buying my first chipper

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I think that which brand of chipper that you buy is less important than being able to have it serviced well and reliably. An awesome chipper is worthless when it breaks down and you can't get it fixed. We have two Bandits 1590s and two Vermeer 1000s. The Bandits are good machines, but our local service provider sucks. We've had a couple MAJOR problems that were serious public safety issues and Bandit Industries has been horrible to deal with. I would not recommend buying a Bandit, in our area at least. Vermeer's reputation and ability to provide good customer service makes the difference.

Ultimately they all just turn brush into chips.

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great advice.

derail: Treebuzz needs a like button. derail over
 
Good choice. Are you buying new? One thing: the only 12" wood we may have run through ours would be willow or pine. Maybe. We baby ours to a degree (or maybe just don't beat it to sh!t), but most of the time a 12" is only gonna take 12" wood for so long. We chip everything up to 3-4" and save the bigger wood for firewood/lumber, unless its rotten, sh!t wood, or just soft wood.

I guess what I'm saying is, If your feeding big wood all the time, go a little bigger.
 
Despite my Dutch genetics I cant say Vermeer has impressed me. My local Sales Rep is a sweetheart and jumps through rings of fire for her customers, but I would be hard pressed to buy another from them (she didnt sell me my PC1000 another yokel did, PC is self explanetory)

Mine is/was a 2002 bought in Jan 2007 with 1200ish hours on it. Price paid $18000 CAD. I have since spent over $32k in repairs, $6k last year alone. If down time was half as much its been a really expensive machine.

Loralee is a great person, but I dont know if i can buy the machines she sells.

We are replacing the PC1000 and the strongest replacement candidate is Carlton for service, Morbark for preference.
 
we have a certified CAT dealership here and they service all kubota engines along with others. id have to check with them to see what they can fix if anything breaks. i see some other people here running vermeers and makes me wonder where they go for parts.
 
Yeah from what I've heard those older bc1000's weren't very good, I'm still not a vermeer fan, but ours hasn't treated us nearly as bad as yours. But like I said if your going to buy one make sure you get replacements for all of the electrical switches and sensors, hell make it part of the deal with the salesman.
 
I'm looking at buying a vermeer 1400. I just sold a bc 1800 wt a 170 hp jd diesel. thought the 1400 would be a good choice.I like vermeer and service is good in ri ma ct.I must admit that the morbarks look good as well.
 
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Despite my Dutch genetics I cant say Vermeer has impressed me. My local Sales Rep is a sweetheart and jumps through rings of fire for her customers, but I would be hard pressed to buy another from them (she didnt sell me my PC1000 another yokel did, PC is self explanetory)

Mine is/was a 2002 bought in Jan 2007 with 1200ish hours on it. Price paid $18000 CAD. I have since spent over $32k in repairs, $6k last year alone. If down time was half as much its been a really expensive machine.

Loralee is a great person, but I dont know if i can buy the machines she sells.

We are replacing the PC1000 and the strongest replacement candidate is Carlton for service, Morbark for preference.

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Hi Josh, What would be the percentage of palm chippng opposed to more woody material? Just thinking, you are in Hawaii and wondering how much of your chipping is palm.
We only run Morbark's. If I couldn't get one, I would get a Bandit. Anyway, with palm, their is a space between the lower roller feed shaft and bearing. If you got a bunch of palm and you don't notice the fiber's wrapping around the space between the bearing, you will push that bearing out. Even watching and preparing to reverse the feed, it wrap's and in reverse just frustrates you. The new drum lock, hate it. Vibration is sometimes a problem. The hinges on the engine access panel fail early. Better to chip with the Belly pan open, I love Morbark tho!

Jeff
 
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we have a certified CAT dealership here and they service all kubota engines along with others. id have to check with them to see what they can fix if anything breaks. i see some other people here running vermeers and makes me wonder where they go for parts.

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Cat bought out Perkins. It could say Cat on the outside and be a Perkins.
Jeff
 
I have a bandit 14in 254 130 horse and love it. It's good for big and small jobs. The winch comes in handy when you need to suck in big limbs to. I used the winch alot in last years storms. I was glad to have it. like the others have said for the soft woods you can practically chip the whole tree.
 
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