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Has there become any improvements to machine other than its looks? Also just thinking is blades position adjustable? Just have read that blade angels are usually very specific to feeding works how it should and when blade is sharpened that should have effect to feeding I think. Hi Osku. That's right: the position and sharpening angle of the knives is very important. We have experimented a lot with this in the past and came to the conclusion that the sharpening angle should be 30 degrees. Even with a deviation of 2 degrees, the performance is significantly reduced. The blades are fixed to the drum but the counter-knife is adjustabe. However, this is only to correct distance after grinding and does not mean you can adjust to create bigger or smaller chips. Regarding the innovations: the most recent improvement is the lay up of the branches in the funnel. More space has been created which improved ergonomy.

Hello, our Haecksler chippers are entirely built in Europe. Except for the engines that come from Honda or Briggs. The difference with the Chinese machines is, in addition to the higher price for labor, also in the highest quality parts that we mount on our machines. Also a strong frame and a precise construction is what makes these chippers work so well. Ps. I did not take the time yet to announce this on Arbtalk but we have launched our newly designed Haecksler 4. Here 's a picture!

I have been running stacks of branches to the street and did that for a few years and then switched to shredding in a wheelie-bin and my conclusion is that the time savings are quite good. Do the math: 60 runs of 50 yards with a stack of branches (and back) or 5 times with a bin. I saved hours on a day. Of course, it should be taken into account that the time savings disappear if you have several groundmen to walk back and forth for you. The trick is that the loadable volume must be high. I load up to 300 liters of chips in one run. And it prevents you from damaging plants alongside the garden path.

The 18hp Briggs and stratton on our cs100 uses closer to 1.5/2l hour. Will fill a truck in acouple hours. That's intersting: I suspected the Briggs 18HP to use less than the 6,2 l/hour the factory says it consumes and users have been telling me so. Never seen that low an indication though. You sure?

Not sure if you meant in general.... This is for our machines. Shreds will deviate in size, from 1 x 1 cm to 2 x 3 cm. However, the thickness is evenly around 3 mm. I tested wood chips in my own wood-burning stove and the heat that was generated was amazing. You will have to use a modern wood stove with an efficiency of over 90%, otherwise the consumption is too high. Here's a picture of the chips. Or have a look at my Instagram 'haeckslercompany' You will find a short video with chips, 2nd in line or so. Have a nice weekend

In my opinion for these compact wood chippers: Forget the running costs. Purchasing one of the better brands might be a bit pricey, but having one in use is not: A set of knives every 2 to 4 years is not an important cost. Fuel: With an efficient compact wood chipper you will be running the engine for half an hour to an hour per day if you save up branches at the site (1-2 liters for Honda 13 HP and 3-6 liters for a Briggs 18 HP). Next on the list of wearing parts are v-belts but they stay well for years. What more? A bit of engine maintenance, a full Honda13 service kit costs 45,00 Euro and for a Briggs18 48,00 Euro (oil, filters, spark plugs). Changing the engine for a more powerful one will improve efficiency, est.10 to 20%. However, with good drum chippers it is the technical side of it that does the job and less the power. In most cases you will gain a few minutes a day by choosing a heavier motor (consider that you need to run it for just a short while if you keep knives in good state). So yes, the efficiency improves with HPs, and not the max branch diameter: The shape and size of the rotor decides for max diameter, and does not improve with 10 or even 20 more HPs. On several platforms I have seen distributors uplift their product with maximum diameters up to 15 cm of which I know it's not credible. More HPs will need a modification in the drive system. If not, the belts will just slip and wear quickly. Check the knives by purchaing and trying them if it feels reliable and change to more expensive ones if not good. Systems with two knives and a counter knife normally work fast and create nice small chips while leaving leaves more or less in its original state (cut ones or twice only). The system of a combination with hammers and knives will be slower and make very fine chips and dusty stuff. Two important things to check on the machines you look at are: - clogging. Lots of machines can clog quite quickly. Check if videos on youtube are not broken off at the moment a big branch is being fed. That often is a good indicator. - throw distance. For filling up your trailer, you want the chips to be thrown at least 4 to 5 meters. If not, you'll still find yourself shoveling heaps of chips to the front board of your trailer. And quality of parts and construction is a main factor as well: These machines are of small size but the combination of centrifugal forces and vibrations can shred a shredder ? in to pieces in a short while if too lightly build. In the end, my idea has always been: Talking about purchase costs is less important if you work professionnaly with your machines. A good chipper is vital to prevent too much wear and tear on the most important tool in your company: Your body. Stay well!

Hello Nikos, engine and knives/blades are vital for a chipper. ENGINE. I have a preference for Honda for its reliability. They keep going for 20 years or more. These engines have no difficulty in being heavily charged. Briggs is my second favourite. Uses more fuel and oil though. Keep an eye on that oil level. If you are going to use the machine on a professional basis, the difference in price for a Chinese made engine seems to me not worth taking the chance. I must say I only have second-hand information on this. They might turn out to be good. KNIVES. There are great differences in prices for knives of somewhat the same length and size. This is mainly due to the composition. High quality knives consist of three or more alloys, including chromium. The game for manufacturers is to produce knives that stay sharp for a long time: Soft is tougher but quickly blunt. If the material is too hard, it will crumble on the edge. You cannot sharpen high quality knives yourself (unless you have a special machine for this). They are too hard for that and the material then turns blue and brittle. If you treat your knives well, they will last a long time; Ask the specialist (the same guy that sharpens lawn mower blades) to not take off more material than necessary: A few minor dents on the edge do not affect the shredding efficiency and may remain . This way you can sharpen your set of knives up to 6 times. Only put clean material in the machine, no sand, earth and stones. Joost

Sure 4k is a lot of money, but still just the equivalent of about two big chain saws. In my days in tree care I was pretty prudent before investing as well, but buying a good small chipper really saved me a lot of time and effort.

I must agree to the former comments. There's far faster Chinese makes than this. If you are a professional it can be debated if it is a good choice on the long term or not. Besides the chipping speed I see a few more things important for choosing the right wee chipper: - Does it auto-feed? Does it auto-feed as well with forked branches? - Will chips throw far enough to first fill your trailer up front? If not then you will find yourself busy scooping up the chips throwing them forward. - Does it really chip the diameters in the manufacturers specifications? We have seen quite a few wild figures lately given by the competition. This type of drum chipper can handle a maximum thickness of 8 or 9 cm. Even if you put a 40 hp engine on it, the maximum branch thickness is limited by the design of the drum. To avoid disappointment: first be convinced in a test of 12 or 15 cm capacity. - Feeding height. Is the height still okay for your shoulders? If you are interested to compare: https://youtu.be/4qAu2LygWz8?t=218 If you want to know more about the technical details behind drum chippers, feel free to send us a message.

True, it's hard calculating prices, especially since a new project spreads out over quite a long period. I sometimes curse the day I stopped tree working ? Except of course when I am in my office and I see the rain pouring down... Have send that hydro-gear one to my technician. Thanks!

Hello TJ. We used to purchase the Eaton drive for our stump grinders and I would have liked to have mounted these on our chippers as well, but a few years ago we could no longer purchase them in the Netherlands. The salesman told us that Eaton had stopped producing it. For this drive we paid around 1450 pounds. We would need some other components, and then the application and construction. Sales price around 2000. That is quite a lot of money for a machine of under 4000 pounds! Surely the Easy Rider system will not bring you up the mountain, but it will help one single man to push his machine through rough terrain and over gentle slopes. I recently made a video in which a chipper is easily being driven into a bus, will try to post this soon. What you describe as a 'narrow super wood chipper' sounds like music to my ears and I would certainly have liked to have such a machine during my tree care years. I am interested in improvement and in fact, I have previously discussed a larger capacity with my engineer. His explanation was that first of all the rotor would have to be more than 60 cm in diameter. Our current small rotor weighs 37 kg and generates enormous centrifugal forces. A 60 cm rotor would make these forces increase exponentially. We would have to build a completely different machine that would be so heavy and strong that we than can no longer speak of a 'wee-chipper'. Our approach and phylosophy tend more to go towards: 1. small investments for small machinery, less financial worries, less pressure ? and more personal freedom. 2. in and out the van and ready to go in a minute. 3. knowledge and skills are the tools for tree care work, the machines are an addition to this and must be ergonomic to prevent physical wear and tear. Of course, compared to large shredders, using a small chipper does result in a lot of firewood being sawn away before chipping, but a lot of us use wood for heating and do not mind this. The benefits of small chippers are known: Not having to cut up branches and drag them out to the street to shred them in a large machine. But I do not pretend that this is the right concept for all arborist companies, and I think that for the above reasons we at Haecksler should leave this category of capacity to the builders of large chippers. Each his specialty.... Did see the Hayter Condor mower and it seems well-powered. Do you think they mounted Eaton on their products as well and stopped production for the same reason? We have only been able to find Chinese material as a replacement and have decided not to venture into it. If you have knowledge of another manufacturer of hydrostatic drives this would be quite welcome (in a pm?) Thanks for your input, have a nice weekend.

Thanks J, H4 is € 4.460,00 which at this moment is £ 3.906,85. If you are interested, go to the site and see if you like our machines.

Hello JWood, Just a small correction on your comment: The brand you mentioned is selling our old model Haecksler 3 and exactly for reasons of quality we asked our old manufacturer in 2015 to build a machine that we believed would show significant improvements. The manufacturer did not want this and after some bickering we split up. Since then we have been building the Haecksler 4. Here you see the article that I put on Arbtalk back in 2018 .... There's a summary of improvements compared with the old model 3 I red the article once again and noticed that one important improvement has NOT been mentioned: Since the stricter standards for safety, the distance between the operator and the knives had to be increased to 1.25 meters, among other things. Almost all manufacturers solved this by simply extending the feed hopper and we did not think this was a good idea for ergonomics. Last year I have seen input heights of 110 cm and more at trade fairs throughout Europe and imagine if you have to work under these conditions a few days a week, early physical wear is your future. Our machines comply not only with the standards, but the input height is just 80 cm / 31.5 ". *In the comments below the abovementioned article I mention as well who imo is the one and only genius to have created the Wee Chippers! If I am wrong please send me your ideas about it. At Haecksler we work with happy people who prefer their own strength and creativity above all and we often come up with our own innovations (See last years innovation and last months new idea). Admittedly, just like most of us we sometimes borrow a good idea to make it better and to my shame I had to shake hands with the guys from Stein a few years ago and I apologized for borrowing one of their ideas. Dear Stein-gentlemen, you have all my respect for your sporting reaction. Let's go back to work now, cheers, Joost Haecksler BV - Amsterdam

Well .... We sold our model Haecksler 3 as early as 2011, and I believe that the name and company Skarper was only created in 2018. It is a bit absurd for them to try and proclaim the building rights of these machines. Let me be clear: The drum chipper had long existed on large shredders and the first one to use this concept on a small machine was Jo Beau. I say: All praise for Jo from Belgium! Our old manufacturer (2011-2016) who is now building Skarper has 'borrowed' his design from GTM, a Chinese make. The quirky look of the feed hopper (which actually makes the feeding height lower) on Haecksler is completely my design and is now being borrowed by Skarper. Cheers, Joost ps. To set things straight: old picture to be renewed by a few of recent stock

The photo I posted yesterday was a bit too big and if I meant to secretly advertise my machine a bit, it should not be that obvious. The point I tried to make was that even if it seems to be of little importance at first how user-friendly a wood chipper is, that in the long-term it contributes to the physical wear we undergo in a relatively heavy profession. When designing our machines we actively think and discuss about ergonomy. Likewise with the Easy Rider system, an auxiliary electric drive wheel (here's a video) to move around more easily the relatively heavy machines. If anyone would like to see this machine and plans to go to the UK & Ireland Open Tree Climbing Competition (UK&ITCC), then here is the opportunity. We are present and will attend the 3ATC UK Open held at the ARB Show in May '19 as well. Have a nice evening..