RopeShield
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
How about a rebuild? Any one take their 65 for a rebuild after 15 plus yrs of service?
Small Hand fed Chipper
- Thread starter RopeShield
- Start date
If no alternator then stator with regulator and rectifier, no?
chris_girard
Branched out member
- Location
- Gilmanton, N.H.
Found out it's the altinator.
Merle Nelson
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- SF Bay Area, CA
Ahh, good find. Satisfing to have something like that behind you and be back to good operation.
- Location
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
I have the Vermeer bc700"xl" it has a clutch similar to a skidoo, it engages when you rev it up.
Broke apart around 180 hours I think. Shabby design for a chipper. Works great until it breaks tho.
There may have been some operator error involved, got overheated a bit I think.
RopeShield
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
We went with the Wallenstein CR70. Picked it up today from Coleman Equipment in Ayr, Ontario.
Thanks Dan Cayer at Coleman and Matt at Wallenstein.
Thanks Dan Cayer at Coleman and Matt at Wallenstein.
RopeShield
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
jim454
Participating member
- Location
- The land of Utopia
jim454
Participating member
- Location
- The land of Utopia
Just shy of a $5500 investment. Mainly used as a back up chipper. I'm well satisfied.
jim454
Participating member
- Location
- The land of Utopia
And here's my little Morbark. A 10"x10" infeed. A 35 HP engine, it has been rebuilt once. I've been running it since 2006. Just had it painted for the second time.
jim454
Participating member
- Location
- The land of Utopia
BTW, both chippers are direct drive. My philosophy, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
RopeShield
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
No, it has an interesting spring mechanism to allow wood to feed.
needs a good sharp push and grabs great. The dual feed roller is awesome compared to the single feed wheel. 10x better. My old bandit was two person chipper, to push and wrestle limbs in. CR70 basically brush goes in as big as you want/what it can crunch and within reason it gobbles it all up.
I impressed very pleased.
TCtreeswinger
Branched out member
Jim are you the guy who runs around town in half ton pickups with aluminum dump inserts?
Bucknut
Carpal tunnel level member
Very interesting. Some AWD cars (including my own) use a similar coupling instead of a mechanical transfer case. I’ve heard it called a “viscous coupling”. My understanding is that the fluid viscosity changes with rotational force, i.e. gets thicker and makes the connection between components.
I wouldn’t necessarily write it off as inferior. I’ll just let someone else try it first.
Congrats on the chipper. Nice setup for many jobs.
RopeShield
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
CR70 Wallenstein ate a whole lot of Sugar Maple HAF! both dead and green.
Fluid Coupler works great. smooth feed, no hard stops or stalls or jumps or drops in engine performance. Just nice and smooth.
My guess is manufactures are not using this fluid clutch is that is expensive.Engine repairs and replacemnts can be expensive. My last engine blew up and had to replace quite a few rocker arms and push pins over the yrs.
Fluid Coupler works great. smooth feed, no hard stops or stalls or jumps or drops in engine performance. Just nice and smooth.
My guess is manufactures are not using this fluid clutch is that is expensive.Engine repairs and replacemnts can be expensive. My last engine blew up and had to replace quite a few rocker arms and push pins over the yrs.
tex-moto
New member
- Location
- SoutherN MD
Don’t know if this falls in small category and recent quote was $34.5k plus tax. I’m not a full time tree guy, more of a wanna be but rented a Vermeer bc100xl the other day with a 3.0L gasser and other than rpms that sounded like a nascar, it worked pretty well. Horizontal single feed wheel and took everything green or dry 10” or even bigger with no problems.
