Safety
Chipper types compared: how regulators sort hand-fed, driven-feed and vertical hopper machines
Regulators do not rank chippers.
Machines and vehicles
Chippers, stump grinders, lifts, cranes, trucks and trailers: the rules, licences and inspections that apply to them.
39 pages in this topic. Each guide names its sources and the date they were read.
Wood chippers
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Safety
Chippers and stump grinders: what the rules say
Wood chippers and stump grinders show up in official fatality reports and in regulator leaflets in every one of the five countries.
Stump grinders
Safety
Call-before-you-dig services by country
Every country in this guide has a locate service for buried cables and pipes, and the regulator leaflets for stump grinding point to them.
Safety
Chippers and stump grinders: what the rules say
Wood chippers and stump grinders show up in official fatality reports and in regulator leaflets in every one of the five countries.
Knuckleboom cranes and grapple saws
Safety
Cranes in tree work: operator licences and lifting rules by country
What regulators and official pages say about cranes used for tree removal, who must hold an operator licence or certificate, and who may sling the load, country by country.
Spider lifts and bucket trucks
Safety
Bucket trucks and EWPs: the rules and licences by country
What official pages say about operator training, licences and inspection for bucket trucks and elevating work platforms used in tree work, country by country.
Certifications & courses
City and Guilds 0039-38 Use of a Chainsaw from a MEWP: what the handbook says
Number, Ofqual reference, hours, entry awards, assessment time and unit content for the Level 3 Certificate of Competence in Use of a Chainsaw from a Mobile Elevating Work Platform, plus how Lantra Awards words its own MEWP chainsaw award.
Chip trucks and trailers
Tool
Chip volume calculator
Type the inside length, width and height of a body or box to see its volume in cubic yards and cubic metres.
Truck licences, towing and roadside compliance
Running a business
Driving the chip truck: licence classes by country
Which driving licence class each country's official pages attach to a given vehicle weight, so you can read where a chip truck, a chipper trailer or a bucket truck falls.
Law & permits
Trucks and trailers for tree work: licence, weight and equipment rules by state and province
The federal weight lines for a commercial motor vehicle and for trailer brakes, then a table of what individual places say about licence class, carrier registration and trailer brakes, with a page for each place that has enough of its own facts.
Buying, renting and selling used equipment
Gear
Buying used gear: what to ask the seller
A used saw, rope or truck can be a good buy or someone else's problem.
Safety
Hiring a machine: what the regulators say the hirer, the supplier and the operator each owe
A hired lift, crane or chipper has an owner who supplies it and a hirer who controls it for the hire period.
Safety
Second-hand machines: what WorkSafe NZ and the SafeWork NSW code list for buyers and sellers
A used chipper, grinder or lift changes hands without a maker's warranty.
Equipment theft
Gear
Stolen machines and equipment: what police units and national registers publish in the UK and US
This page reports what the UK national police unit pages, the UK marking scheme and the US national equipment register say about reporting a theft and identifying a machine, and where no official page was found.
Maintenance and breakdowns
Safety
Chipper, grinder and mobile machine inspections: what regulators say and how often
Regulators rarely name one interval for a chipper, a stump grinder or a loader.
Gear
Chipper, log splitter and pole saw recalls: the official registers
Recalls and safety notices for chippers, chipper shredders, log splitters and pole saws from the CPSC, Health Canada and the UK product safety list, newest first.