Euro tracked chippers.

Merle Nelson said:
Bandit used to produce trailer/chipper combos with 9 inch chipper. And I have seen truck/ chipper combos with the chipper feed table on right side and marketed as safer to feed (traffic).
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Was the chipper mounted between the cab and the chip box? Or was the chipper on the back with the side dump chip box in the middle?
 
oceans said:
Yes, you are not nuts. Haha!
Infeed table might be kinda high though???
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Fair point... One picture of one hair-brained idea doesn't exactly exonerate me.

Obviously table height would be variable based on the truck used. I've pictured something like an Isuzu NPR that seems to sit pretty low to the ground.
 
ATH said:
Was the chipper mounted between the cab and the chip box? Or was the chipper on the back with the side dump chip box in the middle?
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Rear box...tons of tongue weight when empty. Balance better when full. Max'ed with heavy chips might cause issue with too little tongue weight.
 
I delivered lumber for a company that ordered f550s on double cab chassis with only a single cab. That makes a space for a 4x8 foot lower deck height they used for transporting sheets of plywood.

Could be even more low space if ya slapped a cab over on a xcab chassis?

Always thought it would make a cool rig for a tree truck, could even fit a low small chipper maybe?
 
SeanRuel said:
I delivered lumber for a company that ordered f550s on double cab chassis with only a single cab. That makes a space for a 4x8 foot lower deck height they used for transporting sheets of plywood.

Could be even more low space if ya slapped a cab over on a xcab chassis?

Always thought it would make a cool rig for a tree truck, could even fit a low small chipper maybe?
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My mind’s eye is having a tough time with your description, though I think I get the gist. Is this a space for a few sheets where the frame rails dip down but the subframe and deck run straight from the height of the frame over the rear axle? Jeesh, just reading my own sentence hardly makes sense…

If I’m way off base, can you post a photo or drawing?
 
So would a chipper fit in the purple?
F550 can have a PTO from the driveshaft, right (usually used for a dump)?
 
In the case of my old Woodsman 750, the single top feed roll was awesome. No complaints there. However, the bottom feed roll on my current dual roller Morbark Twister 12 jams quite often, causing the top roller to run half speed.
 
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oceans said:
In the case of my old Woodsman 750, the single top feed roll was awesome. No complaints there. However, the bottom feed roll on my current dual roller Morbark Twister 12 jams quite often, causing the top roller to run half speed.
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When I was renting different models of Bandit chippers to test I picked up a 65XP that had dual rollers and I was chipping dead chestnut or something that would do alot of fracturing as it was chipped. This jammed the feedwheels to a stop and I had to reverse/ forward the feed so often it was just unworkable.

Posting on a thread or two here showed that lots of people all over the world were finding this to be an intolerable problem. Bandit found a fix in that they welded a second set of knives into the lower feed wheel. Wonder if this could make your twister function a lot better?
 
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