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It was highly modified!

Sure like what

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

This is after we fixed it th-cam.com/video/l8T1lxJsVXc/w-d-xo.html

Maybe 3 foot give or take?

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

Just awesome.

Still the best design in my opinion.

@@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! th-cam.com/video/2OurLXmKkpY/w-d-xo.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

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😀

Not at all. You’re only side loading it if you’re pulling on the long straight sides instead of the radius ends

I tell ya that little thing did a good job too! Sold it a couple years ago but as far as I know it’s still making money for them

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

leonardo migot It’s only dangerous for the people who don’t know how to use it!

leonardo migot Sorry that made ZERO sense to me I have NO CLUE of what you’re trying to say?🤷‍♂️

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 👍

@@coilstreeservice9398 Thanks for the info.

@@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.

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!

John Smith I think we’ve got 5. Yours is the exact same size! 3500 to 4000 Rpm is where we ran it!

You see at 1:40 my son goes to turn it up because our employee Justin only had it at about 3000 or so!

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 👍

@@coilstreeservice9398 Good call

leonardo migot Did I say it was made in China?🤷‍♂️

You must have 2 of everything in this business my friend.

@@coilstreeservice9398 hey

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 👍