Let's chip some wood! Wallenstein BX-42 Wood Chipper - 10 year review!
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- In this video I'm going to do a 10 year review of one of my most valuable tools down here at the cabin. The Wallenstein BX-42 wood chipper. I'll be chipping softwood and hardwood including a entire 4" oak tree and making some valuable wood chips that can be used for a number of purposes. This is a great piece of equipment....it devours wood! Still love it 10 years later. Running on a Kioti DK45 tractor.
Original video: • Wallenstein BX42
Finally a decent review. So many youtubers review it the day they get it and this ends up being so misleading because no future problems are seen at that point. Thanks a bunch for the informative video.
I agree 100%! I hope it was helpful.
I enjoy watching things like this for some reason. I find it interesting to say the least and you do such a good job explaining the procedure. Thanks Dale.
I could watch that on a loop for hours..
I am really impressed by the capability of this chipper. Good job!
It's a beast.
I am going this morning to pick up my 4 inch wood chipper can't wait to get rid of all this brush I have even though mine is a landpride
Thanks very much for your time in making this video. I am in the market for a chipper, and this has been helpful.
I bought one a couple years back. Running it on 23 hp John Deere 755 . Works great. Best investment I've made. Dry wood works best. Green pine and softwood tends to clog.
I just picked up a chipper myself and I wish I had picked it up sooner. As you said, just makes good use of the brush around the property and a lot better than piling it and waiting till the right season of the year to be able to burn it. Good advice to wait till the leaves dry up before chipping. Thanks for sharing. Great video!
Every self feeding chipper I have ever watched, the operator uses nice, straight branches. I have a 6 inch Salsco chipper and the real advantage of the larger capacity is its ability to accept irregular poles and branches.
Great to have a such a loyal customer, I make such machines in India. Would be happy to a heavy discount to such customers.
I have a similar chipper. Not self-feeding. I'm moving up to a Woodland Mills. I'm done bustin' my back forcing wood into a chipper
I enjoy your vids sir. God bless you and all your peace you have out there. You're living a dream. I enjoy wood chipping good uses and good for the land
Thanks!
Just picked one up nearly half price at auction, can't wait to assemble and clean up. I got wet patches around my blueberries that are screaming for some woodchips.
No doubt that machine gets it done!
Great video!! Impressive chipper!
Will have to look into a purchase!!
Thanks for sharing!!
Awesome! Look at all those wood chips!
thanks for letting us hang out,keep them coming
Impressive little brushcutter.I envy you with this .I have lots of needed things but not this (chainsaws,tractors and all )We have here the same issues as well as the problems and nature .Your new ideas are great for me too.Thanks for sharing this again.Pete.
Great video takes me home every time I watch one of your videos sure do miss Maine!!! Great job keep’em coming my friend!!!!!👍👍👍
Just Bought One and your video gave me the confidence to use it .
Oh man you are going to love that chipper. Have fun!
Started my career in Houlton 43 years ago. Many fond memories of Drews Lake, Nickerson Lake and Grand Lake to the south.
What a fun machine. I'd be worried I'd waste firewood just by the shear excitement of trying bigger and bigger pieces..lol.
lol....that's what I did when I first got it. Chipped everything I could fit in it.
what a tool worth every penny.
Great to see you at the cabin again! Nice chipper!
That is exactly what I need at my cabin, great video
Presuming you hear your cabin with a wood stove after you build up a bed of coals fill a paper bag with wood chips close the top and throw into the firebox and you will like the heat it gives off in winter. Been doing it for years and it's a lot easier than hauling logs. Just a thought but woodchips for meat? Sounds like a bargain.
Just ordered one. Should have done it years ago.
Thank you for the video. Very helpful
I am a long subscriber but comment not much . I just want to say you make good content and make a good life at your cabin. Stay safe and enjoy the nature. Greetings from Tony in belgium europe
Good product review. You more than likely gave me reason enough to buy one, but I'm looking in to the chipper/shredder version since we have a ton of leaves here in the fall and do a fair amount of pruning or tree cutting.
I noticed basically two kinds of blade designs. two edged flipplable and single edge knifes. seems like the single edge knife design sets the knife into a machined pocket and bolted into place . it seems like the knife backs up to the steel wall at the back of the pocket thus transferring the impact directly into the back of the pocket milled into the disk. the two edged design has the knives set into a pocket as well except that since the knife has a sharp edge at the back of the knife there is a small space between the knife edge and the back of the pocket. I know of one chipper where the bolt holes in the disk became oval due to the impact being transferred to the bolt holes. in my opinion the single knife edge design is a more durable design that is if the disk and knife are milled so that the back of the knife actually rests on the back of the pocket. all of this is probbably a negligadle concern. I doubt if I would complain about iether design if I was fortunate enough to have one at all.
Very impressive for a gravity fed chipper.
Nice machine, great demo! Thanks for sharing this video!
Chip into a trailer haul to house and feed your wood stove with the chips 5 gallon bucket and a steel small coal scoop to feed wood stove. Plenty of almost free heat, you burned fuel to chip the wood might as well get the heat out of it.
Love to have both of those at my cabin. Nice vid 👍
holy crap. That chipper works awesome. When i seen you pull that tree out i was like "no way is that gonna go" and it just chewed through that like nothing.
Awesome setup!!
It does work awesome. I couldn't live without it!
Man what a great device. I've always said at some point in his life a man needs a tractor. LOL
I couldn't get by without my tractor.
I don't know if I would want a chipper that wouldn't handle fresh green leaves or needles. I want to do the clean up while I'm cutting the trees and to get better compost/mulch. I will let it dry sometime in order to make better dry chips for bedding, but it seeld to me that I get more sticks from dry or drying brush where the skinny tips of the branches are toughened up and just thin enough to squeeze between the knives and the bed plate/anvil.
I have an old 18hp DR chipper that exhausts at the bottom, so it never clogs unless you let the chips pile up in front of it. I wish it had a chute like your wallenstein, but it doesn't make enough wind. The fan is only two angle irons bolted to the flywheel. I don't know if I added two more if I would get much more wind or how much harder it would pull. At 18 HP's, there isn't much to spare, especially if the wood is not still green at softer to chop.
Good show as allways
Nice and it's paid for itself.
it's paid for itself many many times ...lol
Great video - very matter of fact and "here's exactly how it works". We could use more videos of this quality.
Blades probably need a sharpening. I notice with my chipper if you have to push wood into it, the blades need a touch up. The machine with sharp blades self feeds and will literally pull the tree out of your hands. It’s when the blades dull after about 10 hours of chipping and your jamming the trees into the shoot stop and sharpen them up and you will be a happy camper. that’s a lot of horsepower too. I don’t think a 4 inch branch will ever stop your tractor!!
They do need to be sharpened. I'm getting that done this summer.
Thank you for the informative video!
Nice video! wood chipper is a nice tool to have. enjoyed watching you use it. I also liked the comment about the bell at top of the page. Never knew about that. Tom n Rocky
Anything over 2 inch gets stacked up for firewood here. The smaller the diameter, the denser the wood.
Good work man.
Great chipper
Awesome but man that was some good hardwood that u chipped. 4" nice and straight would have gone into my woodstove
lol I know. Normally that would be firewood but I chipped it for the video.
Keep those knives sharp and you'll see a lot less clogging.
I was surprised, that little thing worked good.
Roger that. I gotta get them sharpened this summer, i can feel it really starting to vibrate.
thanks ! ! !
Impressive!!!!
Nice machine!! And i hit the bell!!
I bought this chipper a year ago.. I’m also asking what rpm do you run your tractor? I have a John Deere 35hp
Hello, looking to buy a used BX42, live in Vt and wondering if you have experience with yours and evergreens? Thanks, great video buy the way
Enjoy your videos. New sub.
Great video. I'll have to think about picking up a chipper for sure! In other news, I shot a video the other day and I was getting up from a crouched position. The struggle looked quite similar 😂. Great video brother!
lol...thanks. I have some sort of sciatic nerve problem sometimes.
Thanks for doing this. What RPM do you have to run your tractor at? All the best.
Why dont you use the chipper and put the wood chips on the garden? It'll hold the moister in the ground in your garden.
Is your chipper Gravity fed or hydro fed? Real like how it chipped, thanks for posting.
would love to know more of your story do you wor or a vet
how did you like your Kioti tractor , please send me the link if you have one already.
Would the wood chips be good for your garden?
I probably wouldn't put them in my vegetable garden. They're too coarse.
Looking at this model...just today as a matter of fact. Any reason for you to think the machine you bought 10 years ago is better quality then what is produced today? What engine RPM did you run at, I have an LS 3039 and it would be close in PTO HP to yours. Thanks for the reveiw!
I personally wouldn't hesitate to buy anything from wallenstein. Everything I've seen is high quality. 👍 always run a chipper at 2600 rpm.
Hi NB88, nice video, just a question, the PTO is turning at 540 or 1000 rpm?
That PTO is turning at 540 rpm.
Thanks brother, really appreciate it. I see this unit on Ebay for around $1500.00 dollars, does that seem correct? Seems like a lot of machine for the money!!!
That doesn't sound right to me. Depends on the chipper size of course but a 4" would be around 2500 new.
@@NB88 Thanks
Shop around. There are some Wallenstein clones that are identical right down to the weight. Compare the specs.Flywheel diameter etc. I bought mine through Titan 3 years ago now and I am more than satisfied. Free shipping UPS delivered with lift gate.
Breaknwid Thank you
Do you have any regrets about the size of your tractor. About right or would you go bigger another time? I have a similar place downstate and kicking around buying a tractor.
As always enjoy your videos. Thanks
nah, no regrets. It's done everything I've ever wanted it to do and them some. 45 hp is lots of power. I've rarely ever had to use low range. That said I wouldn't go smaller.
I am in Maine as well, how is dealer support on the tractor?
i got that tractor 10 years ago but have never needed any dealer support since so I can't say. I do my own upkeep and maintenance other than that, the tractor just works. There are several Kioti dealers in ME depending on where you are. Bangor Tractor and Equipment is a great place.
Wow! New subscriber. That machine is amazing. Where is your cabin?
So you are clearing 4 inch diameter trees, what do you do with the stumps? How are you getting rid of them? Thanks.
yes, and bigger. Getting rid of them with a backhoe in this video: czcams.com/video/H17Yu0EGAHg/video.html
The backhoe is the way to go. I have some land in on the Cains River that I need to reclaim so that I can organic farm. With a chipper, backhoe, bush hog, brush saw, chain saw I should be able to reclaim the land. Thanks for the videos. I found them really helpful.
Is it self feed or does it have a power feeder? Great machine!
Self feed but it just pulls the woods through. I wouldn't spend the extra on a power feeder unless I was a commercial operation.
Great stuff NB88; do you live there all year round?
I'm there all year!
I am very jealous; looks like you have the perfect life 8-)
Do you live in New Brunswick?
what part of the country are you in?
I have the same chipper. I find that it goes through a lot of shear pins. Do you have the same trouble? It'll chew through stuff like in your video, but after a half hour or so the pin shears. I've tried both grade 5 and 8 bolts. I wonder if a blade-sharpening would help... I'm going to try that next.
CJ Robinson - I have never had a shear pin fail in 10 years and neither should you. That should only shear if something really hard is accidentally put in the chipper..like rebar. lol. But seriously, you should NEVER use a grade 5 or 8 bolt as a shear pin, you are risking major damage to your tractor. I can't imagine dull knives would cause that, they would have to be really really bad. My advice would be to call Wallenstein, they have great customer service and maybe they can offer a suggestion because something is definitely wrong. If you think of it, drop me another comment here and let me know how you made out. I'm real curious about what could cause that.
Thanks for your reply. Has the chipper ever stalled your tractor?
Never. It should never do that unless your tractor doesn't have enough power to chip the big stuff. Mine is 45 hp - 37 at the PTO.
@@cjrobinson2539 I have had mine stall on some bigger stuff,but my tractor is only 23 hp.Have never had a pin shear in 3 years use.
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Those wood chips should be aged a year aged into put your gardens not the drive away!!! Research back to Eden garden or lasagna layer gardening.
What state you in, if I may ask
Maine.
10 year review????it takes him that long to get a piece of wood.
Hi NB88! We loved the video and would love to get in touch with you. If we could get your email address that would be great! Hope to get in touch soon.
Glad you like it. You can get it touch with me at northeastcabinlife@outlook.com
I have one waste of money !