Chipper?

I have a 15x. Great machine. I’d grind and open up the feed wheel to make sure the castle nuts are snug and codder pinned.
 
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Gorman said:
I have a 15x. Great machine. I’d grind and open up the feed wheel to make sure the castle nuts are snug and codder pinned.
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How many hrs do you have. I know this sounds crazy but the one I’m looking at has 9000 and it looks great I was blown away when I looked at it
 
I bought mine a couple years ago and it had 200 hours. There were feedwheel issues but that was because the castle nuts were not properly installed by the factory. There were no codder pins in them and they backed off a bit and it caused slop and the key sheared. I like the design a lot. Very simple.
 
ITPM said:
How many hrs do you have. I know this sounds crazy but the one I’m looking at has 9000 and it looks great I was blown away when I looked at it
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I use one often as a sub and it's a badass machine. It's a 2002 with 2k+ hours on it with a John Deere diesel motor. Ive been using it for 3 years and haven't had a problem with it yet. I honestly love it other then it doesn't have a winch.
I personally am put off by how "boxed in" it is with all the shrouds, seems like a nightmare to try to get inside of it if you had to work on it, that's my only thing about it
 
Yeah I know what you mean, I have a bandit 1590 that self destructed the other day. My anvil came off at full rpm’s and went though the chipper and into my motor block. Other then that I couldn’t of asked for a better chipper. But the woodsman has a Perkins 188 and it isn’t hurt or beat up, I would of bought it the other day no problem till I saw it had 9000 hrs I really don’t know what to think about that
 
The entire machine has 9000 hours on it. What is loose on this one, after 9000 hours?

My chipper could have 9000 hours on it, as the hour meter didn't work very often, when I got it, 12 years ago, with 3400 hours, now over 4000. It runs like a champ, but, I always expect it can blow up anyday. It was cheap, and always was going to be a stepping stone, but just keeps eating. One cylinder is loosing a bit of compression.


Never heard of an honest 9000 hour count on a chipper. Even, having an old as F chipper, I'm hesitant at the idea, unless really cheap. Really cheap. Walk away from easily if it blows cheap. Could be anything, with 9000 hours.

Paint makes anything look good. I'm considering having mine painted are Richie Bros (neighbor had his feller-buncher painted and decaled for $2500, so I'm hoping $500), but think that might cause it to blow-up...
Zero paint would chip just as well, and last just as long.



Lipstick on a pig???...lipstick is cheap.
 
It’s has not been painted it’s still original paint but it just looks very clean and well-maintained. It is a great deal but I think I’m going to have my bandit rebuilt because it has been such an incredible machine. Today I got to take parts off and open up and look in the drum and don’t I think it did as much damage as I thought it did. Plus after pulling the woodsman around it was definitely heavier in the motor stuck out really far on the driver side
 
Not to dissuade the painters - I can completely understand the commercial sellability of freshly painted equipment... but used to in old life identify coat of fresh paint going with overhaul (we used to jokingly call painting liquid overhaul.. but now it’s a more than common thing to see paint without...)

But nothing brings confidence to workers like freshly painted bearing blocks cracking due to extreme cyclic loading...
 
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