Here are some recent emails we recieved from Hansa customers:
Good afternoon Martin,
The C30 chipper we purchased off you recently has passed 50hrs and has performed faultlessly, something that cant be said for some of your competitors products. We have a 6" diesel chipper of US origin which we were very pleased with until we put it up against the Hansa. To say we were blown away would be an understatement. With the superior design and the new auto feed system, the Hansa is up to 50 percent faster and produces a superior chip. The older chipper is facing death row soon, and will be replaced with another product from your company.
Nothing was too much trouble during the build process, and asking for a large capacity diesel tank was met with a can do attitude. We can work all week with this chipper without refueling and dont have to carry spare containers with us every day.
The build quality is world class and the balance of the chipper means it is easy to roll in and out of confined work areas, saving a lot of handling of brushwood.
We cannot recommend this chipper highly enough and look forward to a long association with Hansa Products.
Thanks again,
Dennis Clements
Operations Manager
Total Tree Care
Te Awamutu
0508 TREE QUOTE (0508 8733 78683)
0274851501
Dear Hansa Products Team,
Our C30 chipper has made a huge positive impact on our business. It's efficient, ergonomic design has made each working day far easier! Organic waste disposal costs have decreased susbstantially since we have owned your machine, running and servicing costs are so minimal.
Besides the machine itself, the service and support the staff and I have received since we have had it has been second to none. Nothing is ever a problem with you guys. Thankyou for all the effort you are always willing to put into your work. We look forward to a long relationship with Hansa Products.
Regards,
Chris Corfe
Mark Doyle Treework
Hamilton
0800 60 60 30
Good afternoon,
I have to tell you that “Nipper the Chipper” is performing well above expectation, and has been greatly appreciated my myself and by my neighbours. We felled a row of Blue Gum that was about 40 metres long ( 14 yr old trees ) and she munched up all the smaller branches and cleaned up the paddock in a day. At the batch over on the coast where we go to get away from the constant earth tremors, we’ve had a ball cleaning up all sorts of shrubs and trees. The Nipper will be in residence there for the summer! Fantastic machine.
Cheers,
Alan
As an arborist having owned and operated many American made chippers in the past, when things went wrong with them I would either find myself either talking to guys who hadn't the faintest clue about the product that they were "agents" for or acted like having to provide information and parts in a timely fashion was like asking for a kidney donation. It cost me a fortune in downtime waiting on parts and a ton of money on shipping and overinflated prices.
To be able to ring you guys on a Monday about a problem with a long serving chipper you made 16 years ago and to get the parts MADE, delivered to me in wellington along with instructions on how they should be fitted by Wednesday is simply sensational.
I would hate to think how many hours that old chipper has done with its many full time user owners, but its performance and longevity is testament to your companies good work. We have had the new C30 chipper you built and customized for us for nearly 2 years now, and I am confident its going to last at least as long as the old machine, even though it chips 3 times as fast!
After spending hours feeding vermeers, brush bandits, morbarks, gravelys, mitts merrils and red roos, I have to say I think you make simply the best performing and value for money 6 inch chippers on the market.
Keep up the great work,
Tim McPherson
Natural Balance
Wellington
LEFT: Natural Balance's custom made C30 swivel (6" x 12" opening, petrol powered, will pivot 360 degrees to be operated from any direction).
Hi Martin
The chipper arrived today thankyou. What a machine......it was a whole lot more than I expected it to be both in size and performance. I can't get over the short work this machine is making of everything I'm feeding it.
Regards
Graham Williams
Hi Martin
Thank you for this excellent machine. I've done about seven hours during this weekend and produced several m3 of chip.
One thing is for sure, this machine is giving me one hell of a workout. The chipper unstoppable and I'm knacked.
Again, thank you very much for this fantastic chipper.
Many regards,
Frits Schouten
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
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
Hi Martin, the C6 chipper arrived in Coromandel town as expected, and has been sited by many, wanting to know about what it can do,so much so that the local Coromandel school is asking for all the info about it.
I to, had the Rover mulcher/chipper for about 20 years, it worked very well but was underpowered and did jam many times but I sold it to someone who is pleased with it. After seeing your C6 chipper down at the fielddays in Hamilton sometime back I decided to go ahead with the purchase and what a thrill... Just a story, its so powerfull and easy to use, when I 1st started it and fed in some branches they came out of the chute and onto the trailer I had placed beside it AND off the trailer, over the drive and into the garden; its like a jet engine, but with a few adjustments to the chute it did its job so quickly and then the trailer was taken to the gardens for chip disposal, great NZ made product and will recomend Hansa product to anyone thinking about your chippers and products. GO NEW ZEALAND MADE!
Regards,
Owner/operator
Breakaway B&B
Coromandel Town
Hi Martin,
Just to let you know how pleased we are with the chipper - the performance has exceeded our expectations (and its been working overtime!).
Would be more than happy to recommend Hansa Products to any prespective customers.
Regards, Ken
Just a note to let you know how pleased I am with my Hansa Brush Chipper C6.
I think a must for all small blocks.
It is doing perfect all the chipping and I am well pleased at the performances of it.
Thanks, Ben
I researched all the similar machines available: USA, Aussie & Chinese made. I went and saw them and made my decision based on the engineering design of the Hansa. The others above were shredders mulchers but what the C6 spits out is small enough and dosent need the additional process of shredding. I paid more for the C6 but its efficiency saves me time, which is money. It is the best thing I have ever bought, what would have taken me 4 to 5 hours with the masport mulcher I did in about 1.45 hours! Great machine, well done, clever Kiwi Engineering.
Regards, Donald
Auckland
Hi Martin,
I love the C4, it does exactly what it says on tin. I looked at many other manufacturers' chippers prior to settling on a new Hansa machine. Many of the competitor offerings were considerably less expensive but of far inferior design, build quality and finish. I particularly like the fact that my machine is fitted with a quality genuine Honda power plant, as opposed to a junk Chinese clone. I am confident with proper care and maintenance, my new chipper will still be going strong when all of the so called "cheaper options" are long gone, sitting broken and unused at the back of peoples sheds and garages or have been scrapped.
Keep up the good work, it is recognised and appreciated.
Best regards, Peter
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