Best chipper

[cody willard]

These are numbers you’ve read or measured? My rep told me 6gph with 15xp 6.2 Ford but I haven’t kept track, for no good reason…

I requested the quality control sheet for my chipper from factory.

It actually tested a little better on fuel consumption compared to what a RSG-862 distributor told me.

 

[96coal449]

Oil level is going up which means that diesel is ending up in the oil somehow. Could be caused by multiple things. I’ll likely have it in a shop this week sometime to get started on a diagnosis. I’m heading to Klamath Falls in the morning to pick up a chipper that I’m borrowing to buy some time while we figure out our next move.

Leaky injectors.

If the rest of the chipper is in good shape, consider a rental till all is sorted out.

 

[96coal449]

Bandit or Morbark... nothing EL:SE in the chipper department

I loves the Morbarks and Bandits.
I would not discount Rayco or Dynamic. Shame the coneheads are out of production.

 

[Willber]

@27RMT0N The V8 BVR16 seems to chip pretty fast for that big log. What engine arrangement and displacement is in your Bandit?

@cody willard Interesting about HP being more imperative for big logs and torque for brush, makes a lot of sense.
The naturally aspirated, inline 4, 2.2L 50HP Cat diesel engine in my BC1000XL, with 3100hrs, gets good fuel economy, and can chip a 11inch log considerably fast, for a small engine.
It seems production and consumption of diesel is better for the environment.
The idea about sulfur pollution seems insignificant, given the massive release of sulfur from volcanoes worldwide.
Diesels seem to have greater performance potential and sustainability.

I thing i never understood was that all non-hydraulic chutes, have pin set point that innately, can only offer limited incremental degree of positioning. It'd be nice to see at a clamp style "brake" set system of chutes, for near infinite degree positioning. Which is kinda essential when chipping into the locale, for one of many reasons, avoiding debarking an adjacent tree trunk.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

near infinite degree positioning.

Using a starter motor and flywheel ring gear mechanism or chain drive wouldn't be hard to fabricate.

 

[Boomslang]

I thing i never understood was that all non-hydraulic chutes, have pin set point that innately, can only offer limited incremental degree of positioning. It'd be nice to see at a clamp style "brake" set system of chutes, for near infinite degree positioning. Which is kinda essential when chipping into the locale, for one of many reasons, avoiding debarking an adjacent tree trunk.

 

[Willber]

@Tom Dunlap Yes, for an attached or tethered system like on the chain drives. But, for the sliding turret that has free hand movement, for quick rotation, like the BC100XL, a brake clamp would be like the best of both worlds, that should be a standard option, for all chippers, for the incentive of chipping back onto the locale.

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Yes, but not as fast and convenient as say a table saw fence quick clamp.
I really like the quick easy full rotating of the BC1000XL chute. Maybe I could make a brake clamp for the chute.

 

[evo]

Eh I ran one that had that style of clamping system. Still have to watch it as it will drift.

 

[96coal449]

How about just a larger ''ring gear'' with smaller pin points?

 

[Merle Nelson]

That's what Bandit does. As stock they did leave non pin areas around a significant percentage of the ring. For $75 or so more you could get equidistant holes 360° around. On a disk chipper which can throw chips equally hard all the way around a no brainer.

 

[Treetopflyer]

If needed , we will slightly adjust in between settings with moving the chipper with tow vehicle or machine if it’s unhooked. I started with a 6 inch chuck n duck you had to adjust shoot by this method only so as to not pack just one side of the truck