What’s Your SMALLER Equipment Setup?

The flaps are no bother.

I'm very comfortable leaning into my bigger chipper. At the normal height and tray size, I only feel vulnerable to an accident if I'm feeding from uphill (very low tray).

I've fed medium, hydraulic chippers (bc1000 and Bandit 250).


With a chuck and duck, if the worse happens, someone is losing fingers or a hand, maybe an arm. Hydraulic feed rollers are not something you can pull out of.

About 6 years ago, I had a fill-in from a day-labor company.

He went home at lunch and didn't come back. He ended up saying his friend lost an arm up to the elbow in a chipper accident very



It's not like I'm afraid of it, just very aware, like all things.

I'm only called Reckless Sean as a joke on occasion.
 
southsoundtree said:
The flaps are no bother.

I'm very comfortable leaning into my bigger chipper. At the normal height and tray size, I only feel vulnerable to an accident if I'm feeding from uphill (very low tray).

I've fed medium, hydraulic chippers (bc1000 and Bandit 250).


With a chuck and duck, if the worse happens, someone is losing fingers or a hand, maybe an arm. Hydraulic feed rollers are not something you can pull out of.

About 6 years ago, I had a fill-in from a day-labor company.

He went home at lunch and didn't come back. He ended up saying his friend lost an arm up to the elbow in a chipper accident very



It's not like I'm afraid of it, just very aware, like all things.

I'm only called Reckless Sean as a joke on occasion.
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The lower bar is your reference point, I’ve never felt vulnerable using a TW unless I’m doing something sketchy, in which case I have my thigh tight up against the safety bar.
Which incidentally is always working perfectly.
 
I make a point to zip all pockets and don't want anyone wirh hammer loops on carpenter pants.

I've had my open jacket pocket get caught and the jacket rip at the pocket.



I'm just very aware that hydraulic- feed chippers are the people eaters, like being very aware of vehicles near work zones as a very real and manageable risk.

I'm not losing sleep over it.
 
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southsoundtree said:
I make a point to zip all pockets and don't want anyone wirh hammer loops on carpenter pants.

I've had my open jacket pocket get caught and the jacket rip at the pocket.



I'm just very aware that hydraulic- feed chippers are the people eaters, like being very aware of vehicles near work zones.

I'm not losing sleep over it.
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That's the only safety issue that I have had to remind people about really regularly, and it freaks me out so much. I reeeeeaaally don't want to see someone go into a chipper, but guys are always forgetting about pockets, loops, and worst of all, chaps. I don't understand how so many people have such terrible self preservation instincts
 
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I don't understand how so many people have such terrible self preservation instincts
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There's a reason so many warning signs exist.

Children are really good at finding ways to hurt themselves because they lack the education and experience necessary to apply critical thinking to situations. Some children never grow up.
 
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There's a reason so many warning signs exist.

Children are really good at finding ways to hurt themselves because they lack the education and experience necessary to apply critical thinking to situations. Some children never grow up.
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That's almost exactly what I say when I see ridiculous behaviour! I will say to whoever else is with me, "Some people's children :rolleyes:", and point discreetly.

Obviously not when its something life threatening; just when it's strangers out and about and it would be innappropriate to call them out directly.
 
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Ever use an older morbark? Very short infeed to the wheels, also very low to the ground and the bottom also slopes downwards.
More about knee height and I can imagine how tempting it would be to push small stuff in with a foot!
They wound up doing a recall or shipped out a infeed extension but still pretty sketch.
I think there is some law or standard that is the minimum distance from the feed wheels to the ground. Thus raising the height and length of the infeed making it harder to reach in far enough to get caught in the wheels.

 
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I broke a blade, somehow. Maybe a hard, dry chunk that was max capacity or something.

Got new blades installed.
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I have to install the tongue/ coupler.
Slow to fill the truck and backing up the chipper will be murder!!!


I'm going to tow it around a trail system we cut/ cleared. Invasive holly to chip.
 
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I'll trailer the chipper to the jobsite where my mini loader is parked.


Played with my toy.

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My neighbor only has a tractor so more of a pusher tool resulting in concrete, soil and debris against a field wire fence (cows). I cleaned up outside to practice, tidy up, and get greater access to the last bay into the shop on the left.
 
I sprung a leak in the mini-loader.

Brought out the micro-x to help.

I loaded most of the bigger logs earlier in the day yesterday.

Pulled, skidded, loaded logs chipped brush with the micro-x.

 
The 450 pound Go-Anywhere chipper. 14 hp. Narrower than a standard gate.




Without the axle-widening kit, he and I got it uphill and down on trails and first floor.




After running a Billygoat (13 hp walk- being brush hog), I think I can get my lawn tractor in the trail system we've built. At least half a mile, maybe 3/4+.


We're killing English holly, opening the trail corridor and opening the forest edge for a view into big trees from the house.


He's 6'3".


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I'm a forestscaper.

The madrona treehouse property has a volcano view/ Puget Sound view that I've greatly revealed from the whole back/ partial side of the house in ways the homeowners keep saying that they couldn't have imagined.

They have 2 live-arching fruit trees.


There's an elementary school that I volunteer with, that has a young fruit and nut orchard adjacent to their long- standing Garden. I'm going to make it 'little people'' high beneath a flat 'ceiling' of things trained together. Zipties are possibly underutilized by arbs.

Building/ maintaining visual screening between waterfront customers is part of my niche.
 
My tree house customers had the last part of the project change a bit.

We cleared an old brush pile area back down to the ground where they used to have an additional parking space along their driveway (narrowish, waterfront lot facing Mt. Rainier). While I had a machine there, I took the debris to the greenwaste facility essentially next to the quarry a few miles off my peninsula, down Highway 101. Grabbed 5k of 1 1/4(-)" gravel.

Easy work. My employee finished hand prepping while I made a dump/ supply run, then he worked on summer fruit tree pruning (had hoped to get to it a couple weeks ago). A bit of hand finishing.

My guy grabbed some chips from the woods next to the driveway from previous work on a tarp. We stretched the tarp on top of the rock to make a clean line with the the mulch, then a couple shovels of touchup gravel.

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