Hi Drake,

I just bought a BCS Lindig chipper a couple months ago. Haven't had much opportunity to use it yet. Looks well built but doesn't seem as user friendly as my old Troy Bilt Tomahawk. The opening to the shredder has an almost 90 degree turn that looks like it will make feeding it difficult. I've been meaning to get it out and try it more. Maybe I'll get it out tomorrow and try it and let you know what I think. I've never even heard of a kemp. Shoot me an email at wlmuldoon at verizon dot net and I'll send you some pics of the opening and such.

Bill

Hi Drake,

I took the Lindig chipper out tonight. It looks like it was hardly used by the previous owner. I have contacted BCS to find out about parts availability and they deny they ever had a Lindig chipper badged with BCS. Lindig is out of business as well. Parts will not be readily available. Joel at Earth tools knows of their existence. Most parts on this thing are generic and should be available at an implement dealership.

It seems to do a nice job but the infeed needs to be modified. I used a curved branch to force the stuff in. The stuff I wanted to shred was some bittersweet nightshade I have pulled up a couple weeks ago. It was very wet as we've had a lot of rain in the past couple days. The screen didn't plug too bad but I didn't have much to shred. Dry leaves may have fed much better. I think bending up the upper plate will do the trick. It looks like a rubber guard should be mounted on there to keep stuff from getting kicked out.

The chipper side did an ok job. I haven't taken off the blade to inspect it yet but I suspect it needs a good sharpening. It would not chip anything bigger than 2 inch. The chipper chute fell off while I was working it! I put thread lock on the bolts and reinstalled them. I'm gonna need to put more sheet metal around the chipper infeed as it spits out a lot of material it shouldn't. another rubber guard will keep stuff from flying everywhere and not interefere with feeding it.

I have a 715 with 8 hp Kohler and it seems to have adequate power to run the chipper. I really like the fact that mounting it to a walking tractor makes it self propelled.

All in all, it is a good unit and I'm glad I bought it, but I will need to do some modification to make it better. First thing I'm gonna do is have a local welding shop fabricate a bar grate like the ones offered for the troy Bilt tomahawk and maybe a larger holed screen for a coarser grind.

Good luck on your purchase. Let me know if I can be any more help.

Bill

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