No matter how hard you try,or look after your machinery or how many precautions you take, how vigilant your operaters are these things happen,and when they do it can be soul destroying. When I watched the first minutesand you were showing us the damage that was done,I, like many others, felt for you, but with the good team you`ve built around you you bounce back and was soon up and running . Great credit to you all. 👍👍👍👍

When it comes to free wood products, Sometimes Free is too expensive.

The good the bad still no drama you and your team just get it done have a laugh bloody awesome thanks for sharing .hi form new zealand

What a positive attitude you all have to what isin effect a catatrophic event. Very well done in the dismantling. I look forward to the reassembly when the sun is shining.

We had a Bandit 4680XP Beast out on rent when a bowling ball size chunk of steel went through the machine! We had to replace the drum ,drum shaft and all the bearing blocks! I feel you pain!

Great teamwork Ryan pleasure to watch the guys get it out 🍻🍻🍻

Wow! No words! Manhole covers don't grind well! Thanks for sharing! Altoona, PA

after seeing you work in the rain i appreciate that i only work inside, hope the damage was not to expensive, great video and thanks for filming in this awful weather 👍👍👍👍👍

Hell of a hunk of steel and it sure did do a lot of costly damage . Lovely working conditions , been there done that but in about 20 degree weather and the wind blowing about 30 m.p.h. , man I miss my job working for Union Pacific Railroad on my rail trains unloading and loading 1440 ft. strings of rail all over the states west of the Mississippi River .

Sure hate to see the damage, but with the amount of equipment you have am sure you take it in stride. Thanks for a great video

I guess I watched these out of order because I already saw the solution that A A Ron came up with to fix the power feed drum. Working in the rain like that sure makes the job a lot more miserable but you have a great bunch of guys around you getting things done.

Pure strength of your machine though. That's almost a trophy. Anyone who has ever operated a wood grinder feels your pain, Ouchhhhh

I was grinding yard waste loading it with a 6 yard wheel loader and there was a single skid steer fork in it the morbark 3800 stopped instantly and jumped off the ground luckily the torque limiter did it's job another common was trailer hitches and I've found metal blanks like that someone someone forgot in a wood create or on a pallet and was dumped into the wood roll off container and dumped at the site i prefer to use an excavator to feed better chance of catching contaminants

That’s was a lot of force to tear that iron and getting the shaft out hopefully it pops right out 🤞 it would be cool to see this machine in action i bet it eats some wood pretty fast but it’s probably louder than hell good video Mr Diggs 👍😎🇺🇸 NY

I know the job alone sucked but the rain makes for a really long day

Just a thought, could the jaws on the machine that feeds the chipper be magnetized to catch any metal from being put in the hopper. Just a thought from a 73 year old mechanic from 🇨🇦

You could probably make a metal anomaly detector out of wire and a large ring of pvc glued together (fairly cheap) to wave over a pile of brush and logs with an excavator before you feed it into the machine? I believe you may be able to buy one called a UPEX® 740 M on the open market as well?

Aaron is a prize guy!

you and on fire welding would probably be a good mix if he wasn't in Ca.

Just watched this one and noticed your work ethic "impressive" ...Think we must have been raised by the same father lol

There are 1 or 2 bits of good news. No one got hurt, and parts are replaceable. With any luck it will dry up just as your replacement parts arrive.

That's got to be the cover to hell or something 😮

31:33 I dont think Ive ever seen a rope fastened off in a tray mounted vice before.

Everything is a hammer, except a screwdriver, which is a chisel.

We did bearing on a CBI 6800. It ate a excavator shank and blew the screens, screen carriage to shit and im.wuite certain B-Locks and bearings as well

That's first one iv seen broke like that I guess go big or go home I don't want to lemp away from this wreck ...all jokes a side i know it's bad hope things get better for you 👍👍👍👍👍

I’m surprised it didn’t take out any tooth holders I used to run that same grinder anytime metal went through it we would always loose a couple teeth and tooth holders

first thing id like to say is, damn man that was some bad luck i do feel your pain. I've watched several different video's and you and your crew seem to care more than others about there machinery . I have the FP 66 and just really learning the machine although our friends at roto chopper are very helpful at the end of the day you sometimes have to turn to the men in the field for some helpful advice that can only come from the crews that have been there and done that, so with that being said I would like to pick your brain for a moment. if you could be so kind to help me with my problem of grinding of large trees. I had a problem of my machine not wanting to grind large diameter logs so I went to a more aggressive tooth ,perhaps to aggressive I was hoping that you and your crew could steer me in the right direction as to what tooth and tooth pattern and infeed speed that would work best for me to grind large diameter logs and or hardwood trees without straining or staling my machine. any advice would and will be greatly appreciated. thank you.

Does insurance help out on something that damaging? That almost looks like enough damage to total it? That's a hell of a piece of metal to go through that machine

I think it's a piece left when they cut out a manhole or nozzle in vessel or pipe Did you think about sabotage since its mulching season... Normally pieces like these don't end up with mulching material. As you mentioned you were on contract... I'm normally not a conspiracy thinker. Good luck and thumps up.

As long as nobody was hurt. That's what matters.

Can you rig a metal detector to a feed stop to avoid this in the future?

Yeah, that looks like some serious damage, alot of force to twist and tear them welds apart. That's going to cost a few bucks to repair unfortunately. The good side of it was no one was hurt.

Things happen, and it usually is not sunny and 60 degrees

Wait augusta? Where at? I live there lol

hey, i know it`s VERY easy to be wise after the event, and i don`t know the cost involved, but on 1 of your other excellent video`s i saw that you had an excavator that had a bucket with a magnet on it, now i expect that that`s NOT a cheap piece of kit, BUT if you loaded your chipper with that mag-bucket , it could "potentially" save you a lot of time & money, this is an idea, i`m not saying it`s going to work, just an observation, great channel, wish i lived in the usa , i`ve been driving diggers for 30 years plus , got any vacancies.....?

Did u get it fixed i seen a new video and u were chopping so either u got a new 1 or fixed it

My first thought was why did you not walk it out of the mud and water? didn't have to go far for dry ground

In my opinion that shaft and bearing are not big enough

Looks like a job for @Abom79

Not sure, but that looks expensive

It's time to invest in a big pre magnet 🧲