Chipper Buying a Chippers

[johnnylight]

John - I usually avoid USED powered items like a chipper. Never know how many stones, barbed wire & misc the unit chewed previously. I noticed on the Homier.com site, when you click on the FarmPro link and look at the attachments, they still show the chipper/shredder. There is a link on the top of the page to locate dealers - maybe you could give it a try. Good luck.

good point.

I tried the website no price I'll give them a call monday.

 

[kossetx]

For those that have these jimna chippers, will they shread too? I can get one for 1499.00 about 10 miles from my house. TIA, MP

 

[gordon21]

All they do is chip. No shredding. The flywheel is a giant 175# disc with the knives bolted to it. Very basic design and easy to access all areas of the machine. The construction seems very solid and well designed. Welds are not pretty (think KingKutter), but the green and yellow paint job was very nice.

Between the cost of steel rising over the past year and the fact my unit had to make it all the way from the west coast to the mountains of NC, the freight and the steel now make it a $2000 item. I had to order one from over 800 miles away since that was the closest Jinma chipper dealer. The closer you are to a dealer or the west coast, the cost could drop a lot.

I did check with my JD dealer first. All he had access to was American or Canandian chippers that started at about $3500 which looked very similar to the Jinma. They did have rotating chutes. He wished he had access to something like the Jinma chipper.

 

[patrick_g]

At the time I bought my trailer mounted DR the ads didn't show PTO models. Don't know if they had them or not at that time. Anyway, I may have gone PTO had I been able to get as good a deal as for the trailer unit. The trailer is quite small and light. I can disconnect it from my truck or tractor and manuver it really easily by hand into places that I can't get even with my small Kubota.

Everything is compromises. For every perceived advantage of one unit there are others for the competing candidate. At least the PTO model doesn't have yet another small engine associated with it and require having gasolilnie about. I use my tractor FEL bucket to catch and spread or load chips which would require some process mods with a PTO unit since you can't quite turn that sharp so as to put the FEL bucket behing the 3PH.

Pat

 

[joes_427_vette]

Does anyone has a list or know where to find the closest Jinma dealer to central Wisconsin ? How large is there flywheel ? My brother purchased a Woods 6" chipper for 5k ( no power feed ) with a 200 # flywheel. He said it works great except the chute is too narrow for tree branches with limbs. I'm going to try and use his for a week to decide if it works for my application this spring. The price is very attractive on the Jinma but I wonder if you have 40 acres of clean up will it be heavy enough to last.

 

[johnnylight]

John:
I also own a Chinese 6" capacity wood chipper. It does everything I ever need it to do and have done many 6" logs.even forced 10 feet + of broken tops off my pines trees, it just eats em up.I lower it onto a small wodden cart when I don't need it and it stowes easily in the garage. I'm also in upstate new york.Spencerport.wanna come see it?

Mark1,
Where did you buy yours from?
am from Goshen NY.

 

[GreenMtns]

Where did you buy yours from?
am from Goshen NY.

johnnylight

The jinma 6 is a very good investment for a small place. I have had mine for 2 years and it has been very reliable. I know I could have bought USA made and it would have been a better machine but for the time I use it it would have cost thousands more for the same results.

There is a dealer who is about 2 hours from Goshen.

Coastal tractor and Equipment
212 Foxon rd.
North Branford, CT 06471
Phone: (203) 484-2224
Fax: (203) 877-0833

He is an advertiser here on TBN.
I bought my Jinma 6 from him. Tony is a real nice guy to deal with.

I would advise that you do some searches here on TBN on the Jinma and fine the tune-up points before putting it to use. Pay attention to the mod's needed on the ends of the feed drive shaft. After you do it will run with no problems. I have read both the threads on welding new ends on and grinding the balls so they are the same. I choose to grind and it works fine. Each year take the driveshaft off and blow out the old grease with brake cleaner and inject new grease with a needle nose grease adapter. I have used mine for 2 years and it functions great. I have had it on a 30hp and a 37hp tractor and both run it with power to spare.

Al

 

[mark1]

I bought my chipper from Trailblazer equipment in New Jersey. But I haven't contacted him in some time and I guess he is no longer selling them.However another dealer here on the East cost is Tony's Automotive. He's still around and I wished I had purchased thru him. See-

Tony's Auto and Trailer
212 Foxon Rd
North Branford, CT 06471

203.484.2224 voice
203.484.5211 fax
Tony's Tractors TractorPages.com
I paid 1350.00 about 3-4 years ago. and picked it up in NJ. (it weighs about 800 lbs)

 

[kossetx]

Can anyone post a pic of what the chips from the Jimna chipper look like? Does it come out looking like mulch or is it more "chunked"?

 

[Tom_H]

Four and a half inch dia. is the largest I could accomodate on a BX2200 so I went for the DR PTO model on sale for $1839 and free shipping through Dec.

If I had a TC34DA with its greater hp, I'd have gone for the Jimna because it costs less and chips larger dia.