Chipper/trailer combo

[jim454]

One drawback is the heavy tongue weight.

Found a vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ioVVcTlG1E

 

[southsoundtree]

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One drawback is the heavy tongue weight.

Found a vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ioVVcTlG1E

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Looks pretty sweet.

What kind of truck do you think you need for that thing, fully loaded, safely?

 

[treeweaver]

I looked into that unit two year ago and the Bandit rep told me that a one ton dually is not enough by the time you have chipped into the box.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Jim,

Yup...I've widened my search a bit. If it was me making the decision we'd have a Bandit 6"

The catch is that I don't have a dedicated pickup for chips. We have a couple that stay in common use.

The U doesn't buy much used iron so the price is a factor. If I was making the decision I'd buy a used Bandit and mate it to a dump box trailer. It would be quite easy and inexpensive to have a nice unit.

We can dump all of the chips on campus so our drive time is short. A small box would not be a limiter. Even a box that holds a yard would work well. this would keep the whole unit quite compact and light.

But...I'm not in the decision making place.

 

[treebing]

a guy I did some contract work for here had one of those units and a huge drawback was there was no backing it p into driveways so the brush had to be drug all the way to the curb. big big drawback

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Why couldn't it be backed up?

Shoot...the chipper that I had was a MONSTER. From the bumper of the dump truck to the back of the infeed chute was 42'. The truck was a 4 speed without power steering. I could parallel park that unit as long as I kept a bit of momentum. If it stopped moving it almost took two of us to turn the wheel

 

[treebing]

because the box is behind the chipper. the box can get backed up but then the brush would have to be dragged around to the side of the machine.

 

[treebing]

A lot of driveways there is not enough room to drag around to the side so the best option was to have the machine at the end of the driveway at the curb with the hopper pivoted facing up the driveway. That extra 30 feet of dragging can be huge.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Ohhhh...I didn't realize that it was a side-feed. Having the chipper on a rotating table would be ideal!

 

[Eric_E]

I worked with one a while back. The ability to stack brush in a "fan" around the chipper was nice, just rotate the chipper to the brush. You could also stack brush on both sides sometimes. we pulled it with a F-450 if i remember correctly. The biggest draw back was MPG when towing the "parachute" as we called it.

 

[treebing]

the chipper is on a rotating table but the box is not. the mechanics of that would be difficult.