Disc blade life...

[Ty Korrigan]

Subjective I know but I've just turned my disc blades after a mere 24 hours.

Chipping 100% Lawson for a week.

4.6 hours a day average.

That's no more hours than 4 sided Quad chip blades plus the chip was bigger to boot so more volume to ship.

I'll put down the short life to the nature of the material being fed, full of dirt and dust once feled and dragged.

 

Anyway, I'm too tired to care as the cost of a third of a turn of a disc blade is nothing to 5 days work for 6 men, a mere incidental in fact.

 

Now down to 20min to turn 2 Quadchip blades without breaking a sweat either.

 

Ty

[Gray git]

20min, you having a brew between blade's or something ;-)

I'd be happy if I could get 15 chipping hrs between turning blade's but that's because of contamination from dragging stuff across wet ground at the moment, although just done a little site clearance and done 50+m2 of chip in 2days and still raiser sharp

[Ty Korrigan]

Well I had 6 guys on site so I can't be shaking out every branch for gravel.

120m3+ of chip from one 'turn' of the blades and some really muddy and soiled material going through on the last day.

Measured the volume in our truck and chip trailer as I was delivering it to local small holdings.

Perhaps I am being exigent here but a turn of the blades is way cheaper than replacing a bearing 'Inshallah'...

Ty

[Ian Flatters]

If I'm through and struck with the debris I can get 21hrs out of mine. Which is actually a lot of chipping. Mostly I get 16hrs.

 

On the plus side a set of blades isn't exactly expensive.

[Ty Korrigan]

Which is odd when G.M claim 150hrs...

Ty