Picked up a Bandit 65 this morning, not sure a good thing or not. Hopeful a good investment

colb said:
990-RC0839-421 Kohler CH740, 25 horsepower gas engine (Includes 3 year / 2,000 hour engine warranty) $ 2497.75
990-RC0949-531 Kohler CH980, 35 horsepower gas engine (Includes 3 year / 2,000 hour engine warranty) $ 3450.50
990-RC1194-775A Kohler CH1000, 37 horsepower gas engine (direct drive - NO clutch) (Model 65/75) (Includes 3
year / 2,000 hour engine warranty)
$ 3862.50
990-RC1166-747 Briggs & Stratton 27 horsepower gas engine $ 2420.50
990-RC0747-328 Vanguard 613477, 35 horsepower gas engine $ 3115.75

Don't ask where I got it, or if the pricing applies to guys like us.
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Where did you get it?
 
evo said:
Where did you get it?
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Smh, I get no respect... It was found on a midsommer's eve, five degrees paralaxed from a dead snorlaxe's axes. I pried it from the jowls of a sleeping (insert made up creature name), but misfortune showed its twisted visage and I unknowingly absconded into the lair of a (insert made up creature name here) hence I was trussed like a climber whose foot ascender hath met their multicender. I was caste into the infernal pit of gloom, ablaze with the void, where eyes of cerulean depths discerned my purpose. There, on a weathered stohn, the scroll of Bandit I unfurled to the chorus of maligned voices that still haunts me so.

Roughly translated, I googled that shit like a boss.
 
colb said:
Smh, I get no respect... It was found on a midsommer's eve, five degrees paralaxed from a dead snorlaxe's axes. I pried it from the jowls of a sleeping (insert made up creature name), but misfortune showed its twisted visage and I unknowingly absconded into the lair of a (insert made up creature name here) hence I was trussed like a climber whose foot ascender hath met their multicender. I was caste into the infernal pit of gloom, ablaze with the void, where eyes of cerulean depths discerned my purpose. There, on a weathered stohn, the scroll of Bandit I unfurled to the chorus of maligned voices that still haunts me so.

Roughly translated, I googled that shit like a boss.
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Outstanding!
 
That 23 hp engine will probably last forever. If it didn't for some reason like it had scored pistons or some such thing you would much rather put a 35 to 38 hp engine back on even if it took a bit of fabrication work.

@RopeShield put a 40 horse on his when an engine went bad.

I have a 65 AW that looks very similar and it is useful to save a longer branch or two to chip last so you clear the throat area of any small stuff as it chips through. Then I stop as the last foot or so is in the feed wheels, reverse it and leave it in the feed tray as I shut down the chipper to chip first the next round. That way nothing is left in the "void" to jam disk on start up.

Another great thing about that machine is how light it is and with a caster wheel on the tongue jack two guys can push it about anywhere to chip brush in place rather than drag the brush.
 
I bought a 12" pneumatic swivel caster from TSC for $45 that will bolt onto the bottom of my tongue, easy on and easy off when I want to roll my chipper around.

I took Merle's idea and changed it a bit.

Cleaning my shop, looking for a bracket I know I have for mounting the caster.


With a little MA, a light chipper can go lots of places.
 
oldoakman said:
A local guy here drags one behind his dump trailer in a tandem configuration.
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I have a 18' car hauler style trailer... I've toyed with the idea of loading both the chipper and mini on it, as its rated for the combined weight of the two machines. But living on a island has it perks, nothing is very far excluding the mainland.
 
southsoundtree said:
I bought a 12" pneumatic swivel caster from TSC for $45 that will bolt onto the bottom of my tongue, easy on and easy off when I want to roll my chipper around.

I took Merle's idea and changed it a bit.

Cleaning my shop, looking for a bracket I know I have for mounting the caster.


With a little MA, a light chipper can go lots of places.
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Tractor Supply company, 12", 450# rating.
Two bolts and nuts to attach, detach.IMG_20200227_132816823.webpIMG_20200227_133344981.webp
 
Thx for posting ur pictures. I’m lot more clear now what to do. I assume the it stays there pretty much permanently and u keep the factory jack where it is. I’ll try this. Hopefully the tire will never bottom out on my since my driveway have some crazy dips
 
A hard No.

Only when needed. Have yet to test it.

Might have to. Change the mounting to something stronger, but may not need to do so.

The casters holes are ever-so-close to the full width of the tongue. I round-filled the brackets on the top of the tongue to allow the bolts to fit, slightly out of parallel.

My chipper had very little tongue weight when the tongue is horizontal. As the tongue dips, I get a more tongue-weight. Tows great.
4400 pounds, so much more than a 65, and still more than a 90, IIRC.

When I test it, I'll report back.
 
That looks good Sean. Far easier than welding a different mount bracket further down on the jack itself. I'll bet if you keep your eyes open you will see some nuts with leverage for quick/easy on off at some point.
 
As the bolts don't protrude, I could have some small re-bar, or similar, welded onto the nuts and bolts heads as handles, saving need for the tools.
 
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