Checking out the Beaver!
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- Checking out the Beaver; A Vermeer 1800-A with a 110 HP John Deere, I Tech Motor W / Turbo, spinning a chipping drum a minimum of 2,000 RPM's and the shaft breaks and becomes three pieces! That would make your woody job go limp! This is a follow up to the Broken Beaver Video series! We take a trip to check out some beaver, in action!
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No wonder the other shaft broke off like that. That is some high stress type operation the log puts on that shaft and machine.
Well, I understand why the shaft broke in the first place. Crowding the machine with pieces that are too large.
LOTS of safety issues in sight as well. But that shaft assembly defies description. Master craftsmanship on full display.
Proof positive that your work holds up really well. No wonder that it takes 800 horses to run a tub grinder!
I watched the whole series .. LOVED IT .. they sure put those welds to the test!!
Keith Fenner - Just got done watching the entire "Beaver" series. Totally awesome. Thank you for taking your time to put all of this on YT. I'm not a machinist, but I found this series fascinating, a great educational resource, and entertaining as well!
thanks for going to the trouble to put this series together. It's rare in today's job shop so see a job from start to finish. Great content, great play by play and nice camera work.
Good to see the end result. I'm not going to comment on their work methods, because others have said enough.
Sure had a good laugh at the title and your opening/closing comment about checking out some beaver :-)
just because you can fit a log into it, does not mean you should. That beats the crap out of that machine. Could easily throw those logs on a low trailer and drop them off as firewood/ possible charge for it too
I very much enjoyed your series on repairig the beaver shaft. I'm an engineer, but have worked w/ machinist over the years to fabricate a few of my designs. The expertise you brought to this work is impressive. My compliments.
Thanks for taking the extra effort to bring us the follow up on the repair. I can't think of a better test of the workmanship. Getter Done, damn right, you got it done and more.
The feed rolls are set too fast. It damn-near kills the engine each time. No wonder the shaft broke; the engine is next.
Hi Keith,
Excellent set of videos on how you repaired the drive shaft for the wood chipper. Very informative.
Yours Andy
Hi Keith! Thanks for taking the time to video the chipper in action! The momentum of the rotating assembly is converted into a massive amount of torque during the feed cycle! It's a good thing you made that replacement shaft so well.
Keith, we all appreciate a beaver inspection. May it be eager to please for a good long while.
Curious why shred it and not turn it into usable wood like planks or firewood?
+KoolBreeze420 It was pine. Too sappy for firewood.
Not even close to the type of chips required for OSB. Where did you get your information that this goes into OSB? Maybe useful for fuel pellet production or other low quality chip uses.
For everyone saying they should have used the wood to burn; I think it's pine and you really don't want to burn pine in a stove. it doesn't put off much heat and there's so much sap in the wood it makes a mess.
I've burned it outside in a campfire and it made more smoke than heat.
Geo Metric yeah, if you have a crap stove. If you season the wood then feed it to a modern smoke-burning stove it will be fine.
anothermoth He clearly stated he burns green wood. And pine does suck for heat overall, I prefer harder woods to burn. Outdoor I like fir.
soaringtractor Pine makes great firewood if you want to burn your house down. Creosote and tar buildup in your chimney makes a great jet engine sound as it catches fire and burns. All the stupid comments about this being a waste of wood. There is such a thing as something costing more than it's worth. Portable saw mills, paying a crew to cut up one tree for firewood. Yea if you want to find some hobby furniture maker to cut down the tree then pay the legal fees when he gets hurt, go ahead. And all the safety Nazis. Damn, it's no wonder when you buy a stepladder, you can't see the ladder for all the warning stickers plastered on it. And if you live in CA, dirt has a cancer warning on it.
soaringtractor I have burned it, a bit sappy though, but good heat.
Quite a machine! Thanks for the ride, too. Burning pine in a stove is a sure-fire way to have a flue fire. The sap forms a glassy coating in the flue that eventually catches fire. Pine makes good ground mulch.
Thanks for that now we've seen your handy work in action!!! Great stuff been terrific watching....
I bet that tree crew could keep you busy year round with the shit they must break
Vermeer is a US company from Iowa. The way that shaft was originally built and the size of logs this user puts through it, well not surprising something has to give. I was thinking you were doing too good a job on that shaft but after seeing this last video I reckon your shaft will outlive the rest of the machine. Great stuff Keith, I sit fascinated watching you at work and jobbing is so varied I bet you're never bored..
Way cool sea what the beaver could do! have seen tree grinders before but nothing over six inch diameter. Your new shaft was fantastic learning tool for me. seeing how you keep the lenght on center. Thanks!
This was an incredible series, that machine just takes a beating, thank god it got a "Getter Done" repair
I truly enjoy these travel away from your shop out into cape cod and surrounding outlying areas w/narration like you do. Gives a great feel of what it is like in your area of the states.
Hi Keith,
finaly I am proud to publish a elementary video from my home workshop - turning a simple steel part.
Thank you for knowledge I had learned from you!
Great to see some of your workman ship in action. Thanks for that clip.
Glad to see your repair is working, and the machine owner has got work to recover from the repair expenset! All good!
really nice to see one of your projects in action, that is one hell of a machine. thanks for the video.
Looked like he was using the bump bar emergency feed stop to keep the RPM's up... a pretty manly machine, 18" logs! Thanks for posting, always good to get a shot of your work back in situ doing its job.
Thanks for the follow up video. I really enjoyed that series. Thanks again for taking the to
I was really glad to see one of your repairs in action. There is a lot of force being put on the shaft.
Nice series Keith! That machine is built tough! Thanks for sharing...
Cool that your customers call you back even when the word is good news! lets you know they really honestly appreciate what you do. Even better you take the time out of your day to swing by and make a video out of it. And i never realized you lived in one of those towns only seen on Holidays post cards! Makes me homesick for somewhere ive never been.
Yay, roadtrip.. Very nice. thanks for a look at a project in action.
Thanks for posing the update. It was cool to see it up and running.
Hi Keith: Another great vid. Watched the whole series. Nice to see the chopper work, and it was interesting seeing your environment. Every time I watch one of these, I learn more, and you show a lot of things, like centering in the bridgeport several times, so it will stick with me when and if I ever get one. Thanks a lot. Tom
Nice seeing a project in action.
Cool to see your hard work payoff and a happy customer :) Thanks
for a minute there I thought you were going down there with your log splitter...LOL
thanks for the follow-up, great work as always Keith...
Making that fine part only to the other shortcomings in workmanship in the rest of the wood chipper.
It's good to see videos showing how time consuming quality workmanship can be in this age of TV shows showing houses being built in a week.
Good job, sir.
Watched the whole 10 videos, some nice work there Keith, everybody else has covered what else i am goin to say.
This should be a "what not to do" safety video, but folks like that are pure job security for machinists!
Great to see the follow up. You replaced the heart of a beast. Thank you.
I used to (in younger days) make arrangements with two-three wood felling companies to pickup their wood logs just as you see here. They went from 4" to about 36" inches in diameter. From March 1st to May 30 I could collect up to 50 cords of wood and actually haul three cords in my 20 trailer (3 ft walls, and 7500lb dual axels) home. They were happy to load them and I merely drove off after they loaded it. I burned them in an enclosed firebox with a glass front that allowed me to burn all night. Did that for 5 years before I developed problems from agent orange and had to stop. My fuel (natural gas bill) was never over $30.00 !!! (For hot water heater). It was great, but seeing them chew up good wood is just unfortunate someone couldn't come after it.
Holy Moly, what a monster ... but nice to see it's working well now !
No wonder it did smach up like it did when you got it in for repair !
Thx for your time showing the beast ! ;-))
That was something to see it eat a 18 in. Dia. log !!!! And thanks for the Ride along in the shop truck Get-r-Done !!!
Thanks for the field trip! I can certainly now appreciate the crazy amount of stresses that must go on inside! I'm surprised the seriously sloppy tolerances of the original part lasted that long. I'm sure the new Turn Wright part will be in service for the life of that machine. Thanks again!!!
I don't miss that kind of work at all! Struggling with 100 year old giants in the snow, is a reminder to me not to complain about any work I have to go to today... I would have given that feed a little thought if that beaver was mine, though.
Seems a shame to waste all that wood. I know it's soft and not the greatest for burning alone but mixed with hard wood and it's all good. Easier to move in chip form though.
Thanks to you I learn whats Beaver.
Greetings from Rethymno/Crete/Greece.
Blown left-hand indicator bulb?
If this was my tree service the chipper team would've got a nice pep talk never use your foot to kick material into the chipper and never stand on the infeed table and keep hands away from feed wheels wile the chipper is running
That was one angry Beaver! It looks like he is really working that machine to its limit. You were wise to build that shaft to the specs you did. Nice job!
Glad to see it running.
Good job Keith
real good thing you put HUGE radius on everywhere LOL.....that thing beats the crap out of everything!
I have a feeling these people'll keep you busy repairing things for a lifetime. Same as the local council here, they thrash any kit they get to death.
It certainly needed all the strain relief you gave it at the shaft connections, and shaft thickness
That’s a beast there putting your work to the test.
That chipper is crazy lol, must of had some new blades at some point.....
i work for the company that makes the wood chipper i have asked about how we make that shaft they are checking into it now great work on the shaft
Very nice from an logger and tree service guy. And you have a nice location there right across the street from the school.
Man there beating the hell out of that chipper !! I never seen logs that big go though a chipper before !! They should cut that up for fire wood !!
frank roden Are you going to pay them by the hour to cut it into firewood and sell it for less than that costs?
Lot of comments here about the size of wood being fed in to the machine,'
That chipper will take anything that you can fit in the hole and in fact they could just feed the whole tree in it and it would handle doing that all day every day.
Owners of these like the set the gap between knives and anvil a bit on the large side to speed up things, too big will cause the drum to slow very fast and that will take a toll on it and no surprise it snapped something. The chips are huge and see at 9:47 and 12:20 its got such a gob full its tossing a heap of chips in the ground as the drum slows.
That was one wild and crazy beaver! Great job on getting them back up and running. I do agree with some of the comments about the feed on that thing though. It seems that if it would feed in slow and steady that it would go faster since it wouldn't have to wait for the rpm to rise each time.
nice to see the beaver in action, it was a great fun to watch u make the new part for it, learned a lot thanks :D
Keith....enjoyed the series tremendously.....but I see a new shaft coming shortly!
No wonder it broke, that machine is being molested. LOL!
Great video series Keith!
Great series Keith. Thanks again
How many years of service did that chipper see before the shaft broke?
I can remember watching my uncle when he hired me to help him drop 28 trees in one weekend, old heavy home lite chainsaw that weighed about 48 pounds he did wear leather chaps but never any ear protection 1964. He hired a logging truck to haul the timber out. He made a little less that way but didn't have to pay for and maintain a ten wheel logging truck. Truck was a 1962 Mack B-81 with a 30 ton winch no loader. The owner operator loaded all timber by 2 pole ramps and the winch and it only took him just over an hour to put a 60000 pound load on that truck with only one new helper later I found out the GVW for a ten wheeler was 60000 pounds but back then DOT was at home on weekends.
The reason they are chipping all that wood is it is thats easiest way of disposing of it, yes it wound make lumber or fire wood but there is a lot of handling involved. Running a tree service your aim is to get in get out the quickest way possible and that usually doesn’t involve transporting logs.
Great to see you're work at work!
Fix that left turn signal before you get a ticket!
I agree with Keith on using a jig with bushing.
Instead of using a twist drill,consider using an annular cutter as it may cut the corner better with less deflection.
Keith-
Great vid- I have never seen one of these in action and I would never imagined that it could take care of an 18" log that quick..
Now I know where to take any spare bodies I wind up with '-)
Thanks-
-Christian
Get them to throw the wood in your truck! Shame to waste some lovely free workshop heat!
pine. snap crackle pop.
They can sell it for 3 or 4 times the value in wood chips for lawn or in the spring for mulch. Obviously Keith didn't want it or they would have given it to him.
Keith
Now thats what I call an Eager Beaver, DAM.
Thank goodness for heat stress you did on this.
Them boys really know how to put that Beaver to the test.
Keep them coming!
Your avdid student
Jim
fire wood turned into toothpicks in mere seconds! :) we turn logs and bigger branches into firewood at our farm, if we overflow with wood then our workers get free firewood. we need a small beaver though to eat small branches and bushes.
Wish I could say I'm surprised at all the sniping about PPE/OSHA/wasting wood, but it's all too common for people who can't actually DO anything to talk shit about those who can, and do.
Thanks Keith, for the example you set, and for showing us how the work you do contributes to others who also "getter done".
That thing is a monster. Impressive. Thanks for the vid Keith. :)
The cool dude running the chipper looks like a larger version of Mr Putin
Those logs could have been resawn on band mill by someone else for fine furniture.
Great vids Keith. Thought the same about the safety issues.
Interesting, I worked for the big orange company for a few years and never thought you could put an 18 inch log thru the machine, we were lucky to put a 4 inch limb into the chippers and keep the motor running, but we did run the heck outta them, on one job we ran the chipper so much we blew a rod, and yes the oil was up to specs, those were the days, and that was in the 70s. I enjoy your vids keep em coming
Amazing piece of machinery. Thanks for sharing.
I think the trick is to keep it from making flame. Put hardwood in a sealed metal container (like a 55 gallon barrel), and cook the container over a fire for a long time. I forget how long though.
I see some people commenting as if this is abusive to the machine. What these guys are doing isn't abusive to this machine, that just how it works. If the log fits; then it fits and the machine chews it up. Those feeder drums control the feed, there's a huge flywheel with teeth just destroying that lumber. No big deal.
Love your drill press in the background. I've got one a little smaller but unfortunately haven't got the shop squared away to get it running.
Hey Keith. I Love what your doing buds. Keep up the good work.
As always, a good way to start the day, Keith. Your work really gets put to the test!
I just starting working on Wood chippers, stump grinders and truck sprayers... What I noticed most of the owners or operators came for repairs when the equipment it's falling a part, this heavy machinery it's putting to the test, stress, dirty, heavy...
My heart skipped a beat @4:48 when he kicked that chunk in... Somebody find that guy a push stick.
Enjoyed the videos of the repairs! But after watching the beaver in action I had to come up with a little humor. "A good working Beaver can take a stiff piece of wood and turn it into sawdust in just seconds!"
This was the first video from your channel I watched as I usually watch on my iPad at full screen. Thank you. I lost a mouthful of hot coffee all over me when you said " let's go check out some beaver "😳😳😳😜😜 not what I was expecting on TH-cam until I saw the machine then knew what you meant. I've since watched all the repair videos of the beaver shaft and that was a slightly more involved repair project than maybe you expected.
Very nice job on the repair and the video showing it step by step.
A belated Merry Christmas and may the shop not want for work in the new year.
Yes, they could fine tune the mechanical linkage on this model to get a better match to work needs. The new models have electronic controls and are a bit better, even reversing the feed if needed. Thanks for the feed on your comment. ;{)-----
That is my wife's car, we search two years to find that one. They are great unless you are a tall person on a long drive, but for around the town and such great choice. ;{)-----
Ah now I know exactly where you are, I remember the school. If I only knew I would
have slid over , couple of them in my truck. Nice job did I see the old Firestone
store.
Glad you knew of the bulb issue. I agree with another comment up higher ,, your next job for them could be a adjustable speed valve for the feeder hyd. just to let them slow down for large logs but fast feed for brush, it sure would save that engine for a 100.00 pressure valve in line added. Regards Xmodriver
Keith, looks like you got er done for some guys that get er done! lol That was neat geting to take a drive with you and get out of the shop a little. I love field trips.
I don't burn wood, but I have friends that do, and this is how it's been explained to me why you don't burn pine.
Pine is a soft wood, softwoods burns fast, so you get a lot less BTUs out of soft wood than hard wood, but worse than that pine is full of sap, when it's burned it coats everything with creosote.
When your chimney or pipe is coated with creosote it's a fire hazard, that's how you get chimney fires.
Most wood stoves use a pipe as a chimney,
it's easier for them to catch fire.
@ 12.05 helping to fed the log in, watch how close his hand gets to being inside the machine, just asking to be pulled in and mulched. No joke it does happen a lot more than people think!
The guy is holding a chain saw but tells the other guy to pull the rope harder. Nice safety glasses and hard hats too. Keith will get more work from these guys. It does eat some big logs!
As a woodturner that brings tears to my eyes
Sorry hit the send button.... I meant to say thanks for taking the extra time for details in your videos.