Delivered this morning to work. Ran over picked it up on the trailer- barely got it off with FEL. Assembly wasn’t too bad fitting the feed shoot up is a little tricky but manageable. Filled up and purged. Cranked it up and put through some reasonable sized stuff. 3” oak top was the only thing that required feed speed slowed down other than that sucks everything else in whole pine saplings, cedar 20’ long oak limb.
that is awesome!!!! just curious do you plan to chip into a container and move the chips? or reuse them? or you just getting rid of brush without burning? Just wondering. very nice chipper either way!!!!!
Bought it mostly to eliminate burning brush chips/compost piles are an added bonus. The tractor is literally 50yds from the talladega national forest in those pictures- so burning is a delicate chore. Now I don’t have to time rain and material dryness in my limited free time. Beats the heck out of my Troy Built- not gonna miss jamming limbs down a 3” opening. In the event any of you FHC folks want a gas powered chipper I’ll load it for a case of beer.
I was in a state park in Ohio years back. They chipped all their fallen limbs and used them to line their walking trails. It was very nice.
A friend of mine has the same chipper and tractor for that fact. He was complaining about shearing pins a while back but for all I know he was chipping crow bars. Liquid courage can be his downfall sometimes.
Nice chipper basod !! That will certainly get the job done in short order. I plan to pick one up in the next few years if things go as planned. Just too many uses for wood chips around the farm and no end to the supply to feed it.
Sweet chipper basod! Great addition to the Kubota isn’t it? I love mine and even the wife likes that attachment.
Curious what you paid for this chipper? I sell Vermeer equipment for a living and you can typically find a good used chipper that will eat 6” material with no problem for that $5,000-$8,000 price range. I know you will not chip 4”-6” logs as that is still decent firewood but the biggest reason to buy a hyd feed self contained chipper is the “y’s” and crotches it will take. This looks like a sweet setup by the way! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Luigi is standing at his electric boundary in the pic, wondering if I'm coming back across to scratch him or send him back inside after I had a hairy time getting the nearly 1klbs off the trailer - kind of maxed out the lift height on FEL with no help to reposition.
You can find the price tag at their website Best Wood Chippers Shredder | Wood Chipper. I looked at the cheaper model Wallenstien knockoffs, which without having run one but watching Utube videos are just larger throat models of a standalone gas chipper. After running it over the weekend it took pine tree tops 4" with relative ease but did not pull 2" hickory limbs with wide stiff crotches, 2-3"oak tops required pruning just due to physical width/length - not much though. From a landowner perspective with a tractor it will perform close to a who knows how used 5-6k machine
I have a wallenstein knockoff and comparing it to a 4” stand alone gas job is way off base. Mine works as well as the 12” self feed diesel unit we used to rent on the size we chip, up to 3” maybe. I burn anything larger. I’m beyond satisfied for the $1100 I paid for it. I’ve already chipped enough to damm near pay for it in rentals and it’s still like new. They offer the same unit and larger ones with self feed but I’m glad I didn’t spend the extra dollars. YMMV
