OT: 3 point wood chippers

PTO driven chippers

Bob Hackett(Mainely,Bob)

>I`d say go for it!

Awhile back my brothers and I spent the better part of a summer cleaning,limbing up,and otherwise tidying my mother`s property.we started with a homeowner chipper,after that burned up we went to roll-off contruction dumpsters(too expensive,although the pics of us jumping up and down on the brush to compact it are priceless).Later we went to borrowing a tow behind chipper and had to drag all the wood to the place it was planted which wore us completely out.

The best approach turned out to be trading an old shaper for the use of a tractor mounted chipper.we could back the tractor down to the scattered piles instead of bringing the piles to the chipper.The chips could be directed exactly where we needed them and the tractor could be used to skid the logs that were too large to chip back up to the road.The PTO chipper had as much or more power than the tow behind and was much safer and easier to use.

I`d look for a model that had a safety stop bar on the hopper as we all agreed this was one of the things we liked best about the unit we had.

One of the other things we liked was that the chipper when dismounted took up far less room than the tow behind.We talked to the owner and found that the purchase price was less than 1/2 that of even a used tow behind of similar horsepower.

Seems like a no-brainer to me.

Be sure and get a LARGE pair of chocks to put under the drive wheels when you park on even slight inclines.Better safe than sorry.

Mainely,Bob