Woodland Mills WC68 on a Kioti CK2610 : is this a good fit for my tasks?

mangler · Oct 7, 2020

Have not gotten anything yet.

I must say that with your power feed and decent box size you are already miles ahead of the "chuck and duck" 4" shear bolt buster chippers. I really need the variable feed because I don't burn anything. I want everything to get fed in there, even if is REAL slow. So if you are thinking of chipping some 4" and up then yes I could see why you would want to upgrade. At 16.5HP (pto) you are even worse off than I am, so I would not expect to chip anything over 4" with any kind of speed. If I were you, I would not upgrade, unless you want to put it on a larger machine.

arto98607 · Oct 7, 2020

mangler said:
..............................zip............................... At 16.5HP (pto) you are even worse off than I am, so I would not expect to chip anything over 4" with any kind of speed. If I were you, I would not upgrade, unless you want to put it on a larger machine.

Well not quite, the 16.5 hp PTO power is not an issue at all since we use anything over 2 inch diameter for firewood in a small wood-burning sauna heater. Small Douglas Fir branches are perfect fuel for that - lots of energy and no need to split them!

Anyway, variable hydraulic feeder drive chipper sounds very good and I am in process of doing homework on those models.

I think it should be relatively easy to resell my S&R chipper if I upgrade.

ericm979 · Oct 8, 2020

The only time I turn the feed speed down on my Woodmaxx 8H is when I'm chipping large material that would otherwise stall the tractor. If you don't chip stuff over 2" it's probably not going to get you much.

My Woodmaxx came with a hydraulic flow control that had a very narrow adjustment range, making it difficult to get anything other than full speed or very slow. They used a 20gpm control on a 3gpm system. I replaced it with a 5 gpm control which works like it's supposed to. Other than that the unit's been good. Woodland Mills also makes hydraulic flow chippers but with a different design that had plusses and minuses over the 8H.

arto98607 · Oct 8, 2020

ericm979 said:
The only time I turn the feed speed down on my Woodmaxx 8H is when I'm chipping large material that would otherwise stall the tractor. If you don't chip stuff over 2" it's probably not going to get you much.

My Woodmaxx came with a hydraulic flow control that had a very narrow adjustment range, making it difficult to get anything other than full speed or very slow. They used a 20gpm control on a 3gpm system. I replaced it with a 5 gpm control which works like it's supposed to. Other than that the unit's been good. Woodland Mills also makes hydraulic flow chippers but with a different design that had plusses and minuses over the 8H.

Thanks Eric, I hear you.
I bought this chipper used and have had it for over 22 years, perhaps time to try something newer with couple of features this design never had.

Would you mind saying what type or model 5 gpm flow control and if they are easy to find?

ericm979 · Oct 9, 2020

Brand FCR51-1/2(0-4)

It was a direct bolt on replacement for the chinese 20gpm valve on my 8H.

arto98607 · Oct 9, 2020

Thank you!

mangler · Oct 10, 2020

ericm979 said:
Brand FCR51-1/2(0-4)

It was a direct bolt on replacement for the chinese 20gpm valve on my 8H.

That is good info. Dollars to doughnuts they use the save oversized control valve on all Chinese hydraulic feed chippers.

Philm56 · Oct 28, 2020

I'm new to the forum and this is my first post. The topic hit home for me as I am trying to decide between the the WoodMaxx 8H and the Woodland Mills WC68. I had convinced myself to go with the 8H until reading this thread and others. With 19hp at the PTO it may be too big for my Branson 2515h. Would love to hear the opinions here about which is the better match. I will be feeding it with mostly trash cedars we are famous for here in central TX. I have two giant piles to work through ranging from very small branches to trunks bigger than either machine can handle. My initial leaning towards the 8H was based on wanting get as much of the material chipped as possible. Most of them were pulled up stump and all so I will have to burn the root ball. I will burn anything I can't chip, just don't want to burn the whole mess.

mangler · Oct 28, 2020

Philm56 said:
I'm new to the forum and this is my first post. The topic hit home for me as I am trying to decide between the the WoodMaxx 8H and the Woodland Mills WC68. I had convinced myself to go with the 8H until reading this thread and others. With 19hp at the PTO it may be too big for my Branson 2515h. Would love to hear the opinions here about which is the better match. I will be feeding it with mostly trash cedars we are famous for here in central TX. I have two giant piles to work through ranging from very small branches to trunks bigger than either machine can handle. My initial leaning towards the 8H was based on wanting get as much of the material chipped as possible. Most of them were pulled up stump and all so I will have to burn the root ball. I will burn anything I can't chip, just don't want to burn the whole mess.

At 19hp at the pto, i would pick the WC68. The flywheel is a bit smaller so you don't use as much power spinning it. I also find the features of the WC68 to be more refined (more compact when folded, no single post stand required in operation). But technically, with slow enough feed rate both will chip well beyond the "burnable" size if you decide to do so.

arto98607 · Oct 28, 2020

The flywheel shaft center-line is fairly high off the ground on 540 Rpm flywheel speed chippers and one should check how that compares with the tractor PTO shaft height off the ground?

IE. make sure the PTO drive shaft angle will be within specks.