I know you do your homework and waiting to get what you want is always worth the wait. Be safe out there.

Bandit are simply the best of the best period!

I run a 100 hp 12-inch pre-emission diesel Bandit (NO TURBO) up here in New England and it serves me well. The reality is you could always use a bigger chipper but where do you reasonably stop? I chip everything that will fit through the machine. Anything bigger either goes to firewood or the mill. The missing piece is the cone splitter/auger drive for the excavator; This allows you to bust up the skanky non-deciduous logs so they can be run through the chipper. I always think I want a winch on the chipper but would rarely end up using it when there is machinery to handle the clean-up on the job. Also; it would just get in the way when machine loading. I run a front hitch on the truck and custom-made mount for a 16.5k lb winch with a wireless remote for anything that needs pulling. I do wish I had a hydraulic jack on mine but one that runs off a separate electric pump so I don't have to fire up the machine and short cycle the engine just to couple/de-couple. Make sure there is some sort of accommodation for a spare tire on the machine. You lose one on the road without a spare and it'll put a dent in your plans.

We had an OLD Asplundh chipper when i worked with IP, it had their name on the chipper as the manufacturer. It was made in the early sixties. It had no feed wheels just the knives, powered by a 292 ford y block v8. Most dangerous machine i ever worked around. It would literally snatch the trees and limbs out of your hands. I lost two hardhats through that dang thing in one day when the limbs would knock it off my head. They would slap the heck out of you if you did not throw the trees in the opening and duck away in one motion. It would take a six inch on the butt pine tree 30 feet long and chip in in about two seconds.

Get that bigger machine if you can afford it. I’ve always found it’s better to be over prepared than to be under. You don’t want to end up having jobs where you need to haul logs away from because they are a tiny bit to big to fit in that 15. It’s a nice machine machine but probably better suited for smaller work. You like the big tree work and I’ve been watching you for years now and probably know you better than you think. 😂 go ahead and get the biggest machine you can get. Make yourself happy and be comfortable knowing you can do the jobs you wanna do! You like power and you’ll always have that “I should have got the bigger one” feeling in the back of your mind. We think the same way on most things. Lol

The bandit chipper is a good machine I have seen the big ones working Awesome machine 👍

We had a Bandit 250 it had a Deere diesel engine and never had an issue with it except when someone got the rubber flap where the shoot hinges on the inside of the shoot and they plugged it up. Lol I could feed it with the excavator up to about a 12 inch log..Great product

Hey I’m sure you have talked to many people and read a lot on them but a company I worked for had an 1890 which is an 18 inch, it had a cat engine in it and i put 1000 hours on it and it never missed a beat other than typical maintenance I clear lots and fed it with a 20 ton excavator and it did surprisingly well I figured anything bigger than 18 you would probably cut logs out of any way, that’s what we did, hope it helps

Tim I’ll try to get you some more videos of our 19s 18s and 15s tomorrow. Or early next week. And I’ll see if I can get a side by side picture for you if I can. 🇺🇸

We ran Peterson and Morbark chippers on my uncles logging crew when I worked for them. Of course that’s a different application than what you are looking for. I would suggest researching the kind of knives they use and the cost of replacing them. I can remember several years back a box of new key knives were almost 1k and I’m sure the price hasn’t dropped. They got the job done though!

The 15 is a beast.

Nice chippers them Tim, good luck with whichever You choose:):)

The gas engine would be a no for me then it being a Ford gas engine would be a hard NO!!!

Good stuff.

My cousin runs a mobark 18in Diesel..its an older model but eats whatever has been put thru it

In Michigan, we run 1800 and 2000 Vermeer, 1800 is too small, we do chip every thing possible, we can’t hardly give wood away, get as big as possible, we found winch getting in the way of loading with mini ex and mini skid

depending on local landfill policies you might want to go with the larger chipper, typically around here chips are free to dump as they use them on the landfill roads for mud control but wood is high dollar to dump

The old bandits had a gas engine also. We have a bandit and the vermeer 1800

We had a 18xp with the Ford v10 and it was way louder than our 1890xp with the Perkins. I would stay away from the gas. But the def does suck but unfortunately it’s hear to stay.

We ran Peterson’s and Morbarks working in the woods for my uncles logging crew. Of course that’s different than what you would use for tree work but I would suggest you research what kind of knives it uses and what the cost is because you will be changing them frequently.

Bandit makes the best chippers, Morbark is more or less as good. But I would choose a bandit.

Get the big one Tim😂😂😂

we rent the 9" and its the best that you can rent in that size. Its a diesel though. not sure about the gas . Seems like the diesel will have more torque.

We have the 18 at work,deisel powered. I use the mini to feed it!!!!!

I know it’s cliché but bigger is usually better when it comes to equipment. Just my two cents. Get it hat fits your job and your budget

I was just looking at the sany excavators and seen this is the closet dealer to me

Tim with the chipper you need a box bed dump truck

The firewood we get in the hardware store now, looks like 2 inch by 2 inch (12 inches long) untreated dimensional lumber. I think it is because bark on firewood produces more smoke and ash which town people don't want. To reduce the size of the oversize tree trunks that don't fit in the chipper, could use a lucas or/ Peterson slabber 27hp Briggs with a chainsaw bar/ chain petersonsawmills.com/portable-sawmills-for-sale/chainsaw-slabber-unit/ , hold the slabs with mini-excavator and chainsaw rip to fit chipper or for firewood. (Husqvarna power cutter might do too, some are 118cc) Use the Metal detector check for nails in trees. To make 12 inch by 10 inch rectangular cants (to chip or sell to a woodmizer owner) could use a mahoe portable mill (warehouse Clifton, Tn) sawmills.co.nz/mahoe-sawmills/minimax/ (37hp) The sany excavators have been used in forestry in Australia for several years.

Thinking 15 is plenty . Seen what they can do when working for Asplund. Really amazing . Easy to maintain

Buying a chipper I see. I’ve seen some of those Bandit chippers.

With the price of lumber Tim.... you could go with the smaller chipper and buy a sawmill for the lumber on the bigger logs???? What made you lean towards Bandit over Vermeer? I liked the vertical rollers on the Vermeer I had vs. the horizontal rollers on the Bandit. I'd be curious which one has the least accidents while feeding it???

Downfall to the winch is that it gets in the way when your loading with your grapple

I hope you have the 19 when you get out to my place.... animal bedding for days

Good morning. Could width,length or weight be a cause for a bottle neck at a subdivision,municipal or inner city job? But that being said, size of equipment could dictate ability to quote/bid a job(s). Morbark and Bandit are in Isabella County Michigan outside of Mt Pleasant. Waiting on a Refurbished trailer,so I can take it to our Refurb shop in Waterloo Indiana. Be safe.

What do you do with the wood chips ? Are the worth anything ?

I think traxplus in hickory ms has one of these on its lot

Money Money Money Money Money

That’s like half a mile from my house lol

Why do we need a winch on a wood chipper?

Just wonder Tim, since I have no idea, but when you have a job dropping the huge acreage of trees and you de-limb the trees before loading on the truck, how come you do not chip the removed limbs? I know there is addition cost associated with doing that, but just wondering from wood going back to soil and promoting new growth (Sustainability is the word I think I am looking for...?) .

32 years experience using Bandits w/ minimal issues. If you're just chipping brush, go with the 15. If you're chipping wood too, go with the 18-19. (Also, get dual wheels, not dual axles. Much more ground friendly. ) P.S I was visiting with my local Bandit dealer over the weekend. He showed me the email from Bandit for a muffler he had to order for a diesel. $12,000. That is not a typo. Keep in mind, everything about those new diesel engines are alot of $.

Not much would stop a 19”