Is this a forage harvester conversion?

[treequip]

More like there's a huge wood chipper market and a very small tow behind forage harvester market!

It would be ideal for crane feeding with your tractor , just take off that hopper. The pro will run at any angle so you can kick out the front end for feeding.

1 job would pay for itself and you could shuttle trailers aswell.

 

Isn't 6 inch a bit small for crane feed?

[Stephen Blair]

Isn't 6 inch a bit small for crane feed?[/

 

Only if your chipping bigger than 6":sneaky2:

 

Take that daft hopper off and I'm sure you'll get a bigger bit than 6" in:biggrin:

[treequip]

Isn't 6 inch a bit small for crane feed?[/

 

Only if your chipping bigger than 6":sneaky2:

 

Take that daft hopper off and I'm sure you'll get a bigger bit than 6" in:biggrin:

 

Is it worth crane feeding such a weedy chipper?

[Stephen Blair]

If its as good with branches as it is with heavy grass then surely it will be a beast, and more like 12" than 6" or am I missing something?

[wrsni]

Wouldn't be the first time I've seen a precision chop harvester run up a big repair bill by accidentally picking up a bit of driftwood so unless that machine has been modified in some way (which it may have been) I don't see how it's going to be a success.

 

Yes they need a lot of power but that's a combination of volume of through put, very short chop length and blowing power, at the end of the day grass is much softer than wood.

 

Would you rather fall 30ft on to a pile of grass or a pile of logs?

[Little Steven]

Certainly looks like a conversion.

 

I used a converted on once, cumbersome to say the least

 

This particular example isn't HSE compliant and that in feed control looks like its going to get a false trip every second branch

 

Certainly not a high speed tow, so limited to application from tow vehicles.

[skyhuck]

If its as good with branches as it is with heavy grass then surely it will be a beast, and more like 12" than 6" or am I missing something?

 

I reckon if you stuck a 12"log through it you would soon be missing parts of the bearings and other bits

[openspaceman]

Wouldn't be the first time I've seen a precision chop harvester run up a big repair bill by accidentally picking up a bit of driftwood so unless that machine has been modified in some way (which it may have been) I don't see how it's going to be a success.

 

 

At one of the early demos of arable short rotation coppice, some 20 years ago, featured a standard Class self propelled forage harvester being fed sweet chestnut coppice. The multiple blades on a drum didn't look much different from our Heizohacks now,

[treequip]

I reckon if you stuck a 12"log through it you would soon be missing parts of the bearings and other bits

 

:laugh1::laugh1:

[skyhuck]

At one of the early demos of arable short rotation coppice, some 20 years ago, featured a standard Class self propelled forage harvester being fed sweet chestnut coppice. The multiple blades on a drum didn't look much different from our Heizohacks now,

 

This one looks like a disc rather than a drum.