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  1. 10-30-2007, 07:03 PM #1
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    Material that Chippers can handle

    I'm renting a small chipper this weekend (6" I think). I'll be running small stuff through it but I'm worried about briers and climbing vines clogging the thing up. Is that kind of stuff too tangly and stringy for chippers to handle? I'd burn, but it isn't the season. Think I'll have problems with the tangly stuff? Thanks, Nick
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  2. 10-30-2007, 07:57 PM #2
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    Probably, small machine with poorly maintained knives I would bet.
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    Put the small stuff in first, then floss out the machine with the bigger stuff.

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  • 10-30-2007, 09:06 PM #4
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    Quote Originally Posted by Husky137 View Post
    Probably, small machine with poorly maintained knives I would bet.
    I bet too. Dull knives and stringy vines....like grape and thorns, can be a real mess.

    Cut some sticks 3ft. long or so and leave a 'Y' at the end a couple of inches long on each side(crotch). Use these as pushers. Spear a mass of vines with a good sized limb....and push the limb into the chipper. Often it will pull the whole tangled mess in with it.

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  • 10-31-2007, 03:36 AM #5
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    I've rented a small 6-10" chipper and done just as reccomended with a pusher limb following a web of vines. It clears it out pretty quickly.
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  • 10-31-2007, 04:10 AM #6
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    I have an 8 horse troy built chipper. It isn't nearly the machine you are talking about. It handles grape vine, wild berry bushes, and multiflora rose just fine.

    As others have suggested, mix it in with other brush. Keep some bigger stuff around to run through to clean the chipper out.
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  • 10-31-2007, 05:06 AM #7
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    Well, at least it will work. I was worried that it wouldn't work, and it would be a waste of money.
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  • 10-31-2007, 12:14 PM #8
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    Probably not a waste of money but likely time. Be careful around viney material. It can easily get you caught up and pull you into the knives if not paying attention. Don't ever stick you hands in there.
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  • 10-31-2007, 05:13 PM #9
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    Nothing will be handled by hand, just with pitchforks and rakes, and long tree limbs. Hopefully the weekend will be enough time. only clearing 1/2 acre.
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  • 11-01-2007, 01:44 PM #10
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nick Kent View Post
    Nothing will be handled by hand, just with pitchforks and rakes, and long tree limbs. Hopefully the weekend will be enough time. only clearing 1/2 acre.
    dont use pitchforks and rakes to force feed the chipper... you will lose them. if its a hydraulic feed chipper the roller will take care of everything, just get the wood in there and keep clear.

    if the chipper has sharp knives and the anvil gap is set correctly then vines will be no issue...

    have fun - chippers are cool
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