Bandit Chippers - Changing/Servicing Knives on a DISC-Style Chipper

before attempting any type of maintenance on your brush banded chipper disengage the clutch turn off the engine wait for the disc or drum to come to a complete stop install the disc or drum lock pin disconnect the battery and make sure the ignition key is in your possession if your bandit chipper is not feeding properly as excessive vibration or is creating poor chip quality then the knives may need resharpened or replaced dull or severely damaged knives will significantly reduce the performance of your brush bandit chipper dull or damaged knives will waste engine horsepower cause bad chip quality strain other components on the chipper cause excessive vibration and caused your operation to lose time and money the contents within this section will explain how to check the knives to make sure that they are in proper operating condition only bandit knives and hardware are recommended for use in your bandit chipper only then can you be assured of a quality product that fits and performs the best to its standards of excellence that is expected from a bandit chipper what we're going to be doing now is look this top top yoke up we're going to release our intention on both sides of the yoke put our pin back in now we're ready to lift there are tapioca it's a machine is equipped with a hydraulic lifts owner you can use that to lift the top yo for the plinth you have to use a voice or something to pick that top Gill Cup I want to pick the yoke up from the motor side at the side stubbier if I pick up from the heavier side we'll be less resistance once I have the yoke all the way up and take my yoke lock down so let the pressure back down on the fifth I'll leave my my voice tucked up to Fred security while we go in through that yoke area to check the check the knife from anvil clearance before we open our disc housing we want to remove the ignition keys once by foot pimp air lockers remove I'm gonna take the keys and put them in my pocket so that way no one can start the machine while I'm working on prior to opening my finished ass hood I want to make sure that my my disc is not rotating when usually belt tension slot to visualize my belt and make sure they're not spinning now that I have made sure that my disk is not spinning I can unhook I disconnect push the hood pin plunger handle down and pull the hood pin pull our pin and open the hood when servicing the knives we want to rotate the disk and find our disk lock to locate it on the disk once we locate our disk lock - you want to take our disk lock pin and and install it in a disk drum lock - once we have our pin through the hole we can rotate the disk and insert the pin to make sure that we have a positive lock on our desk well we'll put our breaker bar on and break the torque nut loose from the bolt on all six bolts on one side when changing your knife bolts you want to make sure you always ratchet from the nut side because your knives are sharp you want to add all your pivoting from from the side when removing your knife bolt you want to do all your ratcheting from the nut side and on the the opposite side over here we have the knives with a very sharp so the less movement twisted and turn on that side your you're not going to cut yourself if you do all your wrench it on the nut side now that we have our knives removed before we put a new set of knives and a while make sure that the surface here is clean of all debris plan installing new knives make sure there's going to Bri on the backside of the knife where it fits up against the face of the desk and well installing the nuts make sure the locking device is on the outside the flat surface is in towards the disk and if this ring should ever be missing you need to replace that nut as that is our locking device once we have all the nuts started we want to start with snugging down the bottom center bolt of that night a bolt tight I'm going to move to the top center bolt to Snug that once the bolts to Center bolts are snugged up you want to align this knife edge make sure our names are nice and straight now that our Center bolts are our snug what we're going to do is cut the top and work our way down ratcheting from the nut side keeping our Allen headed side rigid so we don't cut ourselves on those new bands hopes on our snug and tight we want to take our tour Frank and set up to the specified court setting and stare at the center and again work our way work our way up once our nice or torque we want to make sure that we swing a drum rock down and place it on this holder after these steps are completed and the clearance from the anvil to the knives is okay double check to make sure that all tools and other debris are removed once this is completed with the safety chain still attached remove the yoke lock pin and slowly lower the top feed wheel to its normal position remove the safety chain from the yoke and attach the easy climb springs for the top yoke carefully close the chipper hood and reconnect the chipper hood engine disable plug install the padlock from the hood pin and insert the hood pin for additional information please call bandit industries or contact your local authorized bandit dealer you

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Length: 14min 26sec (866 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 08 2012