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No grinder on a mini is going to be worth crap. No grinder on a normal skidloader is any good yet either.

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Depends on what your grinding dude and where.

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Heres some junk I saw recently, Conehead chipper, and the Beaver squeezer grapple. Also, notice this, the retards that build this junk also can't come up with good names.

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Youve used this equipment?, id assume yes since you have such a strong opinion. the beaver squeezer is very well built ive seen it in use. cant comment on Conehead cuz I never seen one.

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Chippers: go with Brush Bandit, only.

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FWIW bandits are the biggest POS chippers Ive ever had the misfortune of using. Morbark or Woodsman!







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There's an old saying 'opinions are like ar-eholes everyone's got one, and it usually stinks'

Here's mine on chippers, Woodchuck USED to have one of the best built units, they're starting to slack off. Vermeer puts the least amount of steel to their units and they rust just about the fastest. Morbark and Bandit are simply variations of a similar theme.

Mini skids are a commodity of great value for small time operations, like myself, who don't care to have a revolving door for labour. If we face the facts all tree service companies gripe about labour resources, this machine will provide the productivity of a number of employees at a fraction of the cost/headache.
 
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Hee, hee.

Actually I think those mini's seem pretty useful, I always have been amazed at how much they lift. And they should be a great investment for smaller operators especially. I do doubt that a stump grinder attachment will be very productive. I am not changing my view on minis, I have always thought they were good.

Tophopper,

I don't know how you can say Bandits are P.O.S.? Did you own a 250 years ago when the cutting angle was wrong?

Morbark should be pretty good by now, but at least 5 years ago they still had some things to improve to match the bandits, I thought.

I saw the beaver squeezer in action, it worked fine in action. I just looked at it up close how it was built and didn't like how frail things appeared. My skidloader would snap it off I think with the size stuff we move with it. It wouldn't hold up to the abuse I'm sure of it.

I think Vermeer tries to build too much different equipment and doesn't specialize in anything and nothing they have is very good. They've been around a long time but their stump grinders and chippers still suck. /forum/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

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Thats cool X, Like Mangoes says everbody's got an opinion.

I havent run a Bandit in quite some time, but I never enjoyed it when I did. What i hated the most was how simply the feed wheels always got stopped up. I have noticed they seem to better built than they used to be, but I have never had nothin but headaches running Bandits.
I have a 2000 morbark 2090, only a 9" but it suits me fine. Have never had any troubles with it in 5 yrs (biting tongue). With the excpetion of a few drum model chippers (13,17) from the early 90's era ive always thought morabrks are great, thats why i bought one. Woodsmans are great too but so dang big,
vermeer, well, they sure do look nice.

Reagrding a mini mounted grinder, it has its place, I do alot of small and medium sized TKO's, and some big ones too. Youre right it would be a joke to grind a huge stump with it, but there are lots of other stumps to be had. From time to time i will do a foundation planting tearout and replanting with new mulch, edging the works, a mini mounted grinder is perfect for this. Not only can I grind the stumps of the old plants, but i can then use the mini to move material to or from the truck or street. This is just but one place I see it useful.
 
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Speaking of build quality.......

TNT, I was speaking with a arborist to whom I do some sub-contract work for. He and I are of similar minds always looking for the new toy....er productive piece of equipment. He said he saw your grapple at TCI, but in HIS opinion, he was unimpressed with the lack of bushings at your pivot points. Thoughts?
 
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"beaver squeezer"

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Whats in a name -- 2-3 years ago there was only implemax -- now all us knuckledraggers know of another skid grapple

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"My skidloader would"

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How many of you ever seen the uncensored Don Blair -- Uke Man/ Oak Man Dog & Pony show?
Skidloader tree guys definenatly Uke Man
Articulating loader Tree guys = Oak man

Do You know what I mean, Give it a name
 
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I think that you're missing Don's point about Euc v Oak.

Too often people think that Eucs are nothing but hacks, woodticks or hillbillies. Not the case if you read the poem carefully. Euc is rough and tough where rough and tough is needed. They're skilled at what they do and they do a great job. They're equal to their partners who work with smaller, quieter tools, the Oaks.

The relationship is yin and yang not superior/inferior like too often is interpreted.
 
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Yeh I fretted about putting grease fittings on all the journals, but than I thought what the Hell keep it simple. My oldest grapple has never been greased. It is a little sloppy at the pivots but still works fine with about 3~4 years on it. Johnny has my original very crude prototype it has to have the most time on it 5 years? maybe
How bout it Tophopper hows that greaseless Bi___ holdin up? (might be sorry I asked this Question)

Already have plans for drilled bolts with grease fittings on the next batch of grapples, and I'll send upgrades to all BMG owners who want them.

Check out this comedic video, dialuppers bware
 

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Didn't mean no disrespect, I consider myself mostly Uke and proud of it, The biz side mixes the oak side into me. You must of seen the same uncensored show at STSC back at the turn of the century remember the uproar? I thought it was a great presentation.
 
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That would of made more sense for sure, but what you don't see is a pile of wood to the right, we just drove her right over the pile and dropped her. If I grabbed the butt end we would of had to spin her around to pile it, maybe could of done it with only two guys hangin on though /forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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I think Vermeer tries to build too much different equipment and doesn't specialize in anything and nothing they have is very good. They've been around a long time but their stump grinders and chippers still suck. /forum/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

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Hi,

We work with a BC2000 chipper. It works very good! We feed it with a mobile crane and not the usual crane thats mounted. (its removed at ours) Its been converted to all remote control hydrolics. A simular type of chipper from morbark cant keep up the amount of work that we do with it. Also we made some changes to the chipknives so we can use them much longer after sharpening each time. (the 5 holes are cuttered out so we can slide the knives more to the counterknive)
 

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R Schra,

Is the BC2000 a vermeer I guess? I'm not familar with their model numbers. So you like it huh? Okay. Is that an 18" diam. model? Well, if it's vermeer, there's one vote that vermeer is good. What's the remote control hydrolics for, so the crane operator can work the chipper too? Hmmm, sometimes while feeding my chipper with the skidloader, I wished I could control the chipper too...

TNT,
I'm lost maybe, you are actually producing a grapple? They are for the minis? That's cool if you do.
 
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Ive heard the 1800 and 2000 were good vermeers, havn't heard real good things about any of their other models tho, Its all hearsay to me, I've never ever used vermeer chipper.

X-man, yep a lightwieght grapple just for mini loaders
also work'in with Greg Good on a Hyd GRCS attachment
 
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R Schra,

Is the BC2000 a vermeer I guess? I'm not familar with their model numbers. So you like it huh? Okay. Is that an 18" diam. model? Well, if it's vermeer, there's one vote that vermeer is good. What's the remote control hydrolics for, so the crane operator can work the chipper too? Hmmm, sometimes while feeding my chipper with the skidloader, I wished I could control the chipper too...



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Yep, its a Vermeer as you can see in the pic attached. It can take about 50cm diameter. The remote control operates the feeding in/out/stop, the blastpipe left/right and the nozle up/down. Indeed its for the crane operator to adjust if needed so a man can do other things as standing near the machine all day. We tried several chippers in this size but the Vermeer did best and is easiest to service as far i have seen and done. The problems we did encounter (broken feeding hydromotors, heating engine) are due to (lack of)daily maintenance and a brutal crane operator.

My 'daily'chipper for treecare is a Jensen with a 76Hp 4cil Hatz. This one is 280degrees turnable what is nice at roadworks. We tried several different to for this and the Jensen gave best performance so far.
 

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you is confusin this old arborist you say thats a vermeer? Looks more like a jenson cause Ive never heard of one or seen a chipper like the one u posted, looks cool though.
 
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you is confusin this old arborist you say thats a vermeer? Looks more like a jenson cause Ive never heard of one or seen a chipper like the one u posted, looks cool though.

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Huh, My mistake, i was referring to a previous post with that vermeer etc.


this pic
 
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