WTB Brush Bandit
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lumberjack
Young man on the go
What's a new chipper cost?
PCTREE
Treehouser
Dude buy a Conehead and an F550 and never look back.....
Now I want to put a 14' aluminum chip box on the 550
Now I want to put a 14' aluminum chip box on the 550
lumberjack
Young man on the go
I'd probably start at $18-19k for your Woodsman.
arborworks1
Treehouser
What did you end up getting?
treesandsurf
Treehouser
I just picked this chipper up when I was in California, had no intentions of buying a chipper but couldn't turn it down so now I have two 15" chippers need to sell one fast! It's a 2006 15x with 900 hours. I'm hoping it chips as well or better than my 1590xp I've read nothing but good things about the Woodsmans and the 18xx I used on occasion a few years ago was just unreal.
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treesandsurf
Treehouser
I read on your buzz post that your machine is a 2006? This machine is also listed as a 2006 but has the old model numbers (15x) Do you know what year they changed the model numbers? I've also heard mixed reviews on their customer support; granted that doesn't bother me too much as customer support on almost all machines is pretty poor here in HI, which is unfortunately the norm out here.
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jp
Thor's Hammer
Wolfish. Sometimes Bites.
Funny thing is, after all the hype, I was severely dissapointed with the infeed ability of the 18XX we tried. Certainly in comparison to the 460 and 565 conehead, it was useless.
treesandsurf
Treehouser
The coneheads must be incredible because the 18xx I used was scary powerful and fast. Although koaman had owned it and capped the fluid running to one of the hydraulic motors and so doubled the speed of the feed wheel.
Peter
Treehouser
If its the one I'm thinking of, it was undoubtably the worst chipper I have ever used. Chute blocked constantly, no crush on the infeed, radio remote worse than useless, bloody thing would only chip for 20 minutes at a time before it shut down. Maybe we just got a bad one?
Thor's Hammer
Wolfish. Sometimes Bites.
Yeah, that's the one Pete. Terrible machine, and that one came with every single option possible.
squisher
THE CALM ONE!!!!
Crush wasn't an option or standard on a 18" machine?
Thor's Hammer
Wolfish. Sometimes Bites.
It was, but every time you used the crush, it would stall the feed motor.
Thor's Hammer
Wolfish. Sometimes Bites.
Honestly... If you looked at the specification and compared it... The Woodsman just had the drive motor to the big roller bolted on the side. It wasn't even a particularly large motor. On my equivalent Conehead, it had 2 much bigger motors on each side of the yoke, with 14:1 reduction chain drives. The infeed torque on that baby was immense. In my opinion, although the 2 machines had similar price tags and power units, 1 was a small whole tree / forestry chipper, the other an enlarged tree service machine. Big difference feeding limbs in with a min to feeding whole trees in with a 40k# excavator loader. The conehead never missed a beat, the Woodsman died after 20 minutes.
Peter
Treehouser
I was really disappointed with that machine, it took weeks to actually get it on site, as the owner couldnt get it to work properly. They ended up flying in a tech from Holland to sort out the radio remote but it was never right. They dropped it off the low loader and it was the size of a small house and looked the business, then we tracked it up the first brash pile, Martin stuffed some brash in it and the chute blocked with chip immediately. That was my introduction to the machine, and it didnt get any better.
treesandsurf
Treehouser
What machine?
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jp
PCTREE
Treehouser
Buy a Conehead and dont look back, Oh I said that already ......
