Bought a Wallenstein chipper

[D2Cat]

I has a container to put old motor oil in and had a drip line to a wood burning stove. I could put a 5 gal bucket of pretty fine ground chips in the stove and let the oil just drip and that 5 gal of chips would heat for several hours.

If you are going to spread chips (or just leave them in a pile) they will break down much faster if you periodically spread some nitrogen fertilizer over them.

 

[Gem99ultra]

I added a 4" metal stand under my BX 62s to raise it up. While I was at it we welded a reciever hitch to the new stand that is bolted to the bottom of the chipper. I hook my 6x10 dump trailer to the chipper and blow the chips directly into the trailer. Then drive to the next spot and continue on.

Your solution sounds like exactly what I need! Please post a picture of your setup.

 

[sixdogs]

I has a container to put old motor oil in and had a drip line to a wood burning stove. I could put a 5 gal bucket of pretty fine ground chips in the stove and let the oil just drip and that 5 gal of chips would heat for several hours.

If you are going to spread chips (or just leave them in a pile) they will break down much faster if you periodically spread some nitrogen fertilizer over them.

Where I'm at, I just have to immediately get rid of them by burning. Every square inch around here is farmed and that includes my place. There simply is no waste and woodland to dump anything. It's just all corn and soybeans.

I got lucky this time around and ran a free ad in Craigslist. Someone wanted my chips for mulch or compost. They came out a while ago so are loaded and gone. Next time around I figure I'll have to burn whatever chips I create.

 

[Oldoak]

If you are going to spread chips (or just leave them in a pile) they will break down much faster if you periodically spread some nitrogen fertilizer over them.

Spreading hydrated lime over them will also aid in composting process.

 

[ultrarunner]

Chips are available by the truckload with free delivery here...

I have scored yards of quality mulch which keeps the weeds down... but, other times the it was anything but good.

The best is chipped redwood which is premium...

Brush with Poison Oak is the worst of the worst.

Old pine is common which could be diseased and the reason for removal...

Right now I have 6 yards of Eucalyptus on the side of my house... not mime but neighbor got it to spread on his trails... just easy for him to go from my property... it lasts and does a good job on keeping weeds in check.

 

[sixdogs]

Major discovery here regarding burning wood chips. But first, I got rid of my existing of chips by running a free ad for them on Craigslist. Gone in two hours.

Back to the discovery. I had a some chips left over and they wouldn't burn until I hit them with a leafblower. Wow, instant fire but I had to not smother the fire with a pile of chips. It worked best to pour a shallow layer over the edge of the fire and let the fire burn into them. A hot fire underneath helped and it went from smolder to raging inferno with just a mild breeze from the leafblower. Maybe everyone knows this but it's news to me.

I feel I can now burn chips rather than think of creative ways to get rid of them. My thinking would be to spread a bunch on bare ground on a hot day to dry and push them into a pile later that day. Start a fire on the wind side and see if I can't get the whole thing going by using a leafblower. I think it will work.

 

[ericm979]

Sounds like that'd have a high risk of starting a wildfire.

 

[sixdogs]

Yesterday I learned two things about this chipper that I did not expect. One, I fed a steady diet of lower limbs off mature Norway Spruce. They were half plain wooden branch and half all green needles. This mix used to plug a chipper I had years ago so I expected the worst from this one. Not only was there no plugging but the BX60 chopped them up with no problem. That surprised me.

Second, I learned that chipping smaller branches, say 3" or maybe more with the chipper held up only by the 3pt arms and not resting on a pallet is no big deal for the chipper and results in almost no vibration to the unit. That was a concern I had earlier and why I decided to rest the unit on two pallets for support. For smaller branches, the pallets aren't necessary. For bigger wood on the order of 4" or more, I didn't see any vibration either but want to stop short until I have more experience watching it chip that size material. Anyway, no vibration when I fully expected a lot of it.

This BX60 is a wonderful chipper and one of my best buys ever. I can only imagine a BX62.

 

[sixdogs]

I'm thinking of selling this BX60 chipper and wondering how much I should ask for it. I started a new thread in rural living.

What's my BX60 Wallenstein chipper worth?

I'm looking to buy a new and larger BX72 Wallenstein chipper and wondering what my BX60 chipper described in the thread below is worth. It's in excellent condition, knives have no nicks and have never been reversed. Nothing is wrong with it and it chips perfectly. Always under cover and...

www.tractorbynet.com

 

[MJZ]

Anyone know how hard it is to burn wood chips? I've got thee big bucket loads that I just have drying in the barn. Suppose if they dry a little I can dump some or more of them onto a burning pile and they would burn or are the chips too dense to burn?

What type of wood chips? Ironically we just had wildfires this week. I had piles of cedar chips all over about 15 acres ive been clearing. They burned. I would say easily (i wasn't here) because the only thing round the piles was prairie grass. I've been putting out smoldering stuff under trees that I put chips around for days