WTB Bandit 75XP or a 65XP

Merle Nelson said:
Some posting here work in a market where almost no one uses a chipper. Hard for me to understand but, different areas are different.
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I can't find many chippers for sale at all in NY except a few rust buckets.
They're all south or east of me.
It's funny how you hardly ever see someone offering one up for sale on this forum.
 
Merle Nelson said:
Yeah, not too many here. Maybe too easy to sell locally on Craigslist.

Do you know you can search all of Craigslist, or region by region or state by state?
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How do you search all of craigslist?

I was looking at craigslist for a while, then realized that all the action seems to be on Facebook. I'm not in favor of that, but it is what it is...
 
I hate FB. :p
Won't sign up for it but I've been searching their Martketplace using a friends account.
I also use CL to search out to 400 miles from my zip.
 
fastbub said:
My opinion is for commercial use I wouldn’t bother with less than a 12” chipper. Sure a 6” CAN chip 6” material but not well. It is maxed out at 6”. A 12” chipper will eat that stuff all day and more importantly has the power to suck in and crush wider brush so you don’t have to skinny it up. Much less frustrating. 12” is also about the smallest chipper where it possible to feed effectively with a mini.
I don’t know what your actual budget is but it might pay for itself in efficiency if you look to a bigger chipper. Look for something clean that is older with a non emissions diesel.
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It's kind of an ANSI thing. If someone prunes 3-4" diameter wood, which is an ANSI pruning best management practices booklet recommendation, you don't benefit from a big chipper. Likewise, if there is narrow access for a chipper and mini, that bigazz chipper will not help. Lastly, if your market does not favor chippers for removals, (as is the case in my area) you don't want to be saddled by a big chipper while everyone else is cruising by your hunk of heavy metal to the next job. If I go south two hours, the grapple truck fees go up tremendously (3X in summer) and I would want a large chipper there.

"Commercial" is an interesting word. It seems to be an excuse for cowboy tree care rather than a statement that one is working at a business. Being located at a business usually does not bear on what care the tree needs. A parking lot does bear on specifying care, regardless of whether it is at a business. It is better to categorize work with regards to the tree/forest and the ANSI standards.
 
While it has been a while since I owned or ran choppers on a regular basis, I would agree that most 6" chippers are less than efficient when powered by an engine under 30hp. Put a 35+ hp engine on one and you have a machine that is reasonable and will effectively fill certain niche's in certain business's. Such a machine would be perfect for my part time endeavour. When I was in business full time, the vermeer 935 fit my operation perfectly. If I was in business full time at the location I live now, an 18"machine might not be enough. All depends on what your market is and what niche you want to occupy in that market.
 
I do mostly removals with an occasional prune.
Maples, dead Ash, Pines once in a while.
It's the brush that's gets me.
6" chipper for under 5" material, no need for chipping anything large.
So a small self feeding chipper with balls would be ideal for the type of work out my way.
 
dsptech said:
I do mostly removals with an occasional prune.
Maples, dead Ash, Pines once in a while.
It's the brush that's gets me.
6" chipper for under 5" material, no need for chipping anything large.
So a small self feeding chipper with balls would be ideal for the type of work out my way.
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Have you actually used a 6" chipper?

No way a pine limb that is 5" with needles and cones is going through one. Maybe if the bandit 6" chippers have a wider infeed.
 
That is a good video to see a lot of different things on the 65XP. It opens with a diesel engine optioned chipper that has a lot of guts and grunt. They say diesel options are to 44hp. If you want to stay cheeper and lighter the 38hp Kohler are not hugely less powerful. Not as much torque either but if your not pushing the max on wood capacity a lot I don't think many people would find it lacking.

The opening model also has the larger tires 12 or 14 inch - whatever. Later versions in the video show the small squat tires that look like golf cart tires.
 
Colb I can't find the exact way I used to search all of Craigslist or large swaths - deleted from my computer at some point. But I see a google search to that end comes up with many options.
 
colb said:
It's kind of an ANSI thing. If someone prunes 3-4" diameter wood, which is an ANSI pruning best management practices booklet recommendation, you don't benefit from a big chipper. Likewise, if there is narrow access for a chipper and mini, that bigazz chipper will not help. Lastly, if your market does not favor chippers for removals, (as is the case in my area) you don't want to be saddled by a big chipper while everyone else is cruising by your hunk of heavy metal to the next job. If I go south two hours, the grapple truck fees go up tremendously (3X in summer) and I would want a large chipper there.

"Commercial" is an interesting word. It seems to be an excuse for cowboy tree care rather than a statement that one is working at a business. Being located at a business usually does not bear on what care the tree needs. A parking lot does bear on specifying care, regardless of whether it is at a business. It is better to categorize work with regards to the tree/forest and the ANSI standards.
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I agree with some of what you are saying but I think it is difficult to link ANSI pruning standards with actual capability of machines. When I say commercial that simply refers to doing tree work for hire which defines the difference between a business or homeowner use of the machine.

Obviously if you only work somewhere where you simply cannot fit anything but a BC625, then that is all you can use. There are 12” chippers that are not that much bigger in physical size than the XP75. I am really speaking about the function of the machine and not anybody’s business model.

Where I have worked I could choose from different chippers and as long as there is room, I will take the bigger chipper every time.

Even when pruning, sometimes those dang old trees don’t care about ANSI standards and throw some 12” deadwood at me. LOL
 
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