What’s Your SMALLER Equipment Setup?

macrocarpa said:
Reg Coates mini chipper video from yesterday:

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Had a similar setup for 3 years. Mine was an orange woodmaxx. Being able to turn the discharge chute on the woodmaxx was handy. You can see one of the drawbacks in the video. The intake chute would get jammed with brushy material and make it difficult to stuff more material in. It held up okay but was pretty beat up after 3 years of full time use. Keep the knives sharp. My unit was also hard on belts.

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For anyone considering it as a cheap start up chipper it’s a good way to get a pruning/small removal business up and running. There is room on the chipper to bolt up a bigger engine as well.
 
macrocarpa said:
Reg Coates mini chipper video from yesterday:

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Here's a guy that marches to the beat of his own drum. I'm not blown away by the machine and some of the mods but he's been in the game long enough to know what works for him.

I do like the winch on the front. My machine has an auto-start powered by a 12V battery and I thought of using the battery to power a small winch on the front of the machine. It would come in handy in steep or slippery terrain. I also thought of putting a hitch receiver at the rear of a dump trailer and using one of these ramped transport baskets to haul the machine around. Nice to see some innovative ideas centered on the wee chipper.
 
Stephen Blair has some interesting posts on this thread. Wee chipper, wheelie bins and a large cube van with a tailgate lift.

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Can you match a CS100 to a truck

Chaps, I bought into a CS100 chipper and its very, very good at what it does. Its not a road tow, at the moment, trailers going to cost me 1k+ to sit it in. That's not my whole problem. If I want to match this set up to a truck then what would you do? Current options are a 110 hicap with a purpos...
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Tree-Taylor said:
I really enjoyed this podcast. I think I posted a picture of their setup at some point on here. They, along with a few other small scale arborists, inspired me to go with the model I currently have.
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I’m also intrigued with small scale effective and efficient set ups. Going to all battery Powered tools has been something I’ve really enjoyed recently. I also like the small scale PHC model as well.
 
There are advantages and disadvantages to both tow behind and wee chippers. I understand people's apprehension about them, I laughed at a buddy of mine when he bought a 15hp chipper. I thought it was pretty darn adorable. I now see the potential. Unfortunately the market for wee chippers is very small in North America since we tend to gravitate towards larger equipment and larger scale operations. They are however very popular in Europe and Asia.
 
This is like the Stihl gta26 pistol chainsaw. Great for a small number of things on rare occasions, like fruit tree pruning for me, tomorrow. I'll still keep the other 10 saws in my truck for everything else.

I'm over lots of hand-dragging, especially if it means additionally driving a dump truck to the job to drive to the dump with the material, and paying for disposal, instead of leaving it onsite and usable by the homeowner, as it did for this video's job.

With a powered capstan, which I have, I could roll the chipper downhill to some waterfront work, and winch it back up.

Lots of trips of hand-packing material uphill would mean a muddy mess instead of a clean lawn, right now, locally.

Absolutely not for general use.

Orchard prunings don't chip very well in my chipper...stringy, whippy stuff in, stringy stuff out. I wonder if a small capacity chipper would chip it better.





Reg has a full-sized chipper for his bread and butter.
 
SeanRuel said:
Repetitive shoulder height lifting is a hard pass for me. Glad there's the right tool for the folks who want it tho
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The feed shoot on mine is at waist height and really these things can only handle small branches. I keep a battery saw at the chipper for processing. If you fight with them, they'll wear you down so you learn to work the machine in an efficient manner.

Tow chippers are the standard in the industry for a good reason. I use them all the time.
 
southsoundtree said:
This is like the Stihl gta26 pistol chainsaw. Great for a small number of things on rare occasions, like fruit tree pruning for me, tomorrow. I'll still keep the other 10 saws in my truck for everything else.

I'm over lots of hand-dragging, especially if it means additionally driving a dump truck to the job to drive to the dump with the material, and paying for disposal, instead of leaving it onsite and usable by the homeowner, as it did for this video's job.

With a powered capstan, which I have, I could roll the chipper downhill to some waterfront work, and winch it back up.

Lots of trips of hand-packing material uphill would mean a muddy mess instead of a clean lawn, right now, locally.

Absolutely not for general use.

Orchard prunings don't chip very well in my chipper...stringy, whippy stuff in, stringy stuff out. I wonder if a small capacity chipper would chip it better.





Reg has a full-sized chipper for his bread and butter.
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One good thing I can say about the chipper I linked (and the one Reg was using is a clone) is that it put out some beautiful chips. Didn’t matter what wood you put through it chips usually came out small and uniform. Almost landscape quality. They weren’t hard to sell the homeowner on keeping. It’s a little drum chipper that it was absolutely crucial to have sharp knives and keep the bed knife clearance adjusted as small as possible.

Having said that Bandit’s 7” chipper is probably the ideal small set up bread and butter tow behind if you’re buying new. I really like my Vermeer 935 though.
 
My take if it's worth anything: The big draw for me with things like the Haecksler chippers anyway, is the ability to chip right into the HO's green bin and then when that's full, into kraft paper yard waste bags that the City then picks up weekly thru the summer (no mess). Packing it down to get the air outta it means you can put an amazing amount onto just one green bin. We have a good City composting program here. Anything about 3" - 4" diam can be cut into less than 4' lengths and tied with jute cord and either left out for the City Green bin guys too, or left out with a sign saying "Free". It's usually gone in an afternoon too - people use it for their backyard firepits. Bigger stuff, esp hardwood (a rare commodity here) is kept for firewood. Or a "Free" sign results in a streetside parking jam to pick it up (highly entertaining). Seems to work out well. Larger removals a tow behind is great for stems/ trunk sized stuff and if you're a production company doing multiple sites in a day/ big commercial jobs it saves huge time that pays for the machine. But for small pruning type work the lil guys do fine and don't spread the mess so save huge cleanup time sometimes.
 
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southsoundtree said:
Last night, I asked Reg, via YT, how it self-fed.

It looked to me like it did well.
How did others see it?
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The shape of the feed chute on Reg's machine is fairly long with an even taper. In my experience this isn't great for bushy material. The wood feeds in fine but the leafy ends get bunched up which is why he's shoving material through. This is kind of a species specific issue.
 
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