LX2610 and Landpride WC1504 wood chipper

[oldballs]

I've been running a Woodland Mills WC 68 for several years with both a B2620 and B2650 Kubota. They have 19 HP & 19.5 HP at the PTO. Both tractors handle my assorted trees/brush just fine....not feeding limbs over 4 inches however.

Cheers,
Mike

 

[dieselscout80]

That 1504 has this statement in the specs pdf.

20 to 50 hp (Minimum 35 hp for maximum capacity)

 

[oosik]

I chip only green pine. 1" to 6" on the butt. With 50 PTO hp behind my Wallenstein BX62S - no problems. Couple years ago I chipped four dead and weather hardened apple trees. If I did this all the time - I would definitely want more HP and a bigger, heavier flywheel. My Wally has a 200# flywheel.

I thin my pine stands every other year. I will thin and chip - 800 to 1200 small pines. My current setup - Kubota M6040 & Wally BX62S will chip faster than I can feed it. So....no problems.

My Wally is manual feed. It chipped the apple trees OK. But there was a whole lot of bucking and thrashing about. Those apple trees were as hard a ebony.

In the very beginning I had a stand alone chipper. It had a 12 Hp Honda engine. It did just fine for anything up to and including 4".

If your tractor is on the bottom edge of being large enough - you will just have to feed slower. This would only be a problem if you have A WHOLE LOT to chip.

Recognizing this limitation - you should do just fine.

 

[TerryR]

A manual feed chipper keeps you busy cutting branches into tiny pieces to feed easier and is great for your carpal tunnel syndrome. If you don't already have CT you soon will.

Really? I've been using a manual feed chipper for over 25 years and still don't have CT. That's not "soon"?

I think manual feed is perfect for a property owner that uses a chipper a few times a year. Probably not so much for someone who uses it a lot.