Chipper Advice on PTO Chipper

[RoyJackson]

No, because i still havnt got the woodmaxx. When i ordered it, they expected 6-8 months delivery and wouldnt take payment until ready to ship. When they were ready price had increased $1,000. So i cancelled order. Ill wait to see if price comes back down as steel prices drop next year…as they are supposed to. Until then, my jimna still works great, but changing knives sucks.

I know nothing about Jimna chippers, but I've been very happy with my Woodmaxx.
I even considered replacing my Frontier 3PH snowblower with a Woodmaxx, but if I'm going to upgrade, it's going to be a Quick Attach front mounted blower like yours

 

[grsthegreat]

I really likes the woodmaxx unit, and have heard nothing but great reviews about it. But ill see if price drops some next year. This year our fire hazard was so high that the banned working in woods most of the summer anyways. So would not have had much use with it this year anyways. I only used the jimna unit 3 days before i was shut down. I hope we get good snow pack this year. I never want to see a fire season like we had this year. A big one got within 1 mile of my house. We had to evacuate.

 

[bigtiller]

I think it's assembled in the US, since the 8800 and 9900 (Daugen had one of those) are delivered fully assembled but the components are made in China.
The others, like the 8H unit I bought, are partially assembled (not sure if in the US or China) and final assembly is completed by the buyer

Did you have a Bearcat chipper/shredder in the past? If so, what happened to it?

I had one for a long time but sold it and bought a Woodland mills wc68.

 

[ning]

Finally, not sure why no one seems to make one to run off of a set of remotes on the tractor. That would seem the most economical way to do it for those who already have remotes.

Probably not enough flow (GPM). I don't know what your Kioti puts out, but my Deere is 12-13 GPM
Same reason, BTW, your Quick Attach snow blower uses a PTO driven hydraulic power pack

I'm guessing the question is about running the hydraulic feed off of the remotes instead of a dedicated in-chipper pump+tank, not the actual chipping unit.

I've asked this question as well; I've only seen one unit described as such ( Nova Tractor BX102) which has and optional hydraulic power pack that can be added.

My guess is that there were enough tractors being used without remotes that the manufacturers initially determined it wasn't worth the bother to make some with and some without hydraulics, and even if many more tractors are shipping with remotes now, nobody's seen fit to sell a more stripped down version to lower the price point....

 

[RoyJackson]

Did you have a Bearcat chipper/shredder in the past? If so, what happened to it?

I had one for a long time but sold it and bought a Woodland mills wc68.

It was actually a Woods 5000...same as the Bearcat, different marketing. These are still being sold and they're great chipper/shredders for anyone with a 25 PTO HP tractor and occasional use

I sold it several years ago...wanted something with more capacity (the Woods was advertised to take 5", but realistically, 3-4 inches was the limit). Also, I wanted something with a discharge chute. There was a kit that could be mounted on the Woods chipper, but by the time I spent the $1000.00, I decided to add more money and go for the Woodmaxx
Also, the Woods required one to lift the limb, trunk, whatever; quite high for feeding it. The Woodmaxx, as I'm sure most know, just feeds horizontally

 

[bigtiller]

Those are the same reasons why I sold my Bearcat, it was a great product but a younger person gets to have fun with it now.

 

[RoyJackson]

Those are the same reasons why I sold my Bearcat, it was a great product but a younger person gets to have fun with it now.

The Woodmaxx, with the lower, horizontal infeed, makes it much easier to dispose of the bodies...

 

[ericm979]

Where'd you get the valve?

Amazon. It's NLA there. Surplus Center shows an 8 gpm valve: https://www.surpluscenter.com/Brand...lverine-Flow-Control-W-1950-8-9-8994-50-8.axd but no 5 gpm.

 

[JasperFrank]

What is your local market for two units - 15 cubic yards- of delivered chips/mulch? And how valuable is your time doing something else. I considered getting my own PTO chipper, a China made brand that was available for $1400 that could be run on a 14 HP PTO Tractor, and was very close to buying one. Just then, a neighbor bought a brand new, USA made chipper- Top O the Line Model for $2500, - for his 22 HP PTO Tractor. And for some weekends and several cases of beer as payment, we did some chipping using his tractor..... he didn't want to use my tractor as the power source.

I was surprised by a few things.

One, was how little you actually get out of a small 22 HP chipper for the amount of work you put into it. It would take us all day to put out 2-3 cubic yards, running his tractor at PTO speed all day. And figure in all the separation, and time to do that as feed stock for the chipper, and fuel costs, it all didn't pencil out with total costs and time and wear on the equipment. I can have 2 units, 15 cubic yards, of clean cedar bark delivered for 330 dollars. It would have taken us both working, four or five days to match this amount, and our quality of bark-chips would have been very low with all the different types of trees, and different states of the wood involved.

Second, in my area, you can burn non-usable stuff in a wood pile: Which is much easier.

In a pro-con decision list that I made out; it made more monetary sense to buy chips then it did to make one's own, if considering all the factors.

The economy of scale that a commercial vendor can put out, works to my advantage in the place I live in: The PNW.

 

[RoyJackson]

I was surprised by a few things.

One, was how little you actually get out of a small 22 HP chipper for the amount of work you put into it. It would take us all day to put out 2-3 cubic yards, running his tractor at PTO speed all day. And figure in all the separation, and time to do that as feed stock for the chipper, and fuel costs, it all didn't pencil out with total costs and time and wear on the equipment. I can have 2 units, 15 cubic yards, of clean cedar bark delivered for 330 dollars. It would have taken us both working, four or five days to match this amount, and our quality of bark-chips would have been very low with all the different types of trees, and different states of the wood involved.

Second, in my area, you can burn non-usable stuff in a wood pile: Which is much easier.

That's all very true...even with a higher HP chipper
Chippers, for me, are a convenience tool rather than a necessary one.
I was also quite surprised how little chips were left after a couple hours of chipping...maybe a bushel or two. But, what ever I got is used around the trees on our lawn area...that works fine.