whadja do today?

Shop deals on ebay
shop deals on amazon
Wesspur
Arborist Forum

Help Support Arborist Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
Frankinstined my chipper today

I want a new chipper with a winch but its not in the budget right now. So I made some little mods to my chipper today. I bought a 2000lb winch on sale at harbor freight for $50, made a bracket for the rollers and bolted/ wire it up to the chipper today. I know, I know. Its not a real chipper winch, but I thought I could at least use it to pull the limbs / logs that 3 or 4 guys could move with it to the chipper. My chipper is only a 12" chipper so nothing will be too big of a piece. I am gonna be the only one that runs it. I got a 10' remote. The only thing I will have to be carefull of is that the feed rollers are in neutural because I dont want to suck the winch cable into the chipper.

attachment.php
 
2treeornot2tree said:
I want a new chipper with a winch but its not in the budget right now. So I made some little mods to my chipper today. I bought a 2000lb winch on sale at harbor freight for $50, made a bracket for the rollers and bolted/ wire it up to the chipper today. I know, I know. Its not a real chipper winch, but I thought I could at least use it to pull the limbs / logs that 3 or 4 guys could move with it to the chipper. My chipper is only a 12" chipper so nothing will be too big of a piece. I am gonna be the only one that runs it. I got a 10' remote. The only thing I will have to be carefull of is that the feed rollers are in neutural because I dont want to suck the winch cable into the chipper.

attachment.php
Click to expand...


great idea but if you were going to go through all that you should have put a better winch on it... in two weeks when that HF thing burns out your going to have to change it again.
 
2treeornot2tree said:
I want a new chipper with a winch but its not in the budget right now. So I made some little mods to my chipper today. I bought a 2000lb winch on sale at harbor freight for $50, made a bracket for the rollers and bolted/ wire it up to the chipper today. I know, I know. Its not a real chipper winch, but I thought I could at least use it to pull the limbs / logs that 3 or 4 guys could move with it to the chipper. My chipper is only a 12" chipper so nothing will be too big of a piece. I am gonna be the only one that runs it. I got a 10' remote. The only thing I will have to be carefull of is that the feed rollers are in neutural because I dont want to suck the winch cable into the chipper.

attachment.php
Click to expand...

Hey, I bought something like that for the same price from Harbor Freight a few years ago. Bad story. I weld up a collapsible platform for the winch, sling it to a tree or whatever is static, and then it's supposed to pull "the motha loads." Well, the lousy winch couldn't pull ****. I felt really bad.....waste of time, money, and an idea down the gutter.

Mine was the camouflage one with the wireless remote. I've used it to take into trees with me, and pull tops of trees off if nobody was going to be with me.


*great idea....bad winch.
 
Last edited:
I know its a pos, but i didnt want to spend to much and find out the chipper chute wont take the abuse. If it works, I will get a good winch and put it on. I figured its only $50 bucks. Would hate to spend $400 and then find out its gonna ripe off my chipper chute. If I get a good one, it wont be much work to re mount it.
 
I like the winch idea. I've been thinking about rigging one up on my bandit. Can't decide if I want to plumb into the hydraulics or just wire up a electric winch. I'm thinking I could probably get more line speed out of a hydraulic winch but don't know that.

Looks good.
 
Those Badland winches from Harbor Freight are actually supposed to be pretty decent. At least the bigger ones are. No, they're not a warn but the reviews are surprisingly positive. Yours is on the small side for anything productive though, IMO. I actually bought one today for my yota. And HF's customer service is pretty hard to beat, got the extended warranty so I can take it back anytime I want. 9,000 lb. winch and mounting bracket, with warranty, came to $560 something. Compare that to a Warn at at least twice the cost. If I ever decide to really start testing the yota's limits I'll just use this one as a spare for the rear and put a Warn up front.

attachment.php
 
That chipper chute looks like 1/4" or 3/8" steel, so that's a good thing. The chute won't rip off the machine. That connection imo is similar to the pintel hitch's connection to a truck. Little bolts, but it's going nowhere because of the mechanical leverage of the hitch plate against the back of the truck. You know all about that part of it, I'm sure. The only thing I would be considerate of is the chute collapsing across the top or down the sides like a can crushing. Might consider re-enforcement bars on the top and sides just along the opening lip.

Not all of the force is going to land on the lip of the chute. As far as I understand it, most is going straight back up the cable to the winch and it's mount.
 
2treeornot2tree said:
I know its a pos, but i didnt want to spend to much and find out the chipper chute wont take the abuse. If it works, I will get a good winch and put it on. I figured its only $50 bucks. Would hate to spend $400 and then find out its gonna ripe off my chipper chute. If I get a good one, it wont be much work to re mount it.
Click to expand...

I was thinking of doing the same.
 
John Paul Sanborn said:
Spent two days in southern IN working with TeamTree (Steve K. his it's company name too.) Took the tops out of some very large oaks for him and showed him some more of the GRCS capabilities. He's going to buy one now.

I was supposed to be down there for 4-5 days, but had to cut it short when there were predictions of my wife maybe having to blow 6-12 inches of snow :laugh:
Click to expand...

Always a good time with John....loved having his GRCS on site and now I have to have one and I have some money to get one. I liked the other gadgets as well....the wraptor was cool.

Have fun playing in the snow.
 
Blakesmaster said:
Those Badland winches from Harbor Freight are actually supposed to be pretty decent. At least the bigger ones are. No, they're not a warn but the reviews are surprisingly positive. Yours is on the small side for anything productive though, IMO. I actually bought one today for my yota. And HF's customer service is pretty hard to beat, got the extended warranty so I can take it back anytime I want. 9,000 lb. winch and mounting bracket, with warranty, came to $560 something. Compare that to a Warn at at least twice the cost. If I ever decide to really start testing the yota's limits I'll just use this one as a spare for the rear and put a Warn up front.

attachment.php
Click to expand...

Put both of em on front, chain the yota to a tree then hook up to my braden lol. I will pull them off or stretch the yota into a limo :)
 
ropensaddle said:
Put both of em on front, chain the yota to a tree then hook up to my braden lol. I will pull them off or stretch the yota into a limo :)
Click to expand...

Har har har. Laugh it up you ol' bugger. :msp_tongue: How you gonna get that heavy cable out to me? Don't think they make an offroad Jazzy scooter, do they? 'Cause a unit like this won't be able to drag your old butt out there with the cable in tow. lol

Disability-Scooters.jpg
 
Blakesmaster said:
Har har har. Laugh it up you ol' bugger. :msp_tongue: How you gonna get that heavy cable out to me? Don't think they make an offroad Jazzy scooter, do they? 'Cause a unit like this won't be able to drag your old butt out there with the cable in tow. lol

Disability-Scooters.jpg
Click to expand...

That thing is perfect for the both of you. Your wraptor would fit nicely in that little basket up front, you could motor right up to the tree wouldnt even have to walk, cause I know you hate to climb. Dont forget the pink tassles on the handle bars and the yellow warning sign on the back"caution baby on board".
 
mr. holden wood said:
That thing is perfect for the both of you. Your wraptor would fit nicely in that little basket up front, you could motor right up to the tree wouldnt even have to walk, cause I know you hate to climb. Dont forget the pink tassles on the handle bars and the yellow warning sign on the back"caution baby on board".
Click to expand...

Add a cool power rangers helmet like yours and ladies'll be swoonin' fer sure.
 

Similar threads

T
Anyone know of a company or place that is equivalent to a wood chipper junkyard?
Replies
19
Views
2K
Sidecarflip
S
gumneck
Oil Filter Tool
Replies
11
Views
761
SCMtnHaul
S
pdqdl
What is the strangest request for service you ever got a call for?
Replies
1
Views
383
pdqdl
pdqdl
T
Anyone know of a place that has Ariens/Gravely chipper parts? Or a place that is basically a chipper junkyard?
Replies
0
Views
562
TunaCat
T
J
Handling logs near another person
Replies
1
Views
447
BeatCJ
BeatCJ

Latest posts

Back
Top