I have a short list of chippers, which one?

[Daythe trees]

Right I need an upgrade to my cs100. It's now the bottleneck in productivity,but will be getting kept for the jobs it suits.

My requirements;

 

1. Easy to maintain.

2. Min 6 inch capacity.

3. 30k ish upper budget.

 

My shortlist;

 

Quadchip 160.

 

Timberwolf 190 tracked.

 

Bandit 90xp

 

TP 175 vario spout.

 

So which would you have and why?

Which would you avoid and why?

 

Thanks, I realise they are different capabilities. Ideally it would be nine inch tracked turntable, but for 30k that ain't going to happen. My work load is mostly domestic but I do some work on hedgerows in fields where tracked would be useful.

[RichieR]

No Jensen on your list ?

[Daythe trees]

Only ever used one jensen and it was not impressive. Granted it was the spare chipper that we borrowed from the main contractor when ours broke.

[silky fox]

No Forst on your list?

[Gray git]

If your mostly domestic I'd go quadchip, had 1 for 3years and a fantastic machine, only got rid as needed a bigger machine for comersial and we sell chip and have bigger vehicles to cope, the turntable was a really big asset and I do miss having 1 now. Ideal world the bandit would be my choice as heavy duty with long life and excellent resale value should you want to change. As for tracked if you only occasionally need it hire 1 when you do to save a heap of unnecessary maintenance and weight to tow around when you don't need it.

Why not a forst st8 of jensen 540 both hard hitting machines.

[Daythe trees]

Did you find changing the belts on the 160 a pain? Apparently you have to remove the fuel tank. Used them a lot and really like them especially the turntable.

[walkerboys]

Bandit all the way but are heavy well built chippers backing it up mite give the clutch on your van some pain

[benedmonds]

Get the dealers out to demo them.. We chose the Vermeer 230 xl over the bandit. Been pretty happy with it ..

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

No Forst on your list?

 

Forst or TP I reckon. Forst eats forks and bananas like you wouldn't believe. Solid engineering of TP 👍

[silky fox]

You know it TCD!