Implements for BX

[smokey]

Re: 5 HP chipper?

I have a BIO350 tractor chipper and mulcher which I run using a 43hp MF135. I had to rebuild it after a fire.
Basically it is cat 1 TPL. PTO shaft drives a gear box with a 2B wedge rope pulley on the shaft at 90 degrees to the PTO shaft. A pulley is fiited to the mulcher box and a wood chipper disc is fitted to the other end. I will try this unit with my recently acquired B7001. I don't expect it to be that good.
Whether it is worth converting a 5HP chipper to this configuration is the question? If you have access to a cheap gear box and pulleys then it may be worth while as these units are not cheap to buy.

If anyone wants more details I could photograph it.

 

[woodstock]

Re: 5 HP chipper?

Please do.
Does any one know what rpm the 5 HP turns?
Would we need a gear box to increase the pto speed?

Winnipeg, Manitoba

2001 BX2200 (23 hrs) All Kubota FEL,Tiller, box blade, blower w/elec shute, 60 mid mt deck, Ag tires.
Grey market B7000 w/Tiller (120 hrs)

 

[Bird]

Re: 5 HP chipper?

Woodstock, I don't know just what rpm that little 5hp motor is turning, but you would most definitely need a gearbox to increase it from the 540 PTO speed if you wanted it to turn anything close to what the little motor was turning it.

Bird

 

[TWINKLE_TOES]

Re: 5 HP chipper?

Bird,

Briggs engine manuals are online @ http://www.briggsandstratton.com/MainSite.asp...

type in the model number and look in the carburetor adjustment section for RPM.

My chipper runs @ 3600 RPM.

Al

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1>Edited by Muhammad on 08/09/01 12:04 PM (server time).</FONT></P>

 

[woodstock]

Re: 5 HP chipper?

Rear PTO is 450 RPM
Mid PTO is 2500 RPM
5 HP B&S runs at RPM
Seems to me we're better off running off of the mid mount PTO.
I have a snow blower which includes a PTO shaft which brings it out to the front on the quick hitch.
So I need to make the chipper fit the quick hitch which just might work.
Would 2500 RPM be enough?

Winnipeg, Manitoba

2001 BX2200 (23 hrs) All Kubota FEL,Tiller, box blade, blower w/elec shute, 60 mid mt deck, Ag tires.
Grey market B7000 w/Tiller (120 hrs)

 

[ljh2]

Re: 5 HP chipper?

I'd probably recommend a belt/pully setup to increase the drive rpm from the 540 pto speed. This would also provide
some driveline protection in the event of a jam.

-Larry

 

[woodstock]

Re: 5 HP chipper?

The way I figure it, with 2500 rpm and 20 hp, there isn't going to a jamb. It would be more like an explosion.
I wonder where than old racing clutch scatter shield is?

Winnipeg, Manitoba

2001 BX2200 (23 hrs) All Kubota FEL,Tiller, box blade, blower w/elec shute, 60 mid mt deck, Ag tires.
Grey market B7000 w/Tiller (120 hrs)

 

[Bird]

Re: 5 HP chipper?

<font color=blue>more like an explosion</font color=blue>

I think you may be right./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif I don't think I'd want to stand too close to a chipper made for a 5hp B&S being powered by a 20hp tractor with no belt of other kind of slip or shock absorbing system./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

There's another thing I learned to be careful about with the chipper/shredder. One day I was running it at the edge of the garden with the chute held open (the chute on mine directs the discharge down and by opening it, it was directed straight out horizontally). That worked great for spreading the chips over a larger area. However, a bolt came loose internally. Sure was noisy when that thing sounded like it completely self-destructed. It threw the flails out the discharge chute. As it turned out, it was very simple to put back together, but I found parts scattered as far as 50' away. Needless to say, you don't want anything, or anyone, out in the direction of the discharge, even at a long distance away.

Bird

 

[Anonymous Poster]

The pluggers that I worked with on the golf course they were Cushman the plugs would go in a bin that is in the center of the drum and there is a door that you open and empty the plugs from. When we empied the plugs from the greens we would put them on the tee's and use them to reseed the tee's with the same grass as the greens.