Educate me about chipper history?

[Graham]

Another one was the Junkari? I didn't use it but was run by a local coppicer/charcoal burner. PTO and was a screw/auger system that chewed cord into fist sized lumps to be turned into charcoal.

[Craig Johnson]

i think the its sasmo that were the screw chipper, with the spring loaded dog tooth 'safety' device

[john k]

That's some interesting background info, thanks everyone.

 

So 20 years ago they were pretty scarce. How long have they been everyday items now? 5 years? 10?

 

When you found out about them did you immediately want one? Or did it take a while for the benefits to show?

[treequip]

That's some interesting background info, thanks everyone.

 

So 20 years ago they were pretty scarce. How long have they been everyday items now? 5 years? 10?

 

When you found out about them did you immediately want one? Or did it take a while for the benefits to show?

 

Is the forum writing a college project for you?

 

It looks that way:laugh1:

[john k]

No, although it is a subject I'm considering for my dissertation. The take up of chippers in the arb industry is only of tangential relevance though and I was asking out of curiosity more than anything else.

 

I guess that the way the arb world has grown over the last decade or so there's probably only a small proportion of people here who can actually remember the days when not everyone had a chipper!

Edited May 12, 2014 by john k