WTB Bandit 75XP or a 65XP

I am realizing that not having a chipper box is a good thing. I just tell my clients that I will chip and apply the chips to their trees, rather than giving them the option to have them hauled off site. I make more money, save more time, increase tree health, and provide more value to my clients. No chip box = no temptation to remove chips off site.

I attach Linda Chalker Scott's peer-reviewed extension article on the benefits of fresh arb chips to the estimate email.

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This jobsite has a 8-10 foot radius mulched zone for the malaised water oak (which also gets paclobutrazol in the spring). Same site also gets invasive plant treatment (spraying Ardisia crenata and dropping-chipping/herbiciding camphor saplings), reduction prune and dead wood on the live oak over the house, cable inspection on the double-trunk magnolia in the background, some brushing out/chipping of weedy natives, and some directional felling of some 10-12" undesirables.
 
I had a load of chips in the back of my truck but it was too late on a Saturday to make it to the dump.
I had to take them home and new I was stuck with them till Monday.
Sunday night I looked up Chipdrop and joined.
Found a free drop site 3 blocks from my house and another 2 miles from the job I was working. :D
Could have been rid of the chips in my truck on Saturday and could have been done with the chipping on Sunday.

Like Colb, the first 3 jobs I used my chipper on, two kept the chips, the other job the chips were taken from people that wanted them.
 
Selling my chipper. Cut and pasted from my TreeBay thread:

$16k for the 2016 75xp bandit chipper with extra knives, bolts, and torque wrench. It's ready to keep working with no sign of issues. About 200 hrs. on it. It's really nice.
 
colb said:
Selling my chipper. Cut and pasted from my TreeBay thread:

$16k for the 2016 75xp bandit chipper with extra knives, bolts, and torque wrench. It's ready to keep working with no sign of issues. About 200 hrs. on it. It's really nice.
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Thread's like 2 years old in sure he's found one by now.
 
colb said:
Thanks. I'm posting here because some of the guys posting here have expressed in the past that they would like to own one. Want to buy? ;)
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Wrong corner of the country, I've got a 95xp that I'm pretty happy with, looking to maybe go bigger if I decide I can afford it. I'd love to get that 18" one of the guys on here is selling but it's a bit out of my price range and my 2500 might not like having to pull it on the daily there's a nice 12 bandit disc chipper with a winch for 48k locally but that would pretty much wipe out the money in my business account plus whatever I'd make from selling my chipper and I don't really want to have no money available without having to take it out of personal.
 
I just rented a Bandit 12 (xpc?) - the lighter model. Compared to my 90XP that was such a joy to run big material through. Before I loose my local camp wood guy I will need to get a big chipper.

The only thing it lacked overall as a machine was that it only threw chips about ten feet in the backward angle - drum chipper.
 
Merle Nelson said:
I just rented a Bandit 12 (xpc?) - the lighter model. Compared to my 90XP that was such a joy to run big material through. Before I loose my local camp wood guy I will need to get a big chipper.

The only thing it lacked overall as a machine was that it only threw chips about ten feet in the backward angle - drum chipper.
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I used one of the 12" drum chippers last year on a job while I was waiting for a replacement motor ran great I had a few gripes the infeed table was really low we had it in a slight depression but it was knee high or below on me, the feed rate was pretty high so it felt extra unsafe. It didn't do super amazing running the branches through with all the needles we clogged the shoot once. I think it would've been better if the feed rate was slower and I think it actually would've chipped the big stuff faster since it wouldn't have bogged as quickly.
 
You would have loved using the low hour machine I rented for a day. It was feeding so slow at first I thought this can't be all she's got. Then I noticed the feed wheel hyd flow adgustment was set at a low flow rate. If you have a Bandit built it's about a $300 option to have a flow adjustment put on.

In my use situation with pine limbs from small up to 9 inches in diameter I turned it all the way up and fed brush from 7 trees through it in half a day.

The rental yard said it does plug the chute. That may be aided by them sending it out as "sharp" when I would call it dull and flip the knives.
 
Merle Nelson said:
You would have loved using the low hour machine I rented for a day. It was feeding so slow at first I thought this can't be all she's got. Then I noticed the feed wheel hyd flow adgustment was set at a low flow rate. If you have a Bandit built it's about a $300 option to have a flow adjustment put on.

In my use situation with pine limbs from small up to 9 inches in diameter I turned it all the way up and fed brush from 7 trees through it in half a day.

The rental yard said it does plug the chute. That may be aided by them sending it out as "sharp" when I would call it dull and flip the knives.
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The one we had was brand new we were the first ones to use it, so sharp blades or not the chute clogging is an issue. Up 9" my 95xp handles just fine I'd like to be able to get rid of bigger pine logs more easily.
 
Yes.

I would love to get a 15 or 18 inch machine but I may have to hold myself back to the biggest disk chipper I can get from Bandit (12 inch?). I can't work with plugging chutes and less than 360° of full vigorous throwing power.

My 90XP has plugged exactly once in 7 years. I was not keeping an eye on the feed chute and let the truck fill and back up into the chute till plugged/packed solid - 1/2 later...
 
I work a lot of jobs where people are happy to keep the chips, "But could you put them x"? Sure!

Sometimes in tight spots that's just behind and off to one side of the chip pile. Sometimes that's high and over a fence but backwards angle is the only opening out into a field.

Thinking I might go tracked on a big chipper too to aid in getting chipper in a place where I can shoot onto the ground.
 
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