Wood chipper

[pmhowe]

Nice toothbrush.

Actually, great pictures, and good advice. Thanks.

PMH

 

[motocephalic]

whats the biggest branch you ran through your BXM32 shredder? How did it handle it? Did it bog down and chew it right up? I am in the market and have been trying to find out more about the BXM32. thanks

I too have a BX 25 with a BXM 32 Chipper/Shedder with a fair number of trees on 1.5 acres. I think the two pieces of equipment are a good combination and work well together. The only time I've clogged things up is when I put too much small green non-woody stuff through it without alternating with woody branches. With pine or other trees that have wide angle branching, I do wind up doing a fair bit of pushing to get stuff in the chipper chute, but am happy to do that instead of more cutting. The small ends of branches go through just fine when followed by larger ones..., or you can just pull them out and put them in the shredder as the manual suggests. The shredder is great for smaller things, raked up leaves (but not large amounts), pine cones and such. My one caution, as alluded to by another poster, is putting longer stuff in the shredder. It will grab and snatch things out of your hands! Particularly vines. And I'll echo the advice and your plan to make a dolly for it. Nice to be able to roll it around and get it out of the way! On the newer ones, unlike mine, the feed chute can be easily detached and re-attached in a more space saving position during storage. Nice solid tools. The only thing I've done to mine is sharpen the chipper blades, adjust the cutting anvil gap (it was delivered out of spec) and greased it.
Enjoy!
I'm happy to answer questions you might have about it and it's use!

 

[4shorts]

whats the biggest branch you ran through your BXM32 shredder? How did it handle it? Did it bog down and chew it right up? I am in the market and have been trying to find out more about the BXM32. thanks

Well I can tell you how I found mine. I've chipped up to 4" in mine. I never ran the BX higher than 2600 rpm with the chipper and it handled everything very well. There were times if I force fed the chipper with the larger stuff you'd hear it slow in a bit but nothing to be concerned about. Just love the chipper.
As you can see by the photos I made a few mods to it and I'm glad I bought the BXM 32. Great unit.


I attached a video of ours working.

 

[motocephalic]

very nice video and set up, thanks for posting it

clem

 

[NY_Yankees_Fan]

You are having way too much fun, it did not look like work at all.:drink:

Thanks for the video.

 

[4shorts]

very nice video and set up, thanks for posting it

clem

Thanks Clem. That video was the first time we used the chipper/shredder but during the summer we put about 20 hours on it and its a fantastic unit. We got enough mulch and chips to put around all our trees which was great because we used to buy all our chips and mulch in the past so it's saved money plus kept the property clean by getting rid of all our branches. It's a win win situation.
Glad you enjoyed the video

Paul

You are having way too much fun, it did not look like work at all.:drink:

Thanks for the video.

Oh ya. It was a good time. We got rid of branches that were around for years. Over the summer we accomplished a great deal of work with the set up. Did a pile of other things with the machine plus more mods on it. There's more videos on our YouTube channel. Just click the link on my signature.
Thanks for commenting

Paul

 

[Sgt Cal]

I recently got a Walco WC40 for $2000 new, to run on my 26hp Kubota. It's a beast! Heavy flywheel with 4 reversible blades, built like the Wally. I find it runs smoother if I run it at 960pto - 2000rpm. I've loaded full trunks in it, with a bunch of side branches (wild cherry) and it chews it up effortlessly.
But....I learned the hard way that thin, leafy branches will clog the shoot and eventually the whole thing. The trick is to load them in with thin end first, whilst holding on to the thick end to control the feed rate. Otherwise it sucks it all in one gulp and clogs it up.
'nway, I love it. I hope this info helps.

 

[RoyJackson]

I find it runs smoother if I run it at 960pto - 2000rpm.

Running a 540 RPM implement at 2-3 times the design speed isn't a good idea.
If your manual states it can be ran at 960-2000 RPM, so be it...but I'd wager there will be a warning in there to not exceed 540 RPM.

 

[Stradbash]

Well I can tell you how I found mine. I've chipped up to 4" in mine. I never ran the BX higher than 2600 rpm with the chipper and it handled everything very well. There were times if I force fed the chipper with the larger stuff you'd hear it slow in a bit but nothing to be concerned about. Just love the chipper.
As you can see by the photos I made a few mods to it and I'm glad I bought the BXM 32. Great unit.


I've put 3" through my stuff easily, anything larger than about that get's saved for firewood. I learned quickly which way to rotate and trim gnarly branches to make sure I can get them to feed. The chipper devours just about everything easily. I've had it bog down a few times with very hard pieces of wood that were near the limit of what would fit, but not very much.

I used it a few weeks ago and am still VERY happy with my purchase. The only thing I'm slightly disappointed by is that they changed how the infeed chute is mounted a year or so after I purchased mine. I like the revision and wish mine was that way!

As always, nice job 4shorts! Adding that base extension is a nice modification! I know on some of my terrain when I lower the 3point it will not sit low enough and I have to re-possition... I did make a mobil base for mine that I set it on when it's in the garage to aid in attempts at solving my space puzzle problems.

 

[rjkobbeman]

Running a 540 RPM implement at 2-3 times the design speed isn't a good idea.
If your manual states it can be ran at 960-2000 RPM, so be it...but I'd wager there will be a warning in there to not exceed 540 RPM.

How would you even get that high? On both my Kubotas, PTO speed (540) is pretty close to the high RPM of the engine. Can I go over 540 PTO RPM? Sure, but not by a whole lot. I don't think my engine will rev high enough to get to 700/800. Never tried. Never will.