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BUt they are built lighter than pricier machines, so if they just slapped a huge bearing in that would take the abuse then the rest of the machne would have to be beefed up to take it, or something else would give?

Damnit though- my internet has gone mega slow (1260kbps) so i will have to watch that another time.

LOL the deadly sixty is essential viewing! Olly loves it too....ahem...

I know its been said, but I must re-iterate Hucks sentiments on your stoicism Dave....

I fall into that category....... I wont make any inane jokes that arent funny though.

Actually 19k for a 9 incher is pretty cheap....you can pay more for a 6" machine if you go schleisling...I think that says alot.

That belongs to a friend of mine. It will be excellent.

except unless you want to make a chipper to a price, to fill a hole in the market. not everyone wants to buy top dollar machines, or perhaps cant justify the expenditure, but still want to but new/ nearly new.

Thats why I have a vermeer.

I dont sell logs any more, so for me the advantage is less time on site, less processing wood to go through the chipper, the huge fluffy bits on the end of macrocarpa and leylandii etc (most softwoods) arent a problem (less dressing before the chipper) and I have a market for chip too. When i sold logs though, I would have agreed wholeheartedly with your sentiment

Wow- it always seems bigger than that!! Its a tad 'fluffy' compared to the likes of liros or polyester if you see what i mean. Maybe thats why ithought it was a bit fat.

Sweeeeeet!!

The prussik must be thinner than the climbing line. The marlow is probably too thick.

Ocean polyester. Grips like 'ell ade. You could have a look at 8mm liros. Its thin-ness may make it suitable. I have some on a distel hitch- its ace.

I would like to echo Huck's last post.

Further to my post, I have just been and looked at my Vermeer 935, which I have taken out the infeed roller, to sharpen it, the cutter wheel to replace a bearing and a few other bits in the process. This is a picture of a cutter wheel bearing- only one needed replacing (the other one lol) As you can see it is very hefty, and very easily replaced,ten bolts to undo and the whole flywheel can be lifted out, and it has a has a grease nipple. None of these would have been possible if built to a budget or weight limit. The housing for the cutter wheel is made from 13mm steel plate, and the cutter wheel is 38mm thick. Again- not possible if weight or price limitations are adhered to. Like Deans post after mine, the limitations which manufacturers like timberwolf set themselves, in order to respond to a niche in the market, result in the machines we see. So perhaps CTS' question ought to have been more along the lines of 'for the price is there anything inherently wrong with TW's?', to which the answer is probably no.

I think the bottom line is that they are a budget chipper, and that is why you see so many of them around. When they are working they do a very good job, but being budget they are ineitably going to have problems. I dont think that a comparison to the likes of much heavier and much more expensive machines is realistic. For what they cost, they are a very good machine, and like all budget machines, maintainence is paramount, or repairs will be regular and costly.

Happy birthday mate. Certainly not forgotten, but definintely missed!!

I find this bearing issue astounding!! I never touched the bearings on my old abused vermeer in 8 years, and there is still nowt wrong with them now. I had no idea that TWs were this bad on bearings! Is this purely because mine were greasable, and i greased them after every use? Or is is just the sheer size of them?

Rough justice there from the huck:lol:

Poplar is excellent when dry. Burns clean too.

Crushing buses and cars and shredding them etc. Awesome chippers

What a tricky situation. I think he has to go though, as that is a gross misplacement of trust. You perhaps could get him to watch the cctv with you, let him know how disappointed and also angry you are- whilst remaining totally calm and pleasant of course- and then explain that you have little choice but to let him go.

Too true Ade. Poingnant post.

Nowt wrong with vests IMO...