Chipper chute pictures

[Tom Dunlap]

I have a favor to ask

I’d like to collect pictures of the infeed table/chute for brush chippers and the number of hours on the machine.

If the chipper has been repainted let me know and approximate hours

please compose the picture so that there is mostly chipper unit from straight behind

thanks.

 

[Merle Nelson]

Coming next time I'm set up correctly.

 

[Bucknut]

Here ya go Tom.


537 hours. Original paint.

 

[Merle Nelson]

I'll have a picture that will look almost identical on a Bandit 90 with close to the same hours.

 

[Serf Life]

Bandit 100 or maybe 200+, no serial number and 2nd engine, says 900hrs... prob original paint

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Thanks!

I’d like to get pics of larger chippers

 

[Z'sTrees]

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Bandit 100 or maybe 200+, no serial number and 2nd engine, says 900hrs... prob original paint

Those feedwheels look crazy.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Those feedwheels look crazy.

I had a chipper of that era. The knives in the rollers had worn down and wouldn’t grab. I bought new ones that were straight not spiraled. A bit of torch work notched out the old ones. Then I welded in the new knives. Worked great!

 

[Serf Life]

They pull all of the brush to the left so it feeds better to the disc @z’sTrees . She’s old and heavy but makes beautiful chips, put a JD 80 turbo it it which sips fuel.

Finally replaced the anvil this weekend, then had a no-start (right after it came back from the mechanics fixing a fuel pump leak), so pulled the starter (PIA) and had it repaired yesterday. Changing thermostat and doing a coolant change next weekend. Lost a trailer spring last fall, had a tire blow right before that, feed wheel motor died last summer......

Cheap upfront is generally expensive in the long run, but a good learning experience.

 

[Z'sTrees]

Interesting, Ive got a similar era bandit judging by the infeed design but my wheels are just straight bars, not toothed or angled.

 

[Reach]

Here’s a 2007 Bandit 1590, before they grew into an 18” machine. This one has 6048.4 hours at time of photo, and I believe it has never been repainted. We’ve only had it a couple years, so I can’t guarantee it’s not been painted, but judging by the fading on top, I am pretty confident it has not been.

 

[theatertech87]

What's your purpose? I could get pictures and hours from the fleet... Probably 20-25 chippers, mostly bandit 12 to 21 inch (I think whatever a bandit 1990 is) id guess the average hours is somewhere in the 3-4000 ranges

 

[Tom Dunlap]

A number of years ago an arborist I knew was pulled through a chipper. That got me thinking of many things

there have been some active safety systems designed my manufactures. TCIA has a training program too

My thoughts went to a passive warning system of some kind

The two color diagonal stripe safety scheme came to mind. I’ll should find out the history of that. Anyway, it seems that painting infeed chutes with the two color diagonal stripe...white with either red or black...would be there all of the time to remind operators not to put body parts inside the chute.

After I had the idea I asked all the chipper builders at Expo what they thought of my idea. I didn’t get any sort of interest. A couple said it wouldn’t hold up because the paint would get chipped off. as anyone knows, and the pics show, there’s always some part of the chute that holds paint

At that time I got out of running my production company so the idea got shelved

My goal is to share a passive safety idea not to make the painted stripes mandatory. The next time a chipper comes up for painting I’d suggest the stripes.

 

[theatertech87]

I'll wander around the yard and see what I can find for high hours chippers and see how the paints held up. I know none of them off them have been repainted in the feed pan in the 9 years I've been at the company

 

[cerviarborist]

Try pasting photos of the people you want to come home to at the end of the day on the upper parts of the inside of the chute.

 

[theatertech87]

Both around 5100 hours, bandit 1990 and a morbark hurricane

 

[Jehinten]

Woodchuck wc17 the hour meter broke at 3800, so hrs are unknown. I dont believe the infeed chute has been painted. Although an older machine, this label was put on at some point and is still quite visible, although not in the infeed.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Putting one of those decals on both sides but inside the chute would be more visible and probably more effective

 

[theatertech87]

Bandit 1290 and 1890 with 8000 and 9700 hours respectively which should be the oldest chippers still in the fleet

so if you stick decals in the upper half of the indeed they should last a long time. Also most of our chippers have warnings on the outside from the factory

 

[RopeShield]

Chemical etch skull and bones. noble pursuit @Tom Dunlap