Brush Bandit 250xp. 118hp John Deere. Live hydraulics/crush cylinder, material winch. New anvil and knives with extra sets of knives. Solid machine. Located in Richmond, VA.
So if anyone’s interested:
I rode up to get this machine this past Saturday. My impressions of Rick are that he’s a fast talking, soft hand-shaking kinda guy. Seems fitting near philly and s. Jersey. He seemed knowledgeable and had a lot full of equipment: mostly Bandit, Morbark, Vermeer...
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I am really interested in this chipper. Anyone have any experience with this dealer? Also, thoughts on price? - seems high, but I’d like to have...
@TimBr thanks for your thoughtful reply/suggestions. I randomly found (30-40 pages back on this thread) that there does seem to be some break in needed. I’m used to my RR & HH and have them fairly well dialed in, where their release is smooth and controlled. And I’m sure there was a learning...
Does it require some break in time? I tried it on vortex, ivy, cougar and xtc and had to use substantial force compress the ‘bird’ to get it to release for me. It’s fine for moving around the tree but for descent in the canopy, I haven’t found its sweet spot. I have the bollard fully open...
So, been working all summer and my shop guy took a while trying to understand what we were going for. We finally came up with this. Still have some work to do... it’s midline attachable but needs some substantial ‘belay’ weight to ascend and is burning my vortex rope trying to run up it (may...
I’ve recently gotten an adjustable BDB but am having trouble dialing it in. I’m around 220lbs w/o gear so I’m suspecting that’s part of the issue. I’ve got it adjusted wide open and have difficulty releasing smoothly on every line I’ve tried - Vortex, ivy, xtc and cougar. Any like-sized...
Prana stretch Zion(https://www.prana.com/stretch-zion-pant.html?colors=mud) for quite a while - 5+ years - love em except they recently skinny jeaned their sizing. That helped inspire me to drop some lbs at least. Certainly not saw proof but I don’t consider that a priority when climbing.
I was thinking that might work too. I’ve got the midline attachable worked out but I need to figure out a fairlead to mind the rope. My hopes of using my old Tanaka gas drill for power is a no go - it doesn’t have reverse or a clutch. When I stop throttling, I just start going down. Still a...
So I got the set screw and sure enough, the sheave came off. But now cutting the sheave in half to widen is problematic because the set screw sits right where that cut would be.
I believe I already removed that screw - it was pointed at the end, right between the ropes’ entry/exit point. Spinning the sheave around, I see a small allen head set screw which looks to go to the center/shaft of sheave.