Bandit used to produce trailer/chipper combos with 9 inch chipper. And I have seen truck/ chipper combos with the chipper feed table on right side and marketed as safer to feed (traffic).
Bandit used to sell PTO chippers too.
With regard to specing a Bandit chipper build I would say ask the factory for anything you want and think it should have. Every chipper salesman I've ever talked to trying to gain info wanted me to buy that day, and - what was on the lot that day.
My next...
Have you looked at the tread about small tree work set ups? One or more people have posted about using push to the back yard chippers or shredders. Asking them about performance could give you an idea. The smallest I've used is a Bandit 6 inch.
Anything you think you want to buy and use I...
This was some time ago 2017 or something. A Bandit 90XP. Bandit is happy to add lots of custom options you just need to get in there build line up, about 3 months at that time, and know to ask for each thing. They name off some options but many they don't.
An adjustable chute - important...
Good points. Actually it occurred to me after my post I would consider your thoughts to be top notch if I were looking for a light weight chipper and would only use Arbtalk to catch any other points about that class of chippers that I hadn't thought of. I researched chippers for over a year...
If you wanted a Euro chipper and wanted what would suit you best there is probably years of info stored up on threads on the Euro Arb Forum. Forget the name of that one - suspect Mick could tell us.
Not too germain to a lot of what is being talked about here but, this 45° elbow is something I put on the end of my 90XP chute to place chips closer to the side of the machine or right down into a garbage can. I have a smaller one that I used on my 60AW chipper and I had a awning company sew...
Yes it does. So, if you're happy with three sharpens from Bevel Buddy and toss the knives that problem is solved.
I'll do a little more testing and calculating to see what works for me. Previously using an Accusharp type knife sharpener did have knives come back from being ground with some...
Of the places where I ask to leave chips on site I would say between half and 2/3 say yes. I have lots of people close who want chips and I'm often giving them away as a favor.
I'll get a picture of a 90° elbow of culvert pipe I sometimes use to shoot chips into a trash can or right beside the...
I would never bid a job or make final working plan from a picture but, it appears I could do my tie in point well above the top of picture frame in your post number #12. I would install top of a speed line rope below my tie in point anchoring one leg to base of the tree. Then go out to area...
Okay, so three questions. One is, do you notice any degradation of pulling power from new knife sharp to 2nd or 3rd time sharp with Bevel Buddy? And two is, how much bevel is on the flat side of knives by your 3rd BB sharpening? Then, when you send knives out to be sharpened on a machine...
Randy hasn't posted in awhile so I'll ask @VenasNursery what would you say the thinking is of not sharpening the cutting edge and only putting the grind on the flat side of the knife - thus adding backbevel?
So this is me trying to photographicly catch the backbevel that my Accusharp knife sharpening version has always put on knives. This is after about 100 hrs use and dressing the knife had it chip some better each time but progressively degraded the ability of knife to pull in material.
While the "Garden Version" just rode along the flat edge of the knife without cutting a backbevel. This is what I've always wanted.
Now for the test...this is a new knife edge with only 10 or 15 hours chipping on it. So when it does decline in chipping I'll dress it with this Garden version...
The Accusharp "Garden Sharp" tool has carbide on only one side for hoes and etc that have one bevel. The other side is steel that just slides along flat side of chipper knife not cutting a back bevel.