Revolution wheel- new river equipment

[MarquisTree]

Installed this wheel on Monday on one of our vermeer TX60. We had a Vermeer wheel on it with their yellow jacket system...
What a night and day difference.
Amazing improvement in cutting speed.
3-10 hour days of hard grinding hardwoods and soft woods in rocky ground and we haven't changed a single tooth. With the yellow jacket system we would have used at least 10 teeth by now and I am sure a few broken bolts.
at less then $3k for the complete wheel and a box loaded up with an overkill of spare parts this wheel will pay for it self in no time.

And it doesn't hurt that dave is very helpful and good to work with.

I am actually sick to my stomach thinking about the tens of thousands of dollars we have wasted over the years on yellow jackets and green teeth

 

[MarquisTree]

Welcome to Facebook

 

[treemandan]

I didn't want to say anything negative on your Facebook account - I love the pic of the lady with the baby standing under the broken phone pole. In a word ' typical'

 

[treebilly]

I've been wondering about that wheel for a while now. I live a few miles from new river , kinda know some of the owners, and one of there best fab guys but no one around me has converted over to their stuff. I will say that compared to green teeth the yellow jackets are garbage. I would like to know how that wheel holds up. Keep us posted on it.

 

[Kottonwood]

Is that wheel just for big machines or does it work on small grinders too? I switched over to the multitip wheel on my 25 horse (now 30) carlton last year and it cuts like a champ. I can't believe some of the teeth that still come stock on grinders when there are much better things out there.

 

[mckeetree]

Is that the same thing as the Sandvik wheel?

 

[MarquisTree]

I didn't want to say anything negative on your Facebook account - I love the pic of the lady with the baby standing under the broken phone pole. In a word ' typical'

You like that dano?
This past storm I lost a lot of faith in our species...common sense is in short supply. My detail that day had to kick her out of the work zone at least 4 times.
On the next job Nstar sent us too there were people standing all around a big oak laying on the primaries. Their kids were climbing on it. We cleared them out of the area. I walked over to the tree and about 20' from it I could hear what sounded like bacon cooking...everything was still live on the street...

 

[MarquisTree]

Is that the same thing as the Sandvik wheel?

I think so. I think Sandvik makes the teeth and new river machines the wheel. If you go too Sandvik website they don't have that wheel listed but I know they have something to do with it

 

[MarquisTree]

Is that wheel just for big machines or does it work on small grinders too? I switched over to the multitip wheel on my 25 horse (now 30) carlton last year and it cuts like a champ. I can't believe some of the teeth that still come stock on grinders when there are much better things out there.

They build the wheels to fit each machine. If you give dave a call he can quote u a wheel for your specific machine

 

[flushcut]

Good to hear about the wheel.

 

[mattfr12]

I think so. I think Sandvik makes the teeth and new river machines the wheel. If you go too Sandvik website they don't have that wheel listed but I know they have something to do with it

It's a good bit less per hour to run that wheel. I picked one up T he Paul Bunyan show they had a really good deal on them. They claim it is like $2.40 per hour vs green teeth is over 5$. Not sure how they came up with that but it was part of there pitch at the show.

 

[treeclimber101]

It's a good bit less per hour to run that wheel. I picked one up T he Paul Bunyan show they had a really good deal on them. They claim it is like $2.40 per hour vs green teeth is over 5$. Not sure how they came up with that but it was part of there pitch at the show.

What kinda machine you have it on , do you have pics of it ! I have the first series sandvik wheel for my 352 looks like a stock wheel the tooth placement is a bit different and it is thicker , no pocket bolt wear yet , but we cut sandy loam soil here , so they last a lot longer then breaking stones all day , my worst fear is the occasional fence post or hunks of concrete people like to bury around here , that wheel is intense looking Dave badass even !

 

[mattfr12]

What kinda machine you have it on , do you have pics of it ! I have the first series sandvik wheel for my 352 looks like a stock wheel the tooth placement is a bit different and it is thicker , no pocket bolt wear yet , but we cut sandy loam soil here , so they last a lot longer then breaking stones all day , my worst fear is the occasional fence post or hunks of concrete people like to bury around here , that wheel is intense looking Dave badass even !

Carlton hurricane which it came stock on, we put it on a bandit 2450. Never thought to take pics of a wheel for a stump grinder. Didn't see it as very entertaining. This is the 2450 on one of its first stumps. It was supposed to come with the svandisk in it but the dealer didn't have it in stock. So we ran green teeth till it came in . You can get them from the factory on bandits. So we met them at Paul Bunyan and picked it up. Threw a pic of the baby stumper I'm for u also. It was like a 900$ factory option.

 

[BlackOakTreeServ]

Nice Matt, how you lik'in baby stumper? how big a stump can you grind with baby within reason?

 

[treeclimber101]

I say oh hell to no on that , if I buy a machine that is supposed to have something on it , it sits til they put that something on it , it seems they just love to place blame on the owner for making repairs or upgrades ! As a matter of fact when I bought mine it wasn't supposed to have a push blade I didn't want it , they gave it to me and as a matter of fact they actually lowered the price of the machine originally that I wanted without it , but thank god I got it that little blade makes spreading mayo over my hoagie a lot easier LOL:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[mattfr12]

Nice Matt, how you lik'in baby stumper? how big a stump can you grind with baby within reason?

Its a very nice little machine. The hydro over belts is great. It in my mind is way way more productive than a 252. The disk doesn't stall very often.

We have taken out huge stumps with it, it just takes it a little while a 30" stump is gonna take it a little while when you start getting into 50 or 60" your talking hours of operation. But i think its almost twice as fast as a 252 I've had two of them in the past. It has adjustable swing speed which helps out greatly and seems to automatically slow itself down in the cut the more strain that is put on the motor. I had no intentions of getting it when they wanted to demo it. I was never impressed with a machine that small but it is sweet for what we use it for. Taking a 5k+ pound carlton out to get a 12" stump is just stupid. The small bandit and the 2450 both fit in the back of my pickup with the outside wheels off, I don't trailer them anymore. I bought an old ford f250 that should be getting a flat bed put on it soon for hauling my stumpers around. Im trying to do away with trailers.

The 2450 does so good id like to sell the carlton as we only use it for land clearing where we have to do a few hundred stumps but its just not that often machine sits a lot. Im not as sold on carlton as i was before i had one. Customer support and dealer support needs major gains, Only reason i bought bandits is the closest carlton dealer is like 7 hours, there best answer to this was take it to a local guy? I wouldn't like a local guy working on a 60k grinder thats use to fixing lawn mowers. Bandit picks my stuff up and brings it back if there is a problem.

 

[mattfr12]

I say oh hell to no on that , if I buy a machine that is supposed to have something on it , it sits til they put that something on it , it seems they just love to place blame on the owner for making repairs or upgrades ! As a matter of fact when I bought mine it wasn't supposed to have a push blade I didn't want it , they gave it to me and as a matter of fact they actually lowered the price of the machine originally that I wanted without it , but thank god I got it that little blade makes spreading mayo over my hoagie a lot easier LOL:hmm3grin2orange:

It is very annoying they sent me the wrong bolts twice. My opinion is if your machine isn't at least 50-60hp the wheel wont really give you any gains. Green teeth are probably just as fast on the smaller machines and also easier to change and rotate the teeth. I still have the original disk, i might go back to green teeth once this wheel is shot. I can change a set of green teeth in less than 15minutes with an air ratchet. And i actually went against there recommendation one time and tried the red teeth and they really take a bite give those things a try one time. they are a little more aggressive.

 

[MarquisTree]

Carlton hurricane which it came stock on, we put it on a bandit 2450. Never thought to take pics of a wheel for a stump grinder. Didn't see it as very entertaining. This is the 2450 on one of its first stumps. It was supposed to come with the svandisk in it but the dealer didn't have it in stock. So we ran green teeth till it came in . You can get them from the factory on bandits. So we met them at Paul Bunyan and picked it up. Threw a pic of the baby stumper I'm for u also. It was like a 900$ factory option.

Those don't look like green teeth. What Carlton do you run. I have heard good things about them

 

[mckeetree]

All the houses up there look like big old boxes.

 

[flushcut]

Chip containment screen works wonders. Just saying, you could have cut your clean up time by two thirds = more profit.