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opinons on Woods 5000 PTO chipper

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LK - Leesburg,

03-17-2004 07:10:34

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I am buying a farm this month, and the seller has offered me a Woods PTO chipper shredder, model 5000, a rhino hopper spreader and a rhino brush hog for $2200. All are in excellent condition.

The bulk of this price is the chipper. Anybody out there have experience with this model? He claims they are $2800 new, and that the dealer offered to buy it back for $2200 (that seems unlikely to me...).

I need it for general yard cleanup, and for limb disposal from my portable sawmill. I know that this is not a real serious chipper, but I am unlikely to spend lots of bux in the future on a bigger chipper, as my needs are somewhat modest- i.e. not a business.

I just want to know if a pto chipper like this is a toy that will wear out with much use, or if it is a serious, well-built tool.

BTW, my existing tractors that I could power it from are a '56 Ford 650 and a '47 John Deere B.

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Lynn Kasdorf

Woods model 5000 pto chipper

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Gene Davis (Ga.)

03-17-2004 19:37:19

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Re: opinons on Woods 5000 PTO chipper in reply to LK - Leesburg, VA, 03-17-2004 07:10:34

The woods looks just like the Bearcat I have that was made by Crary Mfg. co. The specs are pretty much the same, except mine says up to 35 hp tractors. My 650 John deere compact diesel has all it wants with it shredding limbs. I bought it new to do some cleaning up around my place and it does a good job. I paid about 2/3 of the price he wants to sell you that one for used. The first thing on a shredder to wear out is the operator. They tell you they will chip a 5" limb, that is true, but 5' limbs are fire wood size and heavy to lift and stick in the chute. The next bad thing about a chipper this size is the lack of a power feed. they don't tell you that to get the limbs and brush to feed into the chute you have to skin it down to a naked stem with out all the little branches then feed it in and regulate it to keep from snatching it out of your hands. The power feed machines take the limb and all the stuff attached to it. Most chippers that have power feed are large 60-100 hp motor driven units, or some of the large pto ones have it, read this as expensive to buy. If I had it to do all over again I would take the money I spent buying a chipper and just rent a large one with a power feed and a fan to blow the chips into a truck or pile and would be better off renting it on an occasional basis and not having $1800.00 machine sitting idle most all the time. Gene Davis

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LK - Leesburg, VA

03-18-2004 12:22:52

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Re: Re: opinons on Woods 5000 PTO chipper in reply to Gene Davis (Ga.), 03-17-2004 19:37:19

I appreciate your comments.

The deal would work out about like this:

$2200 for the woods chipper, rhino brush hog, rhino hopper-spreader, rhino auger.

I figure I can sell the bush hog, spreader, and auger for at least $400 each, which means I'd be getting the chipper for $1000.

This seems like a reasonable deal to me. The reality is, I'm not about to rent a chipper, ever. Just not gonna happen. My time is too valuable to fool around with driving to a rental place, driving it back, and returning.

So, having a chipper on the property will be a real nice thing.

Maybe I'll find a deal someday on a beefier chipper, but from what I've seen, these always bring a hefty sum.

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