PTO Chipper, Victory vs Woodmax

[747driver]

Its like Christmas when we get new 'Big Boy' toys ! Hope everything goes good for you and will be looking forward to your reviews. I Swapped my dull blades on the WM8H yesterday. I have had it a year with 25 hours on it now. I should be more careful feeding limbs with dirt on the roots etc....really dings the blades up !!

 

[ericm979]

Wet material chips fine. I'm careful about rocks and dirt but have been chipping a lot of dead stuff. That dulls the blades faster. I got 20 hours out of the first side before the chips got all stringy. I could tell they were dull as the chipper was laboring a little. I'm up to 45 hours and the second side is doing fine, but I put a lot of that time into chipping up a freshly fallen madrone. Even though I was chipping everything up to 8" because it's wet it doesn't wear the blades as fast.

 

[RyeThomas]

Thanks guys.
I did some reading and video watching on some pro chippers and they were saying if you put about a 2 degree back angle on the back of the knife it will stay sharper up to 50% longer. There is a term for it but I can’t remember. Seems like most swear by it.
Not sure how I’m going to sharpen mine, I really enjoy sharpening my chain saw chains so I’d like to do it myself. I’d like to buy or fab up something and try this 2 degree back deal

 

[ericm979]

Some people use these: Makita USA - Product Details -9822 but the street price is about $330. When I have to sharpen mine I'm going to try this: How to Sharpen your Chipper Blades (yourself!) - YouTube

Like hand filing chain saw chains it's probably better to sharpen them frequently than to wait until they're in bad shape to do it.

 

[RyeThomas]

Great, thanks for the links!

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Ok so I lost out on a WoodMaxx PTO chipper on Craigslist, so I started shopping around for a Hydraulic fed PTO chipper. I found much to my surprise all of these chippers are clones of each other made in China. The Victory and the WoodMaxx spec out the exact same and while WoodMaxx has a better web site the Victory unit looks the same with a few minor changes.
I知 all for saving $650 to get the same machine, but I cannot find much info on the Victory. I contacted them and they said all the right things but I壇 like to hear from owners of any of their equipment. Thanks, Rye.

WoodMaxx WM-8H $2799
Victory WC8H $2145

I have a wood max 8 hydraulic feed. Only used it about 8 hours, PM me if you are interested.

 

[RyeThomas]

I purchased a Victory already. But I will say if your willing you can be my back up plan, If this one doesn’t work out I can sell it and buy yours, I should have a good idea within 2 weeks. Thanks, Rye.

I think it’s going to be just fine after checking it out though.

 

[RyeThomas]

Patiently waiting, not.
Excuse my mess I need to clean up and paint that darn garage door. For size reference that is a pretty good size Yamaha 250. This chipper at 1000lbs looks pretty stout. If you click on it it is not sideways, not sure what happened.

 

[flingwing1969]

Well she arrived in a nice metal framed box yesterday, . . .
I assure you I will be critical of the machine and I知 sure there will be a few bumps along the way. Stay tuned...

Looking forward to your evaluation.

 

[RyeThomas]