Xj2025h best pto wood chipper

[oosik]

Eric - I'm a tad confused. First you speak of a chipper that could match the 18.5 pto hp of your tractor. Then you speak of a used stand alone that would cost $9000. Do you really mean $900. A used chipper costing $9000 is one H**L of a big unit.

Help us- so we may help you. What will you be chipping? Type of tree & size. If you get a stand alone will you be able to pull it around your property or will you be bringing the trees to a central location. If you get a 3-point - PTO driven chipper - will you be able to get the tractor & chipper to where the trees are?

I have close to 750 hours on my BX62S. I chip over 900 small pines every spring - thinning my stands of pines. The easiest part of chipping is the chipping itself. The hardest part - dragging & piling the trees in preparation for chipping.

When I go thru a stand of small pines with my chain saw - it ends up looking like a game of "Pick Up Sticks". There are pine trees lying in all directions. It's a real mess. The dragging and piling is a real PITA.

Sooooo.....tell us what you plan to do.

 

[bevhoward]

The dragging and piling is a real PITA

I agree,

...and offer an alternative. Leave them where they lay. If you "pile them" there's effort to make the pile, but even more work to get the branches out of the pile.

At the very most, I learned to lay the cuts the in the same direction, then bring the chipper to the branches and feed them from where they fell.

I managed to organize a neighborhood work group to deal our access road where the brush was encroaching on the pavement and the hardest job was to get the volunteers to simply bring the cuts to the chipper rather than creating piles.

I have an album of that day... will find the link and post it.

Beverly Howard

 

[Ericredslslingshot]

Yeah I guess I'm fickled. I just have two acres 95% pine trees and I'm just going to be trimming the limbs off and wanting to chip them up. I usually like to over buy just so I'm not sorry but in this case I guess I'm over doing it

 

[bevhoward]

Here's a record of our neighborhood road recovery chipping party.

Beverly

 

[Code54]

A lot depends on the wood you are chipping as well as the overall length. I run a 50hp Kubota to power are chipper. If I run a wet maple tree that is 3" up to 4.5 or 5" at the other end 20-25 foot away I can hear my tractor working. It will feed it and keep running full bore but you can hear the engine bucking down a bit. There is no way I could do that on my BX25, it would stall. I also think my chipper (Woodmaxx hydro) is too heavy to safely transport with my BX. We are rather hilly and would cause a loss of steering going up hill with that much weight so far back so something else to keep in mind.

 

[oosik]

I have an alternate plan for this spring's "chipping project". My son and two of his friends are going to come out and help. At least, for the first day. Until they figure out that it's not as much fun as they seem to think it will be.

I can have all the stands( usually two dozen stands with around 35 to 40 trees cut per stand) cut and the three of them should be able to drag directly to the chipper. No need to pile.

At least, that's the plan. As long as we can all hold up and nobody gets hurt. Almost a 100% chance that somebody will stumble & fall. A thinned stand is a real jungle.

 

[papachaz]

Not even close. A huge difference is that the Titan BX62 is manual feed.

That is a killer for any user because of the continuous impact feedback to your hands and arms as you feed the chipper. I'm pretty sure that the joint pain issues that I have now in my hands is from a decade using the manual feed Patriot chipper.

When I was researching pto chippers, I found a titan owner who allowed me to come out and chip some branches and, comparing it to the 6hp Patriot, I was not impressed.

fwiw, I did several months of intensive research for pto chippers after I got the LS, and, quite frankly, I didn't find anything that looked like a good fit. I was actually in the process placing an order for a different chipper, but before I hit "Send" I decided to look again and found WoodMaxx. After another week of looking at everything I could find on them, I ordered the 8M ...and, the rest is history.

There is a story there... it was over a month after the 8M arrived before the stars aligned and I chipped the first pile. The 8M is a hand full because of it's size and weight, and I was recovering from chemo and headed for a heart valve replacement to boot.

As a result, I got an absolute confirmation that what doesn't kill you makes you strong ;-)

Beverly

Not even close??? LOL? your opinion is just that, your opinion.

I don't have a problem at all with my 'manual feed'... It's not like you have to actually stand there and push it in. I pick the limb up, put the end in and once it hits the chipper, it pulls it right on through, rarely have to touch any of it again. Certainly isn't any 'feedback to my hands and arms' I usually pick it up, stick it in, turn and walk back to get the next limb. I totally agree with OOsik, the dragging is the worst part.... Now I have learned that leaves on the limbs are a no no because mines not a shredder so that will clog it up.

The tree company guy that came in a few weeks back and cut down the big pine for me was really interested in my bx42s. He was impressed with it, because, he HAD one that had it's own feeder and he said it was a PIB because it constantly jammed, he'd have to reverse it, start it over, reverse it, start it over. He stood and watched me feed some through it, and again, he was impressed enough he wanted the info....So just like anything and almost everything else in this world, you'll find some people who say 'it's the greatest thing ever' and some that will say "RUN".....everyone's preference is just that, THEIR preference

 

[oosik]

I've had two manual feed chippers. Wallenstein BX42S and now - BX62S. Neither have required that I stand and push anything into the chipper. When it's chipping, it "pulls" so hard - it's scared a few folks who have come out to help. One gal let out a short scream and jumped back.

Once a fresh cut pine tree hits the blades - there is ABSOLUTELY no backing out. I just drop them in the in-feed chute - turn and go grab another.

My pines average - 3" x 22'. The range is - 1" to 6".

If you have to continuously "push" - - something isn't right.

 

[bevhoward]

LOL? your opinion is just that, your opinion.

Yea, you are right and I apologize. It was a reaction to my experience. I've edited the post.

To the feeder pro/con point, all engineering is a compromise and I have chipped with multiple units on both sides and I'm pro feeder as a result despite experience with several negative feeder episodes.

Thanks for the admonishment,
Beverly Howard

 

[papachaz]

Yea, you are right and I apologize. It was a reaction to my experience. I've edited the post.

To the feeder pro/con point, all engineering is a compromise and I have chipped with multiple units on both sides and I'm pro feeder as a result despite experience with several negative feeder episodes.

Thanks for the admonishment,
Beverly Howard

no worries, and I certainly didn't mean to sound like a smart aleck, but to start with, my comment "sounds like the BX62" was purely based on the similarity of the dimensions, flywheel, weight etc etc, and not meant to mean a comparison between a 'manual feed' or a 'hydraulic feed'. The other thing that actually even made me laugh, was you comparing a 6 hp stand alone yard size unit with a tractor PTO driven unit. Now there's where the comparison isn't even close.

I will agree with you, because my dad had an MTD/Yard Machines 8 hp chipper/shredder, that those things do require a little more effort on the user and yeah they'll wear your hands and arms out in a hurry. Sorry you're having problems in those areas, I have a few physical problems too with some different body parts, getting older sure isn't for sissies huh!