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Topic: PTO wood chipper

Posted By: Creek Jenkins
Subject: PTO wood chipper
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2016 at 5:33pm

Ennyone use a PTO wood chipper? Good experience or bad? I'm looking at clearing more sheep pasture and would like to chip up the popple and use it to break up the clay soil in a small hayfield. Used gas powered DR and Troy built stuff is around but seems like putting one on the D17 PTO would be better. More power and less maintenance I hope. Don't need anything very big, just have popple and spruce, going to burn the logs and chip anything smaller than 3".
Cheers
Creek

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Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2016 at 5:52pm

You still have to feed most of the small ones by hand. Get the smallest one with an auto feed, D-17 should run it fine...

Posted By: westfork
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2016 at 8:05pm

I use a Woodmaxx WM-8H. Have had several pto wood chippers. This one is by far the best of the lot. The D-17 is plenty of power.

www.woodmaxx.com

Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2016 at 8:47pm

I rent a 9" Vermeer with the auto feed when the need arises. Get the brush piles ready for a days work and go to it. they work great and I don't have to maintain it.

Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 19 Feb 2016 at 10:37pm

one of the "stockholders" bought a PTO model (unknown brand) and had it on his 8-N tractor. it didn't have enough power and he slugged the chipper! **dumb a$$** that was about 10 years ago, and it's still slugged, he just unhooked it back in his shed. D17 should be just fine with one. read the HP requirements for that chipper...they are different.

Posted By: TomMN
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2016 at 3:19pm

I run my WoodMaxx WM-8H with a WD45 and it works great, here is a video from last fall:
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Posted By: Creek Jenkins
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2016 at 8:19am

Nice video Tom, that looks like quite a machine. I showed it to my accountant and sadly she wasn't won over. I'll keep working on her. Called the local rental place, they quit renting chippers as too much abuse. I don't like burn piles but might have to compromise for awhile.
Cheers
Creek

Posted By: TomMN
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2016 at 9:34am

My accountant had been after me for a couple years to get her a wood chipper and she didn't want one too small either. I tried to find a used one and whenever I saw one on an auction it was a small stand alone thing that would only do light brush etc. I looked at this one for a while and finally ordered it. It makes nice mulch of stuff we used to burn. We don't use the buckthorn as mulch since it is so filled with seeds, when the top of the buckthorn with all the berries goes through the chipper the top of the pile gets a covering of a purple splat. We are expecting that pile to really sprout this spring.

Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2016 at 10:10am

I've got an 8" one here WITH hydraulic feed on it. was about $3500 CDN 2 years ago, has less than 50 hours on it.Selling for friend for $3000.Runs off D-14 great. Nice thing about the auto feed is you can load and go away,get more to feed the beast so job is done quicker. Ear plugs AND muffs are MANDATORY. These things are loud !

Jay

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Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor)

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Posted By: Dan73
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2016 at 10:24am

When you look at a chipper look at how you sharpen replace and adjust the sheer bar and knives. I bought one of the cheap Chinese chippers a few years back brand new because it had a power feed that drives off the pto not hydraulic feed. It worked good once I replaced a couple of springs to give the feed enough down force but as soon as the sheer bar got a out of adjustment it has been nothing but trouble. There is just no good way to adjust it in. I grew up with corn choppers and know how we sharpened and adjusted them. This chipper just doesn't have anything like that. So if I was looking again that is what I would check.
Ironically I could run one with hydraulic feed now added the front mounted hydraulic pump to the tractor.

Posted By: TomMN
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2016 at 11:33am

The one in my video has hydraulic feed and feeds itself, the only time you need to assist is when a fork in the piece going in is too wide to fit and too thick to bend. Those should be trimmed more with the chainsaw of course. I could have posted only those going in unassisted which was most branches, but the footage my wife filmed had what you see.

I wear ear plugs whenever I use it, and after the first use I also wore muffs with the plugs because it is loud. While wood is going through the chipper the WD45 can't even be heard unless you go and stand by the engine.

Posted By: Joe in Manty
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2016 at 12:05am

I did some shopping for one before I settled on the Norhtern Tool Nortrac 5-1/2" capacity model 2 years ago. I considered Woodmaxx, Vermeer, DR Chipper, and others before I bought mine. The NT store was about an hour away and hauled it home on a friends trailer.

It has a Cat. 1 hitch so I had to use bushings for use on the 170. Last year I turned new lift pins and swapped out the old ones so now it fits the Cat. 2 hitch without flipping the sway blocks. I also added an axle so that when I take it off, I slip on 2 wheels and a caster to roll it out of the way in the shed.

I have used it many times for chipping the brush trimmed along the line fences. I've also done brush for friends for landscaping chips. It will be going back on the 170 after the snowblower comes off after winter. It is working great.

The drive belt needs to be adjusted a little since it has stretched but has worked well for me. If I get some pictures of it in action, I'll try posting them.

Joe

Posted By: Calvin Schmidt
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2016 at 5:42am

Club member built a chipper out of an A-C 780 forage chopper. Son-in-law and daughters business has a Bandit horizontal grinder powered by a 650hp Cat if you need real capacity.

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Posted By: Creek Jenkins
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2016 at 2:15am

A friend of mine just bought a Northern Tools chipper and is going to bring it over and try it out on my popple problem. I'm traveling again, but hopefully the weather will warm a bit and we can try it out in a week or two. Last week we managed to cut about 100 yds of fenceline, so we have a pretty good pile ready to chip. If the snow would melt I'd be able to tackle the stumps too.
cheers,
Creek

Posted By: clays37ac
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2016 at 10:05am

I wanted to clean up pastures and a spot to build a house.I looked at all the forestry shows becouse I wanted a heavy duty reliable machine. I bought a Salsco. It has done an awsome job. It will chip 4" and smaller. In the last 4 years I have cleaned up all the trees I needed too. I am interested in selling it now. If your interested I can send you some pics. I also have trucker friends of it needs shipped.