Ax-Man
Don't make me chop you
I have wondered about this for a long time weather it is good or bad to feed short chunks of wood upright instead of horizontal the way you feed limbs into a chipper.
Every once in awhile we have to do this so we don't have to make a trip back for waste wood. 12 inch dia. wood is about the max I feel comfortable feeding our chipper if it is long enough. My chipper is rated for bigger material but it does like it unless it is real softwood. We can get by if need be cutting larger material into short rounds and feed them in upright or rip short logs and then feed them in. Either way I don't care for this as the sound of chipping is different and the chips are much bigger.
I guess my real question is this hard on the bearings and clutch ??? That is my main concern. To me a chipper is designed to chip limbs and wood with the rotation of the drum and knives to go with the grain fo the wood, not against it .
Just looking to see what thoughts some of you guys would have on this subject.
Every once in awhile we have to do this so we don't have to make a trip back for waste wood. 12 inch dia. wood is about the max I feel comfortable feeding our chipper if it is long enough. My chipper is rated for bigger material but it does like it unless it is real softwood. We can get by if need be cutting larger material into short rounds and feed them in upright or rip short logs and then feed them in. Either way I don't care for this as the sound of chipping is different and the chips are much bigger.
I guess my real question is this hard on the bearings and clutch ??? That is my main concern. To me a chipper is designed to chip limbs and wood with the rotation of the drum and knives to go with the grain fo the wood, not against it .
Just looking to see what thoughts some of you guys would have on this subject.