Morbark 2050 Clipper chipper

[Koa Man]

Getting knives are no problem for the 395 and that certainly looks like one. Other stuff, except for the sheet metal, are standard hydraulic and Yanmar diesel parts. It is a great chipper and light, just under 3000 lbs. If I could find one in real good condition, I would buy it.


Skwerl,
Regarding the drop in shipping rates. Not true for Hawaii freight. Matson raised their rates in January and it is going up again by about 3% in a week or so.

 

[treesandsurf]

Matson definitely has a monopoly here so they can pretty much charge what they want, unfortunately.

jp

 

[emr]

M B Company is making parts for Gravely right now. The place where I used to work ran a 395 and it was a great little machine.

Short bit of history.... Gravely was bought by Airens and eventually sold off the chipper line to M B Company. All of these companies are located with in 30 minutes of here. M B Co. is currently developing a new line of chippers. Parts are available and are fairly reasonable. M B Co. is a good company to work with. By the way, the 395 looks nothing like the 395 that I used... but who knows.

 

[rumination]

Hey Jon, how about this one, it looks sweet!: http://equipment.treetrader.com/index.php?a=2&b=3133

 

[stehansen]

That's a pretty tricky looking setup.

 

[rumination]

The whole chipper swivels so you can feed from either side. It would be tough to get into tight spots though.

 

[SkwerI]

I think he made a mistake on the price though. It's a 10 year old 9 inch chipper, for pete's sake. It might be worth 1/3 of what he's asking for it.

 

[lumberjack]

I agree, he'll be disappointed with a lack of interest methinks.

I could see it going for $15k max, provided it's as clean as the first picture makes it out to be.

 

[Newfie]

It's not even a diesel.

 

[Altissimus]

heavy shipping ....

 

[Greenhorn]

Heavy period I bet, looks like alot of tongue weight etc. bet it would kill anything less than a one ton in a hurry. Cool idea though.