in today's video I wear a new helmet a man nearly Falls over and we look in a trailer
we're Machinery Nation let's get our chip on this isn't just any chipper no it's the
new forced ft6p HD yes it's the heavy duty version what's heavy duty about it what's
different about it and why should you buy one let's find out
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tested by Machinery Nation as you might agree I might not be the right person to test this
so today we are going to get it hedged up and we are going to go and visit some professionals
who are used to using false chippers and see what they think right let's crack on
so very kindly the guys at Wessex tree surgeons have put on a nice bit of Timber for us here
today to be able to send through this amazing new model of force chipper and I've got to
thank them very very much but also we'd like to thank Oregon who have now sponsored our
Channel yes they have so we've got all their PPE on so you're going to be seeing a lot
more of that on our Channel here's some nice shiny gloves so I want to be quite honest
I think I need to get them dirty before I'm seen in public with them I think it's pretty
cool and thank you to them for sorting us out with that anyway let's send some Timber
through this chipper and talk about some of the specs as we go through
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version there's definitely some features on this that you'll recognize it uses the same
engine a whopping Briggs and Stratton 37 horsepower V-twin Vanguard it has the same open top flywheel
setup with twin eight inch blades the familiar and proven Force grip feed roller system the
30 liter clear fuel container yes it's easy it's designed so you can see how much fuels
in your tank with a really easy filler spell the force familiar Touch button controls which
you might be familiar with if you have ever used the London Underground because it's what
they use on their trains
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version well firstly it's got a full steel Bonnet oh yes whereas the standard SD version
it's got a fiberglass Bonnet a grp well this is properly steel and throughout the whole
machine you'll see a lot less plastic or anything more breakable on the machine hence why it's
called HD for heavy duty because that's exactly what it is thank you and the HD version comes
with the spare wheel and bracket as standard because before to keep the weight down on
the chipper you'd have to put it in your vehicle but now it's got the proper bracket to hold
it on with it boasts an Alco hitch with a much stronger heavy duty jockey wheel so they're
beefed up the chassis all the way through so it's a much stronger build right from the
hitch all the way back to the wheels so forces definitely listen to their customers because
there's always been one little niggle and that is the safety bar on the back it's to
Rattle quite a bit because it used to work on a pivot system down here but now it works
in the linear motion so once that pushes down you then lose all that rattles you don't have
that vibration on the back end they have made maintenance as easy as possible so you have
five grease nipples here which are all capped off so every port on this machine every point
that needs greasing can be greased from right here at the control panel so it's not easy
to miss one of the grease nipples the only one you've got to grease separately is on
the hitch with both this machine and the standard st6p they both sport they improved and upgraded
Auto intelligence agents control no stress system all monitored with an easy and user-friendly
interface controlled by a new display panel Forks like to make things as easy as possible
for their customers so they've made maintenance really really simple so with the engine everything
is really accessible oil filter air filter hydraulic filter hydraulic tank everything
is really easy to get to including the blades and the flywheel to be able to change everything
to Anvil even comes out really simply as well so it Force really really a thought about
this so it's not just designed by Engineers I think there's a few technicians in there
got involved to make sure that they can maintain it afterwards
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absolutely beautifully not even not even equivalent about doing it it's just getting on with a
job and it's producing lovely lovely amount of chip on the fourth chippers they've got
a nice feature that you can actually turn the speed of the rollers up and down so what
that means is if it's going really fast it's producing a big chip you can turn it down
really really slow so you can get a really small chip the main idea of that is if you're
at the end of the day and you're putting it into the back of a pickup you can turn that
down so you've got really really fine chip so you can get even more on your load at the
end of the day or if you want different chips with different purposes you can turn it up
and down I think that's a really really good feature and I don't know why other chippers
don't really have it to be quite honest let's put some Big Timber through it and try out
the speed controller ha right this is on
the fast setting big chip let's put it through
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as it can possibly be
on the slow speed haha
oh literally like sawdust right down on fire look how small that is like almost like chainsaw
shavings the difference in those three is mad look how big that is compared to that
a same chipper is chipping the same amount or obviously the middle size stuff as well
that's crazy but the difference in that is mad yeah or something like that that for that
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thank you very much for letting us come here today and Chip up some of your rubbish that
you needed chipping out but you've obviously already got the st6p the standard version
of this what's your thoughts on the HD version yeah I think it's a lot it seems a lot heavy
duty chassis definitely yeah big big improvements there isn't it yeah yeah there's quite a few
improvements um the steel Bonnet yeah but definitely the spare wheel carrier yes whereas
before you had to put it in the truck rather because it would be over overloaded yeah the
curtain now comes on as standard yeah yeah the speed as we saw for for chipping bigger
Timber is more accessible so yeah all very uh very nice positive excellent and you how
many Force chippers you already run yourself so we run three three yeah and Which models
have you got so we've got two st6ps yeah um on TR6 oh yes no the track version yeah yeah
and you're pleased with all of them yeah very nice yeah and what's your what's your favorite
thing about working with forced how's it as a main reason reliability yeah and uh maintenance
wise if you've got a little problem bring them up and they'll usually talk you through
it and usually get it going again yeah excellent brilliant well thank you very much no problem
here today really really appreciate it right thank you very much guys please like share
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