Samuel.M.Peyton
ArboristSite Lurker
Good morning folks,
I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Years. I have a project coming up in the next 6 months that I need some wood slivers for. I’ll have a 12” bandit 250xp PTO chipper on a 140 hp Kubota, but as you know . . . our chippers are good at making chips . . . not slivers (assuming the anvil is square, the knives are sharp and the gap between the 2 is set properly).
My question is:
Do you think if I increased the gap between my knife and anvil on the 250xp (with a square anvil and sharp knives) that I could get the slivers I am looking for? A 2”+ long sliver would be ideal.
I understand the wear and tear this can put on the bearings of the machine. I don’t mind limiting the material I put in to 5”-6” rather than the 10” to 12” that it can eat. What do you think?
If those horizontal grinders weren’t so expensive I would just get one of those. The smallest bandit beast (1425) was quoted at $125k . . . and I would rent a machine, but there’s no way to get it back to the property (2,500+ ft. of poor clay rd.).
What would you do?
Thanks in advance,
Samuel
I hope you all had a great Christmas and New Years. I have a project coming up in the next 6 months that I need some wood slivers for. I’ll have a 12” bandit 250xp PTO chipper on a 140 hp Kubota, but as you know . . . our chippers are good at making chips . . . not slivers (assuming the anvil is square, the knives are sharp and the gap between the 2 is set properly).
My question is:
Do you think if I increased the gap between my knife and anvil on the 250xp (with a square anvil and sharp knives) that I could get the slivers I am looking for? A 2”+ long sliver would be ideal.
I understand the wear and tear this can put on the bearings of the machine. I don’t mind limiting the material I put in to 5”-6” rather than the 10” to 12” that it can eat. What do you think?
If those horizontal grinders weren’t so expensive I would just get one of those. The smallest bandit beast (1425) was quoted at $125k . . . and I would rent a machine, but there’s no way to get it back to the property (2,500+ ft. of poor clay rd.).
What would you do?
Thanks in advance,
Samuel