Chipper Woodmax three point chipper

[oldafretired]

Was a nice day and found a good size branch that fell from one of the douglas firs so decided to finally test the wood chipper. Still waiting for all the snow to clear from around my big pile of branches you can see in the background.

Seems like it works pretty well.

 

[RoyJackson]

Was a nice day and found a good size branch that fell from one of the douglas firs so decided to finally test the wood chipper. Still waiting for all the snow to clear from around my big pile of branches you can see in the background.

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Seems like it works pretty well.

One thing I have read...and, IIRC, it's in my Woods 5000 manual, is to not run the chipper directly on a hard surface. This, per the manual, results in excessive vibration which can loosen fasterners and crack welds.
No offense or criticism directed toward oldafretired, of course. His pictures (which are very cool!) just show a chipper on concrete

 

[daugen]

One thing I have read...and, IIRC, it's in my Woods 5000 manual, is to not run the chipper directly on a hard surface. This, per the manual, results in excessive vibration which can loosen fasterners and crack welds.
No offense or criticism directed toward oldafretired, of course. His pictures (which are very cool!) just show a chipper on concrete

good point Roy. I'm sure he was just testing it. One of the nice features of this style chipper is that you really can go to the source. Which hopefully for the proud owner of his 9900 will never need to be that close to his house.
It is interesting to see the differences between the 8800 and the 9900; bigger unit, different bottom stand, otherwise they look very similar.

Instead of dumping my brush in my burn pit now, it is happily piling up for next time I hook up the chipper.

 

[mark02tj]

I'm patiently waiting on mine.... Supposed to ship tomorrow or Wednesday.

 

[ericm979]

Mine is on a trailer somewhere between Chicago and California. Supposed to arrive friday but there's a good chance that when it gets to my local area the shipping company will look up the address and balk at actually driving up here. Woodmaxx had to search to find a shipping company that would do it and I bet this one just said "sure" without checking. I've had a lot of delivery guys call me from the bottom of the road and demand that I meet them there. That's not going to work with a 1000lb chipper. I'll ask them to send their oldest driver. The old guys aren't scared of mountain roads.

 

[747driver]

Mine is on a trailer somewhere between Chicago and California. Supposed to arrive friday but there's a good chance that when it gets to my local area the shipping company will look up the address and balk at actually driving up here. Woodmaxx had to search to find a shipping company that would do it and I bet this one just said "sure" without checking. I've had a lot of delivery guys call me from the bottom of the road and demand that I meet them there. That's not going to work with a 1000lb chipper. I'll ask them to send their oldest driver. The old guys aren't scared of mountain roads.

I paid the extra $50 to have it delivered with 'tail gate lift service'. We have a 1/2 mile curving stone road which the driver managed well !! Since it came packed in its own steel frame crate it slid off pretty easy to the ground. Good Luck !!

 

[747driver]

good point Roy. I'm sure he was just testing it. One of the nice features of this style chipper is that you really can go to the source. Which hopefully for the proud owner of his 9900 will never need to be that close to his house.
It is interesting to see the differences between the 8800 and the 9900; bigger unit, different bottom stand, otherwise they look very similar.

Instead of dumping my brush in my burn pit now, it is happily piling up for next time I hook up the chipper.

I have the WM8H...like you said...just take it to the pile and start chipping ! We have alot of trails in the forest so i use the chips on the walking trails. Just rotate the discharge chute to where i want to blow them on the trails or blow them into a trailer and take them elsewhere.

 

[oldafretired]

One thing I have read...and, IIRC, it's in my Woods 5000 manual, is to not run the chipper directly on a hard surface. This, per the manual, results in excessive vibration which can loosen fasterners and crack welds.
No offense or criticism directed toward oldafretired, of course. His pictures (which are very cool!) just show a chipper on concrete

Thanks for the good tip.

good point Roy. I'm sure he was just testing it. One of the nice features of this style chipper is that you really can go to the source. Which hopefully for the proud owner of his 9900 will never need to be that close to his house.
It is interesting to see the differences between the 8800 and the 9900; bigger unit, different bottom stand, otherwise they look very similar.

Instead of dumping my brush in my burn pit now, it is happily piling up for next time I hook up the chipper.

Yup, it's definitely a big advantage to be able to move the chipper to the area you're working. I have a bunch of saplings all over the place I've been waiting to cut down since my brush pile was getting too big. Now I won't have to worry about brush piles.

The building is just my shop/garage:

 

[Mikejeakins]

Nice setup.

Thanks for the good tip.



Yup, it's definitely a big advantage to be able to move the chipper to the area you're working. I have a bunch of saplings all over the place I've been waiting to cut down since my brush pile was getting too big. Now I won't have to worry about brush piles.

The building is just my shop/garage:

 

[ericm979]

I got my WM-8H yesterday, and spent most of today putting it together. Woodmaxx says 2 hours, it took me 8. I took my time and checked all the bolts including torquing the knife bolts and did almost all of it myself. Getting the panels aligned takes two people. I was working in front of the barn which has no power; power tools would have made it easier. Having all my tools in the barn would have helped too; I walked from the garage/shop to the barn about 40 times.

I ran some brush through it, mostly old stuff. It seemed to work well. I'll give it a more thorough test tomorrow.