Whisper Chipper not feeding correctly.

[mmrewards]

The company I work for has a mid 90's whisper chipper. The blades and cutting bar are all set to specs and brand new. When limbs are fed into the chipper, they get stuck and are hard to remove and look like the picture I have attached. What would cause this?

 

[Cutter1]

When i set the blades up i use a business card to set gap.Set them so it just fits snug almost cuts it.It will cut great.Make sure cutting bar has been ground flat and engine rpm is correct.

 

[spudsnstuff]

RE: Whisper Chipper feed material jaming

That piece in the photo looks normal for that chipper, it does make big chips (if you want small chips you need a variable feed rool machine and the smaller chips will cost you a lot more in fuel). Since the Whisper Chipper has no feed rool system, it depends on you pushing the material stump end first straight into the cutterbox. where it is grabbed and whipped out of your hand at horrendous speed. Its real easy to get small stuff balled up solid in front of the cutter. I try to regulate the trimming input and use the big stuff to drag the trash through. If you try to feed just small trimmings you are using a machine that just doesn't like to do it as well as risking serious injury or death by trying to clear those trimming jams by hand or foot.

David