Pto chipper

[earthworm]

Hi all,

 

I,m new to the forum so excuse me if I,m not great at how it all works. I,m thinking about buying a pto chipper for my david brown 780 tractor 45hp. What about a second hand one or a cheap one. Most of the stuff I will be chipping will be hedge cuttings, pruning from shrubs etc as I am a gardener and not a tree surgeon but I do prune shrubs upto 5 meters in height.

 

I have looked at a brand called housemartin which is twin feed and costs £2500 new. Is this a cheap pile of junk or should I look at something else. I can't afford a new timberwolf as they are mega money. Any help or suggestions great appreciated

[Boaty]

In my opinion, if you know your not going to be doing any big stuff, buy a quality smaller one over a cheap/tired big one have a look on farm trader theirs normally a few on their

[earthworm]

Thanks will do

[doobin]

The Housemartin is cheap and nasty Chinese junk.

 

Mind you, I once had the single roller version. It was agricultural, but OK for £1300, except that it wouldn't feed brash stuff properly. That twin version looks to have addressed that, but I would sooner have a 3k S/H decent brand than that for 2.5k brand new.

 

I think for your needs you would be much better off with a small petrol powered chipper/shredder that you can take along to the job. What's the sense in struggling to cart back whole branches just to put them through a tractor chipper at the yard?? Take a small shredder/chipper and that will allow you to get five times the amount on the truck. Have a look at the Eliet Maestro range.

 

For hedge cuttings etc, a shredder will be much more effective than a pto chipper also. In fact, hedge cuttings would come out of that Chinky chipper in much the same format as they went in!

[Robert_S]

£2500 would get you a second hand TP 150 I'm sure these run on 30hp + I have one on the back of my mog, excellent chippers, and the run there own hydraulic pump so only a pto needed.

[GlobalNewark]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8qCtTGq-jA]Bandit Model 490XP PTO Driven Drum Style Chippers - Quick Clips - YouTube[/ame]

 

This is good up to 4" capacity, brand new with 5yr build warranty & under

£4K.