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   / Researching best qualitry wood chipper for a Kubota BX23S, suggestions please #11  
I have the same brand and model at this time :) looking to upgrade, so that I can use the woodchips elsewhere than in the ash pile.

I can buy a mountain of wood chips for the money and time you’ll spend chipping. Even then wood chippers make long stringy chips that aren’t good for much.
 
   / Researching best qualitry wood chipper for a Kubota BX23S, suggestions please #12  
I don't what equipment you are using to chip or what you are chipping but I've never had even one stringy chip in twelve years.

AND in my case - hydraulic in-feed would be a total waste of $$$.

I DO NOT chip to have chips to use. I chip to get rid of the trees I thin.

I thin to maintain my pine stands.
 
   / Researching best qualitry wood chipper for a Kubota BX23S, suggestions please #13  
I don't what equipment you are using to chip or what you are chipping but I've never had even one stringy chip in twelve years.

AND in my case - hydraulic in-feed would be a total waste of $$$.

I DO NOT chip to have chips to use. I chip to get rid of the trees I thin.

I thin to maintain my pine stands.

I have no experience with dinky chippers but I’ve seen chips 6” long coming out of power company chippers. I’ve never seen anything close to the nice crisp playground chips coming out of a wood chipper. Plus I could just buy those for $10 a yard. Here’s how I get rid of brush. IMG_8717.JPG
 
   / Researching best qualitry wood chipper for a Kubota BX23S, suggestions please
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Lots of good ideas and chipper suggestions, thank you. I still have a lot to think about, and the WOODS and WOODMAXX units are not as familiar to me as no one in my area (100 kms driving radius) carries those brands, to my knowledge.

My purpose for looking into a wood chipper is primarity for clean-up and maintenance on the property. I now know that I am looking for a Cat 1 chipper that will work with my existing BX23S tractor, and I am really pleased to know that chippers exist for these more compact tractors.
In recent years (last 10 for sure) the area that I reside in (Interior of BC Canada) has been subjected to Burning BANS and Fire Restrictions for much of the year ... this year, that began in the first week of April, and it will probably continue until the typical restriction lifts in mid-November. That means that for most of the year, the Fuel and a Match method is not really an option. The small fires that may be permitted in these times, would be very limited ... campfire size maybe. So that would be tedious.
I want to use the chips in other areas such as chicken runs, garden paths, general landscaping. Buying chips / mulch is not really of interest to me at this time. Every year we lose about 10-15 trees on the propery to wind fall alone, so the clearing and cleanup is valuable. If I find 2-3 options that could work, the decision might rest on the dealerships that are nearby. Thanks.
 
   / Researching best qualitry wood chipper for a Kubota BX23S, suggestions please #15  
I use a Valby Chipper and it doesn’t make stringy chips. Nice consistent sheared off chips.

I’ve had both the manual and hydraulic feed versions and the hydraulic feed wins Hans down

Andy
 
   / Researching best qualitry wood chipper for a Kubota BX23S, suggestions please #16  
I've also owned and used both manual and hydraulic feed chippers. (a MacKissick and a Woodmaxx). Hydraulic is far better. It's worth spending the money for. It's safer and more effective. Even accounting for the difference in capacity I have to do a lot less cutting and fiddling to get stuff in the hydraulic feed chipper.

Woodmaxx (and their competitor Woodland Mills) don't have dealers, they sell direct. Both design their own chippers (and other things) which are then made in China. Woodmaxx also has some made in the US models that are too large for your tractor. There's plenty of threads where people discuss their experiences. Mine with the Woodmaxx 8H has been pretty positive. I did replace the hydraulic feed speed control with one that works better but many people are ok with the one that comes with it.
 
   / Researching best qualitry wood chipper for a Kubota BX23S, suggestions please
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ericm979 - I appreciate your reply and insight, it adds to all the feedback from others also. I did not know that Woodland Mills and Woodmaxx were essentially online purchases, good to know. Thanks
 
   / Researching best qualitry wood chipper for a Kubota BX23S, suggestions please #18  
I have a Kubota Bx2660 so just a couple pto hp bigger than your Bx23 ...I have used a Wallenstein 42 model without hydraulic feed for 6 yrs now ...love it. It handles up to 4 inch butt size and many times it draws the tree in by itself. The hardest part of job is hauling the trees into piles butts facing same way. The woodchips come out the same way you see purchased at landscape places. I use them for garden paths and ruts on Atv trail. When clearing winter tree falls on my land up here in northern Ontario Canada.
 
   / Researching best qualitry wood chipper for a Kubota BX23S, suggestions please #19  
Hauling the trees to a pile - all butts facing the same way--- by FAR the most difficult part of my spring thinning program. Around here only the Wildlife Refuge is authorized to burn slash and trees. It's a HOLY NIGHTMARE... They start with many old truck tires. Pile the slash, etc on top of this. Unknown gallons of diesel to get it going. You can see the black smoke rising from the burning pile for miles. Looks like a site where a jet aircraft crashed.

I'm only a couple miles from Turnbull NWR and the smoke chokes me out for a couple weeks every year.

Maybe one of these years they might invest in a commercial chipper. Lord, I sure hope so.

It's always done this time of year. Everything is still green. Later in the year the chance of starting a wildfire is just too great.
 
   / Researching best qualitry wood chipper for a Kubota BX23S, suggestions please #20  
Hauling the trees to a pile - all butts facing the same way--- by FAR the most difficult part of my spring thinning program. Around here only the Wildlife Refuge is authorized to burn slash and trees. It's a HOLY NIGHTMARE... They start with many old truck tires. Pile the slash, etc on top of this. Unknown gallons of diesel to get it going. You can see the black smoke rising from the burning pile for miles. Looks like a site where a jet aircraft crashed.

I'm only a couple miles from Turnbull NWR and the smoke chokes me out for a couple weeks every year.

Maybe one of these years they might invest in a commercial chipper. Lord, I sure hope so.

It's always done this time of year. Everything is still green. Later in the year the chance of starting a wildfire is just too great.

I have to say that I've never initiated my burn pile with tires or any other form of artifical accelerant. Just dried out cuttings and arranging butts, never. However they go on the pile works for me. Rapid oxidation reduces it all to ash pretty quickly.

I'm against roasting tires anyway. You roast them and then you have the steel belts left. Always a mess and tires stink too.
 
 
 
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