How does a Woodland Mills WC-68 compares to a stand-alone 6" wood chipper like this one

[SylvainG]

I've rented this type of wood chipper in the past and they work very well.

How does a Woodland Mills WC-68 compares to a stand-alone 6" wood chipper like that one?

 

[RalphVa]

Fine, if you have fairly level land. With a tractor, you can get up and down slopes and chip stuff there.

 

[SylvainG]

Sure, that's understood but what about the chipping performance and the ability to pull logs with branches in? Are they comparable?

 

[5030]

Depends on if you prefer renting with n o maintenance or owning and all the maintenance and purchase cost. I rent whenever possible myself. You can rent a chipper or a mini-ex or a dozer for a lot less that buying it.

 

[SylvainG]

The type of chipper I posted is expensive to rent and it wouldn't take long to recover the cost of a WC68. Of course, for that to work, both being 6" chipper, they should be able to handle the same type of logs. That's basically my question, can they?

 

[Underdog57]

I like having my WC68 on the back of my tractor and pallet forks on the front. I can buck the logs to 8' carry them back to the house and chip the limbs and have the whole mess cleaned up. Mine will chip anything that will feed into the roller. Yesterday I Tried to chip some freshly trimmed White Pine branches with green needles and the chute kept plugging up, everything else I fed it chipped great.
I'm happy with mine!

 

[oldballs]

i'm wondering if the rented one (stand alone) has hydraulic feed...and what the PTO HP of your tractor is if using the WC-68. The stand alone engine might have more power to the knives and thus might be better able to cut the limit....i.e. 6 inch limbs.

 

[SylvainG]

Not sure if the rented feed is hydraulic but it autofeed using the same kind of puller wheel as the WC68. When you fed it something that bogged it, it simply stopped feeding, waited until the chips cleared the chute and the feed automatically continued. My tractor has a 23 HP PTO.

@Underdog57, I have lots of spruce and white pine at my place. What did you have to do to unclog the chute?

 

[oldballs]

As for me, I never try to chip 6 inch branches (19 HP at the PTO). And when doing green, resinous White Pine branches there can be a build up of sawdust like material that plugs up the the neck of the chute. I just have to dig it out with my hands. I guess it depends on how much White Pine branches one tries to process.

Cheers,
Mike

 

[OzKioti]

When I got my Woodland Mills WC88, a mate who was familiar with the WC68 couldn't understand initially why I didn't have problems with the outlet shute jamming up with material. Then when he saw that it was belt drive, and not direct drive, he understood - the flywheel speed on the WC68 is 540rpm (same as PTO speed), whereas the belt driven flywheel on the WC88 spins at 1100rpm = MUCH more airflow!

The recommended PTO hp for the Wc68 is 18 to 50, and for the WC88 is 30 to 100.

The take-home is that IF you have the hp, the WC88 will clog a lot less.