OT-PTO wood chippers

Mike, here is a post I wrote on November 25, 2003. Philip.

I finally got to use my PTO chipper this weekend. I had a work day at my house on saturday, 5 guys showed up to trim limbs and cut trees. I ran the 8N for 6 straight hours with the chipper. The chipper is a Bearcat model with 5" capacity. The 8N and the chipper worked well together. It amazes me that my tractor, designed in 1938, can uses use implements purchased in 2002. What a great design by Harry F. The chipper has a 120 pound flywheel, lots of inertia, does not take much power to turn. When you put in a 5" branch, the rpm's drop, the governor kicks the throttle plate open, the engine starts poppin, and the rpm's come back up, just like it is suppose to work. Neat to stand back and see. The chipper is a nice tool, but it will work you to death. Philip.

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We got lucky, only paid $2400 for it, we suspect the dealer made a mistake, they are bringing alot more than that.

It isn't like using one of those commerical chippers by far, those things (and some real pricey PTO chippers too) have a hydraulic feet to take the brush and feed it to the cutters. The cheaper and simpler units require you stuff it (carefully) into the chipper. Long straight stuff just gets sucked right in, many times limbs with side branches have to be cut up.

You get what you pay for, more $ spent means less work on the tail end, less $ spent means more work later on. Your choice.

Frequent or professional use would dictate a hydraulic feed roller system, otherwise it would be useless.

This is the only unit I have any experience with and it works well.

Charles