Time and and your own equipment is cheaper?
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Nope but we have to test and process fuel as our clients will. So we need to take the same steps to process fuel just as our clients may. This chipper might not even work and be total waste of 650 bucks 
hopefully it works lol.
I am planning on ordering two front end loader buckets. I went over yesureday and she said they are too busy and are in short supply of the chips I want. They have trucks that come in and out of there around the clock and going all over the US.
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My limited experience with chippers of that size is that they usually make chips that are too small to be of much use.
I have have posted this previously, but just as a reminder, here are some of my thoughts about wood chips:
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Oh yeah Im in total agreement as Ive had the same exact experience with the Harbor Frieght unit. Im just hopping this new one does a better job.
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I wonder if thereās a way to modify the cutting heads of the chipper, Stephen A did that but I think it was a PTO unit.
Iād rather the chipper err on the side of pieces being bigger than to have a lot of dust.
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The small units are disc chippers and they are not very tunable. However you can get the 6 inch drum units and some of them are adjustable out of the box. If this unit dont work then Im going to drop the cash on a 6 inch drum chipper. The PTO versions do come with engine variants. Ill probably go witha DR chipper as know those do make usable chips.
If it ends up being the case with this new one. I will then give the 6 inch a try it and if it works Ill do a video why you cant use these small chippers. Besides the tar this was the other reason I moved to charcoal. My useres cant build a chunker, if they could they wouldnt be buying a gasifier in the first place. They would just build it themselfs.
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Slight tangent but I think I found a place to get inexpensive rebak blades.
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Actually now that Im remembering in my search there was a small drum version made by this company Im canceling the first order and going to purchase the drum version.
Scratch that I went back the other one. Dont like the lower chute. Ill play with possibly adjusting the blades maybe.
Hi Matt can you explain your reservations on the Landworks drum āchipperā?
In the video you can see the horizontal drum blades.
Replacement blades show down in the also-bought.
360 spin viewing I do not see how they are getting their claimed 15:1 ratio speed reduction. And I can see little or no flywheel effects. ??
The can-do, not-do materials seems reasonable. 3" stocks better be soft sap green branches and leaders.
I think for gasifier wood making it is much a garbage-in, garbage-out situation too.
A lot of de-twigging prep makes for better output.
Seems a fellow could cut open the lower discharge chute wall to dump into ground setting bins.
Regards
Steve unruh
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Oh no: no more branches for me. I cut, split then feed the chipper. Chip size also is effected by what you feed into it. Small branches just make mulch and fine chips. You want to feed thing as big of stock as you can and then it will make decent chips.
Yeah Im having dificulty as Ive already canceled and re ordered a couple times. lol.
Yeah that is the one Im thinking hard on getting.
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Yup just canceled the Handy and ordered the Landworks Drum version. I hope its a drum version anyways. Yeah I already have the disc chipper so kinda dumb to get another one. Keep doing the same thing over expecting different results. lol
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Ahh the heck with it I couldnt make up my mind so Im getting both of em. lol
I just sell them if they dont work no biggy.
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Looking at my Harbor Freight unit: it looks like I can just add some spacers behind the knifes to get a deeper cut? Im going to tear into it and see what I can do. Ill experiment with it and if I find things that work Ill try it on the new ones. This one was lent out and returned beat to death so its expendable I guess. lol
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Youāll definitely want to hit the bolts with a torch, and use an impact to get them out. I tried taking the blades out of my electric chipper and I couldnāt get them to budge.
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I ran a batch of this stuff and it seems to do ok. I think it would flow a little better if those large long pieces were a bit smaller. I let the generator cool down and ran a restart on gasoline and it fired right up. So anytime I can do that its a success. But this fuel really didnt run all them much different than the more uniform chips I was running.
Ill be adding the automated grate system this weekend when I replace the reactor core with the new version.
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I have a new wheel barrel coming this weekend. I plan to build a screen system that will go on to it. Ill probably build two versions one for chips and one for charcoal.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KCIZ5SM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1
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I have one of those, theyāre super handy. Especially in 4 legged mode, you donāt have to bend over as much to shovel stuff out.
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