Chipper Wallenstein BX42 woodchipper

[donn12]

The manual for this is vague. How do you tell which side of the PTO shaft has the shear bolt? I put mine on with the chain strap close to the tractor.

 

[o2batsea]

While I have no experience with a PTO type chipper, I can give you my thoughts in general...
A chipper is not a mulcher, even though what comes out can be used as mulch. Small stuff, while it may not clog, will have a hard time feeding. Throw your small stuff in on top of a leafy or dense wad and let it get ground up with the big things.
Always stand on the side of the feed hopper, don't stand behind it. A limb can become a large baseball bat and give you a mighty whack. In the Wallenstein picture gallery, the demonstrator is doing this exactly wrong. He is standing in such a way that he could easily be injured if the limb gets away from him. I can't tell if he's trying to push the work into the chute or not. Let's hope he is just supporting the limb to keep it feeding.
This Wallenstein thing is a "chuck and duck" type, so once the object goes in, that's it. No way to reverse the feed. This requires extra caution as stuff can get flung backwards out of the hopper. Maybe right into your face. If you can afford the hydraulic feed chute, buy it. It is a huge safety margin, as well as making chipping less stressful. With my Bandit, I can just place a tree in the hopper and then use the hydraulic feed to control the feed rate.
Wear eye and hearing protection as well as a hard hat. Keep people away who don't know how to use it.

 

[FxdGrMind]

I put the Sheer end at the Chipper. Don't know why but I figured that with the different type connection (lock out pin) than the other end I figured it was designed for the input shaft for the Chipper not the output from my tractor. The other end had the "Familiar" type connecting end.

Guess I got lucky, mine was drop shipped from the factory in the right color.:thumbsup:

Definetly look arround, but if my experience is any standard for Wallies, what every you decide on, they are "Great" toys... er TOOL's!

Gloves are a MUST, and I'm looking at getting some motorcycle gloves with hard protective plates... Whacking limbs on the hands is not all that pleasurable over full day's out chipping piles of limbs.

my B7800 PTO HP 24 (aprox) handles all I can throw into the BX42. Granted I don't have 'Hardwood", mostly pine and soft wood leafy stuff, your results may vary.

I did open the rotor cover to check the proper clearance on the blades prior to first use. I'd suggest the same to any new buyer, before operation. Better to be safe than sorry.

 

[Stradbash]

The manual for this is vague. How do you tell which side of the PTO shaft has the shear bolt? I put mine on with the chain strap close to the tractor.

The end with the shear bolt has an extra lobe on it with a bolt sticking through that lobe. That bolt is in line with the general direction of the PTO, not perpendicular to it

The manual for my BXM32 says "be sure the yoke with the shear pin is attached to the machine shaft" As the machine in question is the chipper, as this is the manual for it, I put the shear pin/bolt closest to the chipper.

I made a simple plywood and 2x4 platform for mine with casters from the surplus center to set it on. Easily moved around the garage for storage and shoved around for mounting on the tractor.

 

[gtrippleb]

After doing some cutting to the pto shaft and a slight "modification" to the tractor, I was able to try out the chipper tonight. I'm pretty impressed with it as it ate everything I gave it. I don't think it will take long to clean up my brush pile.

 

[FxdGrMind]

well, tried chipping up the pine bark... Not so great, maybe it's just that it's old pine bark.
It did chip it.. but it came out in not much but 'Dust". A little overkill and not quite what I wanted.

Oh well, I shouldn't have expected it to "Not pulverize the bark" It's a HORSE and the chipper has been fantastic at chipping wood!

 

[jbooth]

Elcid76
I would sure want a demonstration to see if the chipper would handle the hedge. I'm also in Kansas and like this forum. I have a skidsteer (no tractor) with a hydraulic saw and have had a lot of experience with the hedge and locust. I usually can find someone to cut the downed hedge for firewood and just push the small stuff in a pile and burn it. The locust generally just gets burned as no one wants to fight the long thorns. Lot of folks talk about locust being excellent firewood but decline the invatation to come and cut it.

 

[Runner]

"I would sure want a demonstration to see if the chipper would handle the hedge."

I have run quite a bit of hedge through mine, no problem. Only up to about 3 inches though.

 

[WannaNH]

Took delivery of my BX42 Wednesday. It is AWESOME!

Have fed pine, locust, ailanthus, privet and others. Both green and dry. Up to 4 inches in diameter. The only thing that slowed if down was a 4" pine limb that had a 2" fork off of it. When those 2 hit, it slowed down, but powered right on through it.

2 thumbs up!

 

[ayelvington]

My wife helped me with the chipper for the first time the other day, and I love the look on her face as it took the limbs from her and spit chip into the back of our UTV! I just smiled at her and mouthed "Fargo"!

Wallenstein ROCKS!