I just received a certified letter from Vermeer, Product safet alert Bc1400 drum retention kit.
In nice bold letters DRUM MAY EXIT MACHINE
The cutter drum support bearings may fail allowing the drum to drop in the cutter housing. If this failure occurs, the drum blades may strike the shear bar resulting in the drum exiting the machine.
Just one more reason to stand off the side when feeding brush, of course I learned that using a bandit 250 which had a habit of shooting out chunks when large diameter wood was fed. /forum/images/graemlins/bigcry.gif
In nice bold letters DRUM MAY EXIT MACHINE
The cutter drum support bearings may fail allowing the drum to drop in the cutter housing. If this failure occurs, the drum blades may strike the shear bar resulting in the drum exiting the machine.
Just one more reason to stand off the side when feeding brush, of course I learned that using a bandit 250 which had a habit of shooting out chunks when large diameter wood was fed. /forum/images/graemlins/bigcry.gif
