6 Brush Chipper

Nice · Mar 20, 2013

Any of you guys ever rent a 6" brush chipper? I cleaned fence lines along a 15 acre field, about 2000" total of brush. I cut up the bigger stuff for firewood but theres still some bigger 4-5" limbs and a BUNCH of small stuff. I"ve given up on getting it to burn and I don"t own the woods next to it. Need this stuff gone quick, I"ve got fertilizer to spread and a bunch of more important stuff when the weathers right and I"m home from day job. Anyways, $110/24 hr use on the 6" chipper. How much can one get done in a day? Am I dreaming on chipping 2000" of field edge brush in a LONG day? or do these things really eat the brush like I"m hoping?

Nice · Mar 20, 2013

Sorry, thats a 6" max dia. chipper, 2000 feet of brush.

ray hofstetter · Mar 20, 2013

That's the only way I do trees anymore, chip it...it'll eat it up as fast as you can put it in there. Way better than tryin to burn it.

evilboweivel · Mar 20, 2013

chipper is too small
10-12" would be minimum
need one with a power feed
good luck
Ron

Zachary Hoyt · Mar 20, 2013

I cut anything over 2" for firewood, it saves on splitting. Generally the smaller the material you are loading the faster it will eat it.
Zach

Dave Sherburne NY · Mar 20, 2013

I worked with one a couple of years ago. It was a big one with power feed. We had a pile about 20 feet high and 30 ft dia. 2 of us worked about 5 hours on it. It would have gone faster, if it had not been in a pile, the worst part was pulling the pile apart. The guys that built the pile showed up and lasted about half an hour before they had something else to do.

english · Mar 20, 2013

Shouldn't take you too long to do 2000 inches.

Dr. Walt · Mar 20, 2013

You need a big one like the Power Company uses to clear trees away from their power lines.

DoubleR · Mar 20, 2013

I would get a Burn Permit.

showcrop · Mar 20, 2013

I burn mine every few years. I have two T posts that I bolt into my bucket to enable me to carry a lot and to put it on the pile. When it is all in one pile it burns fast.

ericlb · Mar 20, 2013

ive rented them many times, but never a little 6 inch if your going to spend the money get a real one that can get some work done, last one i rented was a bandit 90, usually takes a 3/4 ton pickup to pull it,there heavy,if its sharp[ check before you rent it, a dull one is no good] it will take everything 3 guys can feed it, we filled my 12 foot stakebed truck to the top of the rails in 1 1/2 hours well worth the money and not too much more than the little one

Adirondack case guy · Mar 20, 2013

I always cut fire wood down to 2" size. the small stuff works well to fill every nook and crany when fueling the boiler at night, and rekindling in the morning. Throw the small brush in the edge of the woods and it will break down into twigs on the ground within a year.
Loren, the Acg.

JohnDeereJimOhio · Mar 20, 2013

Call your local VFD and see if they want to do a training for a brush fire. Thats what people do around here..

Don-Wi · Mar 20, 2013

Here's what we used this last fall. It's an old Fox 3000 that up until this last fall we used for chopping our feed. It's just plumb worn out and we replaced it with a slightly newer NH, so it's become a Fox Ch[i:2059943d1e]i[/i:2059943d1e]pper.

Gotta be on your toes, and the bar you see across the top goes to the reversing gearbox as a slight safety and so you can work the pieces in & out if they jam.

Donovan from Wisconsin

supergrumpy · Mar 20, 2013

I have rented several 6 inch chippers, generally they were not properly maintained, any branchy stuff jams and you spend a lot of time cutting the branches down to fit

on my 4th chipper now, 12 inch chipper with dual feed wheels and 6cyl Ford, gets 'er done but stinking heavy unit, can't move it around in soft ground so when its been raining I stack the brush on wagon and haul brush to the chipper

watch Craig's for older commercial units, awful handy to have and you suddenly have lots of friends

ben there · Mar 20, 2013

I've got an older Wayne 10" with a 318 Dodge industrial V8.It will eat trees faster than I can throw them in.
I believe you have alot of wishful thinking trying to grind that much wood in a day with basically a toy.

JayinNY · Mar 20, 2013

We have rented Vermeer 6 inch chippers from home depot and another rental place a dozen times, and they worked great, with the auto feed, you put in the limb and walk away, my brother and I really don't chip anything that big, unless it's real garbage wood, we cut stuff as small as 2 inches for firewood, it's a pain, but I don't like to waste heating wood.

RandyB(MI) · Mar 20, 2013

I just retired from the largest wood processing equipment manufacturer in the world and we occasionally got to take brush chippers home for the weekend. When they say 6" they mean the feed wheel/chipper drum is 6" wide. It IS still a BRUSH chipper and not a whole tree chipper. So that means 6" of brush , not a solid 6" log. We have a "6" and an "8" and neither will handle the 5" stuff you are referring to very efficiently. You need at least a 10" with dual feed wheels and at least a small 4cyl turbo engine. They are what they say , "a brush chipper" not a log chipper. We have them too , with a 50" X 48" chipper drum and a Cat V/12 twin turbo with 1200 hp and auto feed. Will fill a 50' chip semi trailer in 15 min. with a good loader operating. Seriously,though,get at least a 10".

JayinNY · Mar 20, 2013

And what company would that be????

Deere Mark · Mar 20, 2013

Rental here would be $165 per day. And that is for the Vermeer BC600XL with about 27 horse power.
6 inch by 6 inch infeed opening power feed and it will take a 6 inch diameter branch. You can put a lot of branches through it in a day. Better to have two people feeding it as you can get very tired picking up branches all day.
Of course bigger is better (bigger infeed opening, more horsepower, faster feed rate) but that usually costs a lot more.

37chief · Mar 20, 2013

You must have one of the old chuck, and duck chippers. I have one like that. It has a ford v8.Like you say they will eat lims fast as you throw them in. Gone in seconds. I don't think they are rented anymore, maybe because they are a little dangerous, but what machine isn't. Stan

Nice · Mar 21, 2013

Like I said though, I can"t get it to burn and Spring tillage season is coming quick. If it would burn I"d already be done with it.

Nice · Mar 21, 2013

The brush won't burn!! No amount of burn permits or VFD's in the world will help. I don't need a burn permit anyway. I need to farm this ground this year, and I don't own the woods surrounding it so no place to stick it other than prime tillable farm ground or back in the fence row I just cleared. So the question remains about a 6" chipper... Otherwise I can figure it out, I'm an engineer by day, farmer by night. I've figured out that brush will burn if dry (next year after farming around huge piles) and thats one way to get rid of it!!!

showcrop · Mar 21, 2013

(quoted from post at 04:29:38 03/21/13) The brush won't burn!! No amount of burn permits or VFD's in the world will help. I don't need a burn permit anyway. I need to farm this ground this year, and I don't own the woods surrounding it so no place to stick it other than prime tillable farm ground or back in the fence row I just cleared. So the question remains about a 6" chipper... Otherwise I can figure it out, I'm an engineer by day, farmer by night. I've figured out that brush will burn if dry (next year after farming around huge piles) and thats one way to get rid of it!!!

Years ago before clean air laws, brush was never chipped, always burned, chippers were very rare because there was virtually no need for them. Brush and tree tops and limbs went directly onto the fire from the saw. Maybe 20 seconds drying time. The home construction industry would pay dearly to know the secret to your fire proof wood. But keep it quiet until after you get your money for the secret. I could give you instruction on getting the fire going if you like. LOL

Nice · Mar 21, 2013

Hahaha, why don't you come out here and get the fire going if you're so smart. Theres a few things you need to know, 1. Its way too wet to be shuttling brush all over the field and rutting everything up. Thus the chipper along the edge idea. 2. Loader tractor is busy right now and can't be used to move the brush to your fire. 3. This is very wet wood and its on very wet ground, I've used every available fire "assist" that I had sitting around the barns 4. Its spread out over a 13 acre area so no place for a concentrated fire 5. The situation looks simple behind a computer, harder if you're working a full-time job, fixing a rental house, raising cattle and farming corn/beans/hay, i.e. lack of time 6. I don't need a history lesson in burning brush, so keep your smart responses in your head

RandyB(MI) · Mar 21, 2013

Morbark Inc. Winn MI. Check out their web site morbark.com

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