inveresk
Platinum Member
I had a Jinma chipper delivered yesterday and started putting it through its paces this morning. First impressions are that although some of the mechanical detailing is a little crude, it's robustly made and good value compared with what else is on the market. (Let's hope I don't have reason to change my mind on this).
The dealer delivered the chipper to me on the island for $1922 CAN (plus taxes) and had carried out the predelivery service (with the exception of greasing the pto shaft which he told me about).
It chomps the big, dry stuff beautifully but doesn't like branches with a lot of green on them. The mechanical feeder seems to have a problem even with small diameter cedar if there are a lot of side shoots so I'm having to spend a fair degree of time limbing these. Size of chips is smaller than I'd like - great for mulch but not so good for paths and walkways where the big stuff doesn't stick so readily to footwear. I'll have to see if I can somehow alter the chip size.
The largest tree/branch I've fed so far is around 4 1/2 inches and the L3130 hasn't even hickuped.
Here's a useful link for commissioning the chipper before use.
Jinma 6 preservice
The dealer delivered the chipper to me on the island for $1922 CAN (plus taxes) and had carried out the predelivery service (with the exception of greasing the pto shaft which he told me about).
It chomps the big, dry stuff beautifully but doesn't like branches with a lot of green on them. The mechanical feeder seems to have a problem even with small diameter cedar if there are a lot of side shoots so I'm having to spend a fair degree of time limbing these. Size of chips is smaller than I'd like - great for mulch but not so good for paths and walkways where the big stuff doesn't stick so readily to footwear. I'll have to see if I can somehow alter the chip size.
The largest tree/branch I've fed so far is around 4 1/2 inches and the L3130 hasn't even hickuped.
Here's a useful link for commissioning the chipper before use.
Jinma 6 preservice