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I had a 3" chipper/shredder before. Wheel barrow size, certainly made light work of most things, but if you have lots to shift it would be slow and it also doesent self feed to you find your self with your hand down the shute most days.
5hp doesn't sound like it'd be up to much. I've heard good things about the Eliet's but I think they're 9hp or so.
I've got the new eliet major 4s & that's 13hp, I also have an entec treebusta which is I think 16hp, to be frank 5hp is going to a very slow job, & will only work if the stuff is realy straight. you would be better off hiring a bigger one.
Rob
From my personal experience there is no point in buying anything less than 6" capacity with hydraulic feed rollers, if the job cant justify hiring one then you're quicker to stack the brash in your truck/trailer and mash it up with a stihl HS81R.
Sorry Chris got to disagree with you there, Greenmech's CS100 is 4" capacity and doesn't have feed rollers and for it's size and cost it is just the job.
Lee if you've not used/seen one I would seriously look at getting a demo, fantastic bit of kit!
Laurel height reduction...
1. the blades go blunt in no time at all and unlike larger chippers that will still chip reasonably well with dull blades, the cs100 needs to be razor sharp to work effectively.
2. you have to basically take the whole machine apart just to change the blades, it took me about two hours to do this, on my current chipper, a Greenmech arborist 15-23 I can do this in under 15 minutes.
3. the blades are very expensive for such a small chipper.
4. the machines high centre of gravity make it very unstable when transporting unless you tie it down with about 3 ratchet straps.
5. the machines 4" capacity (you will be lucky to get anything 4" through it!) means you spend loads of time snedding branches just to get them small enough to fit!
6. the discharge chute seems to clog up very easily, especially with wet leylandii.
If you cannot afford or justify buying a larger machine then I would recommend just hiring one out when the job is big enough to allow for it, a 6" tow behind chipper is only around £120-£150 a day and will do what the CS100 does in a fraction of the time.
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