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I haven't been in a while, but it's odd not seeing square body cars with huge pipes sticking out the hood.
How'd it go today?
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Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
What's it fit? Found on roadside this morning.
SkwerI
Treehouser
Would run it on a top handle Echo or Husqvarna with a 14" bar. Stihl 14" bar runs 50 links because Stihl's crankshafts are closer to the front of the saw.
got a ? for you guys with "real" chippers (18+ capacity)
how do ya like it? my 250xp has been kinda pissing me off and I'm about at my limit as far as how much money I plan to dump into it, can't take it out of service long enough to totally restore it, thinking about snagging a used 1890xp or 19xpc and keeping the 250 as a backup to tinker on as I find time, its basically free to own but I'm thinking the payment of a 19" would quickly make up for itself just in time saved on each job and reduced trips with logs, I pay $30 to dump chips at the mulch yard, no limit on capacity, or chip drop which my 16yd truck is perfect for, whereas I pay $1-200 per load for logs at the mulch yard and they have to be under 6ft long, or $60 a ton at the landfill and it has to be firewood rounds under 24" long, huge waste of time to load wood and cut every log, especially when I cut to 6ft and find out the mulch yard closed early (they tend to do that a lot)
just for reference, I usually have 50/50% logs and chips on jobs, although kinda frequently I'm hauling 2 loads of wood for each load of chips, with a 19" chipper I'd be hauling closer to 4 loads of chips per load of logs as a lot of the work I do is either whole trees that I can chip in a 19", or whole limbs and just haul a 2-5ft diameter trunk section instead of all the limb wood
never ran anything bigger than a 250xp/12X so I'm just wanting to ask the guys that actually run bigger chippers for a living, I imagine how it'd work and I'm usually decently close to right, but this is a huge $ item if I'm wrong
how do ya like it? my 250xp has been kinda pissing me off and I'm about at my limit as far as how much money I plan to dump into it, can't take it out of service long enough to totally restore it, thinking about snagging a used 1890xp or 19xpc and keeping the 250 as a backup to tinker on as I find time, its basically free to own but I'm thinking the payment of a 19" would quickly make up for itself just in time saved on each job and reduced trips with logs, I pay $30 to dump chips at the mulch yard, no limit on capacity, or chip drop which my 16yd truck is perfect for, whereas I pay $1-200 per load for logs at the mulch yard and they have to be under 6ft long, or $60 a ton at the landfill and it has to be firewood rounds under 24" long, huge waste of time to load wood and cut every log, especially when I cut to 6ft and find out the mulch yard closed early (they tend to do that a lot)
just for reference, I usually have 50/50% logs and chips on jobs, although kinda frequently I'm hauling 2 loads of wood for each load of chips, with a 19" chipper I'd be hauling closer to 4 loads of chips per load of logs as a lot of the work I do is either whole trees that I can chip in a 19", or whole limbs and just haul a 2-5ft diameter trunk section instead of all the limb wood
never ran anything bigger than a 250xp/12X so I'm just wanting to ask the guys that actually run bigger chippers for a living, I imagine how it'd work and I'm usually decently close to right, but this is a huge $ item if I'm wrong
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
Ran 1990, 1890 grapple , 20xp. If you are machine feeding,hp and wide opening are nice.
thats my thinking, my boxer couldn't keep up but having since upgraded, the chipper can't keep up and it hurts to watch the mini loader waste hours and hours a day moving half of what it's capable of just so the chipper isn't being over fed
the mulch yard charges $30 for any load of chips, $90-200 per load for brush and logs in a dump trailer with a 6 foot length limit, landfill is 2ft limit and $60 a ton, so the less logs I haul the better, at a $90 average difference per load of wood it doesn't take very many loads to cover the payment of the chipper, plus saved trips on most jobs because I don't have to drive 45 minutes to dump logs and come back for the machine, just chip the wood and go home early
just rough math since I don't know the exact productivity and stuff, since the big chipper only became a consideration/possibility this last few weeks, but on average it think it'd save me about 3 hours per work day in cutting and hauling, some days more, and $90/load of logs, most wood I haul is around that 12-19 inch range
assuming I work 100 days a year, we take a lot of time off when we aren't super busy, thats $76,500 a year saved, I'd pay roughly 10,000 a year for the chipper, so $66500 extra back into the company just for owning a bigger chipper
is my math making sense? please do tell me if I'm missing something, the numbers are too good to be true, or this is just why everyone wants big chippers
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Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
We had a 1590, also. Only thing I didn't like was the cheap sob that bought it new didn't get the hydraulic jack. 
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
So, I'm an asshole for not learning Spanish to accommodate non-English speakers. I'm not opposed to learning a language, but I don't think it's my obligation to do so. Long story, stupid argument, with someone who doesn't understand how intelligent discussion works.
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