Re: Want to buy 20in used chipper-- any suggestion
Dan, I'm geting a feeling of Deja Moo here, weve been through this before.
But I'll try and give you a fair response again - of the online community I can recall, rfwoodvt, Ctbeast, WileyP, Koa - they all sing the praises of their coneheads.
As to Demo saying he prefers morbark, so what? I prefer husqvarna - does that mean their better than stihl? its just his preference - as bandit is yours.
I would like to know what model morbark Demo was comparing the conehead to. He says the morbark would take 32" - that means its a bloody huge chipper, as the smallest morbark to take that kind of dia. would be a 30/36
http://www.morbark.com/Equipment/SpecSheets/30.36WTC.pdf
a significantly bigger machine than the biggest conehead, with up to 450hp.
But hey, Earl Smith, the owner of Dynamic chippers, was the cheif engineer/designer at morbark for 27 years, so I would expect some commonality.
Your comments on them being overpriced and under capacity, is this just your opinion or have you facts and figures to show me?
I do know, that size for size, the coneheads have bigger (up to 40%) infeeds than all competitors.
for comparison, a bandit 250xp has 240 square inches of cutting infeed vs 255 on the DC50.
A 280XP HD bandit has 360"sq vs 504"sq on a 500 series conehead.
Pricing, i wouldent know what US retail prices are.
As to 'word on the street', again can you back that up?
If you look at the video I posted, the 500 series is blowing chips about 60' - and thats on fresh felled, fully limbed pine. on the piece of poplar, the chips are going about 80'
Koa, who does huge amounts of palms, says that his DC50 is impossible to plug- and he, like myself has used a great deal of chipers.
its our company's.
