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Corn Chopper / Wood Chipper Question

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Briar Creek Sta

10-09-2007 21:17:31




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I've been clearing a lot to make more pasture. I've been dropping trees and limbing them out. My plans were to rent a chipper to get rid of the limbs due the amount and burning not being a safe option.

One of the neighboring farmers dropped by to see how I was doing, and I told him of my plans to rent a chipper. He said "you've got two corn choppers, use one". I guess I never really thought of that. He said that as long as I didn't try to throw a 3 inch log in there it would work.

I'm not so sure this will work at all. I really have my doubts on the safety of it. Just wondering if anyone of you has ever tried this?

This guy also blows sawdust in his barn with a silage blower.

I'll be renting the chipper for safety reasons. Just wondered if his idea would actually work or if he's just a little out there.

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Briar Creek Stables

10-11-2007 12:54:29




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 Re: Corn Chopper / Wood Chipper Question in reply to Briar Creek Stables, 10-09-2007 21:17:31  
You've all got me thinking on this one. I've got an old corn chopper that will never see corn again. I might just have to try this out.



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PJBROWN VT

10-10-2007 16:29:09




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 Re: Corn Chopper / Wood Chipper Question in reply to Briar Creek Stables, 10-09-2007 21:17:31  
That's nuts!!! do you know how much a new chopper cost ????



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Lee in Iowa

10-10-2007 06:24:21




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 Re: Corn Chopper / Wood Chipper Question in reply to Briar Creek Stables, 10-09-2007 21:17:31  
Would definitely have to do someting to make it safe. Read somewhere about somebody using a chopper to chip wood and becoming tangled in a vine that was wrapped around the wood and being pulled into the chopper. Lee



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Wisconsin Cowman

10-10-2007 05:25:22




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 Re: Corn Chopper / Wood Chipper Question in reply to Briar Creek Stables, 10-09-2007 21:17:31  
It works I remember when I was a kid and me and my grandpa went to a Fox dealer. They had open house and someone that worked for Fox said that these choppers could handle a 6x6 made of oak. Well he was right came out in little chips when done



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Hugh MacKay

10-10-2007 05:19:00




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 Re: Corn Chopper / Wood Chipper Question in reply to Briar Creek Stables, 10-09-2007 21:17:31  
I've never tried it, however my 717 New holland once picked up 5" fence post and made chips out of it quite quickly. As far as being safe, I never saw too much about chipping that was safe unless you have tree length machine designed to take 15" logs 65' long and fed by a cherry picker with the operator in an industructable cab.

Incidently a former neighbor of mine had a tree length chipper, fed by a cherry picker, powered by a 750 hp V12 diesel. The design on the chipper head was exactly same as a Deere sectional knife system, but much heavier.

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Jimmy King

10-10-2007 20:49:10




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 Re: Corn Chopper / Wood Chipper Question in reply to Hugh MacKay, 10-10-2007 05:19:00  
You are right Hugh, I worked for the Greene Co Highway Dept. for about 5 months after I quit Farming. I spent a few days feeding a chipper, and always thought wow all you would have to do is slip or trip.



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RodInNS

10-10-2007 04:53:26




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 Re: Corn Chopper / Wood Chipper Question in reply to Briar Creek Stables, 10-09-2007 21:17:31  
Like This.... Link

I>Link don't think I'd recomend it with a Deere PowerMizer harvester that has the segmented knives because they don't have a deep bevel. Those knives aren't all that strong.... but something like an old Deere (35 or 55), NH, Gehl, etc with a good strong full length knive would probably stand up OK.
For what it's worth, the tape in that vid shows 10cm which is about 4"... He didn't seem to have a problem.

Rod

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Don-Wi

10-10-2007 00:15:40




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 Re: Corn Chopper / Wood Chipper Question in reply to Briar Creek Stables, 10-09-2007 21:17:31  
We've done it and would do it again. have you checked out the cost to rent a chipper that can actually handle a good size chunk of wood?

They aint cheap!!!!

We've run 4" logs through our old Fox in the past and it worked. The biggest problem we had was the worn out aprond drive chain kept coming off.

If you do use a chopper, I'd just back off the shear bar some and go for it.

As a matter of fact that's exactly what the nieghbor's did with their Fox 3000 before we ended up getting it for free. Sharpened the knives and replaced the shear bar and it cuts corn just fine.

They even had a safety bar rigged up to the feed reverse on the gear box. It was a long 1x1 steel tube mounted on a bolt to pivot above the apron, so in case someone got caught or something went wrong they could reach up and stop the apron, and reverse it. I'd be willing to bet our Fox 3000 could take a 5" log.

Donovan from Wisconsin

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