09-26-20, 10:54 AM | #1 |
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Gasoline powered wood chipper
Well I got the small DR chipper shreader.
The electric one works. Problem is when I cut down one smaller 15 foot tall tree it takes me at least 40 minutes to feed all the little sticks and twigs into the electric wood chipper. A big tree takes like 2 hours. For me everything greater than 1 to 1.5 inches in diameter is fire wood so I'm not trying to mulch everything. The smallest 6.5hp 208cc DR should be fine. |
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that said for small occasional use you'll get plenty of use out of it. |
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09-28-20, 10:00 AM | #3 |
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Yeah I definitely don't want to chip something 4x4. The biggest wood I would chip is rotten wood. It's light as a feather and will catch fire from the slightest spark.
If I grind those into dust they shouldn't be a fire hazard any more. What happened to the Briggs and Stratton engine? It seems like the wood chipper application is hell on motors. If I kill this motor I will try to replace it with the biggest single phase AC motor I can find that will fill in all the important holes. I'm wondering if it's a 56TC frame foot print. I can see blades in the chipper and it looks like hammer mill hammers and a shreader blade down inside the shredder. Last edited by oil pan 4; 09-28-20 at 09:18 PM.. |
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the B&S engine just wore out. I think it was the rings/cylinder. had it happen on the log splitter, too (also a B&S motor). mind you these things had what would amount to light commercial use for the better part of a decade. their higher end stuff has engines with real oil pumps and filters vs the splash lube of the cheap stuff.
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09-30-20, 01:05 AM | #5 |
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Yeah I have a Kohler v twin riding lawn mower from like 2008 that's had the hell beaten out of it. The Kohler engine uses an oil pump and filter.
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10-14-20, 11:22 PM | #6 |
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Got a big pile of wood chips now and I'm thinking let them dry out and burn them in the coal furnace.
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10-19-20, 04:02 PM | #8 |
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It's just a coal furnace that you shovel coal into.
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10-19-20, 10:25 PM | #9 |
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well dry wood chips are basically coal-precursor lumps so same same right?
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