Two brothers, one opinion

Klaus and Stefan Neubrand are deploying three large JENZ machines

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Grundsheim. "I somehow ended up making woodchippings after studying computer sciences" said Klaus Neubrand (48) and laughed. His brother Stefan (42) also grinned, because he has a masters degree as an electrical engineer in his pocket, even if he is working intensively with woodchippings now. The two brothers have been working together for seven years now. At first, they produced woodchippings for their own use. "Our first major customer was a market garden, and we bought our first JENZ chipper" said Klaus Neubrand and then added: "At this time we had no basic knowledge of the chipper market at all". During a search for used machine, they found the JENZ website on the Internet. They became interested in a power takeoff shaft-driven HEM 560 and contacted Helmut Krammer (JENZ Sales South).

That was the start of a story on the edge of the little village of Grundsheim in Oberschwaben (Baden-Württemberg), around 80 km north of Lake Constance, which is still a success today. Klaus und Stefan Neubrand were born and raised in the district, which only has 200 residents but still has its own Internet page (www.grundsheim.de). The fact that both of them started dealing with woodchippings on their parent's agricultural operation of 40 ha was something that just happened. After the first JENZ mobile chipper, the setup procured its own vehicle logistics with a semitrailer and walking floor trailers, contain a tractor and telescopic loader. In 2010 they built a huge hall on the land around their parents' house, returned their used HEM 560 Z in part exchange and invested in a new JENZ 582 R chipper truck with belt outfeed. Later, the Neubrand brothers were the first JENZ customers to buy a HEM 593 R chipper truck with belt outfeed. Due to increasing orders, Klaus and Stefan Neubrand decided to go self-employed full time in 2013. In the meantime they employ eight workers. Neubrand GbR's core business is the production, marketing and transport of quality woodchippings. Klaus and Stefan Neubrand supply customers within a radius of around 150 km. These include large cogeneration plants, communal facilities such as schools in addition to private households. On the one hand they purchase energy wood , top wood from thinning or land clearance, round timber, landscaping cuttings and sawing remains, and on the other hand they offer their customers purely chipping services at an hourly rate.

"We wanted to extend our field of business by the processing of landscaping materials such as scrap wood and green waste, and therefore we bought a JENZ biomass processor" said Stefan Neubrand. The BA 725 D has been providing reliable service since the spring. "We had to get used to the operation a bit first before we could really select optimum settings for each situation" added Klaus Neubrand. "We like the robustness of JENZ machines, their power and the excellent service including spare parts provision" is how the Neubrand Brothers assess the situation. "The price to performance ratio is right." Both mobile chippers have more than 1300 hours of deployment behind them without any problems, whereby Klaus Neubrand has to ignore damage caused by the penetration of foreign bodies. "Even JENZ machines can't do anything about that" he said.

The BA 725 D biomass processor is also given excellent marks. "This machine is just as robust. What we really like about it is the versatile use and large range of setting facilities" said Stefan Neubrand. Neither he nor his brother Klaus had any real criticism. "We prefer to talk about the bad things with Mr Krammer personally" they said, and started to laugh again.