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PTO wood chipper plans
Has anyone here ever built a PTO powered wood chipper. I have a 60hp tractor
and a friend that can turn up to 48" diameter on a lathe. What would be a good scrap item to keep an eye out for to make the chipper flywheel. Maybe an old train wheel? Are there any plans that can be purchased? Thanks for any tips or ideas. |
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PTO wood chipper plans
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"mark" wrote: Has anyone here ever built a PTO powered wood chipper. I have a 60hp tractor and a friend that can turn up to 48" diameter on a lathe. What would be a good scrap item to keep an eye out for to make the chipper flywheel. Maybe an old train wheel? Are there any plans that can be purchased? Thanks for any tips or ideas. I have not built one, but I'd pay a lot of attention to how the chipping unit is confined/guarded. You want shrapnel to stay in the machine in the case of a failure. While scavenging for ideas, look at the spiral "cone" units as well as the round disc units. Depends what sort of chip you want (they make more of a chunk), in part, but the cones also seem less likely to jam on vines and twigs as the big discs do. Just say, unwrapping grape vines from a 30 inch chipper disc is no fun - they went in with the treetops, but they did not cut when they hit the chipper... One link which shows the type I mean: http://www.fluidynenz.250x.com/kopo.html I think you'll want some sort of overload clutch unless that is built into the PTO drivetrain. -- Cats, coffee, chocolate...vices to live by |
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PTO wood chipper plans
"mark" wrote in message ... Has anyone here ever built a PTO powered wood chipper. I have a 60hp tractor and a friend that can turn up to 48" diameter on a lathe. What would be a good scrap item to keep an eye out for to make the chipper flywheel. Maybe an old train wheel? Are there any plans that can be purchased? Thanks for any tips or ideas. Its off topic, but from the safety perspective it's related..... a commercial chipper being used to chip branches from clearing for roadworks in south west australia self destructed. The fly wheel (just over a metre in diameter from memory) killed a guy in an adjacent bulldozer and then wrote off a couple of cars on the highway several hundred metres away. Sliced open the side of a van like a can opener. rob |
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PTO wood chipper plans
the metal PTO wheel off of a square hay bailer would work nice.
"mark" wrote in message ... Has anyone here ever built a PTO powered wood chipper. I have a 60hp tractor and a friend that can turn up to 48" diameter on a lathe. What would be a good scrap item to keep an eye out for to make the chipper flywheel. Maybe an old train wheel? Are there any plans that can be purchased? Thanks for any tips or ideas. |
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PTO wood chipper plans
something like the one on this page
http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgur...lr%3D%26sa%3DN "mark" wrote in message ... Has anyone here ever built a PTO powered wood chipper. I have a 60hp tractor and a friend that can turn up to 48" diameter on a lathe. What would be a good scrap item to keep an eye out for to make the chipper flywheel. Maybe an old train wheel? Are there any plans that can be purchased? Thanks for any tips or ideas. |
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PTO wood chipper plans
Be very careful, many flywheels are cast and are not suitable for a chipper.
Find an old sawmill chipper and modify it. ERic |
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