Chipper 3 point chipper advice. Kioti CK27HST 20hp pto

[TerryR]

I have a ten-year-old BearCat chipper, and earlier version of this model, which works very well for me. It's manual feed, which works well as long as I keep the blades sharp, which isn't hard since you can get at them by removing just one bolt and swinging the whole top including the chute to one side. It takes the tops of trees well once you cut of the usable firewood, unless the branches have wide and stiff Y's, in which case I cut off one side with a chainsaw and then feed them in separately.

I think a blower is essential. For small tasks, like cleaning up branches that that have fallen during the winter along the driveway, I just aim it into the woods and be done with it in a hurry. For larger tasks it makes great piles that turn into mulch or compost.

 

[City Farmer]

I had the same one. The shredder is crazy fast, especially with pine trees. 2 guys can feed those pine branches as fast as they can and the shredder keeps up without any problem. It's a simple unit to maintain. Watch CL, I picked mine up for $200 without a pto shaft. I just sold it a few months ago.

I have a bush hog brand CP110 or something like that. It is a rebranded Goossen. It does 5" branches in the chipper. No power feed. But what I like is the shredder. The shredder uses a big hopper, and will handle big bunches of branches up to 1-1/4" diameter and is way faster than the chipper for the smaller stuff. It sure is hungry! The shredder will literally rip the branches out of your hands. Gone in a split second. It is belt drive, which is forgiving if the cage gets jammed from too much green stuff or whatever. Prevents shear pins from breaking or worse: pto damage. The only thing I don't like about it is that you have to remove a ton of bolts to get to the chipper blades. Other than that, it should last a lifetime.

 

[RalphVa]

My 1st tractor using the McKissic TPH-122 was an 18.5 hp JD 4010. It never once bogged to a stop. It would slow just a bit when chipping a 3-3.5" limb. So, your 20 hp is plenty for up to 3".

Think you can get a McK or DR for about half what you'd pay for one of those Bearcats. Mine's still fine at around 11 years.

Ralph

 

[blucoondawg]

I'd rather pile them up and burn them
Its easier and far cheaper

 

[Gittyup]

I had the same one. The shredder is crazy fast, especially with pine trees. 2 guys can feed those pine branches as fast as they can and the shredder keeps up without any problem. It's a simple unit to maintain. Watch CL, I picked mine up for $200 without a pto shaft. I just sold it a few months ago.

Yeah the shredder is awesome. Big hopper. Easy to feed, even heavily branched stuff. I ran a bunch of apple through it and it was great with the way apple is so branchy. I bought mine off of CL too. Man I though I got a deal. I paid $600. No chute. That chipper with chute is like $4000 new, a little under $3000 without chute. I haven't used mine in a couple of years. But I doubt I'll sell it any time soon. Just too expensive to replace.

 

[Gittyup]

Here's the Goossen with the chute.

https://municibid.com/NetworkedCont...cedd-3138-4d78-9f8b-1efe6b40403e_fullsize.jpg

And without chute (like mine except mine is red).
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FeQOv_cf2MM/hqdefault.jpg

Thing runs for a good 5 minutes after you turn off the PTO.

 

[Dead Horse]

I'd rather pile them up and burn them
Its easier and far cheaper

I often do this /\ /\ in large part as is is great habitat for critters around the perimeter of my orchard (apple). I do have a Valby 150 with a hydraulic feed and I run it off of a Kubota L3710..... great combo. When I need chips for what ever reason...... I can fill the back of my F350 dump in an hour or so. the apple wood chips make especially good mulch.

 

[Rebeldad1]

Well after lots of searching.... I purchased a WoodMaxx chipper. I havnt seen any real downside to this. Very reliable and built like a tank. 200lb flywheel. The resale value will always be there since you never see any used ones for sale.
Since i have literally thousands of these tall skinny maples the chipper will see lots of work. Comes with a 3 year warrantee as well. My wife is a pyromaniac so it will never see anything over 3" go through it.
Thanks for all the advice.

 

[SJay]

Post some pictures when you get it and report to us on how it works - Thanks:cool2::cool2::cool2:

 

[RalphVa]

Do any of these units without hammers eat bags of leaves?

One of my big uses is grinding up about 100 bags of leaves the silly town people leave at the curb. I use the ground leaves in my garden.

Ralph