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Need to install a wooden chip box on a landscape dump. What wood do you recommend using & what should I coat/paint it with? Also, the dump bed is 4' high x 12' long, how high & how long should I make it? Any vents?
Need to install a wooden chip box on a landscape dump. What wood do you recommend using & what should I coat/paint it with? Also, the dump bed is 4' high x 12' long, how high & how long should I make it? Any vents?
I chipped into a wood box back in the eighties and you are right.....a big chipper will beat up the wood quickly!
Used sheet metal roofing attached where the chips hit the box would be a cheap alternative to going to a sheet metal shop. My plywood box lasted for several years.
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Yep. Thats why we had to build a new one, the additional 50 hp with the bigger chipper finished the old one off real quick, started blowing holes right through it actually... of course it was like twelve years old too.
I went with the metal right off on the new one.
One of my brothers is a carpenter/wood worker & he said that black fence paint/asphalt tar/paint would last forever. He said go 3/4" pres. treated plywood & wait for it to dry. Drying time depends on how wet the wood is but max is 1 year. I def. don't want to wait that long. On another note, since we do a lot of landscaping & I want this truck as a Jack-Of-All-Trades, I'm wondering if I can make this chip box removable via winch in our shop & leave it set in the corner when we're not chipping. I was thinking of securing the chip box w/ bolts drilled through the side so when we dump, the box doesn't fall out. Any thoughts to my ideas?
One of my brothers is a carpenter/wood worker & he said that black fence paint/asphalt tar/paint would last forever. He said go 3/4" pres. treated plywood & wait for it to dry. Drying time depends on how wet the wood is but max is 1 year. I def. don't want to wait that long. On another note, since we do a lot of landscaping & I want this truck as a Jack-Of-All-Trades, I'm wondering if I can make this chip box removable via winch in our shop & leave it set in the corner when we're not chipping. I was thinking of securing the chip box w/ bolts drilled through the side so when we dump, the box doesn't fall out. Any thoughts to my ideas?
One of my brothers is a carpenter/wood worker & he said that black fence paint/asphalt tar/paint would last forever. He said go 3/4" pres. treated plywood & wait for it to dry. Drying time depends on how wet the wood is but max is 1 year. I def. don't want to wait that long. On another note, since we do a lot of landscaping & I want this truck as a Jack-Of-All-Trades, I'm wondering if I can make this chip box removable via winch in our shop & leave it set in the corner when we're not chipping. I was thinking of securing the chip box w/ bolts drilled through the side so when we dump, the box doesn't fall out. Any thoughts to my ideas?
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