Tracked vs rubber tire stump grinder
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mckeetree
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Easy now.:hmm3grin2orange:
No, not easy now. That's how they make you feel. I would like to know who "runs" that place. If you have trouble they insulate you from whoever that person is...hesitant to give you a name. I think they made up their mind early on they weren't going to step up to the plate on my issue.
2treeornot2tree
Dont cry, just do it
What was the issue?
I normally don't have issues like that cause I tell them right up front its not gonna fly and if I got to come down and deal with them in person I will.
I normally don't have issues like that cause I tell them right up front its not gonna fly and if I got to come down and deal with them in person I will.
mckeetree
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The machine has a low- high switch. Low is slower with more torque and that is the position you grind in and high is for travel to location from trailer, stump to stump, etc. After fifteen minutes or so the machine stops pulling in low. I mean it will not even crawl over a toothpick. The high side works as it should.????????????? It came brand new like that. It is a 4012 with a 44HP Kubota. I use Bandit chippers...should have bought Bandit grinders.
mckeetree
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I know. I should have never put up with it.
2treeornot2tree
Dont cry, just do it
Did you buy it direct from Carlton or threw a dealer?
stumper63
ArboristSite Operative
Back in '07 I demo'ed a new 4x4 4012 at the Carlton factory. During the demo they had me try to climb a hill, it wouldn't. They were embarrassed. It was just an adjustment to the hydraulic system pressure. Then it seemed to work fine. Maybe a simple solution???
Stumper63
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mckeetree
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Direct.
mckeetree
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I wish they would implement it then. This deal has really turned me off of Carlton.
mattfr12
The Bulldog
What you guys have said is the simple reason i bought a bandit. There is just not nearly enough support who would pay 60k for a machine then want a 7 hour drive to pick it up, or drive that far just to see it. Any other machine we bought lets use altec for example has just offered an all expense paid trip to there facility including food. If they where a bigger outfit and i got to see it for even an hour it would have been a done deal. Bandit dropped theres off from close to 3 hours away for over a week then didn't ask for payment for 2-3 months.
mckeetree
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I bought two new chippers from bandit last year. Great experience. Hindsight is 20/20 but I wish now I had bought the new grinders I bought in 2010 from bandit. But let me say this, there is some great people that work at Carlton they just don't have any authority on machine issues. Hughey in the shop is a super nice guy. Everyone I have dealt with in parts have been great. Sweet girl answering the phone. But the people there that have the authority to make good on that 4012 that hasn't been right since it had 45 minutes on it and they know it have screwed me around.
2treeornot2tree
Dont cry, just do it
Imagine how fast that 8018 would have ground those stumps!
ropensaddle
Feel Lucky
Haha I really do feel like a douchebag grinding 100 stumps in one day but the bank acct says I'm ok
2treeornot2tree
Dont cry, just do it
I dont really feel like a douche. Why would i want to go and grind a 36" stump with a 25 hp machine, and take 2 hours, When i could pull up and grind it faster then it takes me to unload and load the grinder.
To me its like taking a butter knife to a gun fight.
treeclimber101
UNCLE BUCK
Haha I really do feel like a douchebag grinding 100 stumps in one day but the bank acct says I'm ok
Everyone In the "know" knows doing a job quickly is pure douchebaggery ! :msp_biggrin: I think that bandits new grinder is named the douchebag 2000 and Matt ordered 3 ......
If i had the money to blow on a machine like that I think i'd rather buy a bad ass chipper than waste it on a grinder. I know a chipper will make me a hell a lot more money than a stumpy. I hate grinding stumps, it never seems to have the return worth the time and money spent.
2treeornot2tree
Dont cry, just do it
Well seeing since i added the hydraulic down pressure to my chipper it chips as good or better then a new one. You can only feed brush so fast into the chipper. Now when i got 2-3 guys standing around waiting for me to grind a stump for 2 hours, that is costing me money. You work alone most of the time, so for you if it takes you 6 hours to grind a stump no big deal. For me that 6 hours would cost me $400 in wages, workers comp.
ropensaddle
Feel Lucky
My 1300 dollar chipper lmfao chips just fine and as fast as you can throw it in its gone
Of course if its over 6 inch this tool is employed:hmm3grin2orange:
Oh and PS: I feel with a small grinder you are 100% correct, as the 252 I had before my large tow behind was too slow to profit. Now I'm looking forward to 100 stumps and before it, I dreaded them lol
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