mechs

 

personally the gravity fed green mech I'd rather brash up than use that chipper.

(More fool you!)

The quad chip is essentially a 150 green mech on a turntable but it's harder to access engine and blades with the compact design.

(what access do you need? and how difficult do you find the very easy blade change to be?)

One more point I find greenmechs are very messy machines compaired to other makes

(I really don't understand this one, mine is totally house trained:laugh1:)

 

Ty

[CJM]

[quote name=CJM

I'll just air my views of the the current green mechs

 

personally the gravity fed green mech I'd rather brash up than use that chipper.

(More fool you!)

The quad chip is essentially a 150 green mech on a turntable but it's harder to access engine and blades with the compact design.

(what access do you need? and how difficult do you find the very easy blade change to be?)

One more point I find greenmechs are very messy machines compaired to other makes

(I really don't understand this one' date=' mine is totally house trained:laugh1:)

 

Ty[/quote]

 

The company I worked for hired and sold greenmechs we had a quad chip on tracks which was basically useless it served no purpose at all

I'm presuming you're joking with these comments specially the quad chip one

[Ty Korrigan]

Oh, I didn't realise that Quadchip's were useless:confused1:

TBH I don't have a great deal of experience with a wide variety of machines but I am a Greenmech loyalist:thumbup1:

Really, what access can you not get on a Quadchip?

All the panels come off and the 2 tanks swing out plus it takes up F'all room in the shed.

The blades are in and out on 20min if I put my mind to it.

The CS100 we started out with effectively bought the Quadchip with the money it earned in 3 years:001_rolleyes:

I'm happy!

Ty

[WoodED]

We have a greenmech arbtrak150, it's our favorate chipper when it works

 

 

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[CJM]

Oh, I didn't realise that Quadchip's were useless:confused1:

TBH I don't have a great deal of experience with a wide variety of machines but I am a Greenmech loyalist:thumbup1:

Really, what access can you not get on a Quadchip?

All the panels come off and the 2 tanks swing out plus it takes up F'all room in the shed.

The blades are in and out on 20min if I put my mind to it.

The CS100 we started out with effectively bought the Quadchip with the money it earned in 3 years:001_rolleyes:

I'm happy!

Ty

I said the tracked quad chip was useless but never mind, I should of mentioned I usually compare changing blades/checking oils and doing a service/ maintenance to a Jensen 530/40 and if it takes longer than that it I'm not happy , I like the how you can rotate the blade on most greenmechs, like I said before I like greenmechs but they are better chippers out there

[treemonkey4]

I have a g ducker chipper on eBay rite now exactly the same as a tp lindana 660. I started off using it on weekends and then fairly regular once I became self employed.

It doesn't look pretty but it does what it says on the tin.

It's simple to work on and can buy parts from either Osborne by Southampton or Atkinson vos up north. Ideal for what your looking for

[fen01]

William, I was in your shoes a year ago and now my business is going well. You will get lots of opinions on here, soak them up compare them then apply them to your circumstances, apply gut feeling and hand over cash.

 

But from my experience, if found TW poorly made, but generally liked by owner operators, but a pile of junk at 4k second hand, Jenson was well made, bit heavier but expensive and could find much else within my 4k price range, that looked like it had any work left in it at the time. I actually brought a Tp200 (after taking advice from here). Bloodly good move, its paid for itself about 3 times this year! Love it, unless we're hand balling it!

 

What I've learnt? Well, if you can tow it don't mess around with a 6" chipper, I will only replace mine with an 8"+ tracked chipper (but I could well use smaller on cs 100 type). Think about the maintenance cost Tp wanted £10 for a bolt:eek:, and I needed 12 of them - at least when its had its time it will be worth a fair bit in scrap:). In short look at less common\popular manufacturers and you may save some £s. But critically, try and I'd what your requirements are, I didn't, but got lucky .

 

Good luck