The Ultimate Guide of Wood Chipper

1. What Is Wood Chipper?

A wood chipper is a machine that is used to cut tree limbs, trunks, and branches into chips. They make cleaning up after vegetation maintenance a lot less arduous. Trucks can carry a much bigger load when the wood has been broken down this way, so the time, manpower, and budget required to complete a forestry job is significantly reduced with a wood chipper.

2. The Types of Wood Chipper

• DRUM CHIPPERS:

  A drum chipper is named such due to the large drum found along the side of the machine. It feeds waste using horizontally set blades that chip up the wood you feed. This work quickly and effectively to get rid of larger waste and deposit the chips out the other side.

  
  

  

• DISK CHIPPER:
  

  A disk chipper uses a flywheel with large, slotted steel disks and chopping blades that spin in a perpendicular movement to feed through woody debris. This cuts the materials down in two steps, first into ‘bite-sized’ chunks which are then more finely processed into chips.

  
  

  

  
  

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  Can automatically feed raw materials, Europe and the United States best-selling, raw material thick, durable

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3. The Maintenance of Wood Chipper

Like any other tool, your wood chipper needs to be maintained to keep running properly. A gas-powered chipper will need a bit more attention than an electric, but both have specific needs you need to pay attention to. This quick guide can provide you with a few tips to keep your chipper running right:

1. Make sure to change the oil when needed. Check your owners manual and the 4-cycle engine needs to ensure you use the proper oil.

2. Spark plugs need regular cleaning and replacement. These are easy to change out and very inexpensive. Keep a few handy for when starting your engine is becoming a problem- chances are it’s the spark plug.

3. Keep your air filter cleaned out after every use (or even during heavy use). These can become clogged quickly due to the work the machine does and fine dust and wood particles can keep air flowing to the engine as it should.

4. Sharpen your blades every 10 to 12 hours of use. These will dull over time and proper care will keep them cutting effectively.

5. Check your power cords and power cord connections on electric chippers as well.

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• Maintaining the Wood Chipper

4. The Perks of A Wood Chipper

Wood chippers are often mistakenly thought to be for commercial use only, with people not realizing how many types of models exist for home use. If you have any bushes, shrubs, or hedges that need regular care, your trimmings can be easily disposed of. This is also true of leaves that may fall and cover your yard each autumn. Areas of high wind also regularly leave behind dead and fallen twigs and branches which can be made quick work of with a chipper.

Many people rake and pile these trimmings for curbside pickup, but many areas may not offer this service, plus it often calls for a lot of work. The waste left by a chipper can be scattered over lawns as a nutrient-rich feed (if the material is fine enough), placed into compost piles, or even used to mulch your gardens.

5. What is the purpose of Using wood chipper?

Trees are heavy and can be a huge hassle to get rid of whether it’s a fallen tree after a storm to the one you’ve cut down yourself. There are a number of different ways that you can use or get rid of a fallen tree on your land. One of the best methods available is the use of a wood chipper, which can add a lot of benefits on top of getting rid of the wood that is causing you problems. This article is going to take a look into some of those benefits in order to show you the many ways in which a wood chipper can work for you.

6. How to Use Wood Chipper?

Now, if you want to learn how to use a wood chipper, you only need to see one operate for about two seconds to understand why the following proper operating procedure is so important. So here are some tips on doing it right.

1. Make sure your wood chipper is on level ground before beginning operation.

2. An operating wood chipper generates quite a bit of vibration. So tighten all nuts and bolts before every operation.

3. Always wear eye and ear protection, snug-fitting clothing, and heavy work gloves.

4. Be careful about the limb width you put into the chip opening, making sure the diameter doesn’t exceed your equipment’s specification. Trying to chip material too large for your wood chipper can severely damage the machine.

5. Only chip natural, untreated wood. Wood that has been treated with chemicals can damage your chipper’s knives and other internal moving parts.

6. Make sure the ground around the chipper is free of limbs and other debris you might slip on.

7. If you can, chip a mixture of dry and green limbs. The moisture in the green material will help lubricate and cool the chipper’s knives. A hot knife will lose its edge more quickly.

8. It’s important to keep your chipper's knives sharp. It's a good idea to have them sharpened professionally to get the proper angle.

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7. How Does a Wood Chipper Work?

A disk chipper features a disc, typically steel, with cutting blades attached. Material is drawn from the hopper via hydraulic wheels, and then moved toward the spinning disc. As the disc rotates, the blades encounter the wood, the material sliced into chips.

8. How to Pick the Perfect Wood Chipper?

1. Capacity

   What is the maximum size of wood the chipper can chip? Smaller machines will allow wood pieces with a diameter of 2-3 inches to pass through them. Commercial-sized machines can handle pieces as large as 160 inches.

   
   

2. Blade Quality

   A commonly held belief is that more blades (known as flails) in the chip chamber means more chipping power. But even a single blade can do a better job than multiple blades if its quality is significantly superior.

   
   

3. Engine

   Smaller machines, for non-commercial use, usually have an electric motor. But if you’re looking at pro machines, they will be gas-powered. So, the advantages of choosing an electric chipper – lower maintenance, fume-free operation, and cheaper price – are not relevant for buyers who need an industrial/commercial-sized unit to handle large-scale jobs.

Extra Features to consider:

• Drawbars for towing

• Forward discharge chutes

• Self-sharpening blades

• Integrated collecting bins

• Tilt-down hoppers

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