Chipper Chinese Chipper Review

[DIYGuy]

This past weekend I finally finished assembling my chipper and put it to work. Unbelievable is all I can say. This thing ate a 20' long 5" tapering to 3" dry white oak log. The motor on my tractor labored a little, but it swallowed it whole.

The chips are fairly small, about the size of chicklets and chute creates a berm like pile about 36" wide and 12' long.

Attached are a few pictures...

DIYGuy

 

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Here's a close up of the feed roller.

 

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The hard part is assembling the base and lifting it in the air.

 

[DIYGuy]

The hopper is assembled in under a minute with 4 bolts.

 

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The chute takes a little while to figure out the support mechanism. I wasn't happy with the support mechanism and used some zip ties to stiffen it up.

 

[DIYGuy]

Here's a picture of it eating brush. It will swallow brush as fast as you can feed it.

 

[DIYGuy]

And finally, here's the assembled unit on the future home of tractor implements yet to come...

 

[TonyC]

Looks very nice Mark. I want a chipper so bad I can just taste it. So tell us more...like what, where and how much! Oh, and what is the HP of you tractor. Did I cover everything? /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[DIYGuy]

The chipper cost $1600 in a crate. I live close enough to pick it up myself, so there's no transport costs.

tractorloft.com (Down in Southwest CT)

22hp 3-cyl.

When compared to the $1000 unit at HD, and prices found on the web for other 6" chippers. This is the best value I've gotten so far since deciding to go the you assemble it chinese route.

I'd do it again in a second.

 

[dsinger]

Your Chipper looks lke a knock off of my Danuser Chipper. The main difference I see is that yours is all red instead of yellow and you paid 1/2 of a Danuser and likely 1/4 of the new Chippers of the firm that Danuser sold their Chipper line to out West. A GREAT DEAL for you and all of us consumers in the short run. however, this price difference is more than the result of wage and material differences between the US and China. In this case I am certain it is all liability. Hard working yankees such as those at Dansuer could not afford the cost of the liability anymore while the Chinese overseas are not saddled with this burden.