Did your chipper ever tip on you

[Erwin]

A couple days ago, I was driving on a very well paved street. As I was making my (quite gentle) right turn onto a pretty gentle hilly road, I heard a horrible crash. It t turned out that my little Vermeer 260 tipped and landed on it’s side, on the chute side (Not the engine side!). Luckily enough I have my little handy Echo gas powered winch. Just anchored it to a huge landscaping rock and pulled the chipper right up. I did bend the turning handle for the chute and other minor scratches. The top part of the cutting wheel housing must have shifted very little, just enough to have the wheel rubbing a crew protruding into the chamber. After I filed it off, everything runs just like nothing happed. I feel so lucky about his incident. It could be a lot more worse. Did this ever happen to you, pulling a small chipper with a big truck?

 

[iain]

i've been told of a similar thing with a v.similar machine, brand spankin been led out of the dealers yard for the first time,they turned a corner n it rolled over like a frogsleg eating european meeting an invading soldier

both events were a long tme ago now though!!!

 

[Thor's Hammer]

seen lots of vermeer 620's fall over, we used to take the chutes off them when we towed them.

 

[darkstar]

my 90 mod has turned over twice ...

 

[kennertree]

i flipped a bandit 200 once. coming down a pretty narrow country road and a car full of teenagers came flying around a curve on my side. i swerved a bit, the trucks tires got off the edge of the road into a fairly deep ditch. i tried to correct it and overcorrected and the chipper caught it like a whip. flipped that sucker right over. thank God no one was hurt.

 

[Kneejerk Bombas]

I was pulling our vermeer 1400 today and it tipped. It rides so well on the side, plus we were pretty drunk, it took almost to the third tavern before we noticed. The boss is going to be pissed.

 

[Lumberjack]

Awww Mike! How could you!?

 

[Kneejerk Bombas]

I don't know.
We were just trying to figure out how a set of emergency lights, like those seen on top of a squad car, got caught in the chute.

 

[Lumberjack]

Did you THINKto look UNDER the chute and see if there was the squad car caught underneath the chipper?

Novice!

 

[juststumps]

i've been told of a similar thing with a v.similar machine, brand spankin been led out of the dealers yard for the first time,they turned a corner n it rolled over like a frogsleg eating european meeting an invading soldier

ROTFLMAO

 

[hobby climber]

Lightning strikes twice...

Because I'm a part timer, I rent a stump grinder once I get enough stumps to justify the cost of renting. Last spring after the first days use on the grinder, I loaded up the machine and was headed home. I forgot to use the tie-downs to secure the side of the grinder to the side on the trailer. While making a turn a bit to fast, the grinder tipped over and ended up laying on its side on the trailer. oops! No biggie, a come-a-long took care of that situation! That evening it rained a little and the wooden ramp boards were wet and slippery. The next morning after removing the first stump, I had some difficulty loading the grinder onto the trailer. The grinders tires (self propelled Vermeer #222), were wet from the grass and kept sliding back-wards as I tried loading it onto the ramp boards. Then one of the ramp boards snapped in half under the weight of the grinder causing the grinder to tip over and land on its side in the customers driveway. I ended up using a tow strap and pulled the grinder upright with the truck but not before much of the machines oil and hydraulic fluid had drained out. Once upright, I let the machines fluids settle for a bit before starting it up. Wow, did it smoke for a bit once started !!! I did end up getting the grinder loaded onto the trailer and once home I topped up the fluids and all was well again. HC

 

[Lumberjack]

Note to self, DONT rent any gear to Hobby Climber!

 

[hobby climber]

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[Tree Machine]

You guy's, this particular topic has been at the forefront of my mind for a couple weeks now, and you start a thread to answer my questions, without me even tellin ya I had the question in the first place. Now how the heck did you know?

The reason this rather obscure question has been hounding me is that I want to convert the rims and tires on my chipper, and I was wondering if it was going to predispose it more to tipping over.

I'm a small chipper guy, right now the wheels are trailer-type tires, smallish, thin, they work OK, whatever. They hold air, but give nothing in the way of looks or performance. I want to upgrade to 'turf tires', and go bigger, from the current 12 " (30.5 cm) up to 14" (35.5 cm). What do you guys think?

 

[darkstar]

never forget to unhook the safety chains on a chipper you pull forward and instant tip .....

 

[MasterBlaster]

Get the bigger tires!!!

 

[a_lopa]

i rolled a bandit 6"on its side whilst a limb hooked up to the 4x4 i was towing it with got hung up on 22kv,it was fun!the tow hitch fell off a few days later,i blamed the manufacturer

one of my freinds was fish tailing another chipper down a dirt road and flicked it into a culvert wrecking the machine totally,he said it looked really good in the mirror.

another time a young line crew i was on some guys were unhooking a big chipper some one forgot to chock it and it ran straight into the power cos bosses 4x4 at full steam.

 

[Dadatwins]

JMHO but if the truck you are pulling these flipped over machines with do not have big numbers on the roof and hood and have a bunch of corporate sponsor stickers on them, then you might be going too fast and need to slow down. Larger tires on a trailer will help but if you are still going to chase the checkered flag, then good luck.

 

[Tree Machine]

Tipping a chipper over is alongside my other worst nightmares, like sticking a climbing gaff into my achilles heel, or forgetting Elizabeth's birthday.

I have tipped one pan-down, tongue-up. If the discharge chute is pointed back wards and you sit on the pan to have lunch, the sucker will do a wheelie, I'm not kidding. Gas will leak out the tank and you'll hustle butt, but it's nowhere near the crisis of tipping one over on it's side.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Just slow yur ass down.