PeteB

nice!

Some like us some, some don't. I personally see merit in some other chippers, but there are those that I would not give yard space to!!! I've tried many, pre and since I've been with GM and my previous comments stand. CHOICE IS PERSONAL. FACT IS STRAIGHT UP, FICTION IS FOR bULLsHINERS AND SMALL BOYS!

Pint pot or wine glass, either will do. Spanners, they don't have the same effect, but can bring a certain amount of joy!

I'm a "shopkeeper" to quote a previous thread. Before that I was in the trees for only 17years. My family was felling by hand in the early 1900's and two of my uncles followed the path, one was tushing by hoss whilst still at the village school in the late '30s. T'other was killed in a crane accident in the '50s. I brought the crane by accident in the '80s and was obliged to cut it for scrap. Many of the North West Leicester and Staffordshire coalmines are propped up by Elm felled, tushed and converted by David Barrowcliff in the 50's, 60's and early 70's.

I like the comment about the bodge tape on the anvil!!! If there is any play in the bearings the machine could well end up making an expensive noise. Leave the bodge tape for dodgy wiring.

Galved chassis, what for? If the prep and paint is done right then why is it necessary? If we are sending a machine to some European areas we plonk the chipper onto a ready made unit only to get around the homolagation laws that stipulate that the trailer has an identity that has been registered. Woodchippers are tools, and like all tools, they are brought to do a job. Why buy an 8" machine with a galved chassis costing over £20k when it needs to go off road behind a Tranny, or you've only got £12K to spend or finance or the drivers licence isn't rated to tow!

that machine that A Lopa shows from that aussie wep site was displayed along with some kind of similar sized drum machine was shown at SED some 5years ago. I had alook over it, but cannot remember who was marketing it. My recollection that it was not that good a machine in terms of the flywheel, blades, anvil and infeed rollers. It did not look like a copy of the typical American/Australian type of tool.

Choice of anything is an emotive matter. Buying decisions can be based on any number of variables, including price, specification, reputation, a good demo even such a thing as looks and colour. As an ex-contractor, I still think back to some purchase or other and wonder what really tipped the balance in favour of that product. A Unimog we purchased from a main dealer who was a real bandit and rogue, a Landrover engine collected from a 90 in Snowden which quickly went bang due to a loose(?) gudgeon pin, a Bedford MK4x4 from auction with a seized engine (still in the brambles some 10 years later!). However, our three chippers were purchased because we needed them, they weren't toys. The first was simple, therefore reliable, the second and third from GreenMech because we found the blades worked for us and their general reliablity and the fact that the people at GreenMech were very helpful and did not slag off other makes but pointed out the benefits of their goods and not the perceived failings of others. I have come across so many people who always hear bad news but do not pass on good.