What’s Your SMALLER Equipment Setup?

[Mick Dempsey]

In Europe, there's also these Skarper chippers, sold through dealers in the UK - not sure about N America - for the sake of completeness in the thread . . .

To misquote someone or other ‘I wouldn’t piss on it if it was on fire’

 

[Stumpsprouts]

This is my small chipper, a 1650 pound Timberwolf with a 35 HP kubota diesel.

Drool

I think a decent amount is regulations, too get a new motor for my chipper the only option in that size range available in gas in the US was the kohler ch1000, all the Hondas etc aren't imported to the US due to regulations, I was hoping to re-power with a honda.

You ended up using the kohler?

Had to replace the Briggs 35hp engine that came on my Carlton 1290 9” chipper. Called all around the tristate area and a few folks actually just laughed at me because of how long it was going to be to get a new one. This was June of last year.

Ended up finding a Duromax (not to be confused with Duramax) engine of equal specs for half the price available shipped from all the big box stores. Took some creative welding for the muffler to work but we got it on, and it’s done well. Looks to be the same specs as what you have too. Pretty decent engine but has its minor issues.

 

[Tree-Taylor]

Looking through my emails it was actually Skarper that was doing the re-design not Haecksler.

 

[Vicente]

Drool


You ended up using the kohler?

Had to replace the Briggs 35hp engine that came on my Carlton 1290 9” chipper. Called all around the tristate area and a few folks actually just laughed at me because of how long it was going to be to get a new one. This was June of last year.

Ended up finding a Duromax (not to be confused with Duramax) engine of equal specs for half the price available shipped from all the big box stores. Took some creative welding for the muffler to work but we got it on, and it’s done well. Looks to be the same specs as what you have too. Pretty decent engine but has its minor issues.

Yea took 4 months to get my motor it sucked, I'm almost tempted to buy another just to have a spare, they were 3 grand when I bought it they're up 30% now. One of the guys who works with me is friends with the owner of our local Kubota dealer so if I have to repower again I may try to go that route.

 

[Stumpsprouts]

Yea took 4 months to get my motor it sucked, I'm almost tempted to buy another just to have a spare, they were 3 grand when I bought it they're up 30% now. One of the guys who works with me is friends with the owner of our local Kubota dealer so if I have to repower again I may try to go that route.

Things are getting goofy out there.

 

[Barc Buster]

Well that escalated quickly. Looks like I’ll be demoing an Eliet prof 6 on Tuesday.

 

[southsoundtree]

Well that escalated quickly. Looks like I’ll be demoing an Eliet prof 6 on Tuesday.

Consider parts and warranty service.

 

[Barc Buster]

Consider parts and warranty service.

Fair but the dude from Eliet USA answered the phone on a Saturday at lunch time. So already ahead of Vermeer.

 

[treebing]

Well that escalated quickly. Looks like I’ll be demoing an Eliet prof 6 on Tuesday.

Really curious to hear how it goes.

 

[Barc Buster]

Really curious to hear how it goes.

I’ll try and take some pics and maybe a video. Although there are some good vids on yoohoo toob

Dude said he was swinging through Detroit before coming here. Half thought maybe he was stopping to see you.

 

[Barc Buster]

Jeremiah Sandler in Detroit has this compact setup:

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Met Jeremiah today! Him and Jack are super nice and seem to be doing tree care the right way. It’s right there in the name of their company. They hate that Jansen chipper though. Pretty safe to say there’s probably an Eliet Prof 6 in their near future.

 

[Barc Buster]

Really curious to hear how it goes.

Okay so I’ll preface this post by saying I was kind of expecting to be underwhelmed by the Eliet Prof 6. In a lot of the videos it seemed like it was pretty slow. I just got a very preconceived “semipro” vibe from the machine.

I expected to be pointing out how superior my Vermeer 935 is. To some extent that’s inherently true. I mean it’s foolish to expect a 4 inch 14hp chipper to compete with a 50hp diesel 9” chipper. Right? However, I came away from the demo today very impressed. So impressed I’m seriously considering purchasing a Prof 6 in the near future. I actually had a good time playing with both the wheeled and track units today with Joe from Eliet, Jeremiah, and Jack (from Tree First).

First I’ll speak to build quality. This machine is built like a tank! That 800 pound unit weight comes from lots of beefy steel in all the right places. I expect that it would hold up to many years of hard use. Having said that both units were very maneuverable. I could see them operating very well in tight quarters.

You’ll have to forgive my poor video skills. Here’s Joe from Eliet going over the shredder blades:

Couple of vids of it chewing through various sizes of box elder some in the 3-4” range:

Both machines got run around the yard which did include a relatively steep hill. I ran the wheeled Unit sideways across the hill to test how stable it was and it felt pretty solid. We ran it into some tall weeds and ran some bigger 4ish inch logs through the machine and it munched those up pretty well too.

I really like how open and easily accessible everything was on the machine. It would be pretty easy to work on and fix should anything go wrong with it. Pretty simple set up really. Notice how you can get a quick visual of the belt condition without removing the cover.

Joe also mentioned that they do have a soft bag attachment that would keep the chip mess confined to a green waste bin or paper yard waste bags. Seems like the discharge chute would feed mostly into a bin without it though. One thing worth noting is that the chute is plastic. Although it looks like some type of fiber reinforced plastic. The deflector was metal though.



The last thing I’ll mention is this machine could easily be used to pull a load of branches on an arbor trolley or even a bundle of branches with a rope tied around it. Seems like a super versatile unit.

 

[Tree-Taylor]

Met Jeremiah today! Him and Jack are super nice and seem to be doing tree care the right way. It’s right there in the name of their company. They hate that Jansen chipper though. Pretty safe to say there’s probably an Eliet Prof 6 in their near future.

I was wondering if they were behind Eliet being in your area! Great to see it in action.

 

[Barc Buster]

I was wondering if they were behind Eliet being in your area! Great to see it in action.

Sounded like Joe had several appointments set up here yesterday and today.

 

[treebing]

Where did you do the demo?

 

[SeanRuel]

I'd like to hear the numbers on the tracked one$, looks pretty nice

 

[Barc Buster]

Where did you do the demo?

Had planned on doing it in Lansing on a job but that fell through. So we just did it at my house near Eaton Rapids.

I'd like to hear the numbers on the tracked one$, looks pretty nice

Was quoted 12k for the wheeled unit and 14k for the track unit. Which after using it seems fair.

 

[macrocarpa]

Did they say anything about the trailer mounted option?

 

[Barc Buster]

Did they say anything about the trailer mounted option?

Sorry man we really didn’t talk about it other than that it is the same machine mounted on a trailer and weighs less than 1k #s.

 

[macrocarpa]

Sorry man we really didn’t talk about it other than that it is the same machine mounted on a trailer and weighs less than 1k #s.

Based on what you concluded, what type of job do you see this machine being best suited for?

Could it handle a big pin oak prune?