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On are KwikChip the top feed roller some times get held up by a chunk of chip, this is usually from when a larger branch goes through. In most case all that is required is to put a branch though large enough to lift the roller and the chunk of chip falls out, but some times the chunk won't dislodge. I then have to lift of the shout and lift the roller up.

Is there any way round this problem, a modification i can make?

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Keep the ratio of foliage to timber as even as possible when chipping, don't let a lot of chip gather up in the hopper. It happens with Tp chippers, when chipping beech and sycamore with no leaf.

We have a rule of when it happens, rather than try and describe what's going on over the noise , the chipping person does a little chicken dance, it works a treat, everyone knows to go and get a big log:biggrin:

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Keep the ratio of foliage to timber as even as possible when chipping, don't let a lot of chip gather up in the hopper. It happens with Tp chippers, when chipping beech and sycamore with no leaf.

We have a rule of when it happens, rather than try and describe what's going on over the noise , the chipping person does a little chicken dance, it works a treat, everyone knows to go and get a big log:biggrin:

 

:lol::lol:

love the chicken dance idea, normally i just point and say ugg or something similar and then we find something big enough to dislodge it. Unfortunately i dont think there is much can be done about it anyway as it is par for the course with any chipper i have ever used. They get blocked or jammed or whatever from time to time its just the way it is.

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We have a rule of when it happens, rather than try and describe what's going on over the noise , the chipping person does a little chicken dance, it works a treat, everyone knows to go and get a big log:biggrin:

 

:laugh1::lol: love the idea of that bet it gets a laugh in a busy area

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Ill stick to finding a big lump to pass through it to let it drop back out then. On another little fort when you put through a big v piece of wood that won't fit through the opening the top roller some times stops turning, only happens though when it can't pull it through.

Im reckoning i have a pressure relief valve that i need to adjust?

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Ill stick to finding a big lump to pass through it to let it drop back out then. On another little fort when you put through a big v piece of wood that won't fit through the opening the top roller some times stops turning, only happens though when it can't pull it through.

Im reckoning i have a pressure relief valve that i need to adjust?

 

if i read this right if you have a piece of timber go in that is to big for the throat the top roller stops ?

 

Yes there will be a PRV but its not out of adjustment its doing its job to prevent damage to the roller and motor !

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if i read this right if you have a piece of timber go in that is to big for the throat the top roller stops ?

 

Yes there will be a PRV but its not out of adjustment its doing its job to prevent damage to the roller and motor !

 

Agreed. It happens to the greenmech aswell. Pull the bar and in it goes. The greenmech cm220 will get blocked up the shoot if the blades get blunt as instead of chipping it starts to shred.

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