Woodland Mill vs. Woodmax chipper?

[ericm979]

So much good info. I will build a table. Here's a couple features I need. Automatic, not gravity fed. Horizontal in feed. My stuff is 1 to 7 inch cedars. Ive rented vermeer chippers for a total of 8 weeks over the last few years. I've been looking for used but I'm looking at 10 to 15 thousand vs. 3 to 7000

I had the same experience here in CA. All the used trailer chippers were either expensive and beat up, or really expensive and not so beat up. I think they command a premim as wihoyou

My tractor's 32hp at the PTO and it is slow when chipping stuff over about 4". Much above that and it depends on the species of wood. Some chip easier than others.

 

[5030]

Most times, chipping much like chainsaws, depend on how sharp the cutters are.

Far as Woodland Mills is concerned, the company is Canadian based so don't matter if they warehouse in Washington State, tariff's will apply.

Far as chippers are concerned, I have no use for one. Had one a few years ago and sold it. I prefer to roast the stuff.

Still have a large pile of chips in the side yard I need to dispose of.

 

[bigtiller]

I have the woodland mills wc68.
With my 2720 or 3039R for power, they have never bogged down.
90% of my chipping has been with live spruce.
Since most of your chipping is with cedar, also a soft wood, you can most likely jump up a size in chipper with your 31 pto hp.

Here is a chip of Norway Spruce with made by the WC68 and JD 2720.

 

[mikester]

I carry a couple of old wrenches of the correct sizes in the owner's manual tube on my chipper.

My chinesium chipper needed three sizes of wrenches AND sockets AND all the guards were attached using nuts, bots and washers requiring me to lie down on the ground to get at the inside ones. PITA

I removed all the fasteners and standardized on M8x25 hex heads and welded weld nuts on the inside so I only need one wrench to remove all the shields.

I still have unhitch the implement to pull all the shields to grease my bearings. Eventually I will put remote zerks so I can grease without removing the shields.

I also made a swivel chute adapter. That's an important feature in my books.

 

[MJZ]

My chinesium chipper needed three sizes of wrenches AND sockets AND all the guards were attached using nuts, bots and washers requiring me to lie down on the ground to get at the inside ones. PITA

I removed all the fasteners and standardized on M8x25 hex heads and welded weld nuts on the inside so I only need one wrench to remove all the shields.

I still have unhitch the implement to pull all the shields to grease my bearings. Eventually I will put remote zerks so I can grease without removing the shields.

I also made a swivel chute adapter. That's an important feature in my books.

Well done!

 

[MJZ]

I have the woodland mills wc68.
With my 2720 or 3039R for power, they have never bogged down.
90% of my chipping has been with live spruce.
Since most of your chipping is with cedar, also a soft wood, you can most likely jump up a size in chipper with your 31 pto hp.

Here is a chip of Norway Spruce with made by the WC68 and JD 2720.

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I was wondering bout "upsizing." I like the woodland mills. It did seem like a lot more HP is required compared to others.

 

[Chanceywd]

I have the WC-68 and I believe it is actually made in china for Woodland Mills.
I bought it last year and it is sold/shipped in NY from Buffalo warehouse.
I found it plugs up a lot sometimes stalling the 8N. I haven't tired it on the Kubota yet as I have the backhoe on that a lot. I found you can use a small jack to push the roller back and up to clear a jamb of course after taking the pto out of gear.
I since made a hydraulic ram assembly to do that that just flips down and pushes. Again pto out of gear. I got pictures somewhere.

OK the jack was left over from my 93 ford ranger, the adapted snow brush with a piece of metal on it pulls the pieces out when it clogs. AGAIN with pto off and roller raised. But the hydraulic really works slick. I can clear it out in just a couple minutes without wrenches and messing with springs etc.

Bill

 

[Oz_Kioti]

I have the WC-68 and I believe it is actually made in china for Woodland Mills.
I bought it last year and it is sold/shipped in NY from Buffalo warehouse.
I found it plugs up a lot sometimes ...

A mate of mine was somewhat surprised when he first saw my new Woodland Mills chipper. He reckoned I'd made a bad purchase, as his only experience with a Woodland mills chipper was that it clogged up all the time! The model he was familiar with was a 6" model, the WC-68. He was very pleasantly surprised at the action of my WC-88 over the course of several hours clog-free chipping.

Then we compared the flywheel speeds. The 68 is direct drive, so flywheel speed is 540 rpm.
The 88 is belt & pulleys driven, stepping up the flywheel speed to 1100 rpm.

It makes a difference!

 

[Runner]

My chinesium chipper needed three sizes of wrenches AND sockets AND all the guards were attached using nuts, bots and washers requiring me to lie down on the ground to get at the inside ones. PITA

I removed all the fasteners and standardized on M8x25 hex heads and welded weld nuts on the inside so I only need one wrench to remove all the shields.

I still have unhitch the implement to pull all the shields to grease my bearings. Eventually I will put remote zerks so I can grease without removing the shields.

I also made a swivel chute adapter. That's an important feature in my books.

I have to say, one thing I like about the Wallenstein BX42 is the simplicity. One bolt to open the chamber (for unclogging or knife changes) and two nuts to move the loading chute from the storage position to the working position. All 5 grease zerks accessible from outside.

 

[MJZ]

I have to say, one thing I like about the Wallenstein BX42 is the simplicity. One bolt to open the chamber (for unclogging or knife changes) and two nuts to move the loading chute from the storage position to the working position. All 5 grease zerks accessible from outside.

Fro. What I've read, Wallenstein are top notch. My tractor dealer sells them. Or, had one out front anyway. They are just out of my price range. Let me know if I'm missing anything or off base.