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Tree Machine · 30th October 2007, 06:00 AM

I'm liking it so far.

The purpose of this is not a 'concept' chipper. My 6" is 10 years old. I have better than half the features listed above and love them all. A few were part of the build at the factory. A few were welded on or installed here at the northern hemisphere division.

At 10 years old, it's days are numbered, even though its been running like a dream, almost better than new.

Running like a dream, but I feel if I put it in someone elses hands, they could kill it, or if I tried to recruit an Arborist team and we split the chipper betwen ourselves, we would kill it. The little bugger has thousands of hours of brush munching and it's the main pillar on the cleanup side of things, well, between the chipper and the list of firewood people, the backpack blower does the rest. Losing firewood people, or the blower, I can keep working. Having the chipper go defunct, that would drop The Tree Machine, Northern Hemisphere Division, to its knees.

Our goal here is to put together a LEGITIMATE list of features that could be submitted as an order, by any one of us. The problem, with these small chippers is they are generally constructed for the rental industry. They are stripped down, bare bones, but loaded with safety switches, stickers and additional features that contribute nothing to the performance, or ease of maintenence.

Way back before I owned a chipper, I rented all different sizes, and chose the 6". Since then I have operated bigger chippers owned by other operators. Now it's time to order a new one. I plan to order another 6". I've had a decade to mull this over. There must be a reason.

The intent is not to tout the small machine over bigger ones because you could get a bigger chipper with any of the features we'll describe...... except for the smallness that allows you to move and roll the chipper about by hand. That's a feature that truly divides the 6" from the bigger brothers.

If we, collectively, create the 6" Personal Industrial Chipper, a 6" designed for the 1-3 man Arborist team and NOT for the rental yards, we will create a benefit for those looking into a purchase. Generally, the 6" is not even considered by big tree companies, but we're directing at the larger base, companies and men who are small Tree Care Companies, or large companies who would benefit from having a smaller, efficient unit that focusses on certain sectors of their overall work. Face it, who wants to send out the big truck and a 12" chipper to do an ornamental prune job, or finish a cleanup from yesterday's crew?

30th October 2007, 06:00 AM	#10 (permalink)
Tree Machine Over mature heritage tree Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Indianapolis Posts: 569	Re: TM-Southern Div Chipper Development I'm liking it so far. The purpose of this is not a 'concept' chipper. My 6" is 10 years old. I have better than half the features listed above and love them all. A few were part of the build at the factory. A few were welded on or installed here at the northern hemisphere division. At 10 years old, it's days are numbered, even though its been running like a dream, almost better than new. Running like a dream, but I feel if I put it in someone elses hands, they could kill it, or if I tried to recruit an Arborist team and we split the chipper betwen ourselves, we would kill it. The little bugger has thousands of hours of brush munching and it's the main pillar on the cleanup side of things, well, between the chipper and the list of firewood people, the backpack blower does the rest. Losing firewood people, or the blower, I can keep working. Having the chipper go defunct, that would drop The Tree Machine, Northern Hemisphere Division, to its knees. Our goal here is to put together a LEGITIMATE list of features that could be submitted as an order, by any one of us. The problem, with these small chippers is they are generally constructed for the rental industry. They are stripped down, bare bones, but loaded with safety switches, stickers and additional features that contribute nothing to the performance, or ease of maintenence. Way back before I owned a chipper, I rented all different sizes, and chose the 6". Since then I have operated bigger chippers owned by other operators. Now it's time to order a new one. I plan to order another 6". I've had a decade to mull this over. There must be a reason. The intent is not to tout the small machine over bigger ones because you could get a bigger chipper with any of the features we'll describe...... except for the smallness that allows you to move and roll the chipper about by hand. That's a feature that truly divides the 6" from the bigger brothers. If we, collectively, create the 6" Personal Industrial Chipper, a 6" designed for the 1-3 man Arborist team and NOT for the rental yards, we will create a benefit for those looking into a purchase. Generally, the 6" is not even considered by big tree companies, but we're directing at the larger base, companies and men who are small Tree Care Companies, or large companies who would benefit from having a smaller, efficient unit that focusses on certain sectors of their overall work. Face it, who wants to send out the big truck and a 12" chipper to do an ornamental prune job, or finish a cleanup from yesterday's crew?