The most wrecked chipper knives I've ever seen.

[Matias]

The knives had been changed about a week earlier. I think they may have forced a t-post through within a pile of brush and branches, feeding it with a Bobcat T86. I had gone home early that day, and the rest of the crew all got fired the next day. I have never seen that kind of carnage. The clutch was roasted, and several several other significant metal components were just snapped in two.

 

[cory]

Geez

 

[Treezybreez]

That looks worse than my lawn mower blades!

 

[RyanCafferky]

Wow. Impressive.

 

[Bendroctanus]

They got fired for it? Man. That’s rough all the way around.

 

[RyanCafferky]

With that kind of damage it looks like they wanted to be fired.

 

[evo]

I have a hard time thinking that was a tee post. The metal is fairly soft and knives are pretty hard but an alloy that’s designed to not shatter. The gouges makes me think a quartz bolder or some hardened steel went through the machine.

 

[Phil]

This is the result of the rope winch on the chipper getting sucked in...had a steel hook on the end of the line.

 

[Matias]

They got fired for it? Man. That’s rough all the way around.

That was just the straw that broke the camels back. From my second hand knowledge of things, it does seem that one of the guys was probably trying to get fired. I don't think he understands how unemployment works. There are some layers to the story, and it was not a one off event

 

[evo]

This is the result of the rope winch on the chipper getting sucked in...had a steel hook on the end of the line.

Seeing damage like this over the years is what makes me think whatever went through that chipper wasn’t steel

 

[Chris Schultz]

Yikes, good way to start a fire in the chip box, fuck up a chipper, AND loose your job… brutal

 

[RyanCafferky]

My crew did a small chipping job this week and the next day we changed the blades. On one of the blades there was a chip on the cutting edge about the size of half a dime. Was a new set of blades when we installed them. The customer called and asked why we didn’t do a better job on the brush cleanup. I told them that we chip brush and when we start encountering rocks, bricks, and construction debris we stop chipping.

He said he would pay us to come back with the dump trailer and root grapple to finish the job.

 

[flushcut]

Seeing damage like this over the years is what makes me think whatever went through that chipper wasn’t steel

I will agree. Having seen my old chipped eat a T post. That damage looks like rock or concrete by how the metal looks abraded.

 

[Matias]

Seeing Phils pictures, I am inclined to believe it was concrete. There was an old driveway at that site that should have been part of the first phase of cleanup, and I could see chunks of that getting to where we were working

 

[southsoundtree]

I think that I spend more time prepping since I don't have 3 groundies waiting on brush to hit the ground.


Proper Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance.


I try to apply this more as I grow.

Washing a machine and cleaning your working area before working on them helps.

Cleaning and prepping a work site feels similar.

 

[Bendroctanus]

This is the result of the rope winch on the chipper getting sucked in...had a steel hook on the end of the line.

Ouch.

Being the one that changes the blades on my own chipper, that just plain pains me to look at. Holy crap.

 

[Bendroctanus]

Proper Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance

This needs to be mass produced on t-shirts and stickers. That is gold.

 

[Bendroctanus]

That was just the straw that broke the camels back. From my second hand knowledge of things, it does seem that one of the guys was probably trying to get fired. I don't think he understands how unemployment works. There are some layers to the story, and it was not a one off event

That makes sense. Lame that he would handle it that way.

 

[Bendroctanus]

Seeing Phils pictures, I am inclined to believe it was concrete. There was an old driveway at that site that should have been part of the first phase of cleanup, and I could see chunks of that getting to where we were working

 

[27RMT0N]

Sometimes I like doing a good portion of my work alone as the owner, and only having one employee who I actually trust to take good care of the equipment....