Chipper Shredder

[5030]

Never broke any of the ugly welds on the Jinma and I was really overpowering it (ran it on a 95 horse pto). I could make it talk hard enough to cause the V belts to slip.. All the Chineseum chippers are crude anyway.

 

[5030]

I love chipping or shredding. Always do it naked. Lots of fun. Did it with Tomahawk/Mac for 26 years that way.

Can do a whole tree on the WM WC46. Just stick it into the hydraulic feed, and it just chips away. It's only $2,600.

You are weird. Chipping naked. Don't get your Johnson in the infeed, might hurt.

 

[5030]

Jamming 'em in otherwise adds too much labor.

..and it's very hard on your hands and forearms as well. The vibration of the limb being chipped goes right through you and it's far from pleasant.

 

[old and tired]

I have a chipper / shreader (BUSH HOG CS100P) it sits in the shed... I have 3 piles of brush that I add down trees too. They shrink over time and are super easy to ignore... Find a spot, out of the way, and just start dumping there....

PS. anyone want to buy a BUSH HOG CS100P?

 

[5030]

Put it on CL or FB Marketplace and it will vanish quickly. When I sold the Jinma, was on CL and it lasted 2 days. Finally told all the buyers that the first one to show up with the cash, was theirs. Used ones are obviously hard to come by and the new ones are overpriced.

I got the cash in my hand, loaded the chipper in the buyers pickup truck and that was that.

 

[Snobdds]

I tried to sell mine once, as I thought I finally chipped all I needed at the cabin...then I bought more land.

I had it on all the major selling sites locally, as you have to tow it away. I paid close to 20k and had it for sale for 12 and then 10K. Nobody had the money to buy it, but they all wanted it. I finally kept it and glad I did, or I would have to buy one again. I now know, don't sell it.

 

[hugo454]

woodland mills wc-68 is what I use, bought slightly used for $2200, works great.

 

[Gem99ultra]

woodland mills wc-68 is what I use, bought slightly used for $2200, works great.

Not trying to do the 'My dog is bigger than your dog', but I also bought a new Woodland Mills 68, but before the big price jump for $2K. Love that shredder.

It has been a slow process in cleaning up 13 acres that have been neglected for 50 years, but I'm slowly getting there. Got the trails cleared and now going after the pine beetle infested ones.

With the dangers and bans on burning, the WC 68 saves me a lot of grief. Now I can work a little or as much as I feel like working. But at 80+ y/o, it's easy to get behind If I had a LOT of acreage and a LOT of trees and brush and little time, I'd hire someone with a skid steer and mulcher to just get in there and get it done. But... I don't. (I hope.)

 

[5030]

No burning bans here unless it's inordinately dry and then not banned, just cautioned by the local fire Marshall not to get carried away.

 

[Budweiser John]

The great chipper vs brush pile debate will rage on forever, here’s my take:
Both are necessary. I bought a Wood Max 8H eight years ago and with one minor hydraulic valve issue (taken care of by Wood Max) the machine has performed as advertised. As the question goes, are you cutting down the brush or cutting up the brush? Brush has the same volume on the stump as off the stump, thus the beauty of a decent chipper. My mode of operanda, cut a little, chip a little, Handle the stuff once and done.
For yard clean up and the occasional tree branch dislodged by wind, a quick trip to the brush pile and done. Cutting large amounts of unwanted brush hauling and stacking seems like a colossal waste of time and energy to this ole dude….

B. John