Redneck in training
Elite Member
The chipper came in a crate partially disassembled. I followed the instruction and assembled all parts. While attempting to grease all points as per the manual I found that the Chinese zerks are somewhat smaller so alignment of the gun is essential to get grease in instead around.
I checked alignment of the pulleys and found them quite angularly misaligned.
When checking the gap between the anvil and the cutting knives each knife had different gap. Therefore I set the gap to the smallest recommended value for the closest knife.
It took me pretty much all day to assemble it all together, adjust all points, tighten all bolts and grease all the bearings. I also had a trouble with the PTO shaft. Female spline on one of the end of the PTO shaft wouldn't slide on the male spline. I found that the latch pin has too large diameter. Therefore I had removed it, file it to smaller diameter and put it all back together. Then I hook it up to the tractor and run it for about 5 minutes. It run quiet and without vibrations. While checking temperature of all bearings and found them only slightly warmer.
I chipped about 6 hours today and made about two cubic yards of chips. Some of the wood was very hard hedge tree. The chipper chipped better than expected but not without issues. The belt of the feed roller slipped of the pulleys once. I suspect that piece of wood caused that. The emergency feed stop didn't work and will require some adjustment.
The conclusion:
The chipper works. It chips 4 wood and small branches as well with ease and doesn稚 clog.
You have to finish it before use. Not all parts fit and require small modifications. The welds are rather poor quality and I expect some will break and require repairs in the future. The feed roller mechanism could lock up at certain angles of the roller making the drive belt smoke.
I checked alignment of the pulleys and found them quite angularly misaligned.
When checking the gap between the anvil and the cutting knives each knife had different gap. Therefore I set the gap to the smallest recommended value for the closest knife.
It took me pretty much all day to assemble it all together, adjust all points, tighten all bolts and grease all the bearings. I also had a trouble with the PTO shaft. Female spline on one of the end of the PTO shaft wouldn't slide on the male spline. I found that the latch pin has too large diameter. Therefore I had removed it, file it to smaller diameter and put it all back together. Then I hook it up to the tractor and run it for about 5 minutes. It run quiet and without vibrations. While checking temperature of all bearings and found them only slightly warmer.
I chipped about 6 hours today and made about two cubic yards of chips. Some of the wood was very hard hedge tree. The chipper chipped better than expected but not without issues. The belt of the feed roller slipped of the pulleys once. I suspect that piece of wood caused that. The emergency feed stop didn't work and will require some adjustment.
The conclusion:
The chipper works. It chips 4 wood and small branches as well with ease and doesn稚 clog.
You have to finish it before use. Not all parts fit and require small modifications. The welds are rather poor quality and I expect some will break and require repairs in the future. The feed roller mechanism could lock up at certain angles of the roller making the drive belt smoke.
