Victory Chipper - any experience?

[LouNY]

Most pto's have an internal brake which stops the pto shaft when shut down. It often requires disassembling the rear end too replace. $$$$$$

 

[BeeJay42]

Ok BeeJay42 - here is what I would recommend in your situation.

- turn off the tractor, remove key from ignition
- disconnect PTO from chipper, leave connected to tractor
- open up the chipping compartment so you can see the rotor, knives
and shear bars
- check to see how sharp the knives are. Does the shear bars have a
nice, clean squared off edge. The knives should be sharp enough
to easily cut your finger.
- by hand, rotate the rotor. Find which blade is closest to the shear
bar and what is that gap between that blade and the shear bar. My chipper recommends 1/32 of an inch. If you have one - use a feeler
gauge. The remaining knives should not be that far off either.
- carefully spin the rotor. Does it rotate freely.
- with one hand on opposite sides of the rotor - pull hard. Go to the
other side - same thing - pull hard. You should not be able to move
the rotor. You are checking for runout.
- how big and thick are the chips. They should be about 1/4 the size
of a playing card and less than 1/8 inch thick.
Ok - this is the extent of my knowledge. You have a hydraulic in-feed. Is it adjustable. I wonder - is it feeding too fast and not allowing the chipping action to function properly. Why aren't the chips coming out the discharge chute. Is there some type of screen that stops them from being blown out.

With your 90 hp tractor - it takes something major to stop the chipper and shear a pin. Stop using the grade 8 bolts. You will just continue to damage the PTO shaft. Needless to say - stop using the chipper until you can identify and correct the problem.

Thank you for the reply. We have done that several times. Grade 5 bolts shear immediately. I can easily turn this by hand and though we are unable to get a feeler gage into that area we used a very thin piece of sheet metal to set the tolerance.

 

[5030]

First off, it's not a shear bar, it's an ANVIL and the knives must clear the anvil by about 1/32nd of an inch and I use an old credit card to set the clearance. The edge of the anvil must be square and not deformed by any trash that impacted it. The anvil has 4 working sides. If the used side is deformed flip it.

I would suggest installing a slip clutch, TSC sells them for about 200 bucks or get one online. Weasler is a good make.

You also need an over running clutch on the PTO stub or you will quickly destroy your internal clutch brake in the tractor from the inertia produced by the spinning flywheel in the chipper.

Finally, ONLY ENGAGE THE CHIPPER AT IDLE, never throttled up. Engage at idle and then throttle up the tractor to 540 rpm PTO speed.

The chipper knives should also have 2 edges and when one edge is deformed or worn, flip them over, re gap them and continue on.

I had and sold a Chinese chipper (Jinma) years ago and all of them need to operate at 540 PTO speed or they will clog.

 

[Bansil]

Is this a Chinese knock off of the woodland mills chipper? Or a WM chipper? I have heard nothing but good with WM, and plan to buy a WC46 this fall....

 

[5030]

Chippers like chainsaws work best with sharp knives and anvils and chainsaws work best with sharp chain loops.

 

[oosik]

I've had two chippers. Both were Wallenstein. First - BX42S Now - BX62S. Both were operated on my Kubota M6040.

By a tremendous difference - the BX62S had a much greater discharge wind speed and volume. In six years of use - only ONE plugged chute on the BX62S. Plugged chute on the BX42S was the major reason I upgraded to the 62S.

The wind speed and volume is so much greater on the BX62S - I can operate without any problems at a reduced PTO rpms.

If you are having plugging - be sure your pto rpms are up to 540. Check your chipping chamber and discharge chute. They must be clean as a whistle. Chipping small green pines - sticky sap was a great problem on the 42S. Not a concern on the 62S.

 

[Quaffer]

This chipper sounds like it has a bright future as a boat anchor.

 

[BeeJay42]

The outside of the unit gets very hot.
Lots of good responses here. Thanks guys. Unfortunately, I am in Mexico working on a project for the State Department. I have had 9 weeks in the last year and a half at home and I have worked on this issue every time. It feels like it is more of a waste of my time and four grand.

 

[oosik]

BeeJay - if this is under warantee - return to the dealer and let him fix this.