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| Astronaut Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Cincinnati
Posts: 598
| I wonder if anyone could help me to ID this old artifact? I just looked at and it is real clean and chips quite well. I can pick it up for next to nothing and I might to just play around with if I can get parts. It has the Ford 172 4 banger that I've owned before and it runs and starts fine. Thought it might be an Asplundh but I ve had a Fitchburg that the knife set up was real similar (adjustments in the rear of blade). Didn't want to get all dirty looking for name. ![]() |
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| Break'n the ice Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Texas
Posts: 8
| Damn I guess I'm old school. Thats what I use day in day out. It looks like mine asplundh/whisper/altec. Mine has strait 6 ford and is approx 25 years old. 1 rebuilt moter same drum and works like a champ. Bought a 98 model altec new same design just newer (then). One of these days I'll get a fancy disc auto feed but right now this machine is making me money and has been paid for since 1983. Its great any part you need for it they have at any auto parts store. |
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| Astronaut Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Cincinnati
Posts: 598
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Does your Whisper have adjustments on the back of the knife, or do you just put them in and adjust the bed knife? I hope the latter. | |
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| Eric Frei Administrator - Brisbane L5 (Dip) Hort Cert III Arb + some Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane
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| Funny how these old chippers just keep on going, simplicity and strong. Some of the new stuff falls apart, broken drums, shafts, handles, lights fall off, auto feeds that reverse at the thought of sweating etc etc. Damned electronics!
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| Afterburner is shakin' Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Sydney
Posts: 414
| Asplund were built here by Deveson Jahn in Cabramatta, Sydney. I had 2 with 330 ci bedford Diesel Engines and 1 with International 262 petrol (Gas) engine. Later models were fitted with 380 ci Ford diesel. This looks very similar to those. Blade adjustment is by socket head bolts under each blade. Bedknife or anvil is seldom touched. Correct sharpening is critical to good operation and branch pull in and bed gap to have fine chip, .030" Therse machines are great, with only one major moving part, no hydraulic pumps or motors or moving rollers. I wish I still had one!
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| Cruisin' Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: ONTARIO, CANADA
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| I have just decided to retire my 1976 wayne 9 inch chipper really a 4 inch i only used it for a year but the engine died. So now i am buying a vermeer bc1000xl cant wait to be able to chip more then 4 inches, and more importanly it will not take 40 minutes to start every day.
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