Koa Man
Kahuna giganticus
Grizzly said:
Nah, lots of vacant lots and seldom traveled rural roads. See it quite often here....free dump sites all over the place.
Safety of Disc vs. Drum? Tim Walsh?
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Nah, lots of vacant lots and seldom traveled rural roads. See it quite often here....free dump sites all over the place.
Grizzly
ArboristSite Operative
Easy said than done.
Yea it's easy to say that, but if you get cought in california doing that, they fine you and charge you for not only the pile you left, but everything else in that area.
Theres some counties that have set up hidden cameras in trash piles to catch dumpers.
Koa Man said:
Yea it's easy to say that, but if you get cought in california doing that, they fine you and charge you for not only the pile you left, but everything else in that area.
Theres some counties that have set up hidden cameras in trash piles to catch dumpers.
Koa Man
Kahuna giganticus
Hawaii does have a stiff fine for illegal dumping. $2500 plus cost of cleanup. Still you see lots of illegal dumping. It only takes 30 seconds or less to dump a load.
Grizzly
ArboristSite Operative
Koa Man said:
Yet with chips, you can spread them down a rual road. If they ask what your doing; dumping your load. you can tell them That your improving the roads condition and decreasing the effect of erosion on that road when the rains come.
i have not tried it yet, but it seems like a fool proof plan.
or to avoid disposal all together check out the slash buster.
www.slashbuster.com
indistructable
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topnotchtree
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The question was about the safety of the self feed chippers and the whipper chippers. I believe it boils down to this..... The whipper will leave more scratches and scrapes, but fatalities or major injuries are very unlikely. A self feeder will have less minor injuries, but the chance for a major injury or a fatality is higher.
Grizzly
ArboristSite Operative
TreeCo said:Are you considering the tonnage of chipping done per injury or only injuries per hour of operator use?
And have you considered how many whipper chipper owners are injured by their employees for making them use a whipper chipper?
Bravo. you hit the nail on the head.
maxburton
ArboristSite Operative
I heard from a customer of mine who sold chip trucks and chippers for years that the chippers with hydraulic feeds (which are mostly disc) were safer, and had more injuries because of that. It makes sense to me: it seems a lot safer to put your hands near a couple slowly spinning drums than one big giant loud scary one. But it's not!
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topnotchtree
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treeco, I never thought about comparing chip production to injuries. What I said was my opinion, and i have no facts to back it up. The 2 machines are too different to compare to each other, I think. Given the choice, I would definately opt for the self feeder. I also think the whipper chippers get bashed on this site a little more than they deserve. They are like most things, they take time to get used to and learn how to use them. After a while you learn exactly what your machine will take and how it will take it. Given the choice between a 6 inch self feeder and a 12 inch whipper, I would take the whipper.
