louloulou
New member
hello, I have some newby stupid questions about my Woods 5000,
and I am looking for some real-world advice..
I am new to owning a PTO chipper, and just hooked up my Woods 5000 this week. Wow what a shredder! It gives new meaning to chuck-and-duck!
I am having issues with the chipper though. My Tomahawk 8 HP chipper works -much- better than the Woods unit - so obviously I am doing something wrong here.
The issue I have is bad performance. I have to SHOVE HARD on a 3" pine branch to get the chipper to gnaw at the branch, and it barely goes in. (i tried many branches, just in case I had some sort of a petrified tree branch!) This is obviously not right. My tomahawk would have devoured this same piece of wood, (and stalled the engine eventually) - so I expect my 23 hp kubby to do at least as well as the Tomahawk ! So, knowing that something is wrong I stopped forcing wood into the unwilling chipper and started to investigate. (Note that the engine and drum never "bogged down" the wood sort of just buzzed at the chipper teeth)
The blades felt sharp to me, and there were no obstructions to the drum etc. So then I read on line here, and talked to a few people, and decided to take the blades off of the chipper and look at them closely.
I am no chipper expert, but I do know my way around a tool box, and to me, these blades look and feel pretty sharp. I took a BUNCH of pictures, and I am looking for suggestions.
Are these blades dull by chipper standards?
Is the clearance to the anvil too large? Is this a big factor?
Are these blades the right size? note that they don't overlap
by very much (the inner to outer blade overlap is small) Perhaps
some previous owner replaced them with blades that are the
wrong size?
I was running the engine on the kubby at full speed, is it possible that I
was going too fast and that caused the chipper to "bounce off" and kind of
just "buzz" the wood instead of chop away at it? My Tomahawk has only
one knife, but the Woods has four of them, do I have to run the chipper
slower than full engine speed?
Anyways here is my photo shoot of my chipper:
and I am looking for some real-world advice..
I am new to owning a PTO chipper, and just hooked up my Woods 5000 this week. Wow what a shredder! It gives new meaning to chuck-and-duck!
I am having issues with the chipper though. My Tomahawk 8 HP chipper works -much- better than the Woods unit - so obviously I am doing something wrong here.
The issue I have is bad performance. I have to SHOVE HARD on a 3" pine branch to get the chipper to gnaw at the branch, and it barely goes in. (i tried many branches, just in case I had some sort of a petrified tree branch!) This is obviously not right. My tomahawk would have devoured this same piece of wood, (and stalled the engine eventually) - so I expect my 23 hp kubby to do at least as well as the Tomahawk ! So, knowing that something is wrong I stopped forcing wood into the unwilling chipper and started to investigate. (Note that the engine and drum never "bogged down" the wood sort of just buzzed at the chipper teeth)
The blades felt sharp to me, and there were no obstructions to the drum etc. So then I read on line here, and talked to a few people, and decided to take the blades off of the chipper and look at them closely.
I am no chipper expert, but I do know my way around a tool box, and to me, these blades look and feel pretty sharp. I took a BUNCH of pictures, and I am looking for suggestions.
Are these blades dull by chipper standards?
Is the clearance to the anvil too large? Is this a big factor?
Are these blades the right size? note that they don't overlap
by very much (the inner to outer blade overlap is small) Perhaps
some previous owner replaced them with blades that are the
wrong size?
I was running the engine on the kubby at full speed, is it possible that I
was going too fast and that caused the chipper to "bounce off" and kind of
just "buzz" the wood instead of chop away at it? My Tomahawk has only
one knife, but the Woods has four of them, do I have to run the chipper
slower than full engine speed?
Anyways here is my photo shoot of my chipper:
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