Tractor supply sells Carhart heavy farm jackets. They have what looks like canvas exterior and are water proof. I bought an extra large size so based on temp can do more or less layers. At 4 layers (Shirt, Light hoodie, Heavy winter hoody, and Carhart) I have worked in -40° windy weather. This is what I would suggest for the farm. Naturally that is just top, Do the same for bottom. Stay dry and warm. Get well Gina and get your winter gear too.
All this wood chipping brings the movie “Fargo” to mind! I find it amazing. Hope Gina is mending well. She’s smart to listen to her body. Prayers coming your way
you could collect the woodchips by blowing them into the back of your truck (protect the windows with a piece of cardboard). Then you could unload them where you need them.
I was going to suggest building a 'catcher's mitt' out of timber and a tarp to go inside the back/bed of the truck to do exactly that. Use a sheet of ply or similar to form a base and then you could just tip it out into one giant pile.
The chippers I have used had both six cylinder and V8 engines. I worked in the tree trimming industry for 35 years. Our chippers can keep up with six men feeding them. The size of the chips depend on the knives and the settings.
Thanks for your input. No doubt about it, the units with the auto-type 6 or 8 cylinder engines would make short work of almost anything tossed in the maw.
I am thinking the bed knife and blades where dull on the rental you can see by the output of chips, the rental chipper is still dinky but should of been a lot better. I have worked on repair side of the tree trimmers fleet for years and there should have been no comparison between the two.
Good morning Elizabeth. We woke up to a killing frost of 23 degrees this morning here in Minnesota. I hope you're staying warm! Have a great day! Butchered my meat birds last weekend. Yay, that's done!
Gina: we truly pray you are doing well. All of us that have had a major problem know that recovery can be a real challenge. Sometimes the days don't move at all. Pray and you will be back and your new home will welcome your return.
Isnt there a better way of picking them up rather than small piles?. maybe get grab on the tractor go along edge where the branches are scoop them into a pile near the end Then stand and throw them in!! glad Ginas getting better.
The bandit chipper is an upscale homeowner unit, it is not a commercial unit. The model you was using is what they call the enter level unit and is designed for a farm or ranch to use, or a person that has a hobby craft lawn care service, or the home owner who has a lot of trees. The 7” model and higher is classified as a commercial unit and those base model prices start out at $20000 and go up, based on the 2019: price list. That unit used can be bought for $3000 to $5000, new the base model without upgrades is about $10000, the price all depends on the bell and whistles you add on to it.
You have a tractor. If you are going to continually have branches to chip I'd check out a PTO wood chipper. Some will do very large branches, and are self feed. If you go PTO that means you have one less engine to maintain.
G'day, Agnes! I was a little concerned at 2:40 at the size of the opening by the ground on the back edge. A motivated racoon or some weasel-type of critter would have little problem digging under and helping themselves to a chicken dinner... agree with you with prayers for Gina and hope she's on the mend towards her normal self!
Really like the chicken tractor but are you not a little concerned that a raccoon or coyote or other animal might try and dig down and under to get into it. Hope Gina is still recovering well.
The 8” woodland mills with hydraulic feed is very similar, and cost effective. It would fit nicely on your TYM three point hitch. I love it. Watching it eat through an entire 5 “ thick trees, from the base to the top is so satisfying
Good Morning Al, Gina and Olivia! Very interesting comparisons. DR makes very good home equipment! Continued prayers for Gina and a quick and pain free recovery and return to her daily activities. Always in our prayers!
Good morning, being the type of person I 'am, I would pull and make piles of brush with the excavator to eliminate all the ditch walking and speed up the process since you did a good job laying out the brush. Armchair opinion, take care be safe.
Al, Could you pick up all the brush with your grappler and put the brush in one place? The chip pile could accessed easier. Just thought. Good to see the 6 chicks made it through the night. God bless you and your family, especially prayers to Gina's speedy recovery.
Hoping everyone is having a wonderful day and week. Thinking of Gina, and hoping she is beginning to feel a lot better and adjusting more and more with each day.
Energy is the key. 13.5 horse motor running the little chipper would blow it apart but at least go through the brush like butter. Chips make a nice cover for those trails made through the property
AL, I would be looking for a chipper that runs off the PTO on the tractor. I would also like to see you do a test on the wood boiler logs v wood chips how many days you would get out of each..
Good morning Lumnah family from chilly Scotland. Al that driveway looks fantastic, beautiful autumn colour. Hope Gina is healing well. I have yo7 all in my prayers.
Place the trees on your flatbed trailer, take them to a spot for the chip pile with a chipper already there, use the Bobcat forklift to take the trees off the trailer if desired, chip away. Minimizes vehicle and chipper movement. Prayers for Gina and your continued success.
Al, if you were planning on using that mulch for your garden or animal bedding for winter, you should have blown it into your truck bed. Otherwise it's blown out to too thin of an area to reclaim it for use. It should be collected piled into one pile. It will however build fertility along side your driveway. Maybe later your can plant lots of blueberries or cranberries along your driveway
Good Morning. I'm curious why you didn't opt for a PTO driven wood chipper especially with that big TYM tractor. The added torque from a diesel is a beast in comparison with gasoline driven wood chippers. Their cost ranges from $3500 to $6000 depending on how many HP your tractor puts out. Anyway, it was just a thought.
Al, you need to build something for the chickens to get up on off the ground. Maybe a shelf or rooster rods and maybe a box with small auto door. You have a brush unit for the front of your tractor, if you use it to pickup and carry all the brush to a central area. It will be much faster loading the unit cause you want be walking so much and you can load more than 1 at a time. This will also put all the chips in one location instead of small piles Down the road. I think half of your time is spent walking back and forth.
At somewhere between $5K - $10K for the Bandit XP 6 inch at recent auction prices. that Bandit you rented seems like it must be incorrectly adjusted or needs new parts or just isn't worth the money. So, great video here showing what it really does fortunately only used as a rental.
Set a trail cam up on the chickens just to see what curious predators you have trying to move in to the noise in the evenings. They may not attack yet, but getting ahead of what's coming in before they do is a good thing.
I personally might end up clearing a large wooded area using the larger commercial type chipper. Know idea what it is about but this video was so relaxing 😎. Hoping that your wife Gina continue to make good progress as she's healing from the surgery. Al you have really got a good thing going here on RUclips from what I can see you really don't need to change much of anything. Great entertainment.
Great to see the chooks still there Al!! Good comparison of the two chippers too. I have an electric chipper and does up to 2 inches and you have to lift into the hopper but the chips flow out low only so I run a tarp to catch all of the chips. For a normal houseblock sized home it is ideal for what I need and does a decent chip size.
Thanks, Eric! Hope you and yours stay blessed as well! The chipper contest was fun to compare. Al's owned DR unit would be great if it was self-powered to feed. Another person could accomplish that goal... even with another set of hands, no doubt the Bandit would win out when it comes to speed.
I have run chippers and Tarrups and to cut down on labour you have to chip into a hydrolic tip trailer. you can then stockpile or compost the chips using your tractor. You will need to put a wood or shadenet canopy over the trailer to capture all the flying chips. Regards from South Africa
I'd want to get a 3 point mounted chipper with a 10 ' dump trailer behind it would be the perfect setup especially for someone wanting to create a stockpile for compost or mulch. 3 point chippers will do just as big as the bandit but would be using less fuel because your tractor would be more fuel efficient than a 37 hp gas engine. I think of less handling of the chips ,less fuel used.
I used small chippers for a while, yeah they worked but slow and high maintenance. I bought a PTO powered unit matched to my 40 HP tractor, huge difference, no comparison.
I've used Vermeer in the past for a chipper when I trimmed for power companies.. As far as I know, they do make commercial size chippers... I had a 4 cyl. Ford engine in mine that would take a 12 inch log with no issues as long as my cutter bar was still sharp and what I was chipping...
Interesting but something I wouldn't need due to "normal property size". What I enjoyed the most was seeing the beautiful roadway you are creating with Fall colors. I personally use roadways that are public ones that are no where as nice as yours. You are a hard worker and enjoy all the stuff you do but what is of most important is Gina's Health. Please have her know we miss her and our prayers continue. Blessings
Glad Gina is coming along nicely, continued prayers. Liking that coop more each time I see it. Like the little wood chipper, especially since the larger one costs over $3,000. The fall colors are amazingly beautiful.
A new BANDIT wood chipper is in the high $30,000s. It's like anything you buy. You have to do a cost benefit analysis to determine which is better. If you're going to chip 20 acres a bigger machine will make up for the cost difference. Around the yard a small chipper works just fine. Best to all of you and thank you for letting us share your life.
Good to see you working in great Fall conditions! Color is very similar at my SW VA mountain property. Hope Gina is recovering well! All the best to the Lumnah family!!
Nice cleanup! You need the larger one for the size of your property. Even bigger than that if they make it. You can buy us d ones from the power company sometimes
Al, where is the perch for the chickens? They need a non-metal perch to keep off the ground at night. One of the sticks you are chipping would work. I use saplings and leave the bark on to provide extra traction for them. God bless all y'all.
Good Morning! We chipped about two dozen dead avocado trees on our place, when we first moved in. Had a DR 13 HP, but it was about 20 years ago, so they have made some improvements since then. To sharpen the blade, it had to be serviced because the blade was built right into the flywheel, and could not be removed through an access hatch. Still, it did a great job when the blade was sharp. Gravity feed worked fine. Never jammed. We bought a lot of DR equipment after that experience. Highly recommended. I can see gaps under the chicken tractor edges. A mink or weasel could easily get in, and kill them all. I think you need something safer, or maybe a secure coop for night time.
Glad to know that Gina is getting better by the day. Still long way to go so keep on taking it easy. Now as the chipper, anyone that reads lips please let those of us that don't know what Al said why running it. LOL
Hi Al Looking at the chicken pen there a few gaps we're something might get underneath might be useful to pin it down with pins easily removed by you or Gina
Excellent video Al. It was hard for me to pay attention to the wood chipping with all that beauty surrounding you. Prayers for continued healing for Gina.
Have you thought about setting up your backhoe with a tool/and thumb to pick up the tree branches and set up the feed shoot. So the backhoe can feed it
A few reasons why you get stringy chips is 1. The material is going in side ways and not straight on into the "knife" drum. 2. The distance between the knife blade and the "anvil" or bed knife is to far apart allowing stuff to go past w/o it getting cut by the blade. In my experience with claas forage choppers. ( think of it as a big self-propelled chipper) instead of trees is chops cow feed for silage. Any who if the chopped corn wasn't smooth on the ends and starting to fray we ran a sharppen & re adjusted the knife drum ( done automatically) we were able to cut a sheet of paper when finished.
Drove me crazy when I saw you just blow all that Mulch / Wood chips into the woods. Can't believe you didn't save that for future projects. I would have pulled the chipper behind my dump trailer and blew the chips in trailer, then dumped in a pile for future uses around garden / trails / chicken coop, etc. Would also be interesting to see that comparison when both machines both have brand new blades. That rental unit has likely been rode hard and put away wet. Nice Video!
think reducing time by carrying more than one each time walking from the pile to the unit then feed them one by one or small batches but less trips walking.
In our area (Washington state) $10-$13,000 used in good condition. We have a comparable Vermeer that has controlled feed, that stops the in-feed when the motor bogs, then starts feeding again when the RPM's recover. I haven' t come across anything yet, that will fit in the opening, that it won't chip. It also makes great beauty bark with firewood bark.
I would think that it would make sense to keep all those wood chips for mulching around your/Gina's garden plants or maybe even for your wood burning heater if it takes that kind of small chips.
Gooooood Morning Al & Gina, I see that the major advantage of the bigger wood chipper is the larger diameter of the wood and the horizontal feed. As for how fast the machine will chip , it really does not matter much. Both are dependant upon how fast you can load the hopper. My own wood chipper is much smaller. The way that I see it is that anything that will not fit into the hopper is firewood. lol
Hi Al . I love what your doing with the property I recently bought a woodmax chipper it is a 3point attached chipper that mounts on the rear of your tractor and is powered by the PTO also has a power feed and is a 8" capacity you can adjust the feed rate as it has a hydraulic pump the is powered by your pto and is rated from a 25hp to 60 hp tractor I also put sides on my gator to haul chips away and dump in a pile saves time as their is no cleanup after everything is chipped good luck and keep showing how you grow your 500 ac homestead prayers for Gina
Good Morning Al Gina & Olivia. That was a good couple of days Al Those chippers certainly make the job easier. Also glad to see the chickens are well & ok i suppose they are missing there friends at the moment. Good Gina is recovering well bless her. Take care happy family. 🙏🙏
That looks fun Al! Wow, what a difference! Chippers like green wood, not dead/dry wood. I think the rental chipper is a winner in terms of time and okay size chips. Remember Al that you also have to sharpen the blades on the DR! Thanks for this comparison. Congratulations on getting the ditch cleared of dead trees! We woke up to a hard frost of 23 degrees here in Minnesota. Winter is coming! We are heating our house with wood from our property with the two wood stoves we have in our home. We can usually heat the house until early December with wood only. I love wood heat. I like the smell outside also. Continued prayers for Gina to heal up well!
That bandits carbide blades are deffinately dual. With sharp blades that should feed a 6" log no problem. The problem with rentals is they are not maintained well. But great comparison and it got the job done.
We have a wooded driveway and need to clean up the sides of our driveway too; we’ll rent one. Thank you Al. Praying for Gina’s continued healthy recovery. May the Lord bless you, the family and your farm building!🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Hey Al, instead of the chips laying all along the side of the road what if you pulled the chipper with that little truck you bought and that way you can turn the chipper to blow them into the back of it and then you can just tilt it to empty it somewhere on the property and just make one big pile of them. Just thought that would be easier than having all the chips all up and down the side of the road. Also really like the new chicken tractor but aren’t you a little concerned a coyote or some other animal may try and dig to get up and under it. Hopefully Gina is recovering well.
Al, I have a chipper of my own and your experience of rollers stopping is quite normal. Most machines have a stress relief system built in so when it gets overloaded it stops feeding. Reversing the rollers for a few seconds will allow it to recover and then just keep shoving stuff in.
I'd be interested to know exactly how sharp (or dull) the blades on the Bandit are. My guess is, since it's a rental, that they may be much more dull than your DR. You personally have a personal investment in it as opposed to the rental where the company understands that when it's down for sharpening it's not making $$$.
Keep in mind with the chicken pen, it's still new and it will take a few days or weeks for the wild animals to get used to it, before they approach it....
I suggest you try the eger bever chipper they have a governor so the feed rolls slow down or stop so the RPMs stay up and I think they take 8" good luck and keep farming
Anything bigger is fire wood. Thanks again for your feedback and information.
Tractor supply sells Carhart heavy farm jackets. They have what looks like canvas exterior and are water proof. I bought an extra large size so based on temp can do more or less layers. At 4 layers (Shirt, Light hoodie, Heavy winter hoody, and Carhart) I have worked in -40° windy weather. This is what I would suggest for the farm. Naturally that is just top, Do the same for bottom. Stay dry and warm. Get well Gina and get your winter gear too.
All this wood chipping brings the movie “Fargo” to mind! I find it amazing.
Hope Gina is mending well. She’s smart to listen to her body. Prayers coming your way
Great demonstration of the chippers.
you could collect the woodchips by blowing them into the back of your truck (protect the windows with a piece of cardboard). Then you could unload them where you need them.
Could save chips in the dump wagon down by the goat barns. Just have to empty the wood in it first.
I was going to suggest building a 'catcher's mitt' out of timber and a tarp to go inside the back/bed of the truck to do exactly that. Use a sheet of ply or similar to form a base and then you could just tip it out into one giant pile.
Run the chips through a second time for excellent animal bedding
@@mihandsplitters705 Yeah... bit of a waste not to use those chips on the farm
Great idea!!
I have a chipper for my tractor. It is a must have for a farm.
What are the specs of yours, Cap'n?
The chippers I have used had both six cylinder and V8 engines. I worked in the tree trimming industry for 35 years. Our chippers can keep up with six men feeding them. The size of the chips depend on the knives and the settings.
Thanks for your input. No doubt about it, the units with the auto-type 6 or 8 cylinder engines would make short work of almost anything tossed in the maw.
I am thinking the bed knife and blades where dull on the rental you can see by the output of chips, the rental chipper is still dinky but should of been a lot better. I have worked on repair side of the tree trimmers fleet for years and there should have been no comparison between the two.
Glad the chickens made it their first night! Continued prayers for Gina with her recovery, and for you and Olivia as you encourage her!
Always love your family's videos. Praying for Gina and hope she is resting!
Good mauhnin Lumnah acres and friends! Hope everyone has a wonderful week.
Good morning Elizabeth. We woke up to a killing frost of 23 degrees this morning here in Minnesota. I hope you're staying warm! Have a great day! Butchered my meat birds last weekend. Yay, that's done!
Good morning Al, Gina, Olivia and all the Lumnah friends and family
Howdy Robert! Hope all is well with you and yours and that you have a great week!
Continued prayers for Gina 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼. Looks great Al .
What a beautiful ... gorgeous....surrounding area you have, and in the fall season it’s the most....💝💫
Gina: we truly pray you are doing well. All of us that have had a major problem know that recovery can be a real challenge. Sometimes the days don't move at all. Pray and you will be back and your new home will welcome your return.
Amen - nicely said! 🙏👍
Yes! Agree and could not said it better!
So Beautiful with All the. fall Colors Gina Big Hugs 🤗 And My Get Well Blessings 🙏✨✨🙏❤️
Continued prayers for Gina's speedy recovery! Hope you are all well!
Isnt there a better way of picking them up rather than small piles?. maybe get grab on the tractor go along edge where the branches are scoop them into a pile near the end Then stand and throw them in!! glad Ginas getting better.
The bandit chipper is an upscale homeowner unit, it is not a commercial unit. The model you was using is what they call the enter level unit and is designed for a farm or ranch to use, or a person that has a hobby craft lawn care service, or the home owner who has a lot of trees.
The 7” model and higher is classified as a commercial unit and those base model prices start out at $20000 and go up, based on the 2019: price list.
That unit used can be bought for $3000 to $5000, new the base model without upgrades is about $10000, the price all depends on the bell and whistles you add on to it.
You have a tractor. If you are going to continually have branches to chip I'd check out a PTO wood chipper. Some will do very large branches, and are self feed. If you go PTO that means you have one less engine to maintain.
Good morning 😊 good to see the chickens are alive and well! Praying Gina continues to heal and get stronger each day
Good morning to ya Agnes!
G'day, Agnes! I was a little concerned at 2:40 at the size of the opening by the ground on the back edge. A motivated racoon or some weasel-type of critter would have little problem digging under and helping themselves to a chicken dinner... agree with you with prayers for Gina and hope she's on the mend towards her normal self!
Good morning Agnes!
@@samvalentine3206 yeah its going to happen just a matter of time.
Really like the chicken tractor but are you not a little concerned that a raccoon or coyote or other animal might try and dig down and under to get into it. Hope Gina is still recovering well.
The 8” woodland mills with hydraulic feed is very similar, and cost effective. It would fit nicely on your TYM three point hitch. I love it. Watching it eat through an entire 5 “ thick trees, from the base to the top is so satisfying
Good morning AL and GINA and LADY Oliva
Gina PRAYING WITH YOU. Miss seeing you.
Thankful your home.
Prayers for The Lumnah Family, especially Gina! Blessings to you, Evalina... take care of yourself. 🙏
Good Morning Al, Gina and Olivia! Very interesting comparisons. DR makes very good home equipment! Continued prayers for Gina and a quick and pain free recovery and return to her daily activities. Always in our prayers!
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Good morning, being the type of person I 'am, I would pull and make piles of brush with the excavator to eliminate all the ditch walking and speed up the process since you did a good job laying out the brush. Armchair opinion, take care be safe.
Al, Could you pick up all the brush with your grappler and put the brush in one place? The chip pile could accessed easier. Just thought. Good to see the 6 chicks made it through the night. God bless you and your family, especially prayers to Gina's speedy recovery.
Hoping everyone is having a wonderful day and week. Thinking of Gina, and hoping she is beginning to feel a lot better and adjusting more and more with each day.
Energy is the key. 13.5 horse motor running the little chipper would blow it apart but at least go through the brush like butter. Chips make a nice cover for those trails made through the property
AL, I would be looking for a chipper that runs off the PTO on the tractor.
I would also like to see you do a test on the wood boiler logs v wood chips how many days you would get out of each..
Good morning Lumnah family from chilly Scotland. Al that driveway looks fantastic, beautiful autumn colour. Hope Gina is healing well. I have yo7 all in my prayers.
Good Morning Lumnah Family, and Friends. I hope that y'all have a wonderfully blessed day!!
Thanks Angel! Howdy! Hope you and yours also have a blessed day!
Gooooood Morning
Good morning Angel 🤩👍🏾
Place the trees on your flatbed trailer, take them to a spot for the chip pile with a chipper already there, use the Bobcat forklift to take the trees off the trailer if desired, chip away. Minimizes vehicle and chipper movement. Prayers for Gina and your continued success.
Thanks for detailing your hard work ethic! We appreciate you showing us everything! God Bless your wife & family!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Al, if you were planning on using that mulch for your garden or animal bedding for winter, you should have blown it into your truck bed. Otherwise it's blown out to too thin of an area to reclaim it for use. It should be collected piled into one pile. It will however build fertility along side your driveway. Maybe later your can plant lots of blueberries or cranberries along your driveway
As stated in a previous video these piles of chips will be available for future use.
Good Morning. I'm curious why you didn't opt for a PTO driven wood chipper especially with that big TYM tractor. The added torque from a diesel is a beast in comparison with gasoline driven wood chippers. Their cost ranges from $3500 to $6000 depending on how many HP your tractor puts out. Anyway, it was just a thought.
I've seen my neighbor's wood chipper on his tractor work and it's impressive! He has an old IH small 27 hp Farmall tractor.
Al, you need to build something for the chickens to get up on off the ground. Maybe a shelf or rooster rods and maybe a box with small auto door.
You have a brush unit for the front of your tractor, if you use it to pickup and carry all the brush to a central area. It will be much faster loading the unit cause you want be walking so much and you can load more than 1 at a time. This will also put all the chips in one location instead of small piles Down the road. I think half of your time is spent walking back and forth.
At somewhere between $5K - $10K for the Bandit XP 6 inch at recent auction prices. that Bandit you rented seems like it must be incorrectly adjusted or needs new parts or just isn't worth the money. So, great video here showing what it really does fortunately only used as a rental.
Nice clean up job. Now your road ready for some ❄️. Yes prayers for Gina to keep on healing, physical and emotional.
Next year plan to cut and move all of the brush and trees to a chipping site near where you will use the mulch.
Set a trail cam up on the chickens just to see what curious predators you have trying to move in to the noise in the evenings. They may not attack yet, but getting ahead of what's coming in before they do is a good thing.
2:40 - worried about those gaps in the back - rather inviting spaces for hungry critters to get in and chow down... so far, so good. 🤞
I'm worried about the tarp on top. A bear can open that up with no problem
@@BruceMesser21 A Bear can open up your house if it wants to.
@@shartne I hope the bear at least has manners and knocks first.
I personally might end up clearing a large wooded area using the larger commercial type chipper. Know idea what it is about but this video was so relaxing 😎. Hoping that your wife Gina continue to make good progress as she's healing from the surgery. Al you have really got a good thing going here on RUclips from what I can see you really don't need to change much of anything. Great entertainment.
Great to see the chooks still there Al!! Good comparison of the two chippers too. I have an electric chipper and does up to 2 inches and you have to lift into the hopper but the chips flow out low only so I run a tarp to catch all of the chips. For a normal houseblock sized home it is ideal for what I need and does a decent chip size.
Thanks for commenting about that. We just bought an electric chipper too. We hope it'll help us clean up all the small branches from our fallen trees.
I would recommend a Woodland Mills chipper. I have a WC46 and love it on our small 50 acre homestead in southern NH.
thank you for cleaning this earth. May God reward all your actions by cleaning up all the problems you may be facing
A good days work chipper contest was interesting! Hope Gina is mending well. Glad chickens were safe!! Stay blessed everyone!!!
Good Tuesday morning to ya Eric!
Thanks, Eric! Hope you and yours stay blessed as well! The chipper contest was fun to compare. Al's owned DR unit would be great if it was self-powered to feed. Another person could accomplish that goal... even with another set of hands, no doubt the Bandit would win out when it comes to speed.
@@samvalentine3206 good morning!!
@@teresahyneman4349 good morning!!!!
Pleased to hear Gina is doing well. Keep up the good work. Doing the driveway gives you a break from building. Your probably enjoying the change.
I have run chippers and Tarrups and to cut down on labour you have to chip into a hydrolic tip trailer. you can then stockpile or compost the chips using your tractor. You will need to put a wood or shadenet canopy over the trailer to capture all the flying chips. Regards from South Africa
I'd want to get a 3 point mounted chipper with a 10 ' dump trailer behind it would be the perfect setup especially for someone wanting to create a stockpile for compost or mulch. 3 point chippers will do just as big as the bandit but would be using less fuel because your tractor would be more fuel efficient than a 37 hp gas engine. I think of less handling of the chips ,less fuel used.
Good morning. It looks good all cleaned up.
I love the HD video of the woods with the falling leaves! It looks amazing on our 87 inch TV!
I used small chippers for a while, yeah they worked but slow and high maintenance. I bought a PTO powered unit matched to my 40 HP tractor, huge difference, no comparison.
I've used Vermeer in the past for a chipper when I trimmed for power companies.. As far as I know, they do make commercial size chippers... I had a 4 cyl. Ford engine in mine that would take a 12 inch log with no issues as long as my cutter bar was still sharp and what I was chipping...
Continued prayers for your Gina hope you get to feeling better soon
Interesting but something I wouldn't need due to "normal property size".
What I enjoyed the most was seeing the beautiful roadway you are creating with Fall colors.
I personally use roadways that are public ones that are no where as nice as yours.
You are a hard worker and enjoy all the stuff you do but what is of most important is Gina's Health. Please have her know we miss her and our prayers continue.
Blessings
Glad Gina is coming along nicely, continued prayers. Liking that coop more each time I see it. Like the little wood chipper, especially since the larger one costs over $3,000. The fall colors are amazingly beautiful.
The little DR chipper cost $4k. A new bandit like the one he used would probably be around $15k.
You might want to add captions when the chipper is running for those of us that can’t read lips, LOL. I love your videos.
Gooood afternoon from central Florida! Hope everyone has a great day!
Have you considered a PTO powered chipper? We love ours. We make mountains of mulch with all the tree debris from firewood cutting here in NW Montana.
A new BANDIT wood chipper is in the high $30,000s. It's like anything you buy. You have to do a cost benefit analysis to determine which is better. If you're going to chip 20 acres a bigger machine will make up for the cost difference.
Around the yard a small chipper works just fine.
Best to all of you and thank you for letting us share your life.
I have a 6 inch Bearcat chipper, tow behind, and it rocks. I had hundreds of trees killed by the pine beetle and it paid for itself many times over.
Good morning Al! Nicely done, snow plowing will be much easier this winter. Prayers for Gina continue. Hugs from N.C..❤️🙏
What a satisfying feeling knowing the job is done! Great job Al!
Good to see you working in great Fall conditions! Color is very similar at my SW VA mountain property. Hope Gina is recovering well! All the best to the Lumnah family!!
Nice to see the property and color of leaves.
Nice cleanup! You need the larger one for the size of your property. Even bigger than that if they make it. You can buy us d ones from the power company sometimes
Good suggestion! They have to cut down trees and clean up by chipping all the time! Good idea!
Check into wood max. It's PTO driven off your tractor. Have the hydralic model and are very happy with it
That was a big job! Road looks great. Prayers for Gina!
Al, where is the perch for the chickens? They need a non-metal perch to keep off the ground at night. One of the sticks you are chipping would work. I use saplings and leave the bark on to provide extra traction for them. God bless all y'all.
Good Morning! We chipped about two dozen dead avocado trees on our place, when we first moved in. Had a DR 13 HP, but it was about 20 years ago, so they have made some improvements since then. To sharpen the blade, it had to be serviced because the blade was built right into the flywheel, and could not be removed through an access hatch. Still, it did a great job when the blade was sharp. Gravity feed worked fine. Never jammed. We bought a lot of DR equipment after that experience. Highly recommended.
I can see gaps under the chicken tractor edges. A mink or weasel could easily get in, and kill them all. I think you need something safer, or maybe a secure coop for night time.
Gooooood Morning
Howdy Guy! You're right about those gaps... 2:40 and cause for concern
Glad to know that Gina is getting better by the day. Still long way to go so keep on taking it easy. Now as the chipper, anyone that reads lips please let those of us that don't know what Al said why running it. LOL
Even with headphones I couldn't hear a word he said!
Looking good that machine is doing a fantastic job 👏😀👍🙌👌
Hi Al
Looking at the chicken pen there a few gaps we're something might get underneath might be useful to pin it down with pins easily removed by you or Gina
Good job Al, for your next chipping adventure you should see if you can get a tractor mounted chipper that is pro driven and compare.
Excellent video Al. It was hard for me to pay attention to the wood chipping with all that beauty surrounding you. Prayers for continued healing for Gina.
You need a woodland mills pto powered hydraulic feed chipper for your tractor. We love ours.
The Three point hitch 8” Woodland mills with hydraulic feed is even more compact
Have you thought about setting up your backhoe with a tool/and thumb to pick up the tree branches and set up the feed shoot. So the backhoe can feed it
A few reasons why you get stringy chips is 1. The material is going in side ways and not straight on into the "knife" drum. 2. The distance between the knife blade and the "anvil" or bed knife is to far apart allowing stuff to go past w/o it getting cut by the blade. In my experience with claas forage choppers. ( think of it as a big self-propelled chipper) instead of trees is chops cow feed for silage. Any who if the chopped corn wasn't smooth on the ends and starting to fray we ran a sharppen & re adjusted the knife drum ( done automatically) we were able to cut a sheet of paper when finished.
Drove me crazy when I saw you just blow all that Mulch / Wood chips into the woods. Can't believe you didn't save that for future projects. I would have pulled the chipper behind my dump trailer and blew the chips in trailer, then dumped in a pile for future uses around garden / trails / chicken coop, etc. Would also be interesting to see that comparison when both machines both have brand new blades. That rental unit has likely been rode hard and put away wet. Nice Video!
think reducing time by carrying more than one each time walking from the pile to the unit then feed them one by one or small batches but less trips walking.
Enjoy your videos and enjoy watching them every time they come on. May the Lord bless and protect you and your family and the animals
Good morning y'all from the south of Texas. Be good, do good.
In our area (Washington state) $10-$13,000 used in good condition. We have a comparable Vermeer that has controlled feed, that stops the in-feed when the motor bogs, then starts feeding again when the RPM's recover. I haven' t come across anything yet, that will fit in the opening, that it won't chip. It also makes great beauty bark with firewood bark.
I would think that it would make sense to keep all those wood chips for mulching around your/Gina's garden plants or maybe even for your wood burning heater if it takes that kind of small chips.
As stated in a previous video these piles of chips will be available for future use.
Suggestion.. make a perch in the chicken tractor..
Nice job done! Hope Gina is feeling better every day🙏 And hope your doing better with your anxiety and allowing yourself an Al day😊
Al Looks to me like that chicken tractor could use a couple of 2x2 cattle panels under the tarp for better security. great Job on your driveway
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Thanks, CC! Wishing that you also have an awesome week!
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Gooooood Morning Al & Gina,
I see that the major advantage of the bigger wood chipper is the larger diameter of the wood and the horizontal feed. As for how fast the machine will chip , it really does not matter much. Both are dependant upon how fast you can load the hopper.
My own wood chipper is much smaller. The way that I see it is that anything that will not fit into the hopper is firewood. lol
Hi Al . I love what your doing with the property I recently bought a woodmax chipper it is a 3point attached chipper that mounts on the rear of your tractor and is powered by the PTO also has a power feed and is a 8" capacity you can adjust the feed rate as it has a hydraulic pump the is powered by your pto and is rated from a 25hp to 60 hp tractor I also put sides on my gator to haul chips away and dump in a pile saves time as their is no cleanup after everything is chipped good luck and keep showing how you grow your 500 ac homestead prayers for Gina
Good Morning Al Gina & Olivia. That was a good couple of days Al Those chippers certainly make the job easier.
Also glad to see the chickens are well & ok i suppose they are missing there friends at the moment.
Good Gina is recovering well bless her. Take care happy family. 🙏🙏
Howdy Bob - Positive healing vibes directed towards Gina for sure! 🙂 👍
Prayers for Gina’s full recovery!
That looks fun Al! Wow, what a difference! Chippers like green wood, not dead/dry wood. I think the rental chipper is a winner in terms of time and okay size chips. Remember Al that you also have to sharpen the blades on the DR! Thanks for this comparison. Congratulations on getting the ditch cleared of dead trees! We woke up to a hard frost of 23 degrees here in Minnesota. Winter is coming! We are heating our house with wood from our property with the two wood stoves we have in our home. We can usually heat the house until early December with wood only. I love wood heat. I like the smell outside also. Continued prayers for Gina to heal up well!
You can get similor one chipper for tractor at a fraction of the price of a engine power one
That bandits carbide blades are deffinately dual. With sharp blades that should feed a 6" log no problem. The problem with rentals is they are not maintained well. But great comparison and it got the job done.
We have a wooded driveway and need to clean up the sides of our driveway too; we’ll rent one. Thank you Al. Praying for Gina’s continued healthy recovery. May the Lord bless you, the family and your farm building!🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Hey Al, instead of the chips laying all along the side of the road what if you pulled the chipper with that little truck you bought and that way you can turn the chipper to blow them into the back of it and then you can just tilt it to empty it somewhere on the property and just make one big pile of them. Just thought that would be easier than having all the chips all up and down the side of the road. Also really like the new chicken tractor but aren’t you a little concerned a coyote or some other animal may try and dig to get up and under it. Hopefully Gina is recovering well.
@@goodiebee3007 He need's to put the same type of wire that is on the sides, on the top and as a floor too.
Fantastic idea. I’ve been bothered by the many piles too but didn’t know how to fix it
Al, I have a chipper of my own and your experience of rollers stopping is quite normal. Most machines have a stress relief system built in so when it gets overloaded it stops feeding. Reversing the rollers for a few seconds will allow it to recover and then just keep shoving stuff in.
I'd be interested to know exactly how sharp (or dull) the blades on the Bandit are. My guess is, since it's a rental, that they may be much more dull than your DR. You personally have a personal investment in it as opposed to the rental where the company understands that when it's down for sharpening it's not making $$$.
Keep in mind with the chicken pen, it's still new and it will take a few days or weeks for the wild animals to get used to it, before they approach it....
I suggest you try the eger bever chipper they have a governor so the feed rolls slow down or stop so the RPMs stay up and I think they take 8" good luck and keep farming
Thank you!