Nah, it worked fine, it was just hopeless. I did turn up at my brother inlaws a few years ago, and he had a huge ... maybe 20hp chipper there with a big pile of branches beside it. I looked at it and said "this awesome". And he said exactly the same thing as me "to slow ... bloody hopeless, it took me ages just to do half a barrow load of chips". He was taking it straight back to where he got it. They have a small olive orchard. He'd die of old age before he broke every offcut down small enough to feed through a chipper.
I live on acerage, as does my brother inlaw. I guess if I lived on a tiny little city block, I could persist and clean up a few twigs. But there is no way I'm investing the hours it would take to feed sticks through on of those things.
I've noticed the big ones they tow behind trucks. They just throw the entire branches into (without spending hours breaking them down into bite sized pieces) and it just sucks them through and blows them out the other end into the truck. Now THAT would be useful
The current burn pile down behind the shed is about as tall as me .... and a decent size. You're welcome to come and chip it and show me how fast it can be done
(I guestimate with a domestic type chipper ..... 5000hours
). with one of those truck towable ones. maybe 1/2hour
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Originally Posted by DoubleChevron
Nah, it worked fine, it was just hopeless. I did turn up at my brother inlaws a few years ago, and he had a huge ... maybe 20hp chipper there with a big pile of branches beside it. I looked at it and said "this awesome". And he said exactly the same thing as me "to slow ... bloody hopeless, it took me ages just to do half a barrow load of chips". He was taking it straight back to where he got it. They have a small olive orchard. He'd die of old age before he broke every offcut down small enough to feed through a chipper.
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