A towable petrol chipper that turns branches and brash into chip where it stands. A garden clearance that would have filled a skip twice over leaves in bags, and the chip is useful afterwards as mulch or path cover rather than something else to pay to get rid of.
It covers most domestic tree and hedge work. Tell us the thickest branch you need to put through it when you book, because that is the one measurement that decides whether this is the right machine. It is also a machine that demands respect: everything about how you feed it matters more than anything about how you tow it.
Getting it to the job
It is 900mm across, so it goes through double gates and most driveways but not a standard side gate. Think about where it can actually stand relative to the pile.
It tows on a 50mm ball. If you are collecting, check your vehicle is rated for it and that your licence covers the combined weight, and if it does not, we will deliver instead.
The numbers
Wood Chipper specification
PowerPetrol
Hire typeDry hire
Getting it thereCollect or delivered
Getting it to the job
Carried in by hand, so access is not the question it is with the plant.
It still has to get to site: collect it from the yard in Etruria, or we will run it out with the rest of your hire.
The rest of the sheet
Ring the yard if a figure matters to your job and we will check it against the machine before you travel.
What comes with it
Serviced and tested between every hire
Fuelled and ready to work. Bags for the chip are yours
Delivery to site, or collect it from the Etruria yard
Off hire from the day you ring, not the day it comes back
What you will need
A tow ball and a vehicle rated for it, if you are collecting
Goggles, ear defenders, gloves and close fitting clothing
Somewhere for the chip to go, and somebody else on site
Dry hireCollect or deliveredServiced between hiresSame day when we have it
What people hire it for
The jobs it actually gets used on
Six of the jobs the wood chipper goes out on most. Keep scrolling and they stack.
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Hedge cutting
A season of hedge growth is enormous once it is on the ground. Chipped, it is a fraction of the volume.
02/ 06
Tree work clear up
Everything the chainsaw takes off, dealt with on site rather than loaded and hauled.
03/ 06
Garden clearance
Overgrown plots and neglected gardens where the brash is the bulk of the job.
04/ 06
Storm damage
Reducing what came down in a night into something you can move without a wagon.
05/ 06
Making mulch
Chip straight onto borders or paths, so the clearance produces something useful instead of a disposal problem.
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Saving skip space
Green waste is bulky and it fills a skip fast. Chipping first leaves the skip for the things that actually need it.
How it works
Hiring the wood chipper start to finish
01
Ring, message or send the details
Tell us the job and the dates. We will say whether it is in, when it is back if it is out, and whether it is the right machine for what you are doing.
02
Collect it, or we run it out
Pick it up from the yard on Brick Kiln Lane in Etruria, or we will deliver it to site. If you ring early enough and it is free, it can often go out the same day.
03
Ring when you are done
We off hire it from the day you ring rather than the day it happens to come back, and collect it from site if we delivered it.
Before you book
What you need to know
Wood Chipper, in the yard on Brick Kiln Lane, Etruria.
01
Never reach into the feed
The single rule that matters. If something jams, stop the machine, wait for everything to stop turning, then deal with it. Use a push stick, never your hands, and never go in after a branch that is being drawn in.
02
Feed butt end first
Thick end into the rollers, and let go. Feeding brushy end first tangles, and holding on to a branch the machine has taken is how people get pulled in.
03
Nothing loose about you
No loose sleeves, cords, scarves or dangling straps, and gloves that come off easily rather than gauntlets that do not.
04
Two people, not one
One feeding and one clearing is safer and much faster, and it means somebody is there if it goes wrong.
05
Wood only
No soil, no stone, no wire and no root balls with grit in them. All of it wrecks the blades and some of it comes back out at speed.
06
Mind where the chute points
It throws chip a long way with force. Point it away from people, windows, cars and the neighbour is greenhouse before you start feeding.
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The yard is on Brick Kiln Lane in Etruria, a couple of minutes off the A500, so most of Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme is a short run either way. Collect it yourself if you have something that can carry or tow it, or we will deliver it to site and collect it when you are finished.
Ring the yard with the thickest branch you have got and we will tell you whether it goes through. Most garden tree and hedge work is well within it. Anything thicker is a job for the chainsaw and the log pile rather than the chipper.
If you have a 50mm ball, a vehicle rated to pull it and a licence that covers the combined weight. Check all three before the day. If any of them is a no, we will deliver it.
No, it is 900mm across and it needs double gates or a driveway. Plan where it stands relative to the pile, because you will be carrying the brash to it rather than the other way round.
Trimmings yes, roots and anything with soil or stone in it no. Grit destroys the blades, and it can come back out of the chute at speed.
Get it booked
Tell us the job. We will tell you the machine.
Ring the yard and you get a straight answer on whether the wood chipper is available, when it is back if it is out on hire, and whether it is the right thing for what you are doing. If it is not, we will say so.
