Worst Brush to Drag

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I'll chip anything over a homeowner's handiwork.

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I will amend my earlier post and agree with TH. The homeowner nests that I've pulled apart are the worst by far. Every time I agree to do one I berate myself the whole time cause it is just so damn painful.
 
Dead mulberry sucks. Osage Orange takes the cake. Chipper size and feed table size make a difference too. Our 18" Morbark swallows some of the worst stuff without trouble.

-Tom
 
Hawthorn, aka thorn apple!! Can't believe nobody said it yet. It sticks ya, and I swear it must have some toxin. The muscles around the jab will get stiff and sore, and they always get infected. Buck thorn sucks, prickly ash sucks too. Apples and crabs ARE annoying, as is poop....

Dragging brush sucks, I owe my groundies a beer or two
 
It was a great one, but he never lets us down. I dig the new avatar already. Nice, Bo!
 
Hawthorn does suck for sure. Western red cedar can be a pita too, long limbs with 180 deg curves. Long maple suckers whipping you in face on a cold day isn't fun to chip, but drag easy.
 
As far as tangles go, Hackberry and Mulberry have given us trouble.

Homeowner piles... unless It's brand new and small, we won't chip it. It's always fun to explain to the client that they don't know how to stack brush for a chipper. I usually tell them that there's too much potential for dirt in the pile and that will damage the chipper.

They're usually woven like a straw basket and I've had snakes come out of those things before.
 
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locust can be a real pain in the a$$ but ornamental apples/crab apples are hell just cause they have no length to be able to stack and drag then, its just a big brillo of tangels, just as hard to chip with out a machine to just stuff everything in there.

-Steven

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that's the nice thing about having a machine.. No worries with the brush.. had a big spruce stick near the house... only drop zone for the stick was in the drive... large crabapple take down on the far side of the property.. piled that nasty brush 10' tall in the drive.. Notch and drop
 
Hmmmmmmm lots of candidates, but possibly leylandii, heavy, attracts dirt and water on the drag plus leaves hard to remove sap on your arms.
Or spruce, spiky sticky in your arms, or sliver fir, spiky sticky stuff in your arms plus the chipper doesn't like it.
 
X2 on the Osage Orange. It's basically just Mulberry with huge thorns. Heavy, 90 degree bends, tangled from the jump, tough and springy.

Best part is when you finally- through Herculean effort- get the butt end into the rollers and the brush end snaps loose from the others it's tangled with and smacks you with those thorns. Good times.
 
Any brush that is dragged uphill.
Beech has some weird angles to it.
Locust has the thorns that make a pricked spot hurt for at least a week.
I personally hate Jack Pine for almost every aspect of it's existence including brush dragging.
 
CutHighnLetFly mentioned pine cones. They can get nasty when you're chipping, especially the ones that haven't fully opened. Good time to wear gloves.
I always end up with 20 pine cones doing a dance on the feed rollers and rolling back out of the chipper. Fun times.
 
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