old school vs. new school chippers

PurdueJoe

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Guys,
This is going to sound like a pretty dumb question to most of you old timbers but being a young pup I've had the advantage of only using wheel feed drum chippers with all the bells and whistles (auto feed, whinch, safety bars etc,) can anyone give me an idea of what to expect when using the old school chuck and duck and the differences between the two????
Joe
 
Here's two: When feeding wood, be sure to use your cat-like reflexes on the piece that gets spit back at your head. And, don't chip brush with long vines attached, or if you must, learn from my pain and wear a cup! (still hurts thinking about it!!) /forum/images/graemlins/blush.gif
 
MasterBlaster,

You and my Prof. should hang out you guys have the same sense of humor. By the way the site is a hit up here with all the guys in general forestry love old school picks.
Joe
 
Looks like we both need to get cups then Joe. I hope everything works out for the two of us. I'm telling you joe if we get a storm close by this summer then two trucks two chippers and two young guys road trip.
 
You have been spoiled. If you are working with the cadillac chippers now, nothing will be good enough.

BTW Harvey does have a since of humor. Good guy, I have the utmost respect for him.
 
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MasterBlaster,

You and my Prof. should hang out you guys have the same sense of humor. By the way the site is a hit up here with all the guys in general forestry love old school picks.
Joe

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Ha. My lifelong best friend is a college professor in psycology. And I'm glad ya'll like my site!

But I was serious about employing a rotating pivot. I also instinctively block my face/midline with my forearm. Both moves are martial arts movements that I use to keep from getting hit in the face.
 
Yeah, Harvey is the man!!! He just managed to pull off getting a chip truck for the arboriculture club(PSSA). Hook that up to the BC200XL and us students will have it made.
 
with drum chippers it is all in the follow through. when you put the limb always look away or you will get cat claw marks on your face. Ouch!! It only takes once before you learn your lesson.
Disc chippers with feeder rollers are my prefference, that way you get nicer chips or giving away or selling.
 
I think all tree guys should get a taste of weeping willow through an old asplundh whipper chipper, hot day no shirt, - yes master can I have another

They really named them whisper chipper's! I thought they kinda had a whiney sound. heres a pic of my homemade whipper chipper had a 4sp and reverse wer called it the "sander" /forum/images/graemlins/laughing.gif
 

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that's a classic dave, reminds me of 70's. i was a little kid learning to "feed" a 64 asplundh. it was 18 degrees. i was cold (thought i was to tough to bundle-up) and whack! right across the nose. knocked my hard and goggles off. making matters worse, this was the only chipper in the area. we often had some spectators. thank god for feed rollers.
 

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We recently invested in a new chipper do to those cat like reflexes. Growing tired of cat scratches up and down arms and faces. To the buzzers on here that know yes to the cup, heck use a hockeys goalies set and mabey you can come out of it with minimal scratches. Yes TNT I think they should get the taste of a good ol weeper( iin a chipper rename whipper willow).
 
We just sold the old Morbark Eeger Beaver, thank god! It was awesome for chipping live spruce boughs but anything hardwood related or larger than 3 inches was most likely coming back at Mach 5! Those old chuck and ducks are great for powerline trimming where you can fire the chips back to the woods, but sketchy for residential.

Years ago we were contracted to the Calgary municipality doing city trees, and one of the city 'oversee-ers' who thought he knew everything and was invincible to everything, without warning stepped up on the chuck and duck tongue to look into the back of the truck...he caught the full brunt of what that machine had to give! Lesson learned, probably not!
 

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