Bald Ed

I can put you intouch with a company in the north of England who are looking for walking floor loads of chopped firewood if you are interested, they will collect if the price is right:001_smile:

would you look at a 6" petrol machine mounted on ATV tyres to tow behind a quad? We do a petrol A530 with a Honda engine that the factory would adapt to take quad wheels, not a driven unit but cheaper if you already have a quad, may be able to adapt to caravan drive as earlier discussions. There has also been a 6" chipper mounted onto a hydrostat chassis for american vine growers which may be of interest, I will post a picture asap.

Just reading through this, I use a couplke of companies based on the Lancs, Cumbria border that run flats and a walking floor that may be interested, let me know what it is you are looking for and I will put some feelers out. Both hauliers run scottish borders to the south regularly and will do their best on price. :driver:

Im afraid I cannot help you on the PPE front but just a quick welcome to a great forum, we will no doubt come across each other on line in the coming months, there are aload of great people on here who will advise you on the best gear for you. good luck with College!

I agree, the top bar hopper can be a pain on road side and drive ways but ok for site work where there is no need to leave the site spotless. The folding hopper is more versatile and leaves a tidyer job, Cracking good chippper though!!!!!!!!!

There speaks the voice of experience:001_smile:

We had a contractor bring a 530 track machine into us for repair after the blade shattered, it was a copy blade from the North and the invoice from them stated "Jensen Blade" not blade to suit or copy, the Contractor spoke with his solicitor and was going to chase the manufacturer for the costs. don't know how he got on. I agree with Mike that any blade can fail for what ever reason, but by using the correct blades and bolts supplied by the chipper manufacturer, be it Jensen, Schliesing, Timberwolf etc. you are at least removing 1 of the possible failure reasons, and there is a reason why copies are cheaper!

Still does not help with the 5.5 tonner, the tests are the only option, back to 10-2 driving for your lad I'm afraid,

The UK Jensen website is being put together as we speak. if you need any info etc on the Jensen chippers drop me a PM.

The only machine that I have seen that is built to pick up from the floor in the way you mention is this but I can see a whole heap of problems and issues that it will run into working on the forest floor. I do not know what application that this was built for or how succesful it was.

This set up is, IMO counter productive for shuttling woodchip from chipping site to road haulage unit as the chipper is not working whilst the load is being transported, I looked at a forwarder mounted chipper fitted with a 20" chipper, a 400hp engine and a small, high tip chip bin for tipping into bulkers, speaking with the driver it took 9 minutes to fill the hopper feeding from the stack, even the shortest trip to the tip site meant that you were lucky to be chipping for 50% of the time making the throughput figures less that 50cu/hr. hardly good production for the outlay. I still believe that moving the brash and blowing the chip into the trailer is the most productive option.

Having re-read your post I accept that you were not saying that a bulker is 20cu/mtr, as for the filling of the IBCs, if you are filling the IBCs individually, then the movement of the chute and the containers will be a slow job, if you are having a trailer built to perfectly fit 6 IBCs, with higher sides so you can blow the chip into the trailer and fill the IBCs I can see where you are coming from, the sides of the trailer will need to be removable to get the IBCs off from the side, I still think it would be messy as there is bound to be spillage between the IBC and the sides, and if you are filling this way the chipper will be sat idle whilst transporting the chip etc. Please do not think that I am critisising as I am not, but healthy discussion can help us all to make jobs like this more profitable. I have moved chip out of sites using specially constructed dumpy bags, dumpers, unimogs and tippers and I have not yet found an easier, more productive way than forwarding the raw product and chipping into skips / trailers at road side. This, as I say is my experience, others may have better ways.

Amazing work, you re a talented guy!!! My 10 year old son says" Wicked":party:

I think your 20cu,mtr assumption is a little off the mark, a 40cumtr skip is approx 6 mtrs long, if you are filling an artic tipper / walking floor you are looking at around double that. the throughput of a HM4-300 will be upto 35cu / hr max with a 100 horse power tractor, if you are loading into the IBC that will slow you down to about half that, With brash the figures will be less.

I must say that this operation seems to have a lot of scope to fail, there are alot of different operations that mean multi handling of the chip to get it to the truck, the filling of the IBCs will be messy and if you are using a large chipper as you will need to so as the truck is not taking more than an hour or so to fill, will the forwarder keep up, can you not forward the timber/ brash and chip diect into the trailer? IMO there could be better ways of doing this, but you know your site etc so may be I am missing something.

Your right Steve, if anyone wants to PM me for the full spec I will pass it on as a PM. Sorry.

The ground clearance is actually 380mm not 450mm, Sorry for miss representation in my last post:embarassed:

If its ground clearance without lifting the in-feed height that you are looking for, take a look at the Jensen Bankmaster, Approx 450mm of ground clearance with the tracks in or out. Sorry I could not resist:sneaky2:

How much is there to shift?

Does it have to be an 8 wheeler or can it be done with an artic? Is it an access issue?, if an artic can get in we would be happy to price for it!

POETIC LICENCE:ridinghorse:

"I said put the horses head on his pillow, not in his willow" ranted the Godfather to Luigi (might not be a willow but it made me smile)

I dont think some of my local customers would be to happy if I sold them a chipper and used any profit that I made from the sale to set up in competition with them. I agree that experienced users have the knowledge and the experience to pass on to prospective buyers but IMO there is a conflict of interest, at least locally.

SWB. You get my vote for last weeks caption comp winner, takes me back to my younger tv watching days. Well done:clap::clap: Sorry for not getting this sorted yesterday

I have a few customers that will not deal with a supplier who also does tree work, they see it as a conflict of interests, they may have a point, is the machinery supply side of the company helping to prop up the tree side that may be quoting against them. At the moment it may be visa versa. IMO we all have a right to earn money in what ever way we choose and we all have a right to decide who we spend our hard earned cash with, for what ever the reason. I will get off the fence now:vroam: