Vermeer Manufacturing Company, Inc.

Dale J Messenger

Ivan Ray Brand

Scott Alan Rempe

James L O'Halloran

Edwin N Galloway

Jeffrey D Bradley

John T B Bouwers

Larry Schut

An infeed chute that is configured to more effectively and safely guide brush into a chipper is provided. The infeed chute is configured to guide brush upwards, thereby minimizing the occurrence of branches inadvertently catching the bottom edge of the chute. The infeed chute is also configured so that operators can conveniently load the chipper while being along a side of the chipper.

Wood chipper infeed chute

A brush chipper with feed rollers and a winch has an interlock control with feed roller disabled position and a feed roller enabled position, spring loaded to the feed roller disabled position to encourage or require the use of the winch line to move it into a feed roller enable position. A winch control is provided that selects between a winch freewheel condition and winch drive condition. A connection is provided between the interlock control and winch control such that the interlock control automatically moves to the feed roller disabled position whenever the winch control is moved to the freewheel position.

Coordinated control of a winch and a brush chipper

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Knoxville, IA, United States of America

Dale J Messenger