Chip box airflow.

[TIMON]

The box on this mog only has one door and that is on the side.... The cut out was necessary to accommodate the GM Shute. The 3pt link needs to be in down position in order to start it up due to the prop shaft angle. It can't tip with the Shute in the box so it needs to have room to swing out of the box..... Hence the larger cut out on rear...

It's seems like shortening the Shute or fabricating a bespoke one is the answer...

Will wait until we get new larger one made and design one from scratch.

Thanks for all of your help

Ti

[elliott EGD]

A decent form of deflection at the end of the shute will help and if pos decrece the size of the opening at the rear. we have an open top to our chip box on our 1450 and up in till its pritty much brimed we don't have that much mess out of it . Wat may work is something to aim the chip at that will slow the chip and spread to fill bin ....... something mounted to the roof of the bin maby

 

If you after another chip box a.c.price has a few in his yard may be of intreset to you

Edited June 28, 2014 by elliott EGD

[TIMON]

A decent form of deflection at the end of the shute will help and if pos decrece the size of the opening at the rear. we have an open top to our chip box on our 1450 and up in till its pritty much brimed we don't have that much mess out of it . Wat may work is something to aim the chip at that will slow the chip and spread to fill bin ....... something mounted to the roof of the bin maby

 

If you after another chip box a.c.price has a few in his yard may be of intreset to you

 

 

Thanks Elliot ....

Will check him out..

 

Ti

[openspaceman]

It wasn't built to a CE standard, they don't produce standards for chippers or anything else.

 

All machinery sold in the EU has to conform to certain standards. When GM built this they will have ensured it conformed to aharmonised level of safety and the height of the discharge will have been designed so that a chip would not be thrown at head level or that a hand could not reach into the chute and touch a movingpart. Shortrn the chute and it may no longer comply. Having said that I know GM will advise on modifications to their machines for special circumstances.

[treequip]

All machinery sold in the EU has to conform to certain standards. When GM built this they will have ensured it conformed to aharmonised level of safety and the height of the discharge will have been designed so that a chip would not be thrown at head level or that a hand could not reach into the chute and touch a movingpart. Shortrn the chute and it may no longer comply. Having said that I know GM will advise on modifications to their machines for special circumstances.

 

That's a safety standard not a CE standard. CE marking is just the manufacturer saying that the kit conforms to safety standards, The C in CE stands for conformity.

[openspaceman]

That's a safety standard not a CE standard. CE marking is just the manufacturer saying that the kit conforms to safety standards, The C in CE stands for conformity.

 

Yes I should have been more accurate in what I said but I think everyone gets the gist, one should not expect to make major changes to machines without consideration of the consequences if something goes wrong. I suffered an accident which was reported under RIDOR by the site owners and HSE took me to task because my helmet, which had nothing to do with the accident, was two years old.

[treequip]

Yes I should have been more accurate in what I said but I think everyone gets the gist, one should not expect to make major changes to machines without consideration of the consequences if something goes wrong. I suffered an accident which was reported under RIDOR by the site owners and HSE took me to task because my helmet, which had nothing to do with the accident, was two years old.

 

Agreed but its the length that's causing the problem and the safety issues are entirely related to the height.

 

The manufacturer would be the best place to ask, particularly since its a new machine

[openspaceman]

Agreed but its the length that's causing the problem and the safety issues are entirely related to the height.

 

The manufacturer would be the best place to ask, particularly since its a new machine

 

what' s causing the problem is the airflow pressurising the box, much like trying to blow a wine cork into a milk bottle. We used to use chip blower to load brice baker silo. There was a simple cyclone at the top to prevent dust venting with the air. I wonder if something simple could be fabricated with a metal dustbin and a length of flue pipe attached to the top front of the box.

[Kenty]

how would you do that??

 

Didn't realise it was a mog.