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That's exactly where my mind went! Chickity China the Chinesium Chipper, feed it some wood and the fire burns quicker.. yada yada yada Shout out to BNL and their Y2K Album "Pinch Me"
The whole video I was like slow the damn feed rate down so it can work!! I guess that was never a thought for him 😅.. he jus pours it to it lol! Fk a clutch who needs one 😂😂
Maybe we could do a poll to find out what your viewers find most satisfying to watch: A. Kevin milling logs B. Kevin crushing gravel C. Kevin chipping wood
I bought a small chipper/shredder from Peavey for around $800. Being as I burn anything big enough to stack, I didn’t need a huge machine. I find the fresh branches chip better than old dry stuff but the secret is to keep your knives sharp and your revs up. Regulate the intake speed on the larger branches and don’t throw dirt into it. Happy chipping
Pretty little wood chipper. I would mount one or two fire extinguishers on the side and please use another piece of wood to push those short six or 8 inches pieces in Great stuff
Don’t know if anyone else has said it, but don’t put coolant in that engine, only put water. Since coolant has a higher boiling point than water, you’re effectively raising the engine operating temperature to whatever the boil point of your coolant is. Normally 260*F or more
Also that solenoid valve on the side is an auto feed stop. Should be a way to set it on that small control panel, it’ll see a drop in RPM and stop the feed roller then restart the roller.
Suggestions: More weight on flywheel. Feed shut off bar around the infeed shroud. Just a U shaped bar that has a lever that disengages the fwd feed if your arm/body hits it. They occasionally get hit with just the right stick and you have to reset, but it may be the difference between losing a hand/arm/life. And maybe for fun, but maybe functional: A steam pipe "smoke" stack with a correctly sized whistle at the top. Once it produces enough steam, it sounds the whistle and you let the machine (and you) rest for a certain amount of time. Thanks for sharing (and taking the risk)
James Prigioni on TH-cam started his entire food forest with just wood chips. He didn't add top soil, just wood chips piled on for several years. Now he grows a ridiculous amount of fruits and vegetables in what is basically his back yard... all organic, no fertilizers, nothing.
You could use a valve to cut down on the feed drum speed. I’m sure your arborist friend mentioned that his has auto feed that stops the roller when rpm drops. I’ve run many larger industrial chippers while working for my local highway maintenance department. The scariest was one powered by a Ford 351cid V8. It had no feed drums. Straight in to the chipper wheel. Branch were whipped past the operator at incredible velocity. No way to stop the feed beyond killing the engine.
What about welding a stick of metal onto the lever that lifts the teeth, the strick protrudes towards the receiver, so you can lift the teeth with one hand and pull out stuck logs with the other?
I love the testing cheap chinese equipment theme. Its interesting to see how decent their equipment can be. Especially for someone with a tight budget.
Why did you keep putting logs in that were too big? I don't understand your train of thought when it stalls and burns the belt to pieces and then just keep doing it?
Good video Kevin! Nice wood chipper man, that will help you really get rid of branches and trees you don't need great asset man! I can see that being used a lot! The areas that you were using the chipper looked really good when you were done! Looks like you can get to areas of the chipper you need to when needing repairs, maintenance! Good video man! Looking forward to the next one. Take care.
Wow, that wood chippers pretty cool. I’m glad it’s working good for you and I hope it continues too. I always enjoy your videos Kevin thanks so much. Take care.
Only water should be used in evaporative cooling system. If you boil out water from antifreeze and add another fresh antifreeze and boil out all water you will destroy cylinder bacause without water boiling point rises from 100°C to almost 200°C with concentrated ethyleneglycol.
Here where i live we had Jenbacher and Deutz engines with evaporative cooling. Only water is to be filled. In winter they used to carry warm water to fill the water jacket and hopper to get the engine to start a bit easier. When stopping the engine for the day the water has to be drained to prevent freezing and destruction of the engine. These engines sometimes were called 'Würstlkochermotor' (Sausage cooker engine) in winter sometimes people were hanging sausages similar to hot dogs and 'Braunschweiger'in the hot water or steam to have a hot meal. Here in the mountains there were lots of small farms without electrical power until the middle 1900s that operated sawmills and other machinery a bit away from the homes. Tried this when reviving an such an old 20hp diesel at a disused sawmill at a friends farm a decade ago
Hi Kevin, Great demo with the chipper. Can’t wait to see what, if any modifications you make. Now you can add gravel to any driving surface and chips to any trail surface. Very cool. Thanks again for the entertaining and educational content. Take care.
Should have the chipper leveled so the engine fluids aren't angled and possibly starving for oil... Also normals chippers are run full throttle while chipping
A safety shut off near the chute would be nice. There was a tragic accident in my city over the summer involving a wood chipper. Please keep your fingers away from the chute.
Like you said at the end, adding a viscus slip clutch to the chipper cutter head so that the hydraulic pump doesn't stop when the cutter starts to slow down to far taking too big of a bite along with making sure the belts are tight enough that they done slip would go a long way to making it a more usable machine. Adding a valve on the feed motor that is controlled via engine or cutter head RPM would also help a lot in preventing a stall when the cutter head slows down. The belts may also need to be tighter or may need some dressing to prevent slipping since the belts are not a clutch and should never slip in normal operation. If the cutting head stalls the engine should stall unless a slip clutch is being used or your going to go through a lot of belts.
Do you stand outside staring at the sky when it rains man? Jus listen to yourself you gotta be some sort of Engineer.. Slip clutch is jus gonna create another slip problem that it already has so trash that plan... Slow the in feed by atleast half and increase knife flywheel speed "full throttle". What do you do in a car to go up a hill? Increase the throttle to maintain the cruising speed.. I wouldn't add weight to the flywheel cause if you get it outta balance I'll eat flywheel bearings like a starvin Ethiopian.. the key is feed rate
I assume you know, because they are one of Canada's proudest exports, but the song was Barenaked Ladies "One Week" 'Chickity China, the Chinese chicken'
adjust your flow control for the feed motor to slow it down for the bigger stuff then you wont have to babysit the control lever. you could also add in an external flow control , that would make adjusting much faster as simple as turning a dial once you find the sweet spots mark them off for for quick reference
Make piles twenty feet away. Cuts facing in feed direction. keep the area around your feet clear of even small branches. Wear loose fitting sacrificial gloves . Tight fitting long sleeve shirt or sleeve wrist bands. A snag may kill you. Start engine, idle up, Feed, idle down, Turn off. Rinse and repeat until clean. Be aware of incoming hooked branches they shift to the operator at the last moment.
I found on my chipper that if you set the knives closer it won't bog the engine down, also gives a finer mulch. You could also reduce the feed rate with a valve.
Kevin, you sure enjoy the unexplored...😂😅 Personally, I would've went to a machinery auction, or rented a chipper. Gotta love reading sideways and upside down though. Love what you're doing 😊
I am always looking for a deal on stuff, but sometimes you get what you pay for. That chipper seems like a turd. For 5K and something that size I would think it should have no problems with 5 to 10 cm logs. You could possibly do some pully diameter changes to help adjust the feed rate adjustment somewhere. $3300 US for BigBear Power Tornadic 6 in. 20 HP V-Twin Engine $4500 US for wooMaxx MX-8600 Hydrostatic Auto-Feed 6 in. Wood Chipper - Black PTO driven by your tractor
@@excitedbox5705 That coolant will never go to a higher temp than the boiling point unless it all evaporates. That is why we use water in a cooling system, since as long as you can keep water in the system, your engine will not overheat and seize. The only reason you worry about it boiling off in an automobile is because the system is pressurized to around 15 PSI as the engine runs and this keeps the coolant from evaporating since it increases the temperature at where the coolant boils which gives you a wider temperature differential for the radiator to to exchange heat with the air moving past it.
Change the valve or install in inline flow control so the feed rate is adjustable. It may already be there and just limited by how you operate it. Just like a loader on a tractor you can ease the lever to slowly raise/lower.
Good content. Please make a video on manufacture of feed shut off bar. As you need one badly. As well the procedure of adjusting the knives for chip size. Feed and speed ratio depends greatly on the size of the chips . Adjusting the feed roller bypass should be a lock nut adjustable bolt or screw. Keep up the Good work. 5 stars
With all of the smoke coming up from it does it burn the logs too?😂 My Bandit 18XP doesn’t have that feature. But I use it for a similar purpose since it is getting so expensive to haul green waste to the landfill I prefer to grind it myself. That the only problem with clearing property is what you have to take out. Enjoy your chipper they do make big piles pretty small quickly… John
it suppose to be using water. fill the tank full, it will spil and evaporate when it running, you suppose to keep it full all the time(refilling it every 15 minutes or so), so it wont overheat
I’d cut a door out of the flume thingy…with a latch so that you can gain quick access to blockages…because when the wood is moist, it’s more likely to have a build up due to the bend. Looks very satisfying though.
Blue smoke means burning oils, as we know, maybe an oiled cooler with fan? Same for the coolant. I don't know if it has a radiator, but maybe it needs a bigger one with an electric fan that moves more air. Naybe try to find a way to get a coolant and oil temp gauge on it, so you can narrow down your issues.
It could definitely use some sort of flywheel weights for sure.... Is there a adjustment valve for your infeed speed? Ide def slow it down when sending in the bigger logs.. Maybe move or add another ignition switch close to the compression release..👍👍
Thanks for sharing! I think I’ll save up a bit longer and get something that you don’t need to babysit while chipping. I want something such that if the wood fits in the machine, it will go through without stalling on its own. I don’t want to have to sit there rushing between the log and the controls trying to find the ‘sweet spot’ where it doesn’t stall but is still producing chips at a consistent rate.
Looks like the blue valve with a black knob is a flow control. That should control the feed speed. As for it not spitting the jammed log out, I think the belts are slipping so the hydraulic pump probably stops too. I'm guessing one that one. Maybe the feed roll just can't pull the log out when the cutter head stops. Doesn't seem like it has much tension one it if you can lift it by hand.
I think you kind of mentioned it, but it seems like the chipper would work better with a variable speed valve control. What's on it seems to be with full open or full closed. A valve that would slowly open as you pulled the handle would be so much easier to use.
Dont forget that wood floats. You mentioned using chips for mud control, I did the same thing about 10 years ago. I thought id fill in some low spots and spread them on a little gravel road and the first heavy rain we got the chips all floated down the road with the rainwater and ended up in the grass.
Since the hydro controls the feed speed, but comes down on the log, if you used that arm coming up and left when looking at where you stuck the hydro motor stick, and sat a bolt on there, it would set a max depth that the grabber/feeder is placing on the wood, hence it wouldn't feed so fast. Drill holes along the arm and stick a bolt that's long enough to go onto the back of the cowl there on the feeder section, and use that as a minimum for the logs you want to shove in diameter, then the arm can move up, but it can't move down any further than the minimum. I believe that's what they are lacking in that "design" they "liberated" from other chippers. If it can't feed as fast, you should be able to fit logs up to the max width minus grabber teeth in there and they should still go through, it's all in how it feeds.
I agree with the flow control post, need to ask though, does this engine have a governor? A major upgrade would be a system that would monitor chipper blade rpms and automatically reduce feed rate...food for thought...
Security tip when feeding wood with extruding parts ,always put them in so the attachment point angle of twighs is pointed towards the machine, people have had there hands pulled into the feeder roller because thet got stuck on twigs they put into the machines. You should have em stop bar above the feed funnel so you can stop the thing from pulling in stuff. That machine seem to bee two man show to bee considered safe, in its current Form.
Yes a bigger flywheel may help however you need to oversize the crank pulley as well in order to keep the same belt drive ratio... Also add an Infeed roller flow restrictor
if you look at the right side of the chipper there is that blue thing with valve thing and 2 hoses, there is a knob that i think turns down the speed of the roller
That machine looks like it's only rated for chop sticks. If you intend on keeping that machine it may well be worth your while to have a little hunt around through some old backyard scrappy's & see if you can come across an old 3 cylinder Deutz as they don't require a water cooling system. Failing that try finding a 2 or 3 cylinder diesel yanmar, Kubota etc from an old Arc welder, golf course mower etc. if you had a decent motor on that chipper it would probably eat through everything on its diner plate. Just an idea & it would make a brilliant video or series of videos on hunting down an engine & then fitting the round peg into a square hole.
I know that the big chipper that the city uses has a big heavy flywheel to keep the chipper from dropping it's rpm's too quickly, helps the machine plow through bigger branches more easily.
Roddy Doyle’s book “The Van” has a great scene referencing a “Chinese chipper”. Different context, but when you said “there’s a song there”, this book came to mind.
Iv had a smaller version but similar set up. You should have a leaver somewhere that controls the flow rate of hydraulic fluid for the hydraulic infeed roller, if your putting big stuff in you need to slow the infeed down. As for the smoke, the hydraulic pump will be powered by a rubber pully powered from the engine crank/flywheel so when the infeed jams up the engine still send the rubber belt round the hydraulic pully and will burn out and snap the bands pretty easy so try shutting it down asap
What might help things out is a 12v hydraulic pump just for the reverse feed or like you said a bigger flywheel. You explained it well but being there in person makes the difference
Noticed the longer branches were kind of tipping back with thier weight, causing the feed angle to be too shallow to feed through properly. You could maybe manufacture some kind of slide in front of the branch intake hole. This would help with longer heavier branches - but also gravity would assist feeding for you, so you wouldn't need to micro manage it quite so much.
hello 1: change the speed of the wheel feeder by adding some debit limiter on hy line or 2: you ad a speed sensor on the cheaper when the sensor detect some lower speed the little module inverse the hydraulic distributor for the wheel feeder and it stop the wheel or eject the branch, then when the speed come back it work like normaly ( expensive way to make a really wood cheapper) .
Buying equipment from China seems similar to buying something partially broken that needs to be repaired. If you can fix or mod it (add a radiator, for example), great, it's worth it. If not, buy from somewhere reputable.
Tweak suggestions: 1. Fly wheel 2. Lever for decompression. 3. Lever for hydraulic lift thingy 4. Paint the inner chute yellow and black (warning so youndon pur your hands past that point) 5. Emergency stops - multiple. One at chute end. One at far end (if you dont put the decomression lever) and one on each side. 6. A trap door to allow you to drop the dirt out the bottom. 7. Some plexiglass/perspex windows into hard to see areas from operator perspective 8. Two keys on ipposite sides to start it so that you have to have two people. Doing this alone without some more sefety features is a bit risky.
we are producer of wood chipper, nice test Kevin, i clicked the little bell after watching your video. but just a reminder, this does not stands for all Chippers made in China. This only stands for the one you paid. i wish i could get you a chance to try our chipper, which is also made in China. be in touch...
Is there no clutch on that thing? Seems like it'd be pretty hard on belts and stuff without one. Just my opinion but I think you'd have been better off buying an old chuck and duck chipper over that thing, and I have a special kind of hate for those old whipper chippers. Idk if I'd put anything over about 4" diameter in that guy but i hope it works out for you. Also the fact you almost need 2 guys to start and run the thing seems like a pain. Good luck. 🤞🏻
I would use it for twigs, branches and limbs or trunks under 4 -5 inches. Would this be a good chipper for what I want to do? Would I need to babysit the feed control? Were your problems with these sizes or larger?
Love you new Branch Manager. Perhaps you could add a decal identifying it as such. The lack of a sealed radiator for the cool system does not meet very safe. At a minimum you do not want to be breathing evaporated antifreeze fumes. Rather than feeding your log feeder 12cm logs, perhaps you should limit yourself to less than 10cm timber and save the posts for your next project build. Who is your new minion? Any update on Don’s move to the coast. Stay safe out there sir. Your wife and daughter need you with all your fingers and toes in tact. Peace brother
Having used 'small' chippers like this before, you need to slow down the speed of the feed wheel some how (if its hydraulic then a flow reducer will need to be added)
Ran a chipper for years, slow down the feed rate when chipping the big stuff and turn the exit chute away from the back of the machine so it's not blowing the chips towards you. The machine seems to make good chips ( not strings), the thing that concerns me is there are no safety shut of bars that you can pull to stop the feed rollers. I used chippers before these safety features were installed on them, we would have guys get caught up in vines that were in the trees and get pulled in, losing arms or worse killed.
One other thing is those piles of wood chips do catch on fire if left too long spread the chips along to road or something not more than 4 inches thick
Have read a lot of the comments and I will repeat some of them for sure. - add only destilled/deionzed water to the cooler (otherwise you will build up lime etc) - add some kind of larger area cooler that uses convection/passive cooling for the water, less boiling. - I do not think a flywheel will do any good, only add more danger in case of an accident. - maybe not add 5-10m large logs in there... You just counter the spring on the roller and get a wrong og attack on the knives-drum - Too much small stuff (leafes and small branches) will fill the exit shute, so be on the look out, that everything comes out every time. Remember to let the machine pump some air in that shute at times or good chips (no small stuff) - if you see starvation of hydrolic fluids, your system volumen is too small, either because you have not filled enough in there or because the tank is too small (sucktion pipe is set too high even) - buy spare belts 😂 - and for god sake, do something about it having no emergency stops (multiple)
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Wearing those gloves and put your hand that close to the chipper is a bad move, buddy
At 6:13 there seems to be an adjustment knob on the hydraulic block, turning that should speed up or slow down the feed speed
An idea,
Make a hydraulic press so you can press the chips into a block that you can use for firewood
Kevin Chipp the World!😅😉
you bought not a good woodchipper
Chippity China, the Chinese chipper · You feed a long stick and your engine stops tickin'
😂😅
Loading long logs with no gloves on, or just the fingers gone, I hope the ER is still open then.
Watching X-Files with no lights on.
That's exactly where my mind went! Chickity China the Chinesium Chipper, feed it some wood and the fire burns quicker.. yada yada yada
Shout out to BNL and their Y2K Album "Pinch Me"
"we'll start with the tiny stuff" *immediately loads 6 inch post 😂
It seems to be missing alot of the chippers have an emergency stop bar over the entry. Maybe you need more torque. Try a Chinese electric turbo.
A flow control should be installed so that the infeed rollers can be slowed down so the chipper can keep up.
He could probably diy that
If you pause it at 25:31 it looks like it might have a flow control knob there on that block.
@@lockburner2000 Sure does look like one.
The whole video I was like slow the damn feed rate down so it can work!! I guess that was never a thought for him 😅.. he jus pours it to it lol! Fk a clutch who needs one 😂😂
Better yet, a digital tachometer. And an electronic feed control based on rpm. Rpm drops and feed stops until it recovers.
2 episodes later and we'll see a self feeding chipper that runs around the property!!
Kevin: "I've made couple small updates to the chipper!"
Maybe we could do a poll to find out what your viewers find most satisfying to watch:
A. Kevin milling logs
B. Kevin crushing gravel
C. Kevin chipping wood
I come for the milking and rock crushing
... I stayed for the log chipping. Never seen a chipper take logs that fat!
The variety of stuff keeps it interesting!
Just a heads up, wood chip piles can get extremely hot and self combust in direct sun.
So be sure to spread piles long term
I bought a small chipper/shredder from Peavey for around $800. Being as I burn anything big enough to stack, I didn’t need a huge machine. I find the fresh branches chip better than old dry stuff but the secret is to keep your knives sharp and your revs up. Regulate the intake speed on the larger branches and don’t throw dirt into it.
Happy chipping
Pretty little wood chipper.
I would mount one or two fire extinguishers on the side and please use another piece of wood to push those short six or 8 inches pieces in
Great stuff
Don’t know if anyone else has said it, but don’t put coolant in that engine, only put water. Since coolant has a higher boiling point than water, you’re effectively raising the engine operating temperature to whatever the boil point of your coolant is. Normally 260*F or more
Also that solenoid valve on the side is an auto feed stop. Should be a way to set it on that small control panel, it’ll see a drop in RPM and stop the feed roller then restart the roller.
Suggestions:
More weight on flywheel.
Feed shut off bar around the infeed shroud. Just a U shaped bar that has a lever that disengages the fwd feed if your arm/body hits it. They occasionally get hit with just the right stick and you have to reset, but it may be the difference between losing a hand/arm/life.
And maybe for fun, but maybe functional: A steam pipe "smoke" stack with a correctly sized whistle at the top. Once it produces enough steam, it sounds the whistle and you let the machine (and you) rest for a certain amount of time.
Thanks for sharing (and taking the risk)
James Prigioni on TH-cam started his entire food forest with just wood chips. He didn't add top soil, just wood chips piled on for several years. Now he grows a ridiculous amount of fruits and vegetables in what is basically his back yard... all organic, no fertilizers, nothing.
You could use a valve to cut down on the feed drum speed. I’m sure your arborist friend mentioned that his has auto feed that stops the roller when rpm drops. I’ve run many larger industrial chippers while working for my local highway maintenance department. The scariest was one powered by a Ford 351cid V8. It had no feed drums. Straight in to the chipper wheel. Branch were whipped past the operator at incredible velocity. No way to stop the feed beyond killing the engine.
That's a good idea. or.. just don't feed ridiculous sized wood.. lol
It needs a large weight flywheel,take longer to spin up but also longer to slow it down
It needs mor powah. Like a supercharger..... Or just slam a 1.9 TDI in it.
What about welding a stick of metal onto the lever that lifts the teeth, the strick protrudes towards the receiver, so you can lift the teeth with one hand and pull out stuck logs with the other?
I love the testing cheap chinese equipment theme. Its interesting to see how decent their equipment can be. Especially for someone with a tight budget.
Why did you keep putting logs in that were too big? I don't understand your train of thought when it stalls and burns the belt to pieces and then just keep doing it?
Fr tho dude is a meat head
TH-cam views?
Good video Kevin! Nice wood chipper man, that will help you really get rid of branches and trees you don't need great asset man! I can see that being used a lot! The areas that you were using the chipper looked really good when you were done! Looks like you can get to areas of the chipper you need to when needing repairs, maintenance! Good video man! Looking forward to the next one. Take care.
You know, in like three months it would be great to see a before Chippy and after Chippy of the "problem" areas of the property
Wow, that wood chippers pretty cool. I’m glad it’s working good for you and I hope it continues too. I always enjoy your videos Kevin thanks so much. Take care.
I like to oil the outside of my hydraulic tanks too, as a little treat
I do that every time I refill the windscreen wiper fluid.
for 2k less you could have put this Canadian chipper on yr tractor WC68 6" PTO Wood Chipper and been much happier
Only water should be used in evaporative cooling system. If you boil out water from antifreeze and add another fresh antifreeze and boil out all water you will destroy cylinder bacause without water boiling point rises from 100°C to almost 200°C with concentrated ethyleneglycol.
Here where i live we had Jenbacher and Deutz engines with evaporative cooling. Only water is to be filled. In winter they used to carry warm water to fill the water jacket and hopper to get the engine to start a bit easier. When stopping the engine for the day the water has to be drained to prevent freezing and destruction of the engine.
These engines sometimes were called 'Würstlkochermotor' (Sausage cooker engine) in winter sometimes people were hanging sausages similar to hot dogs and 'Braunschweiger'in the hot water or steam to have a hot meal. Here in the mountains there were lots of small farms without electrical power until the middle 1900s that operated sawmills and other machinery a bit away from the homes.
Tried this when reviving an such an old 20hp diesel at a disused sawmill at a friends farm a decade ago
"You know what goes with chips K,K,Ken? Fish Ken!" 🐟 😂👍 (Fish Called Wanda reference)
Hi Kevin,
Great demo with the chipper. Can’t wait to see what, if any modifications you make. Now you can add gravel to any driving surface and chips to any trail surface. Very cool. Thanks again for the entertaining and educational content. Take care.
Should have the chipper leveled so the engine fluids aren't angled and possibly starving for oil... Also normals chippers are run full throttle while chipping
A safety shut off near the chute would be nice. There was a tragic accident in my city over the summer involving a wood chipper. Please keep your fingers away from the chute.
This is the first thing I saw. I would not use this chipper.
@@radagast6682 could you use a small supercharger for the wood chipper
Perfect chipper for the WoodChipper 2024 movement 😂
Like you said at the end, adding a viscus slip clutch to the chipper cutter head so that the hydraulic pump doesn't stop when the cutter starts to slow down to far taking too big of a bite along with making sure the belts are tight enough that they done slip would go a long way to making it a more usable machine. Adding a valve on the feed motor that is controlled via engine or cutter head RPM would also help a lot in preventing a stall when the cutter head slows down. The belts may also need to be tighter or may need some dressing to prevent slipping since the belts are not a clutch and should never slip in normal operation. If the cutting head stalls the engine should stall unless a slip clutch is being used or your going to go through a lot of belts.
Do you stand outside staring at the sky when it rains man? Jus listen to yourself you gotta be some sort of Engineer..
Slip clutch is jus gonna create another slip problem that it already has so trash that plan...
Slow the in feed by atleast half and increase knife flywheel speed "full throttle". What do you do in a car to go up a hill? Increase the throttle to maintain the cruising speed.. I wouldn't add weight to the flywheel cause if you get it outta balance I'll eat flywheel bearings like a starvin Ethiopian.. the key is feed rate
I assume you know, because they are one of Canada's proudest exports, but the song was Barenaked Ladies "One Week" 'Chickity China, the Chinese chicken'
That's what I was thinking about!
adjust your flow control for the feed motor to slow it down for the bigger stuff then you wont have to babysit the control lever. you could also add in an external flow control , that would make adjusting much faster as simple as turning a dial once you find the sweet spots mark them off for for quick reference
Make piles twenty feet away. Cuts facing in feed direction. keep the area around your feet clear of even small branches. Wear loose fitting sacrificial gloves . Tight fitting long sleeve shirt or sleeve wrist bands. A snag may kill you. Start engine, idle up, Feed, idle down, Turn off. Rinse and repeat until clean. Be aware of incoming hooked branches they shift to the operator at the last moment.
VERY Honest review, you even showed the bad AND Good, VERY nice job Thank you :)
Hi Kevin I love that wood chipper
Awesome video brother, also Hello fresh looks amazing. ❤ Much love and respect from here in Kentucky
I found on my chipper that if you set the knives closer it won't bog the engine down, also gives a finer mulch. You could also reduce the feed rate with a valve.
Kevin, you sure enjoy the unexplored...😂😅 Personally, I would've went to a machinery auction, or rented a chipper. Gotta love reading sideways and upside down though. Love what you're doing 😊
@ 29:10 I worry about your safety / I think you are allowing your hands to get too close to that feed roller !!!
I say relocate the startup controls closer to the engine so you can reach the compression release while cranking
I am always looking for a deal on stuff, but sometimes you get what you pay for. That chipper seems like a turd. For 5K and something that size I would think it should have no problems with 5 to 10 cm logs.
You could possibly do some pully diameter changes to help adjust the feed rate adjustment somewhere.
$3300 US for BigBear Power Tornadic 6 in. 20 HP V-Twin Engine
$4500 US for wooMaxx MX-8600 Hydrostatic Auto-Feed 6 in. Wood Chipper - Black PTO driven by your tractor
Not gonna lie that boiling coolant would scare the bejesus outta me
That is because you have common sense. He is literally destroying that thing.
@@excitedbox5705 even under normal operating conditions it looks like it's going to boil off. Probably why it said water works too.
All for views of course, sadly destroying equipment is a trend that makes money on youtube@@excitedbox5705
@@excitedbox5705 no he didn't, its evaporative cooling. its how that design works
@@excitedbox5705 That coolant will never go to a higher temp than the boiling point unless it all evaporates. That is why we use water in a cooling system, since as long as you can keep water in the system, your engine will not overheat and seize. The only reason you worry about it boiling off in an automobile is because the system is pressurized to around 15 PSI as the engine runs and this keeps the coolant from evaporating since it increases the temperature at where the coolant boils which gives you a wider temperature differential for the radiator to to exchange heat with the air moving past it.
Change the valve or install in inline flow control so the feed rate is adjustable. It may already be there and just limited by how you operate it. Just like a loader on a tractor you can ease the lever to slowly raise/lower.
Good content. Please make a video on manufacture of feed shut off bar. As you need one badly. As well the procedure of adjusting the knives for chip size. Feed and speed ratio depends greatly on the size of the chips . Adjusting the feed roller bypass should be a lock nut adjustable bolt or screw. Keep up the Good work. 5 stars
With all of the smoke coming up from it does it burn the logs too?😂 My Bandit 18XP doesn’t have that feature. But I use it for a similar purpose since it is getting so expensive to haul green waste to the landfill I prefer to grind it myself. That the only problem with clearing property is what you have to take out. Enjoy your chipper they do make big piles pretty small quickly… John
I was also thinking a bigger flywheel would help a lot. Seems like it works fine enough so long as it can maintain momentum
It seems to be constantly overheating now?
nope, evaporative cooling
@@mrjinglesdice2368 so that steam pouring out of the top of the motor is “evaporative cooling”. Ok
@@joelapp yes sir
it suppose to be using water. fill the tank full, it will spil and evaporate when it running, you suppose to keep it full all the time(refilling it every 15 minutes or so), so it wont overheat
Maybe extend the infeed shute a bit - it looks really dangerous with your hand that close to the rollers
That first post would have made some good logs for my fire, all the best from England.
Happy weekend everyone!
I’d cut a door out of the flume thingy…with a latch so that you can gain quick access to blockages…because when the wood is moist, it’s more likely to have a build up due to the bend. Looks very satisfying though.
Carry a blower of some sort and as soon as you notice a Lack of discharge try to add some Wind Power at the input
Blue smoke means burning oils, as we know, maybe an oiled cooler with fan? Same for the coolant. I don't know if it has a radiator, but maybe it needs a bigger one with an electric fan that moves more air. Naybe try to find a way to get a coolant and oil temp gauge on it, so you can narrow down your issues.
It could definitely use some sort of flywheel weights for sure.... Is there a adjustment valve for your infeed speed? Ide def slow it down when sending in the bigger logs.. Maybe move or add another ignition switch close to the compression release..👍👍
Thanks for sharing! I think I’ll save up a bit longer and get something that you don’t need to babysit while chipping.
I want something such that if the wood fits in the machine, it will go through without stalling on its own. I don’t want to have to sit there rushing between the log and the controls trying to find the ‘sweet spot’ where it doesn’t stall but is still producing chips at a consistent rate.
And you can grind up the box that it came in...winner, winner!!!!
Looks like the blue valve with a black knob is a flow control. That should control the feed speed. As for it not spitting the jammed log out, I think the belts are slipping so the hydraulic pump probably stops too. I'm guessing one that one. Maybe the feed roll just can't pull the log out when the cutter head stops. Doesn't seem like it has much tension one it if you can lift it by hand.
I think you kind of mentioned it, but it seems like the chipper would work better with a variable speed valve control. What's on it seems to be with full open or full closed. A valve that would slowly open as you pulled the handle would be so much easier to use.
You could start by rigging up a cable or linkage to the decompression lever so you can operate it from the control panel instead of needing 2 people
Dont forget that wood floats. You mentioned using chips for mud control, I did the same thing about 10 years ago. I thought id fill in some low spots and spread them on a little gravel road and the first heavy rain we got the chips all floated down the road with the rainwater and ended up in the grass.
I never in my life have seen a woodchipper eat a full tree
this machine amazed me
yea she jams
but she does do it in the end
AWESOME!!!
Since the hydro controls the feed speed, but comes down on the log, if you used that arm coming up and left when looking at where you stuck the hydro motor stick, and sat a bolt on there, it would set a max depth that the grabber/feeder is placing on the wood, hence it wouldn't feed so fast.
Drill holes along the arm and stick a bolt that's long enough to go onto the back of the cowl there on the feeder section, and use that as a minimum for the logs you want to shove in diameter, then the arm can move up, but it can't move down any further than the minimum. I believe that's what they are lacking in that "design" they "liberated" from other chippers. If it can't feed as fast, you should be able to fit logs up to the max width minus grabber teeth in there and they should still go through, it's all in how it feeds.
I agree with the flow control post, need to ask though, does this engine have a governor? A major upgrade would be a system that would monitor chipper blade rpms and automatically reduce feed rate...food for thought...
Security tip when feeding wood with extruding parts ,always put them in so the attachment point angle of twighs is pointed towards the machine, people have had there hands pulled into the feeder roller because thet got stuck on twigs they put into the machines.
You should have em stop bar above the feed funnel so you can stop the thing from pulling in stuff. That machine seem to bee two man show to bee considered safe, in its current
Form.
Yes a bigger flywheel may help however you need to oversize the crank pulley as well in order to keep the same belt drive ratio... Also add an Infeed roller flow restrictor
if you look at the right side of the chipper there is that blue thing with valve thing and 2 hoses, there is a knob that i think turns down the speed of the roller
never seen a more appropriate way to unload a chipper
That machine looks like it's only rated for chop sticks. If you intend on keeping that machine it may well be worth your while to have a little hunt around through some old backyard scrappy's & see if you can come across an old 3 cylinder Deutz as they don't require a water cooling system. Failing that try finding a 2 or 3 cylinder diesel yanmar, Kubota etc from an old Arc welder, golf course mower etc. if you had a decent motor on that chipper it would probably eat through everything on its diner plate. Just an idea & it would make a brilliant video or series of videos on hunting down an engine & then fitting the round peg into a square hole.
I know that the big chipper that the city uses has a big heavy flywheel to keep the chipper from dropping it's rpm's too quickly, helps the machine plow through bigger branches more easily.
Roddy Doyle’s book “The Van” has a great scene referencing a “Chinese chipper”. Different context, but when you said “there’s a song there”, this book came to mind.
You may be able to put a hydraulic oraface on the feed motor to slow it down a bit to allow you to feed the big stuff easier.
You don't see Rachel in a while then you buy a chipper😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
🤔 hmmm
If he wanted Rachael there, he'd plumb in a proper toilet.
Iv had a smaller version but similar set up. You should have a leaver somewhere that controls the flow rate of hydraulic fluid for the hydraulic infeed roller, if your putting big stuff in you need to slow the infeed down. As for the smoke, the hydraulic pump will be powered by a rubber pully powered from the engine crank/flywheel so when the infeed jams up the engine still send the rubber belt round the hydraulic pully and will burn out and snap the bands pretty easy so try shutting it down asap
What might help things out is a 12v hydraulic pump just for the reverse feed or like you said a bigger flywheel. You explained it well but being there in person makes the difference
Swapping to a larger pully on the hydraulic pump would slow the feed rate, reducing the engine load.
Noticed the longer branches were kind of tipping back with thier weight, causing the feed angle to be too shallow to feed through properly. You could maybe manufacture some kind of slide in front of the branch intake hole. This would help with longer heavier branches - but also gravity would assist feeding for you, so you wouldn't need to micro manage it quite so much.
What’s the comparison to main stream wood chippers ??
hello 1: change the speed of the wheel feeder by adding some debit limiter on hy line or 2: you ad a speed sensor on the cheaper when the sensor detect some lower speed the little module inverse the hydraulic distributor for the wheel feeder and it stop the wheel or eject the branch, then when the speed come back it work like normaly ( expensive way to make a really wood cheapper) .
Needs an E-stop for the feeder.
I was looking for that big red button...didnae see it.
I like the crate it was shipped in ☺️
Awesome, next up the Jenz Cobra Hybrid wood annihilator!
Buying equipment from China seems similar to buying something partially broken that needs to be repaired. If you can fix or mod it (add a radiator, for example), great, it's worth it. If not, buy from somewhere reputable.
Radiator needs a water pump
Add a 12v radiator fan pointing at the engine (not the tank). That will help cool the engine without over evaporating the reservoir
Tweak suggestions:
1. Fly wheel
2. Lever for decompression.
3. Lever for hydraulic lift thingy
4. Paint the inner chute yellow and black (warning so youndon pur your hands past that point)
5. Emergency stops - multiple. One at chute end. One at far end (if you dont put the decomression lever) and one on each side.
6. A trap door to allow you to drop the dirt out the bottom.
7. Some plexiglass/perspex windows into hard to see areas from operator perspective
8. Two keys on ipposite sides to start it so that you have to have two people. Doing this alone without some more sefety features is a bit risky.
DO NOT TOUCH THE FLYWHEEL it is balance.... think about the shaker you put on the Rock crusher
Can’t wait to see you make it better.
Run the thing a full throttle when chipping thick branches.
It keeps the speed of the blade up.
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You might want to add a flow controller to the feed circuit. That way you can slow the feed speed on the larger stuff and not over feed the blades.
I would add a pressure regulator for the input speed rate which would slow it down, so its not taking as big of a bit asa fast as it is
I second the idea of a bigger flywheel.
I thought the engine caught fire. Boiling coolant? That's new to me. 😳
Is there no clutch on that thing? Seems like it'd be pretty hard on belts and stuff without one. Just my opinion but I think you'd have been better off buying an old chuck and duck chipper over that thing, and I have a special kind of hate for those old whipper chippers. Idk if I'd put anything over about 4" diameter in that guy but i hope it works out for you. Also the fact you almost need 2 guys to start and run the thing seems like a pain. Good luck. 🤞🏻
I would use it for twigs, branches and limbs or trunks under 4 -5 inches. Would this be a good chipper for what I want to do? Would I need to babysit the feed control? Were your problems with these sizes or larger?
Ok getting a use out of them is different like your roads, but even Forrest managers burn brush so those big piles light em up
Love you new Branch Manager. Perhaps you could add a decal identifying it as such. The lack of a sealed radiator for the cool system does not meet very safe. At a minimum you do not want to be breathing evaporated antifreeze fumes.
Rather than feeding your log feeder 12cm logs, perhaps you should limit yourself to less than 10cm timber and save the posts for your next project build.
Who is your new minion? Any update on Don’s move to the coast.
Stay safe out there sir. Your wife and daughter need you with all your fingers and toes in tact. Peace brother
Having used 'small' chippers like this before, you need to slow down the speed of the feed wheel some how (if its hydraulic then a flow reducer will need to be added)
Ran a chipper for years, slow down the feed rate when chipping the big stuff and turn the exit chute away from the back of the machine so it's not blowing the chips towards you. The machine seems to make good chips ( not strings), the thing that concerns me is there are no safety shut of bars that you can pull to stop the feed rollers. I used chippers before these safety features were installed on them, we would have guys get caught up in vines that were in the trees and get pulled in, losing arms or worse killed.
Looks like it needs a variable feed speed control. Works great on small branches and 2" or less diameter. But on 3" or larger it feeds way too fast.
One other thing is those piles of wood chips do catch on fire if left too long spread the chips along to road or something not more than 4 inches thick
I nearly polished off an entire bag of chips while watching this video Kevin!
Have read a lot of the comments and I will repeat some of them for sure.
- add only destilled/deionzed water to the cooler (otherwise you will build up lime etc)
- add some kind of larger area cooler that uses convection/passive cooling for the water, less boiling.
- I do not think a flywheel will do any good, only add more danger in case of an accident.
- maybe not add 5-10m large logs in there... You just counter the spring on the roller and get a wrong og attack on the knives-drum
- Too much small stuff (leafes and small branches) will fill the exit shute, so be on the look out, that everything comes out every time. Remember to let the machine pump some air in that shute at times or good chips (no small stuff)
- if you see starvation of hydrolic fluids, your system volumen is too small, either because you have not filled enough in there or because the tank is too small (sucktion pipe is set too high even)
- buy spare belts 😂
- and for god sake, do something about it having no emergency stops (multiple)
I think you shuld adjust the feederspeed on the blue box on the side. Then it will run smother with the thick logs. Anders from Sweden.
You forgot to kick the tire Kevin 🤣😂🤣😂