Chipper flywheel bearings

[Will C]

How many hours do you expect to get from your chipper before it needs the fly wheel bearings doing? oh and what chipper it is would be good:thumbup:

 

The reason I ask is we are in a quandary as to which chipper to buy, im going to flip a coin soon between the 2 main options:001_tt2:

[00Thomas00]

a good friend of mine has got a 190 (no turbo) and ive changed the main bearings every 400hrs and ive put uprated bearings in every time.

its not much of a job to do as long as you have got a decent set of spanners and a bit of know how. We only change them so oftern because they failed once and it was a night mare to et sorted.

My Vermeer Bc 150 has never needed a set of bearings and know its at 915hr

 

Regards

David

[White Noise]

Not sure if this helps although sharp blades prolong the life of the bearings

[monkeybusiness]

I'm just putting a set of bearings into a 1928 Greenmech that we have put 1350 hrs on, but had done a lot of work before I owned it (had a new clock fitted so unknown hours but had been a railway contractor's machine so unlikely to have had an easy life!). I grease them every 40 hrs religiously. In over 6000hrs of use across a number of Greenmech machines these are the first bearings I have fitted (but I am anal about greasing!).

[White Noise]

Tw 150 / 125 have none greasable bearings which is a bloody pain . Not sure on the bigger models .

[Will C]

I'm just putting a set of bearings into a 1928 Greenmech that we have put 1350 hrs on, but had done a lot of work before I owned it (had a new clock fitted so unknown hours but had been a railway contractor's machine so unlikely to have had an easy life!). I grease them every 40 hrs religiously. In over 6000hrs of use across a number of Greenmech machines these are the first bearings I have fitted (but I am anal about greasing!).

 

Thats good to hear, I look after my gear as well so maybe to fact the green mech bearings are only 2/3 the size of the forst isnt such a big issue:confused1:

[Ian C]

I ran greenmechs before the forst and I have never changed a bearing yet! Get a machine with proper sized greasable bearings, run shape blades and you won't have much of a problem.

 

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[White Noise]

I ran greenmechs before the forst and I have never changed a bearing yet! Get a machine with proper sized greasable bearings, run shape blades and you won't have much of a problem.

 

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Ooh I will have a machine with greasable bearings this year

[Will C]

I ran greenmechs before the forst and I have never changed a bearing yet! Get a machine with proper sized greasable bearings, run shape blades and you won't have much of a problem.

 

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coming to the mainland to try the forst on mon:thumbup: the green mech was good but im not convinced it will last as long:confused1: both got nipples so all good

[treequip]

I think you are a bit hung up on the bearing issue.

 

Clearly its worthy of consideration but its only one factor in deciding which machine but don't let it be the deciding factor