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Any hydraulically fed chipper over a 10 inch capacity IMO. So if you were a two man utiliy ROW crew? You'd need a BC 1000 to be out of the WTC class and feed it solo, IME. Note that Morbark provides chip safe retrofits even on their 8 inch capacity chippers. Jmo

Tree Care Industry Association TCIA, formerly the National Arborist Association, founded and ran by the late great Bob Felix, a tree industry Titan, whom I miss sorely. Whole Tree Chipper, WTC. Hydraulically fed disc n mandrel chippers, capable of chipping entire trees whole. Jomo

It indicates that simply investigating Crawford's not going to help prevent these horrific on the job deaths one little bit. TCIA's the organization that needs to be investigated ASAP IMO. They're the ones stating solo operation of WTC's an acceptable tree industry practice, and I've got the...

I'd take a French guillotine death over feet first into a 1500 hydro feed chipper any day.... Jomo

Nice to know someone's investigating Crawford, and it looks like karma's gonna tromp his dogma of death on the job. http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article48655150.html Dropping trees on houses no less... Jomo

Big shout out n props to the folks at Morbark for giving mistake prone treeworker's a second chance at continued life on the job! http://youtu.be/wvawImLT_4o Morbark and our network of authorized tree care dealers are committed to chipper operator safety and ongoing training. After several...

The only time solo hand fed chipping with a large chipper's acceptable IMO? Is when the owner feeds the beast personally, confident they are magically immune from making mistakes when exhausted. TCIA needs to step up to the plate and stop enabling tree service's like Crawford etc, etc. You...

Just for the record, absent someone witnessing Cox trying to kick a branch or log through the chipper firsthand? This whole kicking business may be pure speculative BS? I've witnessed how a 240 lb groundie gets knocked off his feet feeding a long euc branch into an 1800 and get dragged up onto...

More like 75 fatalities to date since WTC's hit the market in the late 80's in the U.S. Butch. 300 sounds about right for yearly injuries involving wood chippers in general though. Jomo

All the reputable companies I sub for established their own in house two man minimum rule for chippers over a ten inch capacity. Jomo

GASTON COUNTY, NC (WBTV) - A Gastonia man was pulled into a wood chipper and killed over the weekend, police say. Officials believe 19-year-old Mason Scott Cox was attempting to kick a limb into the chipper when he got pulled in. The incident happened around 12:37 p.m. Saturday on Hawthorne...