new chipper video

[CalTreeEquip]

Post a new video of a chuck n duck I just put back together.

 

[Pelorus]

I don't like your video. Just being honest.
Doesn't look like it is self feeding worth a damn, and I would never lean into the infeed chute ( like the operator is doing in your vid) to feed my old Chuck n Duck Woodchuck or it would have tried it's best to eat me.

 

[CalTreeEquip]

It feeds great. It's just the ivy was giving me some trouble. I would think you would know that some light flexible brush doesn't feed very well. And yes, if its aggressive feeding brush then its best to stay back but on light stuff like that, I don't have a problem leaning in a bit. I personally ran these old chippers for over 20 years so any criticism isn't going very far on me.

 

[Pelorus]

mebbe you should want it to look like it can actually chip wood, and not be reaching into the infeed chute like some dumb newbie who doesn't have any respect for the bodily carnage that machine can inflict. Just sayin'

 

[SecondGenMonkey]

Just grab the top of the chute and give it a good two footed swing kick, it'll go right in!!!!


Note for idiots:
Don't actually do that, you'll die real quick-like

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[CalTreeEquip]

mebbe you should want it to look like it can actually chip wood, and not be reaching into the infeed chute like some dumb newbie who doesn't have any respect for the bodily carnage that machine can inflict. Just sayin'

See now Pelorus, it's insulting comments like this that get you on everyones ******** list.
It would have been nice to have some hard pieces of Fir but I didn't. A bunch of flimsy Laurel and Ivy is all I had at the time. In the future maybe you should stay away from "maybe you should" statements. They can lead into all sorts of nastiness.

 

[treeclimber101]

Nice Simple machines until your cutter bar isn't perfect of your blades are bad then all you have is a salad shredder/blender ! I had a mitts and merril we would blast chips right into an easy dumper back in the day

 

[CalTreeEquip]

Nice Simple machines until your cutter bar isn't perfect of your blades are bad then all you have is a salad shredder/blender ! I had a mitts and merril we would blast chips right into an easy dumper back in the day

Yes in deed. One must keep the cutters sharp on these.

 

[treeclimber101]

They work well if you use the tool to touch them up daily . My measurement was the fat side of a match pack .

 

[Pelorus]

See now Pelorus, it's insulting comments like this that get you on everyones ******** list.
It would have been nice to have some hard pieces of Fir but I didn't. A bunch of flimsy Laurel and Ivy is all I had at the time. In the future maybe you should stay away from "maybe you should" statements. They can lead into all sorts of nastiness.

I would think (given your considerable experience in this industry) that you would know better than to make and post a video showing a patently unsafe work practice. Your video sucked.

 

[CalTreeEquip]

I would think (given your considerable experience in this industry) that you would know better than to make and post a video showing a patently unsafe work practice. Your video sucked.

It is negative comments like this that keeps views away from this site.

 

[Pelorus]

Any employer here who saw a groundie feed brush into a chuck 'n duck as demonstrated in your video would quickly tell them to smarten up.

 

[CalTreeEquip]

It get the sense I'm debating with a child.
I was running that brush and, despite what it looks like in the video, I'm pretty sure I didn't brake any safety rules.
I was in the back end of the feed table the whole time and was feeding flimsy brush.
Further more, the video is to demonstrate that the machine works, not to demonstrate proper chipping technique.
That is why it's shot from the point of view of the chipper not the chippee.
I don't stage theses videos much because I want people to see how they chip in real world situations.
I think your goal, Pelorus, is to antagonize me.

 

[Pelorus]

I own a chipper of this type, and used it / got abused by it for about 7 or 8 years. It chipped a lot of brush, and I still have it, as well as the Owner's and Parts Manual (Wood/Chuck Model Series V)........which states: "When feeding cutter, always keep hands on outside of chip deflector curtain at intake to cutter head. If sticks are too short for this, pile on cutter apron and push in with larger branch".
I had, and still have tremendous respect for the sheer raw power of that machine, and never got complacent feeding it.
As this is YOUR thread, in a forum YOU sponsor, rest assured this will be my final post here!
Goodnight to you, Sir.

 

[SecondGenMonkey]

This might be dumb... but I just feed a Vermeer 1800xl using a prentace loader. The ground crew pretty much just chills until I hit the bar by accident or a nice stick wedges sideways.

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