Talk to me about chippers

[mikester]

I suggest renting one since you've never used one. Better be an informed buyer instead of relying on internet wags opinions.

Otherwise use AI to make decisions for you

 

[5030]

You might look into getting chips from a tree service. Often they will be happy to dump chips on your property instead of driving them to the dump and paying to dump them.

Around here that don't work. All the arborists here dump their wood chips at a couple yards where the process them and color them and resell them to homeowners as colored mulch. Big business here.

 

[5030]

ive been using my chipper for the last 15 years. it used to run on a 28HP tractor and did a soso job chipping. It now runs on my 45KW tractor and can chip up to 6" logs very reasonably. i also use my chips on the trails. it amazing how little trail gets covered with a huge chip pile though. the chips help keep grass from growing on the trail.

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Looks like the one I had and subsequently sold. I set it up to run on one of my 90 horse Kubota tractors. I did add a weasler slip clutch so I wouldn't destroy it but it held up and I sold it for exactly what I paid for it on FB market place in 2 days. 90 pto really eats up logs well.

 

[grsthegreat]

Looks like the one I had and subsequently sold. I set it up to run on one of my 90 horse Kubota tractors. I did add a weasler slip clutch so I wouldn't destroy it but it held up and I sold it for exactly what I paid for it on FB market place in 2 days. 90 pto really eats up logs well.

its chinese made, but has held up great. parts are still available if needed. but swapping blades sucks.

 

[5030]

its chinese made, but has held up great. parts are still available if needed. but swapping blades sucks.

It's a Jinma right? What I had and yes, swapping knives was a PITA. I always spaced my knife to anvil clearance with an expired credit card. Only thing it didn't do good with was pine tree limbs that were green. Like to plug up on them. Everything else went right through.

Do keep in mind that I grind chipper knives for the local arborist companies so keeping them sharp was a non issue.

Was a good machine that I ran way beyond it's design capabilities and it never broke on me.

 

[oosik]

My original chipper - Wallenstein BX42S - would plug when chipping my green pines. Not enough HP - not enough air flow. I used it with my Ford 1700.

In 2009 I bought my Kubota M6040 and upgraded to a Wally BX62S. This solved the plugging problems. More than twice the HP and a whole lot more air flow.

I devised a plan that solved the plugging with the BX42S. Thin my pine stands - drag the thinned pines to large piles - let them sit a full year and dry out. This worked with very little plugging.

 

[Mi-Troll]

Let me begin buy saying I have never owned or used a chipper but I have considered getting one. I am considering a stand-alone chipper that can be towed behind my ATV and used wherever. My goal isn't as much to chip material to get rid of it but chip material just to get the chippings to be used around the property. So my question is, are these little chippers with 6-15HP engines any good? Are there some better than others? Mot all what I am seeing have around a 6.5HP engine on them but I have seen a couple older models on market place with 10-15hp engines. So educate me on these chippers, please.

I just purchased an LX2610 and was looking for a chipper, couldn't decide on which type to get, the PTO driven or a stand alone, I went with a standalone and I'm glad I did. I was patient, keep looking for a used machine, i was lucky, I came across an excellant condition Troy Built 18 HP Chipper. It can be towed behind a car, ATV and my tractor, it has about the same HP as my PTO and will chip up to about a 6 inch log (anything larger is just firewood) and when I'm done with it, I can roll it into the garage and place it in the corner out of the way.

 

[Runner]

My original chipper - Wallenstein BX42S - would plug when chipping my green pines. Not enough HP - not enough air flow. I used it with my Ford 1700.

In 2009 I bought my Kubota M6040 and upgraded to a Wally BX62S. This solved the plugging problems. More than twice the HP and a whole lot more air flow.

I devised a plan that solved the plugging with the BX42S. Thin my pine stands - drag the thinned pines to large piles - let them sit a full year and dry out. This worked with very little plugging.

When chipping stuff that is likely to clog (lots of green leaves, and especially, cedar trees) I try to have a pile of branches without any leaves handy to feed in between the green stuff. The big chips act like fiber in the chipper diet to keep the flow going. Ewwww.

 

[MarkMac]

I had a 3-point chipper on my tractor. It would eat anything, but like mentioned above it would pass a lot of twigs. It would also clog on freshly cut vegetation.

Wear a respirator if you use one. The fine dust it made was not good for the lungs.

I bought mine used, used it for one season, cleaned it up good and sold it for a smidge more than I paid.

Going forward I’ll just stuff tree clippings into the horse trailer and take them to the dump.

 

[Renze]

No, not really. They're a waste of time. It'll take forever to get any significant amount of chips.

There was a guy at my parents neighbour, cutting the underbrush for firewood and chipping the branches. I have heard that Honda jam so many times, in the end the crankshaft broke... a twig mulcher it was, even though the decal said "tree chipper"

My last chipper had a 100 HP Cummins engine and would chip 12" logs.

Yes, thats a chipper.. with hydraulic driven feed rolls, and kickback if the drum rpm drops too low. Thats the only way to get consistently sized chips.

 

[oosik]

The chips on the few spots on my driveway do reduce the dust. I could transport the large piles and spread on the driveway.

However - if we ever get enough snow that I would need to plow the driveway - the chips, along with the snow, end up in the ditch.

 

[dougtrr2]

I have forest trails I put chips on. The power company comes through about every three years clearing power lines. I track them down and get put on the list for getting chips. Last year I hit the jackpot and got 8 truckloads of chips. I think it was because my dump location is on a cul-de-sac and easily accessible.

It takes a long time to spread that many chips. I have a Kubota BX24. Previously I would get the loader full and then hand shoveled chips into my carryall box. This last time I made a hitch mount on the back of my carryall for my 15cu ft JD trailer. I would balance my carryall on a 4x4, disconnect it from the tractor, and load my carry all and trailer with the loader, get the loader full of chips, reconnect the carryall and trailer, and finally go spread the load. It worked pretty well. My goal was to minimize my trips.

The 4x4 made it much easier to reconnect on the soft uneven ground. I could rock it up and down and shift it to make the connections.

Doug in SW IA

 

[Runner]

Carryall on the loader with extended sideboards is the best way I've found to handle wood chips. If I'm chipping, I chip directly into the box. If I am spreading from the pile, I load the box with the loader bucket, then, drop the bucket and take the box to where I need to dump the chips.

I either take off the front of the box to dump with the loader, or take off the side to unload at a tree ring, etc. Very easy to use a rake to pull the chips out the side wherever I need to place them.

 

[grsthegreat]

I blow the chips i to the back of my kawasaki mule. It has electric lift bed to dump.