small chipper

[Soundguy]

I think the reason my lawn mower is almost 14ys old is because I "don't" treat it like that... not sure I wan't to drive a rider mower all around the pasture either.....

soundguy

 

[bigtiller]

I like the little ones because they are easy starting, easy to move around, compact, not too loud, and run for a long time on a quart of gas.

I run the big end of the stick ( -2" ) down the chipper side until it gets near the end and throw the brushy end down the shredder side. I try to keep the shredding size branches under 3 feet long so they don't bog down the motor too much.

 

[wedge40]

I think the reason my lawn mower is almost 14ys old is because I "don't" treat it like that... not sure I wan't to drive a rider mower all around the pasture either.....

soundguy

Mines 21.. And still going strong. I was being facetious when I said to do that. I get mad when ever I hit a twig that I didn't pick up.

Wedge

 

[Soundguy]

yep.. I just put new blades on the lawn mower too.. I try to avoid 1/2" material if I can help it..

soundguy

 

[RalphVa]

I once used a small electric Black & Decker shredder/chipper. It was okay for the small stuff I had on our 1/3 of an acre in NJ.

In Baton Rouge, the house came with an 8 hp Troy Bilt Tomahawk. That thing would do up to around 2". Got lots of exercise bending down and poking stuff into it and even more exercise going through numerous rotation of the hammers and sharpening of the chipper blade. That thing was an absolute beast to maintain.

Have a MacKissic TPH 122 on the PTO of my 18.5 hp JD now, and it's great. Paid about $1,800 for it. I got it from my JD dealer. You can get them from MacKissic and from the DR folks. It's a dream to maintain compared to the TroyBilt. On the TroyBilt, the spacers between the hammers would get totally messed up and required a lot of hammering to get the shafts out. Also, the little keeper pins were a pain to get out first. On the Mac, the keeper pins come out no sweat, and the shafts just practically slide out. The spacers don't get beat up and require replacement. Removing the chipper blade requires a good allen wrench of the right size and cleaning of the allen screw depressions, etc., but once you get that technique down, this job is easy. The Troy Bilt had bolts on the chipper blades. Getting a wrench on the back side of the bolt required some contortions but not near as bad as laying on the ground, etc. to pound those shafts out to rotate the hammers (they have 4 corners; only one corner "grabs" stuff and eventually gets rounded off).

I've seen some of the little units where it was virtually impossible to insert trash branches straight into it. The chute had a severe curve, undoubtedly to keep fools from putting their hands into them past the curve. The curved chute made them virtually useless.

Ralph

 

[jbooth]

I think the reason my lawn mower is almost 14ys old is because I "don't" treat it like that... not sure I wan't to drive a rider mower all around the pasture either.....

soundguy

My motives are not to get in an argument, but my Cub Cadet 682 is close to 30 years old with 2500 hrs. The motor was overhauled at 1600 hrs. I have always cut all my wife's bush/flower trimming and small tree limbs up with the mower. I have never replaced a mower spindle. I have never seen a blade nicked by wood. Rocks are a different story. I mowed around my pasture fence for a year (120 acres) until I got a brush mower for my skid steer. Granted I had cut all the larger trees out of with a skid steer saw, but the 682 cut buck brush easier than it did grass. Recently retired the 682 to be used only as a tiller tractor. I am getting to old to change the heavy rear mount tiller out every time I want to mow. Incidently the 682 survived 2 teenagers too. Wish they still made them like that. If I knew the 682 was going to outlast last me I would have bought the 782 which had the hydraulic lift.

PS; Mower blades are consumables.

 

[Soundguy]

HUGE difference in that 682 vs a commercially produced, designed as a throw away, rider mower that most companiesz have been building for hte last 20 years.

soundguy

 

[beltfed]

Have a MacKissic TPH 122 on the PTO of my 18.5 hp JD now, and it's great. Paid about $1,800 for it. I got it from my JD dealer. You can get them from MacKissic and from the DR folks. Ralph

Ralph, Do you have any video of that chipper in action? I'm seriously thinking of picking one up but I'd like to see it in action first. I've found nothing online for this chipper/shredder.

 

[Johndeere3720]

I dont know the hp of my chipper as the sticker is gone but it sure does a great job at chipping. :thumbsup: Its a troy built tomahawk. Has buth pull and electric start. Love that engine on it, purrs like a kitten, a really loud kitten. :laughing::laughing: The best part was that i got it for $150.

 

[slaveToHorses]

I had a Tomahawk chipper just like that. Mine was 8hp.
Like the other poster said, they are a serious pain to maintain.
But I beat the bloody heck out of mine and it just kept on shredding.
I made up some custom screens for the bottom, for various types of material.

The chipper portion was pretty worthless. But the main shreader was good.

I can't imagine shredding with anything less powerful.