At the top of the wood chipper can you adjust the to point down so all of wood chips can go inside of the chip tree truck & 🚫 both inside the truck and on top of the truck????🤔🤔🤔🤨🤨🤨
Yes it was a DC 1260 I bought it brand new from woodmaxx and then made a bigger hopper and shoot as I’m also a sheet metal mechanic and then mounted it on an old little boat trailer I had laying around. But after this video we put a Predator 22 horse from Harbor freight on it. If you look through our archives you’ll see it it’s orange
I use the same technique: SRT for initial line placement, pinto pulley on the end of the single rope, double rope from the pinto pulley down. Work the tree on double rope while it is most convenient. If I need to change back to SRT, I still leave the initial single rope in place and come off the pinto pulley with a single rope on a Rope Runner. I like the name: Double-Single Rope Technique. Good job!
Sold it a couple of years ago. As far as I know it’s still making money and chips 🤷♂️ I will say it did have a tendency to crack a knife every 4-6 months but I just always kept another set handy and checked it every morning. And the knives were only like $70 at the time and you can sharpen them yourself to get by with a belt sander
@@coilstreeservice9398 I tried to get more info from a Bandit rep on a custom 1690, he told me that it would be more expensive than a hydraulic feed. Somehow, I think he was being dishonest. He told me a drum or disc hydraulic feed would be $20-40 000. I am Canadian. There is no way a machine with an 80+ HP engine would be so cheap.
Link Belt Demolition Dude We found this one for $1000 ! And if you look at our channel we made a lot of videos of it destroying brush! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2OurLXmKkpY.html
Well it was a 14’ flatbed so the way we dumped it was just reversed the Process with the redirect that lifts them up just bring the Large tongs to the front of the bed and grab the end of the log and it pulled them out one at a time. I’m sure putting the same thing on a dump bed would work even better 👍 good luck to you
When one of the chippers are down, load the dump trailer and start sawing it up every few layers. I will check out the bandit version. I had a demo of the Baretto , but the belt flew off of it the first hour. I have been looking for a few small chippers like the 700xl for smaller jobs where the beast/ full rig is not needed or not enough room and that can be towed by a 1/2 ton when needed.Thanks for making the machine work so I can estimate time and reduction!
We couldn’t find a real world video of this machine being tested so we had Vermeer bring one out and filmed it ourselves. Funny this video has way more views than Vermeer’s promo 😂. It was okay as you can see but in the end we didn’t buy it. After sleeping on it I decided it was a little too slow for us and we just bought an old chuck n duck instead for $1000 which we also made lots of videos of and posted them here. Thanks for watching brother 👍
$1000 is a hell of a deal! I use to use one back in the day..I’d have that thing firing into the back of our old 15 yard dump trailer with 5 ft sides😀. I live in Denver area and the dump fees have gotten pretty high last the few years, so even on small jobs chippers are starting to make sense, where before we just loaded a trailer and did the cut and stomp method with a chain in it to pull off if the big chipper was busy. The ash trees up here keep dying from ash bore and suck to load/ clean up without a good chipper after that are standing dead. Was that live oak you were feeding it? And ya the other videos I seen they were treating it like a princess and sending twigs through it like it were a harbor freight chipper😀
Got the same chipper. Just restored it. Side comment: the music overwhelmed all the talking. It would have been interesting to hear what was being said.
I decided to retire and sold it to someone in southern Louisiana last fall. They had a lot of storm damage down there if you remember and it went to help in the recovery efforts. Nothing was wrong with it when they bought it, it was an absolute BEAST!!! Just as you see here! It has an industrial Chrysler 318 v8 in it and they are great engines as long as you keep good Maintenance on it and good knives it will eat a lot of tree really fast
Yes there’s not really much to the machine. For engine parts go to an auto parts store. If you need Bearings go to someone who sells industrial bearings. For a belt go to someone who sells industrial belts. And the knives are still being sold baileys.com and a few other places that sell forestry equipment. As for sheet metal just go to a sheet metal shop. As long as you have the frame and the drum you can fix it!!! I’ve had many Waynes and Whispers
The echo 271 is an okay saw but we bought a Stihl ms193T later and it’s a much much much better saw than the echo! And we dropped this trunk with an echo CS800
@@coilstreeservice9398 Thanks for the response. Does your 193t have 3/8 or 1/4 pitch chain? I don’t have any Echo, never have. I have MS 461, use to have 039. The saw I’ve been using on the trails is a Homelite XL with 18” 1/4 pitch chain, I’d like to set up the 193t the same way if I got one. We carry the saw in 4-7 miles inside a backpack along with overnight gear, that’s why I’m looking at the same saws as a tree climber. Plus, cutting brush doesn’t allow you to rest the saw on a log for bigger cuts. Making weight critical for operation too.
mountainguyed67 it is my son’s topping saw I retired from tree work a few months ago but since he’s put a 1/4 on it and done some exhaust work on it and it almost rips like a 200 for half price 👍
@@mountainguyed67 I know this is a year later and probably won’t be any help with your decision but the bar and chain makes all the difference in the world. I’m still climbing trees every day at 46 so I’m always looking for the easiest and most efficient way to get a tree down and the Echo cs271T with a good 12” bar with 3/8 pitch chisel chain with no safety link sharpened right with a hand file I can cut as fast as you will ever need to and probably faster. Once you have been doing it for most of your life you will sacrifice a little power and displacement for a lighter, better balanced, more ergonomic climbing saw, or “top handle saw” gladly and your shoulders, elbows,wrists and hands will be spared a lot of unnecessary stress. I’ve used every top handle saw that Stihl, Echo and Husqvarna ever made with exception to some of the newer electric saws and the 271T is still my favorite climbing saw. The newer 2511T is great too but again your saw is only as good as the bar and chain and with the right setup you can get a smaller saw to cut brush just as fast, if not faster than a stock 200T or a 355T. I’m not brand loyal to any of the saw companies but I feel like I get more for my money with Echo and they are really good about standing behind they’re products and warranty work is never an issue.
I like it was thinking of making one for my dump trailer never thought of being able to swing the anchor point great idea... is your winch removable? From Denis in southeast Canada EH!
Denis Losier Outdoors The winch was bolted to the top of the box in front so no not easily removable. We no longer have the truck but I can tell you it worked AWESOME 👍 but we did get a wireless remote so we could get away from the action which made us feel better about it. I’m telling you it loaded a LOT of wood after this for us and we only got better once we got passed the learning curve!
March 2016 I bought a BC700xl. The very first day the hydraulic system had a leak from or improperly installed and loose fittings. From the start he machine frequently clogged and stopped feeding. I lost dozens of hours on the job opening cutter wheel and feed wheel clearing it out . One day a few months after I got it I found cutting wheel bolts in the hopper. Quite a few times I had to cancel work in progress and lost production days. It has created a burden in scheduling and completing jobs to get paid impacting crucial cash flow and jeopardizing the viability of my business. I had 6 mechanical failures from manufacturing in first 200 hrs. That chipper was the single biggest drain on productivity for my business. RDO equipment did not acknowledge this was a problem or take any responsibility for selling a machine that was continually plagued with performance and mechanical issues. Just business as usual for RDO and Vermeer chippers! Vermeer and RDO completely fail and do not care if lost production from poorly manufactured equipment ruins your business. RDO was not honest or trustworthy. Vermeer chippers are total crap production quality. Even when bought brand new they will continually break down. In mine the bearings failed in the first 200 hours. The RDO mechanic got it covered under warranty when he proved it was a factory assembly issue. Still I lost weeks and weeks of work dozens of hours and thousands of miles making 150 mi round trip back and forth to the dealer. Customers found others to do the work employees lost wages and told me they were looking for another job. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES BUY THESES TOTAL CRAP MACHINES!!!!!! April 2019 I bought a brand new Bandit 70 xp. It now has over 200 hrs in 3 years and not one single problem!!!
Above All Trees LLC VanderKloot We didn’t buy it. We went with a 1976 Wayne chuck n duck instead. We have many videos of it here. It’s the red one. Thank you for watching and commenting 👍
James Stein it really worked awesome. You wouldn’t believe the size of some of the logs we drug up on there! And to unload you just grab it in front and it pulls the log back 👍
All respect bossman you got a nice crew you guys do what they're told I'm the guy that put the chainsaw back to my hands like the wind in Houdini's hand I'm a madman with a whisper chipper I could have shipped all that in the winning four minutes all respect laugh out loud no but for real I'm a hell of a worker and you got real nice equipment stay safe be safe you'll do good work
Hey gents, nice video showing how this system is rigged in real life. Just thought I'd let you know that was explained in "The Tree Climber's Companion" by Jeff Jepson back in 2000. I'm willing to bet that it was not an entirely new concept back then either. Thanks for making a video showing the set up though. It sure beats the sketch in Jeff's book.
this system let's the ground worker rescue the climber by lowering him from the base anchor rope. I also think the base anchor needs a better life safety knot. going to try this soon.
