need help with whisper chipper

[Porta mill]

I am looking for someone  who has a repair or matainance manual for a old whisper chipper 1979, 300 six motor . just purchased it to help clean up property i just purchased . the previous owner  had the property and the logged. The logger left all the tops laying all over the place ,what a big mess. anyway the chipper I purchased runs well but I cannot get the cluch to disengage totally , on start up the drum is turning. Any help would be appricated

[Furby]

Leave the tops.

[Jeff]

Leaving tops isn't generally a mess other then in the eyes of the beholder, its usually a beneficial component for the new forest and its wildlife.

[Dave Shepard]

Would chipping the tops back into the woods be beneficial? Seems it would offer more surface area for the saprophytes.


Dave

[thecfarm]

I would forgo the chipping part and just cut up the tops into small pieces,3-4 feet long.I realize things are done differant where you are.The tops are suppose to be left to help out the regen.Around here living the tops whole looks bad and can give the logger a bad name in my eyes.I just cut up whatever I don't haul out into 3-4 foot pieces and it will rot rather quickly.All that I have is a tractor,so I need it to rot into the ground so I can drive through it in a few years without damaging my tractor.

[Fla._Deadheader]

To answer yer question, sounds like the clutch disc has rusted to the flywheel on the engine. Running small pieces of wood through the chipper, with the clutch lever DIS-engaged, might loosen it up.Shouldn't take much. Slipping it under load, a LITTLE will clean up the faces and it should work fine. Mostly agree with the chipping part. Use the bigger stuff for faar wood and let the rest rot down, naturally.

  You should see new growth starting among those tops. That's your next crop of trees.

[maple flats]

I think FDH hit it right on the head. That would be my guess too. I also agree with leaving the tops for the most part, but it might be smarter to limb them not so much for appearance but for less fire risk. Laying on the ground they give physical protection to the tender saplings starting up and with the limbs in contact with the ground they return to the earth much faster returning nutrients back to the ground and erosion control as well. With lots of limbs sticking up if there is a lightning strike or a man made fire this makes it a real good ladder for fire to get up to the standing trees and a full scaled forest fire.