Man could I ever use one of these! It’s perfect for us one man tree guys that can’t afford the giant equipment!

Thank you Reg just for being kind enough to give us live exposure to that machine. Take care and stay safe.

I like it, mate. This industry tends to be about BIG EQUIPMENT and that seldom makes sense to me. What a reasonable machine

This is the same reason I will never get rid of my bandit 65, I have chipped on site so many times where it was just not practical to get the brush to where the chipper would have needed to be parked. Always appreciate your thinking outside the box philosophy and backwoods ingenuity.

They had a 3 day special sale for this unit at my PA for $1200 ! Wasn't shopping for a chipper, but couldn't turn it down for what looks like a pretty sturdy machine. I had thought of having one, but have flinched at the 3 to 4K for similar big brand machines capable of 4+ inch limbs. I live in a rural area in the dry interior of BCwith 20 acres of trees and brush. Chipping all that fuel on the forest floor does a lot to lessen the fire hazard. Thanks for the video Reg, great mods on yours! I'm able to pull mine wherever I need with my Polaris 6X6 ATV.

Nice job on the 'custom' mods to make it just what you need for those smaller back yard jobs! Always appreciate when you post another video! Cheers for an awesome 2023!

We've got the exact same one! It's an awesome machine! Also Reg, pay attention to the cover where the belt and wheels are. The belt sometimes tends to get loose and it starts to rub off of the casing, if not stopped it can cause it to rip completely. All the best!

My back started hurting as soon as you pulled the rip cord ! 😂 A guy has to get back to fighting weight ! 👍

That Little Chipper Worked Pretty Well, Better Than Some I've Seen!!! The Right Tool For The Right Job !! Pretty Cool !!!! You Can Also Spray Crumbs Onto A Tarp, And Then Drag Them. Depending On Where The Chips Are Going . Definitely A Labor Saver If You Have Enough To Grind!! Thanks For New Content, I Love Watching Ya Work !!!! You Are Something!!! That's A Good Thing!!! 🤗😎😎😎🙂🤗🤗😇. I Like Watching You The Best!!!! You Are Unique, And I Like That!!! You Stand Out!!!! Keep The Content Coming Always Watching!!! Stay Safe!!! Cheers!!!🤗😎😎😎.

Nice Mods, Reg! I’m a DIY homeowner & aspiring arborist. My $200 3in 1996 chipper/mulcher has gotten some use this year, including a minivan haul to mulch leaves for friends. Thanks to this video, I now have an idea of what the next step could look like, and a new appreciation for the dramatic potential of training wheels.

Very effective brush chipper. I like the high discharge chute. Many small chippers make a pile right next to the machine and you gotta keep moving.

By not having to drag those branches through confined pathways with narrow gates, you may save time. And I bet many gardeners are happy to keep the mulch without you having to find some place to drop it off. That's creative thinking with the larger tires to get through a muddy yard. I didn't know you had welding skills, well done.

As long as you respect the boundaries, that’s an awesome little machine. Great for the urban arborist. Take care all and don’t underestimate machine safety no matter how little and cute they look. ❤❤❤

Nice set up Reg , all the best for the coming year, hope to see the ascender soon. Warrington UK

Wow, for a minute there mashing laurel with a mini-chipper in the rain I thought you'd come back to UK tree work! Then I saw the truck at the end, definitely not. I have a JoBeau. I reckon keeping the knives sharp is like sharpening wood chisels, much better to do a little bit often than let them get blunt. I can get in to mine with diamond pad without taking them off so easy to do, don't know about that one. Next stage is if you have to move chip out, get a petrol powered barrow with greedy boards.

Thanks Reg it’s a beginning of a new season…cheers mate from Luxembourg 🇱🇺 Europe

I have a DR 475 (was essentially new, got a great deal) and it has been fantastic. I did my homework so I knew going in that the 4 3/4" was a stretch.. but it does 3" and under like an absolute champ. The only thing I don't like about it is the narrow wheel base and small tires, but i'm probably going to find a donor chassis off something and fix that. Like yours.. it's all a matter of learning HOW to feed it what you need to feed it. I have changed some of my limbing practices to have it chipper ready. For a single-knife small chipper it works a treat.

Small chippers are awesome for tight access jobs. I've got a 18hp haecksler and I wouldn't part with it. Some types of branches are a pain to chip, but once you know the capabilities of your machine you'll know which approach to take for different cleanup jobs.

Another blockbuster Reg ... regards from the garage in rainy Manchester

9:01 that's the difference between the owner of the machine and a bad employee. Cleaning the dirt from the butt before feeding it in. Extends blade sharpness to no end.

hey man, think we'd all appreciate an update on how your new chipper has been holding up after nine months of hard use. Need one I can float to islands and this could be the ticket if it's strong enough, however, I've got more hardwoods to do here out east.

I say bravo just the innovation of the engineering of the wheels not including the performance of a little engine it's how you use the tool you don't overwork it and that's a plus well-done great video I think I will buy one for the small jobs

I got myself one of these chippers after watching this video and it's been great so far. It's got about 12 hours of use on it and the knives are starting to get dull and damaged. There's been a lot of very dry, hard branches that have gone through.

Neat price of kit. Saves the fuss of hiring.

If you do another video of this, please show some closeup footage of the end-product chips, and also maybe some footage of it working with a vehicle or kart for hauling away the chips. I'm glad you posted what you posted, because I'm getting tired of dragging branches out of fenced in yards.

Lovely little set up Reg , well done 👊

Excellent video Reg, I love the modes and the self-loading, those big wheels are a wise move. Thank you.

As if I have just spent 13 mins watching you use a wood chipper......and loved it. Keep it up Reg, also Utd beat city yesterday so it’s been a good weekend!

Please upload more reg. I miss the videos and especially you been Tarzan in them trees. I do Understand like all of us though busy with work.

Those orchard ladders are invaluable. Best investment, next to the Stein Arbor cart.

I’ve got a little skarper and it does job! Takes all dragging out of job which is a massive bonus! Do need a bigger one at times but I can’t afford one tbh ha! But I wouldn’t swap it for any bigger one on most jobs I do!

I have a similar size & design of chipper made by Range Road. Most important things are checking the belt tension, making sure it’s empty before starting, and being ready to hit the emergency shut off if anything slips or sticks.

I did an Euc removal for a local college where the grounds' maintenance team used a small shredder made by Eliet, a French manufacturer. It did the job for pruning clean up.

Hey there, I'd also love to hear an updated review of this! I'm thinking about buying one too - I do tree work part-time and this seems great since I don't want to spend the money on a full-size chipper since I try to only work 2 days a week :) Love your videos! Thanks

Looks pretty good! Those 420cc engines can develop a lot more than 15 hp with higher lift camshaft and cylinder head work. Might be easier than re-powering with a V-twin, since you can't get much more power on a single cylinder. Back in my youth playing with go-karts we would shave some off the cylinder head to get the compression up, re-grind our camshaft for more lift and port the intake and exhaust out. Now I imagine you can get bolt on cylinder head that does all that

Hey Reg, I'm delighted to be able to give yo a bit of advice back for the wealth of knoledge you've provided me over the years. I run a similar machine Jansen gts 1500e, same engine. The problems with the engine I've experienced have been electrical, build a cover for the engine to keep excess rain off and definitely store it indoors. Keep blades super sharp and check regularly. I would also size down on some of the bigger branches you put in there for harder woods like the laurel. A great design feature is the v belts which Im assuming is the same on yours, they tend to shred before there is ever any pressure put on the engine. I swapped my rubber ones out for kevlar ones to extend their life. Watch when feeding in real branchy stuff like beech and birch as the fine tiggy stuff can clog the chute easily, same with large leaved hardwood stuff when wet, sycamore, planes etc.. Sometimes with longer pieces it can be good to feather their input into the machine so as to keep the revs high. Set the blade depth to the absolute minimum mine are set to 0.5mm. Parts are very cheap and they are very easy to work on, change the oil regularly too. My manual recommended first oil change after 5 hours use, and I usually do every 30 hours thereafter. Keep an eye on all the bolts, especially engine mounting ones, adjust tension on belts to every so often as they stretch overtime and will be more likely to shred, come off after this. Well ware I love my one. Finally I believe there is a video on youtube of someone with my model, who did an engine swap for amore powerful engine, he also widened the chute slightly to make loading branches easier.

I have s similar chipper made by hyundai. It has been and still is a dependable workhorse that has paid for itself many times over.

Awesome Idea. Love your videos Reg.

Really cool setup👍

Way to go Reg! Thanks for all your knowledge!

I got the Jansen gts1500e it has a discharge that can pivot to any direction that I found the most important when getting a smaller chipper so that way you don't have to physically move the machine to change the direction of chips . It's only like 14 or 15 horse power but it gets the job done and then some as long as you don't chip too much wood and keep cut things for the size of the chipper. I've found that gettin this chipper right next to trees that your working on saves alot of time not moving brush and definitely makes up for chipping smaller branches vs a big chipper. Plus these little chippers are vary affordable compared to tow behinds and a great first chipper or main chipper . They do weight around 400 pounds so that tow basket isn't gonna last long unless you have strapes from the basket to a high point of the truck keeping weight from dipping to low on the basket . I do move my on and off by hand it's not east but do able you definitely want some kind of loading system to go with the chipper unless you have another guy to help push

Reg that's the exact same chipper used in Fargo. They used for chipping up a frozen body. Ideal for camping or winter hike

Thats a nice little touch in it ,,,❤🍒xx

I had one similar, but to be honest it was quicker for me to drag brash and use my bigger chipper, but definitely for someone starting out it's perfect

Very tidy solution Sir

That's a good idea for small trim jobs.

Would love to see an update on it!

Good job 👏.

Cool tools😃😃😃👍👍👍

Thats nice and compact! Thats genious and everything dont have to be ready from the store! 👍😎 i have quite similar with tracks and its fine for certain point!

I bought a Jensen, very good machine, great quality, design wise hopper could be a bit wider, shoot should be round it gets blocked easily when the shoot is turned, does some serious work though

Looks similar to my chinese chipper, I recommend to you to check each and every screw and add Loctite if necessary.

That's handy. The bigger motor should help on the bigger limbs .

Looks like it could benefit by have a mechanical feed, but that would require bigger motor and cost. Looks like a very handy machine.

I'll be dam, not too bad !! Thanks Reg 😊

Nice looking chipper. I have a Hyundai which looks pretty much the same machine and overall I think this size of chipper is pretty good as long as you don’t try to work it too fast so it gets time to clear the chute. The downside to my machine is that clearing the out-chute after a blockage is a complete pain in the arse. Hopefully this will pay for itself pretty quick 👍🏻

Change the engine oil regularly, clean the air filter and check all nuts and bolts and it will give good service. Keep a good edge on the cutters. Saves time and fuel. These things rattle and vibrate, do not scrimp on daily checks…about 10 minutes and they will give good service. Stating the obvious but stones and nails/staples screw up the blades quick time. I have a similar machine, road towable version and it works well.

Best part was reversing out the drive😂

I noticed that you didn't wear gloves at the beginning and after a while you did wear them. The kickback from the branches can really hurt your hands I always wear my thickest gloves while chipping. Impressive little machine for the cost.

Is that Laural branches? If it is ya notice it smells a bit like rhubarb pie. Not a bad smell at all. A bit sweet. My wife and I started 3 years ago, out with a 1992 6" morbark that had a 45 degree in feed system like this one. It barely got the chips in the truck. Every 8 minutes of chipping I had to hop in the back and shovel them back and to the sides to make room for more. We did 50k that year but my body was thrashed. It was road towable. Picked it up for 800 cash.

Ideal for urban jobs 👍

For some reason the chipper reminds me of Dino the dinosaur from the Flintstones.

new toy 😄

Letsgo. thanks for sharing.

Ay up Reg , hello from Altrincham and Brian says he misses working with you. Regards Paul

I would be wary of adding more horsepower. Easy to get overzealous with light duty machines...more power could do some damage with wood that is just a little too hard for it to handle at capacity. Ask me how I know.

Come in handy sometimes

why isnt it mounted to the arbor trolley on a removable sled?? also do you think this will process large amounts of fallen leaves? I need one for my house.

Reg - what about a plate kinda thingy/ adapter for the bottom of this lil chipper to take off the wheels and have the plate on, and be able to pick up the chipping unit with the Stein Arbor trolley, wheel it to the back yard or whatever, then set it on the ground with some sort of stabilizer rods or something and chip into a Stein bag on the arbor trolley. When finished, reverse, pick the thing up with the trolley and wheel back to your trailer/ truck, etc. Do ya still like this thing? Seems to have a pretty good HP rating. Cheers.

I had the hyundq8 7070-2, i loved that machine, i literally wore it out with work. I just upgraded to a crytec terminator.... guys, it truly is a weapon, anvil chippers are far anad away better than drum chippers, everything is also far easier to access for maintenance. So when any of you are ready to upgrade you need to go with the anvil chippers, far superior!!

can chip in to smaller big bags and cart them out on a sack barrow - i have 0.5m3 bag that sits on my arb trolley. or even straight into the bucket of a mini loader

I hope you sell a million of them

I’d appreciate some comments: do you like this machine, why did you chose this model, how about using it for trees that have more rigid branches like oak (I suppose it may be difficult to feed oak branches into this chipper), etc. I value your comments a lot. I got the arbor trolley based on you recommendation.

Nice

Try the Jo Beau M500. Its a beast

Hey Reg not sure if you will see this since it’s an older video but just wondering after a year or so if you like the chipper still?

I was surprised to see that eat some of those limbs that efficiently. We have some similar ones here in that states but they are pretty underwhelming.

Would you still recommend this chipper? im looking at purchasing one for the spring

What timing, I've been thinking how practical or useful a portable chipper with reasonable capacity could be, lots of tight access, poor terrain jobs. Here in Aus Hansa chippers seem to be the market, expensive but well designed.

Great video! Are the cutter blades that come with it double sided cutters?

Pretty cool! Any updates now that you've had it for a while?

Hey Reg, I'm looking to get something similar, could we get an update on how well this is serving you, please? Thanks, Isaac UK.

How useful have you found the chipper to be? Has it worked all right on fir branches? Or do you tend to stick with a larger chipper for that application. I am about to go out on my own and the 2k price point is tempting. I fear that it will be too limiting though; I work in western WA, so similar trees to you.

How much did you charge for a job like this?

For the money and the size of the machine I wouldn't grumble. There are always better machines out there but they come with a bigger price tag and then you need to think am I going to get my monies worth out of it? I've certainly been guilty of buying machinery for work and then realizing I just don't use it enough when it either gets parked up in the stores or sold on. Hope you get good use out of it.

Hey Reg, im curious how this chipper is holding out? Has it been a decent chipper? Would you recommend it fir light use?

That little chipper doesn’t seem near the trouble its worth. A pain in the ass to load and unload plus it only handles tiny limbs. Not sure it would be much easier to drag those small limbs by hand to the truck and load them there and just dump them somewhere in the woods. It seems much more effective and profitable over that little kiddie chipper!😎. But thats just me!

Is the intake chute angle maybe a bit too severe? It seems like the longer more flexible branches tend to hang up a bit on the lower lip.

Hello there Reg, what about the new descender ?

Reg, I would really like to know how it does with orchard prunings, if you do any orchards. That looked to self-feed reasonably well. Would you comment on the self-feeding capacity?Too many smaller size/ HP chippers need the wood pushed against the blades Thanks.

Nice little machine for the right job! Reg have you heard about Steve Mitchell’s passing??

I’m curious Rege How many cutting blades does this have?

Does anyone know what the tailgate ramp loader thing on the back of the pick up is called? Never seen one

Is that a boat winch with tenex from the 3001?

Have you had any luck finding replacement blades for the chipper? Princess auto can't seem to get them in stock. Thanks

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I recently modified the same machine i put a used 24 hp honda and road axle along with fender lights etc. let me know if you are interested in knowing more about it.

Reg, what is the max diameter it will take?

1st!!!

I commented below about Kart guys and engine mods - here is another video from Canada tho, comparing Princess Auto Powerfist and Propoint and some comments on US engine hopping videos like 440 cc Duromax: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lZhkh6yn1N-cfWg.html Worth a watch if you're going to hop up the chipper engine maybe!