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Wood chipper vs humanoid.

DWT said:
We always have 2 guys around every running chipper too. It's just good practice even for a seasoned employee.
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I was trained on one for about 5 minutes then left alone. It had a gas 4cly engine I think. It belonged to a tree service that trimmed our trees, but we did the clean up and chipping. I'm still complete, I was 18 at the time. It had a reverser at the chute.
 
DWT said:
We always have 2 guys around every running chipper too. It's just good practice even for a seasoned employee.

I'd guess you had a BC2000 it's a big bitch. We have one, it'll eat most anything. :laughing:
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I'd just be making something up if I tried to tell you a model number, it's been almost 20 years ago now. It was a indeed a big bitch though.
 
bgaidan said:
The more I think about it, how do you end up feet first in a wood chipper if a "hook" on a limb drags you in. Seems like you'd get pulled in head-first no matter how it hit you. :confused:

Dumbass was probably trying to kick in some jammed brush and got a little (lot) carried away.
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Story doesn't make sense to me. Ankle monitors are somewhat tight on your leg or you could just slip it off. Plus wouldn't he be wearing long pants, covering the monitor?

I'm going with dumbass learned a lesson the hard way.

Blaming it on the monitor getting hung up means he can sue the city or state........bigger paycheck. Not a bad move.
 
I've used an old chuck-n-duck powered by a ford v8. My neighbor had borrowed it and then hired me to do the chipping because he was afraid of it. That has no feed rollers, no reverse, and no shutdown bar. Once it's got a hold of whatever is stuck in it sucks it through in seconds.
 
DWT said:
I'd have to go out on a limb and say you'd be grabbing for anything to pull yourself out. Those are better than nothing.

What you see inside the chute is just the feed wheels, those are what reverses when the cables are pulled. The chipping drum is inside and doesn't give a fuck about what it's eating.




These are the knives that go on the drum, they're razor sharp when fresh and held on with 4 3/4" bolts. There is a 3/8" plate they have about .020" air gap to that does the cutting. That'd be a terrible thing to feel.

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While we’re talking about chipper safety, this video has stuck with me in my brain for a while. Climbing rope stuck in chipper simulation

 
I'm a bit baffled at the both feet in the chute side of things, even going foolish side of things, one foot in my mental image is on the ground and the other leg isn't long enough to reach the feed rollers. Almost like you have to try to get eaten feet first, seems easier to go in head/hands first.
 
ScottRS said:
I'm a bit baffled at the both feet in the chute side of things, even going foolish side of things, one foot in my mental image is on the ground and the other leg isn't long enough to reach the feed rollers. Almost like you have to try to get eaten feet first, seems easier to go in head/hands first.
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You know that fucking dumbass was packing shit in with hes feet.
 
ScottRS said:
I'm a bit baffled at the both feet in the chute side of things, even going foolish side of things, one foot in my mental image is on the ground and the other leg isn't long enough to reach the feed rollers. Almost like you have to try to get eaten feet first, seems easier to go in head/hands first.
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I bet he climbed up on the hopper and tried to kick something that was starting to jamb. It's the only way I can see what he did happening.
 
Slander said:
So I'm guessing he will be posting emotionally driven hyperbolic articles and videos that he never even watched on whatever forum he's a member of now?





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You want some crackers with your whine?
 
bgaidan said:
The more I think about it, how do you end up feet first in a wood chipper if a "hook" on a limb drags you in. Seems like you'd get pulled in head-first no matter how it hit you. :confused:

Dumbass was probably trying to kick in some jammed brush and got a little (lot) carried away.
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See, that’s what I was sayin, I couldn’t imagine how he managed doing that at all.
 
Lee said:
I've told this before, maybe here, for sure at the old place.

When I worked for the NPS we had Vermeer's biggest end-load chipper, 20" if I remember correctly. Next size up was top load.

We had a bunch of new seasonal employees for the summer, and the chipper was new, so we got Vermeer to send a rep down and spend most of a day teaching us how to operate and maintain the thing.

Vermeer guy told us about an employee that had been having a rough time post divorce, decided he had enough, emptied his pockets, fired up a chipper, and jumped in one feet first. :eek: He was done before anyone could do anything to stop it.


We put a watermelon through our Vermeer, that was neat. Had one of the seasonal morons put a box turtle through it. Boss was an idiot for not firing him, he got a talking to and a warning. I'd have sent his ass packing.

It had a safety shutoff bar, we took turns manning the safety bar, someone always had a hand on it.
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I ran one of those old school no feed rollers machines in the early 80’s for a couple weeks. Sticker bushes and hawthorn trees were wicked and you’d better learn how to throw stuff in it and move out fast before you got whipped as it ate the branches :eek: bit me once.

In the 90’s, we took on the morbark (sp) chippers and tub grinders for a couple years until they fucked us. I sold them as a side line equipment but never really pushed them much as most tree feller companies were shit bums with crap credit and a wad of cash but never enough. I think tree limbs smack em in the head too much.

I would bring them home and run trees I cut down on my property after I bought it. I remember once I brought home a unit that had two single tire dual 10k axles under it. A 6 cylinder John Deere diesel engine in it and a 24” drum. I’d cut the cedar tree branches half way through from bottom side close to the main trunk. Some of them were pushing 24” diameter and barely fit into the feed. I used an excavator with a hydraulic thumb and loaded the entire tree on the feed bed trunk first. Shove it into the feed rollers and watched it take those trees in folding the branch’s up as it ate away. Pretty badass.
 
scooter2374 said:
So you lost a limb, can you chime in on the WTF factor? :flipoff2:
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You have mud in between your ears like a lot of other people, can you comment on the WTF factor of that? :flipoff2:

Honestly, I think this guy was trying to commit suicide either on purpose or by stupidity. I can’t wrap my mind around the thought of a machine just chopping away at your body like that or what it must’ve been like experiencing. Gives me the heebie jeebies. My leg was smashed between my 1000lbs full dresser bike and a Chevy blazer. Light switch fast.

What got me was this guy didn’t pass out while it was happening and said he felt no pain. In shock or still on drugs? For me, when I woke up in the middle of the road, my leg hurt but like I figured it was broken. I asked a person standing next to me looking at me if he could adjust my leg to make it more comfortable. He said no way, I got bones sticking out. I just sighed and thought that now I had a compound fracture and was going to take longer to heal up. The pain wasn’t that much really and I was calm as could be. It was freaking people out standing there as they were making comments about how I have a crazy high pain threshold to tolerate it. Shock maybe I don’t know, but I do tend to just walk stuff off when I get injured.

This guy though I find hard to believe he was in no pain as it chewed on him. I think he’s going to be waking up in middle of the night in cold sweats having ptsd episodes over it. I think I would for sure. Chop chop chop chop blood squirting out everywhere.

I wonder if his coworkers took photos of him still in the chipper?
 
I call BS. One leg, maybe, but BOTH? No way unless it was intentional.

Maybe I'm a dick (OK I'm a dick), but I also call BS on the 127 hours guy. As soon as I heard he was an engineer, I smelled a rat. He randomly caught his arm under a falling boulder, AND had a pocket knife to do the amputation? Or did he plan the whole thing with levers and such, knowing there would be a big movie paycheck and all it would cost him was his left arm?
 
So mud is muddy I guess...FA and FO. I'm sorry I'm just now crawling out of a cry about it , on the old site.ppls alcohol addiction. You were beyond funny at the time.
 
I think some of you guys really underestimate just how truly stupid people are.

I cut my parents grass at 12 with a push mower with no gay saftey release like they have now and didn't die but I'll never forget the warning label on the deck with a picture of a stick figure holding the mower above a bush with his hands getting chopped off and a big red circle with a slash and at 12 I'm like who the fuck would do that????? Obviously sombody did thought because that label picture most likely came from a lawsuit they had to deal with do to a moron who did that and sued. :shaking:

The safer you try and make something these days the quicker the idiots seem to figure out accidental ways around it and hurt/kill themselves. We really need to bring back natural selection and let the universe do it's thing.
 
ScottRS said:
I'm a bit baffled at the both feet in the chute side of things, even going foolish side of things, one foot in my mental image is on the ground and the other leg isn't long enough to reach the feed rollers. Almost like you have to try to get eaten feet first, seems easier to go in head/hands first.
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You'd think, but it's not that uncommon. I think it's the instinct for the other leg to get in and help free the first one.

We had an incident here this summer, guys doing undergrowth clearing for fire defense. Same thing, guy must have been pushing material in with his feet, foot got caught, second leg got in also. He made it into the machine but another guy stopped it and pulled him out. Died on the scene. Same big diesel powered vermeer I rented last fall. Creepy
 
SLOWPOKE693 said:
I think some of you guys really underestimate just how truly stupid people are.

I cut my parents grass at 12 with a push mower with no gay saftey release like they have now and didn't die but I'll never forget the warning label on the deck with a picture of a stick figure holding the mower above a bush with his hands getting chopped off and a big red circle with a slash and at 12 I'm like who the fuck would do that????? Obviously sombody did thought because that label picture most likely came from a lawsuit they had to deal with do to a moron who did that and sued. :shaking:

The safer you try and make something these days the quicker the idiots seem to figure out accidental ways around it and hurt/kill themselves. We really need to bring back natural selection and let the universe do it's thing.
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People are stupid and people who you think aren’t too stupid still end up doing stupid shit. We had (was terminated but not because of this) a manager at one of our locations do something stupid. This dumbass reinstalled the drive belt back onto a golf cart while the engine was running. It took the tip of one of his fingers off. :homer::laughing::homer:
 
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