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Dear Martin

I just thought I would drop you a quick line regarding our Hansa C30 Chipper that we purchased over a year ago. This is the best chipper for its size, initial purchase price, weight, day to day running cost, that we have ever used- bar none. The back up service has been fantastic and any problems which have been very small, have been put right quickly without the need for huge down time or loss of income.

The cutting system is simple, the horsepower although lower than competitors is exactly matched to what the chipper is capable of processing. This is a well thought out and designed machine. You listened to what we need from a machine for what we do as an Arboricultural contractor- then produced it.

You've made a terrific contribution to our business and our customers. We look forward to continued business for years to come.

Yours sincerely,

Brett Soutar
Director
ISA Certified Arborist
NZ Hort Level 4
Short Back n Sides Ltd
Waihi Beach
www.shortbacknsides.co.nz

 

C9 Chipper was delivered today in top condition - well packed.  Assembled fine, and started without any problems.

I have to say I am more than highly impressed with the standard of construction and engineering.  The intention was to purchase a machine that was built to do the job properly without stuff breaking, and it looks like we have more than succeeded!

It is really encouraging that such can be built in this country.  I really hope that enough people realise what you are about for you to withstand any threat from any overseas production of marginal equipment.  Strength to your arm!

Kind regards

Ross
Otaki

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Hello Martin

WOW!!! It really worked just like the video!!  What a dream to use. 
We really did think your little vid.clip would be like a Tui ad-“yeah, right!”
We had a great weekend chipping away.  Alan could hardly keep up with me. He was chainsawing, I was having fun.

Thanks again
Regards

Lyn

 

We had an old Rover chipper/shredder that we purchased some 15 years ago as an ex-hire machine. So it had seen some tough living previously but it worked well for us both in Wellington initially and then in Waikanae where we acquired an acre section.  The beauty of it was its simplicity – a simple chute down which everything went and an exit chute on to which you could fasten a sack and fill it.  

Its problems were that it didn't like anything that was stringy which it proceeded to wrap round the blade and was the very devil to get off again, its short inlet chute which meant that it shot pieces out with gay abandon meaning that, on occasion, you came back from a morning's mulching looking like you had been through four rounds with David Tua and that you had to feed every piece in carefully and if the wood was dry/hard it juddered madly and sought to take your arm off.  The engine eventually died on us so we wre left to contemplate what was on the market.

We came up with six options – a Masport, a Rover, a Cox, a new one largely available only on TradeMe, and an Australian one and the Hansa – which we had never seen. All of those available, except the Hansa, had two separate systems with paddles and a separate chipper.  

We discovered that a friend had the Australian one which had been earlier recommended by a dealer because it was stronger that the Rover and Masport combination in that it drove directly off the motor rather than through a belt and it had a shoot to get rid of the mulch – rather than simply delivering it on the ground under the machine as per the Masport and the new one ( which seems a singularly silly place to put it if you are doing any quantity of mulching).  We borrowed one from a friend and tried it – it was good but it suffered from the same defect as all the others.  The separate chipper is down a tube, the tube is kept narrow so that you don't try and put too large a piece of wood in it, and as a result every piece of wood that you try to put through it has to have all its side branches trimmed off right down to the main piece or it wont go through – frustrating is the word.  

In our search for a chipper we visited one dealer who had a Rover and he noted that it was okay, but if you really wanted one to last a lifetime and one that was the ‘Rolls Royce' of chippers in its engineering and design, then the Hansa was the one. It has the advantage of a single chute that will take wood to a good thickness without difficulty, and it shoots the resulting mulch out to the side.  So despite the quite considerable price differential between the Hansa and the others we chose the Hansa.  

Today, in its first trial, it fulfilled its promise admirably and feels and operates like a quality product.  Finally, it is made in New Zealand and made well.

Chris
Waikanae

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