How'd it go today?

[CurSedVoyce]

One like that would be a good addition to our iron. Not take Brutus out so much....

 

[Stumpshot]

Exactly! That's why we want to demo a 14"/15" Bandit -- save the Vermeer 18" for bigger takedowns.

 

[treebilly]

By on a turn table, do you mean you can point the in-feed to the sides? If so it seems like a great idea. We don’t get that stateside. I can only think of one model that did and it only went curbside to 45*. In fact I think CV’s chipper does. I have a BC1250 with curbside I’m selling. Great feature even when set up off road to help with feeding.
I can also agree with the timing being off but having to jump on a good deal. Hope it serves you well Mick

 

[Ryan]

Do you need to grease the heck out of something like that?(turntable) Does it gum up with dust and debris or is it sealed pretty good?

 

[SkwerI]

The Vermeer pivot slides on HDPE pads, similar to the inserts on my bucket truck outriggers. No lube, just a very hard and slippery plastic to minimize wear.

 

[Mick!]

The whole chipper, engine, rotor housing etc. Can (manually) rotate on the trailer frame to one side or the other. I think it’s on a slew, like a digger.

Saves unhitching it to face the work when you’ve backed into somewhere, ostensibly it’s sold as a safety thing for roadside work.

You do have to grease it, but it’s probably more important to ensure it’s locked in position for transport.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Teflon - if the engineers were wise, Brian

 

[treebilly]

Sounds like a real good feature to me.

 

[MasterBlaster]

One time we were chipping and I went to pull the truck up 20 feet... I'd just hired on and never worked with a chipper that rotated before. Sooooo, as I carefully pull the truck up I'm looking at my mirrors and as I was looking at the wrong mirror the catty-cornered chipper body didn't respond like I thought it would and it kept going to the passenger side of the truck. This all happened in just 10 or 15 seconds... by the time I looked at that mirror - it kissed a mailbox.

I was all like WTF MANG! I hadn't seen them rotate it and like I said I'd never seen a chipper (12" Vermeer) that did that. Lucky it was just a mailbox!

 

[cory]

Chit happens mang

 

[MasterBlaster]

Yes, but it blew my mind how the chipper didn't follow behind me like every other chipper I'd ever towed always did, lol. I learned about curb-side chipping models that day!

 

[flushcut]

The Vermeer pivot slides on HDPE pads, similar to the inserts on my bucket truck outriggers. No lube, just a very hard and slippery plastic to minimize wear.

Vermeer does say to spray the slides with a lube. I like a dry film teflon spray.

 

[flushcut]

Stopped at my moms only to be handed my old Sheridan series C air rifle. It's good to have an old friend back in my life, it's been 30 some odd years.

 

[Mellow]

That's awesome! While cleaning up at my mom's house today, I found my old Daisy Model 25 pump-action bb gun. It's about 50 years old; still pumps but I don't have any bb's to shoot.

 

[SkwerI]

You'll put an eye out, kid.

 

[Mellow]

 

[flushcut]

That's awesome! While cleaning up at my mom's house today, I found my old Daisy Model 25 pump-action bb gun. It's about 50 years old; still pumps but I don't have any bb's to shoot.

LOL yeah I didn't have any 20 cal pellets either. Must be find an old air gun day.

 

[Raj]

Balls of solder!

 

[Dave Shepard]

Nah, the solder is too expensive these days!

 

[Raj]

Ok ok ok.

Reclaimed solder from old printed circuit boards.
Over a wood fire on a cast pan.

 

[MasterBlaster]

That's the spirit!

 

[pantheraba]

My buddy, George, in the 60's had a Sheridan pump....probably 1965-69 or so. It shot 5mm pellets. I had a Crosman CO2, 22 caliber...10 shot magazine. We did a lot of shooting back then.

Good score for you. A good friend, Don, borrowed my Crosman a few years after I got out of high school. Don got married and drifted away...so did my gun.

 

[flushcut]

Maybe call up old Don and see if he still has it "air gun come home day" is still going on.

 

[pantheraba]

hahaha...I have thought about it. He probably has it...he was a stand up guy, probably just forgot it was in his closet.

It would be a good excuse to renew an old friendship.

 

[flushcut]

Bonding over target shooting and beer, sounds like a good time.