I bought a BX62s three years ago - upgraded from BX42s. So far I've put around 120 hours on the
chipper. I thin my stands of young Ponderosa pines and will chip between 800-950 young pines every year at this time. Actually, today I'm taking the day off and letting the 'ol bod recuperate from my chipping activities.
I've learned a few tips on use of any
chipper. When you are finished for the day - open the chipping compartment and clean out all the chips & twigs. This will eliminate shearing pins on startup. When you do startup - engage the
chipper at idle speed on the tractor and engage it slowly. Once the chipping wheel is spinning - then you can bring the tractor up to PTO speed. Large diameter, short(8' or less) logs are quite likely to shear a pin. This is because the log will hit the spinning shear wheel, chip off a chunk, bounce back out the input chute a small bit, slide back down the chute, hit the spinning shear wheel, chip off another chunk - etc, etc. An entire whole tree, the same diameter, will not do this because the mass of the tree will keep the trunk in constant contact with the chipping wheel and not create such extreme shock loading.
I considered a BX92s but consider this. I chip my pine trees "in the round". The entire tree with all limbs attached is fed directly into the
chipper. Yes, the BX62s will chip a 6" tree - - the question is.... are you enough of a man to be dragging 6" x 30' trees out of the woods, hour after hour???
And if you, like me, are able to do it continuously for a maximum of two hours at a stretch - then why in the h*ll do you need a
chipper that will handle 9" trees.
Go out in your woods - fell a tree that is 9" on the butt - drag it 50 feet, like you were dragging it to your
chipper. Put the butt up on a wheelbarrow, like the lip of a
chipper in-chute - - then go back down the tree and lift it up four feet in the air, like you were putting it down the chute of your
chipper - push and see if you can push it off the wheel barrow.
How long do you think you could do this for real???? NOW - explain to me why you think you need a
chipper that will handle 9" trees.
Anything over 6" can be turned into firewood.............
