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First you should consider wether or not you really need a chipper. Do you have to pay to dump your waste per cubic metre/ton or are disposal costs not a problem?
Chris Auld said:
stephen Huxtable said:
Paul @ PPCH Services said:
I had a similar chipper, a 3'' Bearcat and the most annoying thing about it was that the chippings coming out of the machine kept blocking up the discharge chute. If you weren't trying to feed the branches into the hopper, you'd be shovelling the chippings away from the bottom of the discharge chute to prevent it becoming blocked up. It was quicker to just throw everything into the trailer. Sold the machine on 3 months later.
If your not having to pay lots of money for waste disposal fees then its just not worthwile buying a small chipper like that. I
used to have to pay £30 to dump a twin axle trailer load of green waste, so i decided to buy a chipper so i could chip most of my waste and give it to a local nursery free of charge. I got a greenmech cs100 4" chipper and for a while we using it on a regular basis, 2 or 3 times a week, anytime we were doing hedges, trees, etc.
Then the local council decided to raise the already high waste disposal fee to £68! I realised i simply could not afford to pay this and instead decided to rent a field to store then chip our waste (i just put up a pic on Dans thread). This has worked out to be much more cost effective, we now hire out a big 6" towable chipper a few times a year, i havn't even used my CS100 since mid summer and now have it up for sale. A 6" commercial chipper can handle about 3-4 tons per hour of material, the chipper your looking at would be more like 300-500 kgs per hour! It simply isnt worthwile when you take into account the time it will take you to clean all the branches and put them through, not to mention maintenance, service costs, new blades, etc.
Look at it this way. Would you rather pay your labourer an hours wages to clear up the waste and throw it in your trailer or pay him 4 hours wages to put it all through that little chipper?
www.mibservices.co.uk said:
Paul @ PPCH Services said:
I have a Greenmech CS100 18hp key start and its a great tool. Will take up to 5" if you feed it right and keep the revs up/sharp blades. I wouldnt bother looking at any other small chipper than this one. It discharges higher than the others so can be feed into a back of a truck/bulk bag/wheelie bin and easy to move around.
Just keep stones and soil/sand well away otherwise it will cost you!
Cheers
Mark
Looking at the Titan Pro stuff It all looks to be the same as the cheap tools with various brands on Ebay - Rotovators for under £1000 and 20" Chainsaws at under £200, makes me worry - Given I'd expect to pay 2-3 times as much for these machines normally.
The cheap engines tend to be Chinese clones of Honda Engines - I've seen one of these rotavators at my Allotment site - Aparently the parts are all interchangeable, but of a lower quality.