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@BeerGeek www.chipdrop.com, fwiw

That winch Will save many more injuries than the Chipsafe will. Winching big pieces avoids lots of hand-feeding. Does your winch require the line to be stowed to operate the feed-wheels?

Good review. I bought the smaller, lighter duty HF hand truck, but kept breaking wheels. I upgraded to some harbor freight wheels, and needed a slightly wider axle. Consequently, the wheels are wider than the guards, but good for lots of things, including full sheets of plywood and Brute...

No. I've wanted to, but...The Ogre! All I can haul of any size is 12', which the Mini or Mini-Arbor Trolley handles. Skip the chains, ratchet straps instead. Come in near the balance point, wiggling the 'horn' under the log. You will be able to lever it up onto the blade, and swivel the log...

I'll get you a picture of my minorly modified hand-truck. A cheap investment, and does a few tricks the Arbor-Trolley doesn't, at a fraction of the cost. I use both. The AT was a huge step up, but not winning every event. Length-wise log carrying through gates without lifting, and carrying a...

You can fit some mini-skids in the chip-bed making it a one-rig show, dump before heading home (getchipdrop.com). The mini will make you so much easier money than guys trying to do machine-work. The guys won't be broken down by the manual work. You will need less, better guys. Mini has no...

Are you going to have a machine for material handling? Less guys, who are less tired, who do less feeding, when you have a machine. I've got an old whisper-chipper. If the material is conducive, which it frequently is, after making good 'grapple piles', I can feed by machine quite...

How is your employee pool to draw from?

Yep!

Chip-safe is using gloves and anklets to keep guys from getting pulled in the chipper while doing unsafe things.

Thanks, Marc-Antoine, for that explanation.

I'm hydraulically-challenged, but learning all the time.

I understand why the chipper wouldn't physically chip well, if run too low, but I don't understand how the machine itself is configured, hydraulically and electrically, to make it so.

I wonder how much operator's habits affect fuel use, as well. How much do chippers get idled down when not actively chipping? I don't recall exactly, because the bit I, personally, used the SP's Brush Bandit, we were consistently feeding it. If I recall, it was basically push the button down...

All chippers do the same work, they chip stuff. Those two engines are not the same. You will have to look at specs. What kind of wood will you feed it. A lot of guys seem to be having good luck with the 4.3L. Feel like I heard something about using OEM parts for part of the ignition...