Slippy
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Sep 23, 2002
- Messages
- 1,053
- Location
- Ohio
- Tractor
- Mahindra 6000 4wd; IH x2; NHTC40DSS; International 1086; JD 5115M
Wow! My first post to the site was in 2002. I have visited numerous time since then but this is my first post in a long time, and my, how things have grown. Impressive!
So I come to the great wealth of all you knowledgeable people here to see if anyone has an ideas about my Jimma Chipper. Its called a Farm Pro, but it is the same thing.
The noise is the sound of the back side of the fly wheel contacting the shroud. It is a clicking sound as if there is a high point on the fly wheel. I have checked all the bolts on the fly wheel, all good, and the shaft, bearings, etc. Nothing is loose that I can find.
I did have a couple of jams that required clearing the shroud. I saw the point of contact between one of the "wings" on fly wheel and the shroud when I took the discharge shoot off and was looking down at the fly wheel and turning it by hand. It catches enough to stop it from free spinning. My only guess is that the fly wheel is bent or the shroud. Nothing obvious though from visual inspection. Wondering is anyone has encounter a similar problem. Any yes, the blades are sharp. Just turned them recently.
I am also looking to replace the chipper. Had it about 13 years now and it has done a good job, but looking for a hydraulic more robust chipper. I have read most of the posts here about chippers, and as one poster put it, the subject of manual feed v hydraulic has been "beat to death". I will say that all the reading has brought me to the conclusion of a hydraulic chipper. Now its, which one. Lots of good reviews of the Woodmax, and some new stuff on the Woodland Mills. Wallenstien looks very solid, but seems over priced compared to similar stuff, and unless you buy the reservoir, you need tractor hydraulics, an exercise I would rather avoid. What I did not find was anyone who had two different manufacutures products such as Woodmax, Jimma, etc. I really am interested in one that will work quickly. I chip a lot of dead trees due to our Ash boor problem we have here in central Ohio. Took down or cut up/chipped about 50 trees last year, so my chipper gets a work out.
So I come to the great wealth of all you knowledgeable people here to see if anyone has an ideas about my Jimma Chipper. Its called a Farm Pro, but it is the same thing.
The noise is the sound of the back side of the fly wheel contacting the shroud. It is a clicking sound as if there is a high point on the fly wheel. I have checked all the bolts on the fly wheel, all good, and the shaft, bearings, etc. Nothing is loose that I can find.
I did have a couple of jams that required clearing the shroud. I saw the point of contact between one of the "wings" on fly wheel and the shroud when I took the discharge shoot off and was looking down at the fly wheel and turning it by hand. It catches enough to stop it from free spinning. My only guess is that the fly wheel is bent or the shroud. Nothing obvious though from visual inspection. Wondering is anyone has encounter a similar problem. Any yes, the blades are sharp. Just turned them recently.
I am also looking to replace the chipper. Had it about 13 years now and it has done a good job, but looking for a hydraulic more robust chipper. I have read most of the posts here about chippers, and as one poster put it, the subject of manual feed v hydraulic has been "beat to death". I will say that all the reading has brought me to the conclusion of a hydraulic chipper. Now its, which one. Lots of good reviews of the Woodmax, and some new stuff on the Woodland Mills. Wallenstien looks very solid, but seems over priced compared to similar stuff, and unless you buy the reservoir, you need tractor hydraulics, an exercise I would rather avoid. What I did not find was anyone who had two different manufacutures products such as Woodmax, Jimma, etc. I really am interested in one that will work quickly. I chip a lot of dead trees due to our Ash boor problem we have here in central Ohio. Took down or cut up/chipped about 50 trees last year, so my chipper gets a work out.