New (to me) wood chipper!

Tired of looking at my branch pile at my processing site so I picked up a chipper today.

Owned by two different people. Both of whom must have used it pretty sparingly as none of the paint was worn and I could hardly seen any signs of use or abuse. I think it got dustier in the back of my truck, traveling down the gravel roads than from use.






Test ran it, fired up great and did a nice job of chipping. All for $100.

I'm thinking I came out ok on this one.

 

Thanks...I'm pretty pumped

 

I have one I seldom use. It is a PIA to use. Branches get stuck left and right. Takes so much time getting the stuff sized to fit. I think the bigger ones are better. I've seen men tossing in limbs that get sucked right in as soon as the hit the chipper. Mine is some 5 hp model. Says it will do two inch wood, but I have found any thing over a inch binds it up.

 

Good deal indeed !! Have fun

 

Jealous here. Hi. Good for you. That is a good deal. Hope you get lots of use out of it.

 

Nice. That's a bit fancier than the Baker chipper I picked up last fall from a relative (mine has a plastic hopper). The unit I have does an OK job with small branches, but chokes a bit on stringy stuff.

 

Hopefully it will work fine for me. I usually take 2" stuff for stacks, so my branch pile is usually made up of pretty small stuff...hate wasting wood!

 

Not sure yet....I downloaded the manual just now.

 

Before the engine seized on mine ( not a Baker ) it ate green wood with more ease and less shock and noise than petrified hard as a rock dried up stuff.

chipper and flails ?

 

The 'wood chipper' reminds me of a movie. Fargo, if I remember right. Don't think you can get any body parts in yours without clogging.

 

I have a 5" Bearcat chipper shredder- 20hp, sure beats loading a trailer or the pickup and dragging to recycle center. Yes it will chip 5" dead locust.

 

The powers that be have all kinds of regs on open burning, boils down to when the sun , moon , and stars all align on the 7th planet ect. so its either chip it or drag it

 

We always stacked up brush in drainage ditches to prevent erosion or left them stacked in piles for rabbit cover. Looking back, I wish we had a chipper and dump the chips on muddy trails. Nice find for $100.

 

Brother has a 5 hp unit & unless the limbs are real flexible, they are almost impossible to feed. Oak limbs, especially dry, forget it!

I would like to have a large one like the tree trimmers use but they are way out of my budget range. So, I'll continue using the limbs for wild life habitats or burning depending on the situation.

 

Ya, I got a 8 hp mtd jam-a-matic as well as the Bearcat, Good for leaves but only if they are dust dry, supposed to take up to a 3"branch, lucky if will due 1" green can't hardly give it away. Sorry excuse for a machine. It's the reason I got the bearcat. Bearcat did a nice job on the 40 yards by 10 ft of buckthorn I ripped out couple summers back. Only had to do self surgery a few times - dang thorns.