Chuck and Duck?

[jake98]

Talking with my Beemerville buddy, I told him that I felt bad about missing a buy on a Wallenstein chipper. He said, "Oh, a chuck and duck?"

Wondering if you guys ever heard it called that?

Jake

 

[amigauser]

I believe "Chuck and Duck" is a reference to the old commercial drum type chippers that tree services used were you would chuck a branch in and duck quickly out of the way to avoid getting caught up in the branch and sucked into the machine yourself. They are very dangerous chippers.

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The PTO powered disk type chippers are far less dangerous.

Norm

 

[shaley]

That's the difference in a drum chipper and a plate type chipper as Gauser mentioned. Drum types will blow back.

 

[BarryinMN]

They also tend to eat fast. I've clocked mine at 100 feet per minute vs 5-10 for safer hyd controlled feed on newer machines.