Posted by Paul on October 28, 2014 at 10:15:36 from (70.197.199.53):
In Reply to: wood chippers posted by 55 50 Ron on October 28, 2014 at 09:33:34:
A relative got a DR brand pto one a few years ago. Well built, worked good, and all that. Bigger than the tiny stand alone units advertised for branches and leaves, but certainly a small one still.
But it was just a toy. We used it one afternoon, I spent far more time trimming down the branches to fit in the thing than actually using the chipper. Lot of time the chipper was just running with nothing, while I made branches small enough to fit.
End of 3-4 hours, we were beat, felt like we had run through as much fuel in the chainsaw as the tractor on just scrub branches, and had a real small pile of chips. Real small. And we were tuckered out, that was a workout! And there we were with both a chipper and a chainsaw running in the same small area, lets double up the chance for something bad to happen.....
The next day I brought my tractor and forks for the loader, and we picked up the 4/5 of the branches left and dumped them in a gulley in about 45 minutes. Not much manual labor at all as the branches were relatively stacked already.
I don't believe that chipper was really used since.
The moral of this is that you need to get a big one, with feeder rolls, that power packs the scraggly branches into the chipper itself, and get one big enough to handle that. You might hopefully never actually chip a 6 inch log, but you need that size to fit the average hardwood branchy branch into it.
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