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So, this is a tractor mounted wood chipper that I got about three years ago now and it
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works very well. I thought you might like to see it in action
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We've got some old dead stuff to get rid of here. There's often a need for getting rid of trimmed branches and small trees and dead falls and
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things like that to keep country places neater. So you're going to see this baby in action
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So let's go and take a look. So this chipper is made by a Canadian company called Woodland Mills
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They started off making portable sawmills for people. They've added other things to their line up
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It's kind of an interesting story. Two young guys graduating from university, I believe here in Ontario, Canada, and then
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they start this company using their design skills. I've had this, as I said, for three years
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I'm really impressed with the engineering, with the way the blades are pretty easy to
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get at. I'll show you that, get at for replacement or sharpening
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It's also quite safe too. It's got an automatic feed the way you saw, but that automatic feed, it's a long way in there
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You'd have to try really hard to get caught into it. And this control either shuts off the automatic feed, advances it, or if you push it the other
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way, it can take stuff out if you've got a jam or something like that
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Now in a minute, I'll take off this cover and let you see the blades, see where things
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actually happen. But it being a tractor mounted device, it sits on the three point hitch of the tractor
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It's basically using the power of the tractor in order to power this unit
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And the chute is completely adjustable for direction and angle as well
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So far, not a stitch of trouble with it. I have changed the belt and I've put on a fresh set of blades, but other than that
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it's been a great machine. They do make smaller ones. You wouldn't want to put this chipper on a tractor a whole lot smaller than this one
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It's about 60 horsepower and you use most of those horses when you're chipping up some
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big stuff. So just one of the tools that we've got here at the end of Bailey Line Road for keeping
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our place looking good. So just by removing this one bolt, we can get to the blades
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Of course, you'd never want to take this off while the thing is running
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You can be completely safe around equipment like this, but you have to be smart too
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So I'll just come around to this side
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So this is the thing that spins. It actually spins this way
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And there's a blade there. That could use some work. It was sharp a little while ago
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I have been doing a lot of chipping lately though. So there's blades here and here
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The material comes in here. And this piece of metal here is also part of the cutting mechanism
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It's called the anvil. And that's the thing that supports the wood as the knife is slicing it
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So that has to be adjusted. So it's about a sixteenth of an inch or an eighth inch away from the surface of the blade
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There's some adjustment bolts down there. But it's an adjustment you don't need to tinker with too often
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But this is essentially where it all happens. And on the back here, there are some flanges that create a kind of air movement
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That's what's responsible for blasting out all the chips and shooting them out
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Pretty simple really, but heavy duty, well built, and the kind of thing that serves us well
