[AT] Wood Chipper.

[Bruce Fallon]

Danny I bought a WC8 from http://www.betstco.com/ I was searching around for 
the best price and found them.  Unfortunately on this website they do not 
show the splitter. You can see this unit on Ebay from Betstco.  I talked 
with Jason down there. The WC8 was $1469 and I ordered a spare set of blades 
and anvil which was $145. and shipping to a commercial address was $280. I 
have used it only a couple of hours so far. If you get one check the setup 
before you use it.  On mine the PTO shaft was not setup parallel to the main 
shaft and threw a belt and allowed 2 others to jump forward on the pulley. 
Mine is connected to my Allis Chalmers CA.  I have constructed my own 3 
point on the Allis.  This unit weighs about 900 pounds.  I have put a couple 
of trees through it for fun that were actually firewood.

The Feed drive may be the part that will need some tweaking. They use a gear 
reduction box driven by a belt from the main rotor. The output from the 
reduction box is a square drive and they use a drive shaft to connect to the 
feed roller again with a square drive. The drive shaft had a spring to keep 
tension on ends and keep them on the square drives they were not pinned or 
locked to the square shafts. There was zerk fitting in the middle to grease 
the sliding portion of the shaft and the zerk would catch the spring and 
release tension and the shaft would fall off and drop to the ground.  I have 
drilled and tapped the u joints to lock them to the square shafts but may 
end up welding them as the fit on the square drives are not tight even with 
Allen setscrews. I also think the gear reduction box should have been 
lowered a couple of inches as it is at one extreme end of the travel in the 
idle position which is not ideal.

So far I have been happy with mine and I have a lot more clearing to do.  If 
I just didn't have to go to work I would have a lot more time to do things 
around here.

Bruce Fallon
Freeland WA. 98249
bfallon at whidbey.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Danny Tabor" <dannytabor2000 at yahoo.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 12:01 PM
Subject: [AT] Wood Chipper.


   Does anybody on ATIS have any experience with the
PTO type wood chippers they sell on ebay. I've been
semi looking for a chipper mulcher, especially since
its become so difficult to burn around these parts.
  They look like a good deal if they don't shake
apart. Just want to get all the info I can about then
and check all my options before committing to buying
anything.

Danny Tabor



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