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Yes, the chipper itself is pretty solid. But I stand by my assertion regarding engines 😉 If you jammed yours on thin stuff, check the anvil gaps. I closed mine down to maybe 3/4mm, and it made a big difference.

You'll be fine with any 15hp drum unit, going to a drum unit with a wide infeed gets rid of the bottleneck of having to sned everything off a branch and feed them in one at a time- you can stuff bundles of brash into them. The increase in HP is useful too. 13/15/18hp is all much of a muchness- the Chinese engines that claim 15HP are probably not really, as they are copies of a 13hp Honda engine. It's not until you get up into the twin cylinder (much more expensive) variants that you get a useful increase in power. The nature of a wee chipper tends to be that it's intermittent, hand fed work, so the heavy drum unit and correct setting on the blade/anvil gap is all you need to keep things moving well enough. And sharp blades, of course- but that goes without saying for any chipper. Chinese if you're on a budget will take some abuse, but you're on your own with maintenance and backup. Although not much to go wrong with them. Greenmech will hold a premium, it's whether you can stretch to that much at this stage in your business. Or whether you put the money into another tool. I've had no problems with my Chinese chipper and see no reason why I would- they're simple things. I'd avoid the Rock machinery one- it's simply a Chinese unit with a Briggs engine. Loncin copies of Honda engines are far superior to any Briggs. Just this morning I've cleaned out the fuel system on a customers Rock log splitter. You should have seen the state of the rust inside the tank- and from a 'premium' brand. Briggs are shit.

Had two that lasted barely a year each. The Milwaukee equivalent is cheaper and almost as powerful as the Makita 3/4”. sorry to piss on your chips, I used to be makita through and through.

Don’t let the website pictures of European looking men in overalls (gtm, Jansen etc) fool you. It’s the same Chinese drum unit and chassis available on alibaba for peanuts, just with a Honda engine. All those sites saying ‘assembled in Europe’ are basically taking it out the crate and bolting the wheels on, that’s all. If you want to spend stupid money on a Chinese unit, you could buy this! Interestingly, they are claiming it’s ALL european. Have they ripped off the Chinese rip off? 🤣🤣 Foxwood C90 PRO wood chipper (GX390) (up to 90mm diameter) – FR Jones & Son WWW.FRJONESANDSON.CO.UK have a look through the wee chipper thread, only recently I posted the link for a turntable chute you can add to them. @WiltshireMike- you need 13hp, the 6hp ones will be a waste of time even for domestic. If you can’t justify a cs100 as you’re just domestic, the Chinese ones will do you fine. May want a little fettling, but will do the job just as good once sorted. Usually blade/anvil gap is miles too large. I’m constantly amazed what mine will swallow.

Well I had a look to day (and thanks to Kev for the advice on the phone). Goreous mature oak, and he was wanting to put the cabin and shed right under it. He readily agree that in this case it couldn't be on concrete, and is seeking a spec from the log cabin company for low disturbance base. The shed can go on sleepers. Looks like I will be picking up a bit of regular type groundworks for other works there anyhow, so not a wasted trip at all.

Sad. Sounds like he ****************ed up big time.

The neighbour at my yard has a system, he also uses it to heat his pool.

One of the Chinese drum chippers will do all you need. Loncin engines are better than Briggs. Or green mech if you want the backup. Anything with a low outlet is a dated design and just makes more work than it saves.

And full of oil. That’s the bit I always forget with an electric chainsaw!

Surely the client would be the one liable for any heave, as they are the ones instructing/paying you to remove their tree? Sounds like the only winners would be lawyers if it ever got that far.

Paging @Justme

As above. Mature oak, client wishes to protect it (and it also has TPO). However, he also wants a large concrete base in fairly close proxmity... Is there anyone with the relevant letters after their name who would like me to put their number forward to visit the site and provide a specification for works? I'm just a groundworker. Job is in Cranleigh.

I wish they’d do that round here

For me I didn’t need the extra flow rate of diesel and certainly didn’t want the extra width. Will be interested in how the stump grinder performs.

Only had an hour on it but liked it. Design dated admittedly but steel where it counts and easier to drive/handled the weight better than a cast for me. Both looked very well built machines. Much less twitchy on the levers too with a full load, and a slightly higher tipping load. Both had parallel lift. I tried the yellow ‘small’ version rather than the red ‘Agri’. For an extra grand you get electric start and bigger pump and wheel motors. It really did push, even on skinny tyres into a pile of crushed concrete.

Only had a couple of hours play on demo machines but it's amazing how much easier everything is when you turn the revs down. Still got to be easier than handballing everything.

Hopefully I’ve bought the machinery young enough then 😬

With you all the way mate and I have more kit than most! But so far I've drawn the line at a tree shear on such a small carrier. However, I'm happy to be proven wrong. Up until August I drew the line at a loader, now I have a second on the way!

Those opicos looks great, just a bit too wide for me. Really tempted by a secondhand one but decided to spend double on a new Sherpa and know that I can get it in more back gardens.

Yup, and the use of polystyrene forms for raft foundations etc is another issue! Demolition of these structures will cost a fortune as it’ll all have to be treated as ‘contaminated’

Why collect it in a field? We just used petrol blowers.

Honestly though, how hard is it to cut anything that you can reach with an avant or mini digger with a chainsaw or pole saw? You’d need a lot of repetitive work to make it pay imho.

You could line that 220l food grade barrel with a wheely bin liner (or two) also. Takes care of most of the mess.

It’s there in black and white mate. Category f is licence to drive *agricultural* tractors. Anything other than a narrow list of agricultural exemptions needs an o license.

Either get a firm in who specialise in it or mount that cyclone jobby onto a 220l ‘food spec’ barrel with removable lid. That’s a lot of beads!