Re: (ET) wood chipper DC or AC

["steves" <ssawtelle fcc net>]

I have a chipper/shredder that was converted to electric by one of our list
members. It's an Amerind MacKissic Mighty Mac. It was mated up with series
wound 36V GE motor with a nameplate rating of 1.3HP but it's just about as
big as the snowblower motor. It works really well - I just plug it into the
PTO outlet. I have to put a rock on the seat though so the PTO gets juice.
The side shoot really eats up large branches (2" or so on dia). Biggest 
pain
is clearing out the mulch underneath every so often.

I think what I have is based on the 12-P
http://www.mackissic.com/chipper_shredder_consumer1.htm

Note it has a 9HP gas engine. My setup will bog down if I really feed it a
lot, but it usually thrashes through it ok.
You may want to look for something similiar that someone has blown out the
gas engine on and convert it. A blower or traction motor would work well I
would think.

- SteveS


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "robert winfield" <winfield100 yahoo com>
To: <Elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu>
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 8:25 AM
Subject: (ET) wood chipper DC or AC


> Anyone have any larger size electric wood chippers
> they like?
> I have a Xantrex 1,000 wt inverter 12vDC in 110vAC out.
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