Chipper moving chipper

[gino45]

I'm in the market for a pto chipper. I've read some of the postings not all, about the chinese chippers. What I'm wondering is whether you guys haul these around the 'ranch' or bring the material to the chipper.
Why I ask is the 800 pound weight seems a lot to move around with my 27 hp Kubota, and I'd like to be able to move the chipper around throughout my land.
How do y'all do it?

 

[RoyJackson]

I suggest you do what makes most sense to you...

 

[KiotiJohn]

As long as the lift capacity of your 3pt hitch is able to handle the 800#, and I feel sure it will, you should be able to move it wherever you want it.
You may wish to make sure you have front end weight, such as a loader if you have one. If not, put weights on the weight rack in front just keep the front wheels on the ground.
John

 

[gino45]

Perhaps I should have stated that I have a loader and 'beet juice' in the rear wheels. In response to the first reply, I'm asking because I don't want to have to haul the brush to the chipper, and lacking experience, I don't know whether or not it's reasonable to move the Jinma chipper Kubota tractor combination around the farm.

 

[RoyJackson]

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If the distance to the chipper is more then 50 feet, or the brush is too heavy to carry easily, I would move the tractor. If you're blowing the chips into a trailer or pick up bed, then you'd need to move both tractor and the other vehicle.

I'm sorry if my original post was abrupt...but one needs a little common sense in using equipment. Why would you even ask such a question on TBN? What would be best for you in your circumstances? You have to determine what is reasonable...not a tractor forum.

 

[gino45]

Thanks, Roy, for the explanation. Not owning a chipper, nor even having the ability to rent or borrow one, puts me in an uncertain position as to whether to go with the Jinma or something lighter. fyi--I believe my B2710 and your 790 are fairly close in dimensions. Right now there are a few thousand coffee tree branches strewn across the farm from the annual post harvest trim, and I'm looking for a better way to deal with them.

 

[RoyJackson]

"Right now there are a few thousand coffee tree branches strewn across the farm from the annual post harvest trim, and I'm looking for a better way to deal with them. "

Would it be possible to rake them first? Perhaps rent a Landscape rake to get those branches in piles?
Then you could move your tractor/chipper to a limited number of locations.

Just a thought...

If you don't mind me asking..why can't you rent a chipper? Buying a 3PH type chipper will cost a minimum of $1500. It's a lot cheaper to rent (assuming one is availible locally).

I've got enough trees where a chipper would make sense...depending on what I spend.

 

[avorancher]

I have a Jinma on a B7800 and after we do the post-harvest pruning on avocado trees, I drag the limbs down to the nearest access road. I move the chipper along the road and toss in the limbs, blowing the chips in small piles to be picked up later or spread on the roads for dust control.

Although I usually stop the PTO before moving the chipper, if I'm on relatively flat ground, I just raise it an inch off the ground and move forward while it is still spinning. I had my wife inch forward with the tractor once while I fed it, but the wind blew the dust and chips back on her and she won't help me anymore. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

The main problem for me with the weight of the chipper is driving across slopes... gets pretty tippy feeling because its center of gravity is quite high. I usually keep the 3pt as low as possible unless I'm 90 degrees to the slope.

 

[RalphVa]

An acquantance just bought a Jinma. He's using it on his 25 hp JD. Saw him last week at a party. He'd spent all day with a couple of Mexicans shoving trees into it.

Even my 4010 could lift the 800# Jinma, and its weight would just about be equally counterbalanced by the FEL.

I've a MacKissic. I find it convenient to cut limbs and let them lie and to drive it around to them, dragging some to it at each parking place. It's more convenient, too, to latch down the seat, hoist the Mac with it running and to move to the next spot. The Mac is only 160#. It's a whole lot more convenient to do this than to have to load them up and take them to a central point, like I used to have to do with my old TroyBilt.

I just scoop the chippings from the ground into the FEL or use it to scoop them up and carry them to my mulch pile to dump.

Ralph

 

[gino45]

Well, I can't rent a chipper probably because I'm on an island with lots of rocks. Rental market too small and rental company leary of having rocks run through the unit. Also, trees are in 10 foot wide rows. I can't imagine trying to rake it. Actually the idea of loading branches in the loader doesn't seem unreasonable. I'd have to cut most in half, but it could be done. Thanks for the idea!