#11 Kubota B2601 with the Woodland Mills WC68 Wood Chipper. The best PTO wood chipper for you? 

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This is exactly what I was thinking. Thank you for confirming. My tractor is 25hp at the PTO and this solidified the decision to get the 68 instead of the 46.

I just found your channel last night. I’ve been binge watching the episodes. Very well made and informative. I just bought a Kubota b2301 so your videos are especially interesting. I’m jealous of all your attachments. 😂 Thanks!

Another great video! I purchased a T-Rex Woodland Mills Trailer a few years ago. It hauls, and dumps up to 2000lbs with a winch. Great for hauling firewood, gravel, top soil, wood chips etc... Woodland Mills was great to work with. I live in Alaska and the shipping costs were quite high, Woodland Mills ate 25 percent of the shipping cost just to get their product to Alaska. Quite impressed with their customer service as well as their products. Thanks for an excellent review of the WC68 chipper.

Hello Ed. Just wanted to say thank you for your advice and the video. I received my WC 68 today and it’s working great! 👍

Me after a storm “get to the hoppa!!!”

Your humor is refreshing!!🤣 thanks for sharing!!

Enjoyed this video, Ed! Especially thinking “it’s only 500’. I won’t forget!” I’ve been there many times!!! The way I see it, it’s really when stuff goes wrong that you have the makings of an interesting story!

Informative and hillarious! Love it!

Awesome

Great video!! Entertaining and educational. Thank you

Great review for a great chipper. I have the WC68 for my Kubota LX2610. It is exactly what the company represents it to be. Great quality. My favorite attachment. For less than $100 they sell an optional chainsaw holder that is very helpful.

I really enjoyed your video. Leaving a chainsaw in the chipper chute is exactly something I would do! I can't tell you how many times I have put things on top of my car (even after I told myself that I should not do that) and forgot about them seconds later..... I remember them shortly thereafter when I hear them bang off the car as I am driving down the road. I have a B2650 and have been thinking of buying a WC68.

Nice chainsaw chipper!

Dude you crack me up.. I just bought a Kabota B260H. I am awaiting delivery. I enjoy seeing the implements that can be used. I am excited to see that Harbor freight has a three point quick attach set up. I would love to see more about that.

Run WC68 on an L series Kubota. Works well! One drawback with the unit worth mentioning, it does have trouble clearing through the chute throat white pine needle branches. Keep plenty of needle free or leave free branches around to clear the unit or you'll be opening the chute a lot to clear the pine paste clog in the chute.

Great video! I really like that chipper!

Sold! Just ordered one. I can't wait for it to get here. Love that sub joke. I will have to make sure not to carry anything in the hopper. Thanks Ed.

Hello Ed, I just subscribed to your channel. Your editing skills are great, it is very enjoyable to watch! This wood chipper is very well designed! As you said, being at the lower end range of PTO power does not mean you can't make it. But there is some limitations in size. Good news is that your wood chipper is going to last 2x longer. Pretty much like you, anything over 2 inches goes in the firewood. Thanks Ed!

Nice video and a very nice chipper. I just ordered a frontier chipper but the Woodland Mills was tempting

LMAO. I love the saw story! So glad I found this video! WC68 getting ordered on next big pay check!

Great video- You sold me! Just hoping my B2320 will run it ok, 18hp @PTO so a little undersized. Chainsaw storage tip noted, thanks for sharing.

I just watched 2 of your videos and subscribed. I like your style of reviews.

came across from your comment on scotty kilmer’s video. great video and great editing!

Great slip into the "Sub" joke hahaha LOL...used to drive a lot of tractors back in my youth with my dad and there is no mistaking that sound and purrr...miss it a lot wish I had my own right now !! Great chipper/chain saw story I bet you wish you had that on video!! A chipper is a great invention for sure! :))

I almost almost bought the 46 until I watched your video for the same tractor. Opted for the 68. Thanks for the great insight. Should have it by mid October. My thoughts align with yours. Rather have the larger opening and I know the limitations. I have 2 piles 8’ high can’t wait to get chipping! Cheers from a new subscriber

Great video!

Good job💪🏻👍🏻👍🏻

I haver the same chipper. It works great. The support from them is excellent. If you have a issue they will help you on the phone. They will ship you parts if required. I also run mine on a B2650 tractor. It does not drag the tractor down. 4 blades uses less power. The chute will plug up if you are chipping green cedar small branches. I find if you spray the chute with Jig a Loo dry graphite it really helps. If you do plug it the chute opens up so easy and it is easy to clean it out. Now for the good Husky going in I have another story. I use a 4 ft. bar to help clean out the chute. Well I had to move the tractor and where did I set that bar. You guessed it. The knifes did not like the steel as much as plastic. So like he said never/never put anything in that hopper than wood.

Great chipper.

I have senior moments too.

"The Husqvarna was no more". Man,I feel your pain and I'm a Stihl guy. Remember, a wood chipper is like a firearm, do not place anything in front of it you do not want to destroy. Stories about climbers ropes and rocks getting tossed or pulled in.

It’s nice to hear that I’m not the only one that does stupid shit that can get expensive, often like in your case it’s something I sat down thinking I won’t forget that then of course I forget it and it gets crushed, lost or damaged, my cell phone has more lives then a cat and has survived multiple attempts by me to destroy it, but it’s a survivor. 😁

Just found your channel...enjoying the content. I have an L4701 and would love one of these...my tractor will run the WC88. If I can convince my wife, I will be getting one!

That’s funny about your chain saw. Lol I transport it back to the barn with it in the hopper.

Automatic adjustment could lead to more complexity and Less reliability. Surprised the blades did not take damage whilst chipping the chainsaw!

"Good reason to have a plastic saw I guess." Too funny.

Woodland chippers are sold in Australia. We might buy one. If we do we will get the biggest as my tractor may not have quite the power to chip the biggest limbs but it should chip smaller branches more easily.

Thanks for the review vid. btw, I just noticed on the Woodlands mill video on their website, it seems to have a chainsaw holder on the side. Maybe a better place for it! :)

A dust masks,Mikita 12 inch cordless chainsaw work great !

did something similar just the other day. Was moving a fridge in my garage that I had place a new bottle of 12 year old scotch on top of moments before in my hurry to clean up. I thought "ill get that in a min" I did when it hit me in the back as I slid the fridge on its way to smashing off the concrete floor. The garage floor was soaked with the sweetest smell of scotch mixed with my tears.

One interesting thing to point out is that the moment of inertia of 24" flywheel is over triple that of an 18" flywheel of the same thickness. This is really a much bigger upgrade over the smaller unit than it sounds.

Very good points you made. I have a Yanmar 2002d, which is a 20hp tractor, and have been considering one of these for awhile, and was almost set on the wc48. Seems like I could go with the WC68, as anything larger than 3”, I usually cut for firewood anyway.

Excellent video, Ed. That chipper has some really nice features, plus it looks super heavy duty. I like the bar in the front where you can control the forward/reverse of the feed. People (me included) will be interested in how much you had to pay for this beast, and where it was manufactured. Cheers!

I think Woodland Mills offers a chainsaw holder for their model WC 46 wood chipper. Maybe there's a way to rig a similar set up on the other models. Good chippen.

The size of that branch at the end! 😎👍🏻

I have a greenworks saw that I would love to carry around in the hopper. :-)

Too bad about the saw, I'm a stihl guy. hehe. Making my order for the same rig and can't wait to chip. Good info in your vid , thank you.

My kinda fun! Good videos! Keep them coming.... I Subscribed!

Laughed heartily at the story about the first Husqvarna chainsaw! We’ve all been there, if you haven’t done something really dumb in your lifetime, then you haven’t really lived much! Got to be able to laugh at yourself!

HI THERE interesting been thinking if getting one for sawmill slab wood . good show john

Stopped by for the wood chipper review, subscribed for the jokes.

I could see me chipping my chainsaw too……..

regarding the adjustable feed rate idea. I hope this message is worth reading. your idea really got me thinking and rambling. the concept sounds good and is easy to understand -- how it could be modulated by the position of the feed wheel. while it could be made safer (?) by having the speed ramp up and down smoothly and relatively slowly rather than suddenly, an automatic change in feed rate would be a safety issue. i could (almost) program a (Arduino) microcontroller to do this based on the feedback of a position or tension sensor feeding info to a stepper or servo motor. i love the idea, but i would not do it. i will just try to feed similar stuff in and adjust as needed (for general size) and pass on auto-optimizing the feed rate. I already see myself wanting the auto adjusting rate while i am standing at the chipper.

I think you're probably right about automating the feed rate, might need to figure out how to put some cam action in judging by the angles from my 12" screen. I'm not positive you could get full range on the feed rate even with it, but without getting to sit and watch it in action it's tough to say. Good looking dog, by the way.

Hope you didn't feel too bad about chipping your saw. Would be EXACTLY the sort of thing I'd do ( don't even get me started on what I have done!) and I'm sure many others are the same. Maybe you could make up a Holder for your saw like the woodland stump grinders have? Thanks for a good review.

Your video was very informative and I really enjoyed it. One thing you mentioned is 540 rpm PTO. What engine speed do you need on the tack to achieve that. My 2601 does not have a 540 visual PTO speed on the tack. Is the 540 PTO speed at 2800? Thank you the great videos you do.

After being "Out of Stock" all last year... ordered WC68 Jan.4th and it was delivered Jan.07, 2021. For use on my B2601 thanks to your demo video. They now sell a "Chainsaw Holder" for the WC68 frame. Its sturdy and well constructed... thought you might be interested in it?

I'm getting ready to buy one of these for my JD770, torn between WC46 and WC68. My rear PTO hp is rated at 20, so I think I'm OK there. But my rear lift capacity is 815# and this thing is over 700# according to the website. You mentioned in your video that yours is over 800#?, so rear lift capacity makes me abit nervous. What is your rated rear lift capacity? Did you have any troubles with moving this thing around? Did you have to add any weight to the front of your machine for balance? BTW, appreciate the sub humor (I'm an old USN sub sailor)!

What make & size Grapple are you using? Are you happy with it? Great setup tractor/chipper/grapple.

Howdy Ed - Always enjoy your topics. I too have the B2601 and looking for a chipper. Does this have shear bolts? Slip clutch? I looked at the WM website and downloaded the manual for the WC68 but could not find info in the text or even the parts break down. Let us know if you know. Thanks.

Dad jokes earned a like

I just bought a WC88 to run on my B3030. They told me it won't run it, but I'm running an 8inch Woodmaxx with it now with zero issue. We'll find out one way or the other.

Good day Sir 😊 Great tractor and wood shipper 👍 Great built and engineer for safety !!! 😀 I'm sincerely impress by that wood chipper ! and great sence of humor about your submarine experience !!! 🤣😂 Great tips about 3 points and safety gear and pre-inspection beford using it !!! ✔👌 I like my Huskvarna too !!! 😀 Ho no,,, Ho no,,, 😪😓Very good and honest about your chainsaw sad story !!! 😪 Great description about your hydraulic systems !!!✔ I think that you found a great modification to do !!! 😀Great video Sir ( full watch ) and keep up the good work and have a great week Cheers !!! 😎

To what length did you have to your PTO shaft in order to work with this? I just got one of these and I am going to use it with a LX2610 and looks like the PTO shaft is going to have to really short.

Thinking about getting the WC68 for my B2601. I'm sold on the horsepower at the PTO but my concern is the weight. All the videos show operation on perfectly level ground but I'll be downhill to the chipping location, uphill returning, and sometimes not level where I'm chipping. It's not the rocky mountains or anything but can the B2601 carry it on a grade?

Dad ran over our chainsaw with the brush hog. Twice.

your bearings are probably detroit bearings and they are easily damaged if you get wire on the shaft. they are a bear just for time to replace, that happened to me. my unit is a small tow behind. the compression rate is probably about 20 to 1, although it can go up. remember that compression is cube to cube volume, and the mass will remain the same, but the area is occupies will decrease if chipping greens stuff, you will get sap, or the plant amino acids on your fly will and up the discharge chute and you will need to clean that out every so often, which i do with a chisel and just run the blade over the metal (take care not to be injured, those chipper blades are sharp) on the topic of chipping green (which was 90% of what i did), the biological composting that will take place will sink your volume height significantly in a very short time, and if the pile is large enough, you could have spontaneous combustion/explosion due to the decay inside. i have not had either one, but keep in mind 36 inches will become hot enough to keep snow free over two or 3 months of a winter. check out composting for additional safety issues on this last point, many trees/shrubs have a natural fungicide in the amino acids and this usually takes about 3 weeks to dissipate. once this happens your pile of goodies will almost disintegrate into compost in a few months. only then would i put it around a garden as the composting takes energy that plants would otherwise get from the fungus/bacteria and insects that help your plants.

Did you buy direct or did you have a dealer for woodland mills? Looks great is it still workin well?

Got my 68 chipper mounted on a L4400 Kubota running at 42hp and works great for the most part, especially on dry branches. However, problems with clogging when putting green fir and spruce branches through. PTO speed, feed speed and anvil clearance are very important but even when they are set correctly chute clogs are frequent Thanks for the vid

If you can chip a chainsaw then I"m buying this machine. Thanks for the video. Todd at Granite State Woods.

You earned a subscriber from the “is that a sub or a whale? Hey Jim I think I see your wife” comment 😂

great video! How much for shipping? I'm researching it right now.

👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🗽🙏🏻 Enjoyed!

I had a 35 cc Husky I would have run through your chipper. Always hard to start. I was always tired and mad before I made the first cut of the day. Sent it in for service, got it back and it burned the top out of the chain oil reservoir before it used up the first tank of fuel. Shop refused to even quote for repair. Gave the parts away. Finished the job with an electric chainsaw. Bought a 310 Echo. Starts every time. Even after being left for 2 years with fuel in it.

Did you have to cut the pto driveshaft they supplied

chipped a chainsaw. Lesson learned.

Great video and very interesting. Would it be rude of me to enquirer the price of such a chipper? Thanks again.

Wisconsin has 15074 lakes topping Minnesota which has 11842.

what made you choose this one over one like WoodMaxx. I'm torn between them

How does it do with palm fronds?

doesn't the WC68 surpass the rear lift capacity of that Kubota model?

Are you any relation to Gordy over at GP outdoors,,, you guys sound like brothers ,,lol

What is the cost of that woodland mills Cheaper? I have a 28 hp Mahindra and what is the maximum log size?

Will this shred cardboard too?

😊 Did you try taking your saw back to seller and ask for warranty repair? 😊 Good story!

Oh no chipped up the Husqvarna not good.... I would have been pretty bummed out LOL

So how do you move it around? Does it lift up on the back of the tractor and you can drive it around? Plus is it Highway legal? Could you attach wheels and hitch it to a ball on a truck?

Hey Jim I think I see you wife! I lost it bahaha

Hearing protect? brush? Western diamondbacks, a real bad combo. When you clearing brush in the southwest , I would recommend you listen real carefully. I don't know what type snakes you have there, but we have hundreds of those rattles here.

Where are you located ?

I think your idea for an adjustable feed rate is a little too simplistic. The size of the branch is not a perfect analog for hydraulic load; a heavy/thick branch without limbs is a large load that won’t move the wheel up as much as a small branch with lots of branches poking out of it. I think you’d need a hydraulic pilot that adjusts based on pressure differential across the hydraulic motor to regulate load at maximum.

Wisconsin has 15074 lakes easily beating Minnesota which has 11842.

Woodmaxx WM-8M, hands down...

The only way that chainsaw story could have been better is if you caught it on video. I'm picturing the orange chips flying out and you with a puzzled look on your face,

You're not the first guy to send a chainsaw through a chipper.

I prefer to rent occasional use equipment and let someone else do the maintenance and store it.

Lol starts his chainsaw up and immediately cuts with it yeah ok that thing was already warmed up. FYI never start up a chainsaw cold and immediately cut with it the piston heats up faster then the cylinder walls and can significantly reduce or break your saw.

It has design flaws. Blade is to far from feed roller. This space gets clogged with leaves. Then the roller gets stopped. This space also allows branches to go side ways once they are no longer pushed into the blades. Wish I had known this problem before I bought the machine. If you just have branches and no leaves the not that much problem. The stationary blade is off to the side. Should be across the bottom to make for better cutting.

Way too much chipper for that little tractor. “Let’s lower that” Drops it hard.