Chipper PTO Driven Chippers
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Cliff - I have a sawmill also and bought my chipper mainly to grind up the slabs too. I paid a premium price for my Wood's 8100, hydraulic feed chipper and it does a darn good job. There are a lot of chippers out there, possibly for 1/3 the price, but you and I both know that a lot of your slabs are wider than 6". Mine will handle 8" and that's just about it for pto chippers from my searching. White pine goes thru effortlessly on mine and people are willing to pay for the chips when I'm done. White oak, red oak, even hickory goes thru quickly and my 42 pto horsepower tractor bearly grunts. You could probably get by with a narrower infeed if you wanted to resaw the slabs into narrower widths. Just my thoughts and experiences on the job and my satisfaction with Wood's products.
Clyde
Clyde
DMF
Platinum Member
I have a question on the chipper: I was comparing my Massey Ferguson to a similar sized Ford that the guy who cuts my hay uses (an old retired gentleman). He asked if I had a two-speed PTO to which I replied “no, do you?” He didn’t either but he said his brother’s Ford (an even older 8 or a 9N) did. Being ignorant, I asked about the advantage. He said that his PTO chipper works much better and is in fact designed to be used on a PTO speed greater than the 540 we both have. So, what speed PTO does the Woods chipper use/require?
Tom_H
Veteran Member
Now this is just a thought; it's probably a whole lot more work than it's worth, but here goes. You could cut the slabs into shorter lengths with a chainsaw (may as well use electric if you're in a stationary spot-cheaper & less maintenance). When they're short enough, put a PTO wood splitter on the tractor and split the slabs into narrower widths. Then feed them into the chipper. Alternately, could you just feed the slabs back through the sawmill and cut them into narrower widths to fit a smaller chipper?
The Wood's chipper runs at 540 rpm. When you start the chipper up from the tractor PTO, the chipper hums and it reminds me of the large chippers the tree services use. I can't imagine what it would sound like at twice that speed. Like I said in my last post, I paid good money for this one and I don't plan to experiment just to wreck it. I'm very happy just as it is! Maybe someone else out there has tried it once though.
Good luck - Clyde
Good luck - Clyde
The Mill Is a Mobile Dimensional Sawmill It has three blades
1-36" Vertical and two 12" horizontals Our slabs are not the results of 4 slabs from squareing the block It produces Triangular slabs that i believe would go through a 6" chipper
Has anyone have the Jinma, it's really in the startup price range, I make the money on the mill, not producing chips
So i'd rather cheapout here than anywhere else.
Cliff
1-36" Vertical and two 12" horizontals Our slabs are not the results of 4 slabs from squareing the block It produces Triangular slabs that i believe would go through a 6" chipper
Has anyone have the Jinma, it's really in the startup price range, I make the money on the mill, not producing chips
So i'd rather cheapout here than anywhere else.
Cliff
Steve_Taylor
New member
I have the Jinma 6" chipper and it really does work great. I have it on a Mahindra 2810HST that has 22.5 hp at the PTO. I haven't even been able to hear it slow down no matter what I have fed it so far. Mostly I have pine, manzanita, and some oak that I chip. The 6" rating is for diameter but the feeder could probably take something a little wider if it didn't exceed 6" height since the limiting factor is the how far up the feed roller can move. I paid about $1400 for it and think it was money well spent.
I have the Jima chipper and I love it. I don't usually buy chinese stuff when I can avoid it, but considering the price on the Jinma is 1/3 the price of anything else on the market I could not resist it. It would be great for chipping pine slabs. My NH TC35 never knows it is there when I run it.
To everyone who posts, thank You for your input. There is such a vast collection of knowledge. there is nothing like experience, that can help form a constructive decision making policy on products, which we would normaly have to gamble on. Once again Thank You All
KennedyDiesel
Veteran Member
I went with a Valby. The CH170 has 1000RPM flywheel speed which can blow into a trailer etc much better. Works VERY well and extremely well built wit easy access to knives/anvils for sharpening (good for 50x) which you WILL have to do.