SouthSoundTree-
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Totally a niche machine.
For me, the trip to the yard waste dump is 40-60 round trip, roughly, plus unloading time.
I hope to chip slowly, and avoid a lot of the dragging time, plus collateral impact and/ or remediation of it (lots of trips on wet lawn, especially a hill; minor scrapes along a fence, when the drag path is 3' wide, etc, etc). Lots of times things make noise without any effect, but it is heard like branch tips along a fence or building's siding. Mulch for the trees pruned, right where its needed.
This last week, it was 100' somewhat steeply downhill to the big chipper, and then the mulch would have had to be carried/ rolled 100' uphill. Two yards of chips. Mostly fruit tree suckers, so the mulch was stringy from my chuck-n-duck, and not good for landscaping mulch, as was the original plan, so it went to a community garden two miles away. Working solo sometimes means less production per day (Will was sick two days).
I have a chainsaw-powered capstan (winch), so I think i could manipulate the chipper into places without struggling to do it by hand, or use a simple MA system.
For me, the trip to the yard waste dump is 40-60 round trip, roughly, plus unloading time.
I hope to chip slowly, and avoid a lot of the dragging time, plus collateral impact and/ or remediation of it (lots of trips on wet lawn, especially a hill; minor scrapes along a fence, when the drag path is 3' wide, etc, etc). Lots of times things make noise without any effect, but it is heard like branch tips along a fence or building's siding. Mulch for the trees pruned, right where its needed.
This last week, it was 100' somewhat steeply downhill to the big chipper, and then the mulch would have had to be carried/ rolled 100' uphill. Two yards of chips. Mostly fruit tree suckers, so the mulch was stringy from my chuck-n-duck, and not good for landscaping mulch, as was the original plan, so it went to a community garden two miles away. Working solo sometimes means less production per day (Will was sick two days).
I have a chainsaw-powered capstan (winch), so I think i could manipulate the chipper into places without struggling to do it by hand, or use a simple MA system.
