Greenmech cs100 owners...

[GregM]

meant fork

[Spoons]

I just get someone to lean on front of machine while I hop inside the chute and dislodge the object. Safety first

[Tim Stobart Tree Surgery]

When i had mine, would lay it flat on the floor and crawl in!

 

I use my groundsman in a variation on this technique.

[wicklamulla]

a garden rake fits in the hole to turn the drum

 

or remove the LHS wheel (as you stand behind the machine) and use a ratshit & socket on the large(ish) nut to rotate the drum.....ya baby.

[padman]

Mine is blocked bleedin solid - two bent screw drivers so far. Looks like I will have to remove the cartridge. So far not that impressed with the machine

 

Need one of these mini lever bars I reckon.

[simsimo]

Try a good garden fork padman. It seems to have solved my problems but occasionally if you're not really careful you will need to remove the cassette.

Be patient with the machine and make sure the blades are really sharp and sharpened at the correct angle. There is not a single sceptical tree surgeon that I've shown it to that hasn't been won over by it.

[GA Groundcare]

Mine is blocked bleedin solid - two bent screw drivers so far. Looks like I will have to remove the cartridge. So far not that impressed with the machine

 

Need one of these mini lever bars I reckon.

 

Your doing something wrong I'm afraid.

 

If you blocked solid while running it your trying to do too much with it or not being a manual stress control for it. I've had stuff 4' and bigger in mass but need to be careful and bring it back out if the engine drops off the boil.

 

If it's blocked solid after running then material hasn't cleared properly and when stopped it's dropped back inside the drum, very easy to do this as I've done it before.

Once you have finished chipping drop the engine to idle and run for a minute, this will reduce the air that the drum produces and if you have a back pack blower handy use this down the indeed.

 

With it blocked solid, pull the belt guard off, belts off and drop the drum out. It's only 4 bolts.

Once on demo a customer wanted to see it block and be unblocked in case it happened in the field. We blocked it solid. 10 minutes later we were running again. About as simple as a chipper can be!

[GTS]

I use a length of 2x1" cut diagonally at the end. hardwoods best. If its stuck, wont turn on start up, lay it down so infeed is on the floor, crawl up the shoot a little and push pointy end I then twist and the cartridge has always turned then knock the piece out, off you go!

Good blow out when finished chipping each time sees this doesn't happen again....

 

Hope this helps

all the best

Nathan

[Robert_S]

operator error i think, if its blocked feeding you are asking to much of it or the blades are blunt and you've stalled it, if it won't start after using it because the drums jammed you have not cleaned the hopper out before switching it off.

i turn the revs down and put the blower down the hopper after i finish chipping.

 

These chippers take a bit of time getting use to but they are invaluable on some jobs and really punch above there weight.

 

stick with it mate they are impressive machines once you get in the way of working them

[padman]

Thanks guys the garden fork did the trick