Chipper Chinese Chipper Review

Michael_C · Jan 5, 2006

I picked up the chipper last week. Working through China Best Products worked out fine, but there was minimal status given during the whole process, which may have been fair. If I had known it was coming, and all "players" were reputable, I wouldn't have desired any status - However, not knowing if China Best Products was legit, I had hoped to hear things like the unit is on the ship, and will be arriving on Tuesday, etc, ect. Anyway, now knowing they do as they say, I would order through them again without any hesitation. I've assembled the unit and still need to do the service. I'm hoping to do the service sometime in the next few days - that is if other "required stuff" doesn't pop up demanding attention.
Anyway, bottom line is China Best Products delivered as advertised, and is another viable way to get a Jinma chipper.

Scozz · Jan 5, 2006

What was your final out of pocket $ thru China Best?

cwarrix · Jan 5, 2006

( If I had known it was coming, and all "players" were reputable, I wouldn't have desired any status - However, not knowing if China Best Products was legit, I had hoped to hear things like the unit is on the ship, and will be arriving on Tuesday, etc, ect. )

I can understand wanting the status. I like it when companies give you UPS tracking numbers for stuff as well. But I was just thinking, even if they were a big scam, they could still give you status reports. You'd really have no way of checking. At the same time, if they are sending you status reports, at least you know they are still around /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

I'm not very patient with waiting for stuff like that, so I would have probably paid too much for one locally and got it sooner /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

( Anyway, bottom line is China Best Products delivered as advertised, and is another viable way to get a Jinma chipper.)

Glad it worked out for you! Should put other people at ease when ordering from them. Have fun chipping!

Michael_C · Jan 5, 2006

When ordering from China Best you get the chipper with an extra set of blades. I ordered an extra set of belts for an addditonal $15.

I paid $1565 to China Best, $25 for forklift fee at the warehouse in Alemeda, plus the cost of driving 60 miles each way to the warehouse. There was also a $25 fee to wire the money to them - could have avoided this by sending a check and waiting for it to clear, but didn't want to take a chance on it coming in while I was out of town. Otherwise, I could have had a couple weeks of storage costs at the warehouse(above and beyond the week of free storage they allow). Total out of pocket costs were $1615.
When I ordered the chipper, Steve at China Best said it would take 30 to 40 days. I placed the order on Nov 17th and it arrived at the warehouse on Dec 22nd. Steve was qucik to respond to emails, but it looked like they only get status updates when the shipments are just about here
This was the best price I was able to find in California, and the month delay in getting the chipper wasn't an issue for me - since we won't need it until spring time - I'm sure that doesn't fit everyones life/schedule.

rameye · Jan 5, 2006

Best of luck..

I paid 1450 delivered to the East coast..residential delivery last July.

Took it completely apart..reworked knuckle joints for smoother operation in addition to most of the aforementioned pre-maintenance.

Made mine eat a 6" tree, 30 feet long as advertised had to give my C42 a brake with the feed roller disengage to catch up on RPM's one time.

I would reccomend this unit to folks who are:

A mechanically inclined AND
B looking for a low cost, large capacity chipper AND
C will use the unit infrequently (ie project time, etc)

Litmus test= would I buy it again....yep!

kayssupply · Jan 5, 2006

I haven't read all the posts on the chipper. I would add that I had to add a brace to my arms for the 3 point. While bouncing around in the woods, they were starting to show a little bending. I used a slab of channel iron weded to them and redrilled the pin holes. I also put a 1" wide piece of flat stock on each side of the feed roller. I put them on a steep angle to help keep Honey Suckle vines from wrapping around the shaft of the feed roller. So far the thing I have had to deal with more than once is the pulley on the feed gear box working loose. I am afraid to put any more behind the allen wrench to tighten the set screw. I just watch it close and retighten.

cwarrix · Jan 6, 2006

( So far the thing I have had to deal with more than once is the pulley on the feed gear box working loose. I am afraid to put any more behind the allen wrench to tighten the set screw. I just watch it close and retighten. )

Would some Loctite help that set screw stay put? Just a thought.

moeh1 · Jan 9, 2006

I don't specifically remember the gearbox pulley, but the one on the other end of the belt had tapped holes for 2 set screws ( they are offset 90 degrees to keep thee pulley tight). The reason I remember is that one was missing. You may want to check for this on the gearbox end as well.
Are your arms that bent extended? Mine are all the way in, if they are still at risk, I'll reinforce now before they bend. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

DickThomas · Jan 19, 2006

OK, I ordered mine: Couldn't find a Jinma close enough to avoid shipping, so I contacted a FarmPro dealer nearby: He 'just happened' to have one assembled in stock, that they had demoed for someone, but not sold. I'll pick it up in a week or so - have to get my trailer out of the mountains! Thanks to all the discussion here, I'll know what to check over closely when I get it home. Wish me luck!
DickT

rox · Mar 16, 2006

Marty,
Do you think the Jinma chipper would work on our 25hp Goldini tactor?

kayssupply · Mar 16, 2006

I am running mine on a 24hp Iseki. It works fine. If you feed it a 5" oak log it will loose some rpm, but I don't usually do that. 3" and smaller, it never even burps.

HomeBrew2 · Mar 16, 2006

To me, there is a heiarchy of "pruning" disposal in a commercial setting:
1. Fire ... where legal and safe. Safe: When in doubt, due to liability reasons, could be determined by a fire department official.
2. A REAL orchard shredder, aka flail mower with hammers, not mowing knives.
3. A dedicated commercial chipper. A pic of a modest example is attached for your pleasure.

Cheers!

rox · Mar 17, 2006

thanks!
VISA has a Concierge Service, they called me for a guest who wanted to rent our Guest House on the Olvie Farm, so Since I am a VISA Signature customer I ahd the Visa Consierge open a case for me where I can find the Jinma Chipper in France. The consierge called me back tonight, the party is renting our Guest House and I should find out in a few days theri search results for a Jinma chipper in France. Since it didn't cost me anything and the dude called me on another matter, heck I am happy to let him research this.

I think if you are running it on an Iseki then it would probably be fine on our Goldini. It lifts a really big heavy rototiller, so hopefully it could handle the Jinma Chipper.

rox · Mar 17, 2006

HomeBrew,
Many thanks for your advice. Can you kindly provide a link to the type of flail mower you are suggesting.

I hate burning, I can't sleep at night when we burn becasue I am so afraid the fire will pick up again at night and burn the farm down. We do do a lot of burning, but I don't like it at all.
The trees we are pruning this year are so big, and we are doing so many, probably about 2 - 3 acres and 800 trees, this year that I prefer the chipping because of the huge, huge fires we would have to make.

Well now that we are chipping we have wood chips, mainly jsut the small olive leaves literally 4" tall. Now I am worried that the much we are leaving, which again is mainly jsut leaves, will be a huge fire hazard. Going to ask a couple othe olive farmers to come over and look and give us their advice. Unfortuanly the section we are working in now we can't rototill in the mulch becasue it is to rocky. We jsut can't till there.

I am slowly making my hsuband crazy. First I insisted that we chip because of not wanting to make huge fires, now that we chipped I am worried about the chips becoming a fire hazard. We had to evacuate 3 times last year becasue of forest fires that were adjacent to our property. We probably had 20 fire trucks on our property during the forest fires of last year. So fire is a huge huge big deal here. It is a dry climate in the summer.

My hsuband is being very patient with my desires, but I can see he is starting to loose patince. Actually now that we chipped everything, I would like to go with a huge vaccuum and pick it all up and dump is somewhere. I know he iwll never do this, so going to get the other farmers to come over and give us theri advice.

avorancher · Mar 17, 2006

Rox, I live in a Mediteranean high fire danger climate like yourself. We grow avocados on our land, but olives and wine grapes are also grown in this area.

Chipping is the normal way of disposing of agricultural wood in this area. The chips are put back on the trees as mulch or used to coat the dirt roads to reduce dust during the summer when it doesn't rain from April until October/November and humidity is often around 10%.

We have devastating wildfires in this area, but I've never heard of wood chips as being a problem... as least it isn't as bad as dead leaves or native chapparal brush.

I just cut and chipped 60 trees last week. Some trees were 60 feet tall, so although I own a Jinma chipper, I rented a large commercial unit that could chip 18 inch (45.7 centimeter) diameter for the project.

HomeBrew2 · Mar 17, 2006

Hi Rox,
I am sorry. I didn't know this was a marital thing and I won't comment on that.
I'm pretty aware of fire's dangers.
A net search for "orchard shredders" will yield thousands of results but here is a decent example.
Cheers!

rox · Mar 18, 2006

avorancher,It is nice to hear form somebody who lives in a climate similar to ours.

The problem is, it IS mostly leaves, 4" of leaves. See whay I am having fears? Poor hubby, I admit it is hard to keep me happy when it comes to what to do with the debris of the orchard.

rox · Mar 18, 2006

HomeBrew2,
I never knew that there was anything called orchard shredders. I looked at the link you provided, many thanks for that, and I even found videos, after you went to the download area there was a video section. I saw the video but I don't really see what the difference is betwen an orchard shredder and a Brush hog? They lok aboutt he same to me.
Thanks again for taking the time to post.

Our chippe is a PIA. Although it was better today. About every 30 minutes my hsuband has to turn everything off an unjam the chipper. In the meantime, I use my power prunners all day long snipping of branches to get them small enough to go into the shredder. We got 1 1/2 rows done today, and in this one section we are on there are 5 more rows to do. Then we down to the next section and there we have probably 10 rows. So you can see how much work it is.

I think we will just struggle through this year and nex year, getting the trees back into the appropriate size, once they are all at the approriate size then the size clipping we ahve year to year won't be so big nor such volumes. If I could get the Jinma over here in France for what it can be had for in USA then next year I would probably buy it. Howver I am not that hopefull on that score. We borrowed money from my parents to buy the farm, so until we have that paid back, and we are working on it and doing pretty good at it, it is hard to buy more equipment. Sometimes we do, just brought home today a Stihl chainsaw on a long pole, but it is little by little until we have my parents paid back. At our age we just hate debt. We'll see about eh Jinma for next year, depending on price in France. Heck the Stihl Combi system we bought today, with jsut the chainsaw an an extension pole was 767 Euros, or about $920 US Dollars. Not that much difference between the Stihl Pole saw and the Jinma Chipper. With 12 acres I cna't jsutify a $7,000 orchard shredder. For that money, I'll gather up the branches and debris myself and run them through a chipper. An orchard shredder looks great, but for the 12 axre size property that we are I jsut can't jsutify the price.

BUT thnks for telling me about them, I didn't even know this type of equipment existed.

Ed_Indiana · Mar 18, 2006

Enjoyed the pictures. Have been watching the post on the Jinma 6 for some time now. Am going to purchase one at the end of this month when the dealers shipment arrives. It will also be crated. Will it fit in my half ton Ford F-150 pickup truck? Or should I use a 3/4 Ton? (my dads).