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Mackissic shredder/chipper mounted to 1054

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gwest_ca

Nice setup.

It may work better if the spring loaded idler was on the bottom belt span.

The top span is the load side and as the load varies the belt tension changes. Easier to take up with the idler on the bottom.

 

Garry

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kpinnc

Very nice!

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JUSS10
9 hours ago, gwest_ca said:

Nice setup.

It may work better if the spring loaded idler was on the bottom belt span.

The top span is the load side and as the load varies the belt tension changes. Easier to take up with the idler on the bottom.

 

Garry


yup you are right. That said, I needed something on the top to pull the belt down a little as it was wanting to rub on the side of the grill housing. 
 

may have to add a fixed flat pulley on top to keep it down and then a tensioner on the bottom as well. 
 

this was a “toss it together with what I have” sort of deal. Work in progress for sure! 

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ebinmaine

Niiiiice work. 

 

I have a similar chipper.  

It's a beast!!

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JUSS10

Yeah we’ve done two 4x8 utility trailer loads with it so far. Makes a pretty fine mulch with the 1 inch screen in it. Curious what the chip size would be with the bigger screens. Would like to make some slightly larger chips for landscaping. 

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ebinmaine
17 hours ago, JUSS10 said:

 bigger screens. 

Mackissic may have them available.  

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Maxwell-8
On 8/19/2021 at 1:00 AM, ebinmaine said:

Niiiiice work. 

 

I have a similar chipper.  

It's a beast!!

How thick can the branches be?

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ebinmaine
17 minutes ago, Maxwell-8 said:

How thick can the branches be?

 

I believe the actual spec for the chipper side is 3.5". 

 

Input speed depends on the type of wood. Soft woods it'll take 3.5" diameter easily almost as fast as one can push it in. 

Harder species is what we have for the most part. Birches, beech, rock/red/swamp maple, sugar maple, and red or white oak. 

 

We 🔥 burn most 🪵 hardwood pieces bigger than about 2.5" and I'll chip/shred the rest. 

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carscape

Thanks for posting the inspiration. 

I have an old vertical Troy-Bilt that works well when I can make the POS techy run. Been thinking about 

mounting on my Charger.  More HP, easier to move, plenty of yard hugging weight for ballast.  The brackets

will take some thought.

Now just need to get off my butt. 

Best to All of You, Carl

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ebinmaine
15 minutes ago, carscape said:

Thanks for posting the inspiration. 

I have an old vertical Troy-Bilt that works well when I can make the POS techy run. Been thinking about 

mounting on my Charger.  More HP, easier to move, plenty of yard hugging weight for ballast.  The brackets

will take some thought.

Now just need to get off my butt. 

Best to All of You, Carl

 

I have a bracket for my Mackissic chipper currently mounted on the front of a C series. I have another bracket on the shelf that was on a John Deere and I may eventually be modifying that for usage on a Horse.

 

I'd be happy to take whatever pictures and measurements of those brackets would help you out.

 

 

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Handy Don
7 hours ago, carscape said:

Thanks for posting the inspiration. 

I have an old vertical Troy-Bilt that works well when I can make the POS techy run. Been thinking about 

mounting on my Charger.  More HP, easier to move, plenty of yard hugging weight for ballast.  The brackets

will take some thought.

Now just need to get off my butt. 

Best to All of You, Carl

I have, and really like, a Troy-bilt.The PO never cleaned the cooling fins on the 5 hp Tecumseh and it came to me ruined. I re-engined it with a 6.5 hp B&S (bought cheap from a guy who forgot to put oil in his pressure washer pump--he just shrugged and bought a whole new washer). It would make an interesting project to power it off a tractor PTO. One immediate concern is the rotation--on mine, the Tomahawk's driven pulley turns clockwise when you face it.

 

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ebinmaine
25 minutes ago, Handy Don said:

the Tomahawk's driven pulley turns clockwise when you face it.

Nothing a good figure 8 in the belt won't fix. 

 

 

 

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Handy Don
29 minutes ago, ebinmaine said:

Nothing a good figure 8 in the belt won't fix. 

 

 

 

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Sure, and if you tilt the chipper about 5-6º off vertical, the belt won't even rub at the crossover, right? :whistle:

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carscape

Good suggestions.  By my calculations, you need 7.2896 degrees to avoid a galactic flux rebound loop. 

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ebinmaine
25 minutes ago, carscape said:

Good suggestions.  By my calculations, you need 7.2896 degrees to avoid a galactic flux rebound loop. 

I might regret this....

Can you prove your work?

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Handy Don

Thanks for doing the calculations, a galactic flux rebound loop is the LAST thing we need. :)

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Lee1977
4 hours ago, carscape said:

Good suggestions.  By my calculations, you need 7.2896 degrees to avoid a galactic flux rebound loop. 

Just in case your calculations are a little off, just how far in to the future and back into the past is this thing going bounce back and forth.

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