Equipment seminars, model updates and new machines were the headlining acts for a worldwide audience of dealers at the Bandit Industries 2011 Dealer Meeting, held August 23-26 at the company’s headquarters in Mid-Michigan. Bandit hosted 155 attendees from 19 countries, making it the largest dealer meeting in the company’s 28-year history. Among the announcements were new loader options for hand-fed chippers, new engine and feed system options for the company’s popular Model 1590XP, and new equipment previews that included a screen chipper with a top-load discharge chute, a compact stump grinder, additions to the Model 490-series drop-feed chipper, and a small disc chipper called the Model 75. Attendees also received an exclusive look at the latest compact forestry mower called the Model 3000, and everyone was extremely interested in Bandit’s all-new, patent-pending hybrid technology installed on a pair of prototype machines. Though still in the testing phase, the technology will ultimately set an entirely new standard of performance and efficiency for chippers and grinders.

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