Amazing wood chopper

[SandyTX]

Would come in very handy.

Rębak

 

[xring100]

Interesting would be useful if the length can be adjusted to 16-18"

 

[300UGUY]

I'd really like to see the mechanism inside. Interesting.

 

[Mace Canute]

I'd really like to see the mechanism inside. Interesting.

It might look a little like this.

 

[Gary Fowler]

Interesting would be useful if the length can be adjusted to 16-18"

Yep, needs longer length, who wants to feed a wood stove with 6" blocks + other than northern Canada where most of the trees are less than 8" in diameter with most being like shown it the video, where would you get all those little 4" saplings. I wonder how well it would chop hardwood as compared to that pine.

 

[dave1949]

It's cool. 12-14 inches and 4" diameter is ideal for my stove. What he is making would be great for cook stoves.

I have lots of maple and ash saplings with clear stems. If I could chop those that fast it would be great. I think the overall productivity would be low if someone had to de-branch the stems first.

 

[scorpian5]

follow the videos down on the right on youtube there are better ones

 

[J_J]

Another video showing the insides of one of the models.

R

 

[dave1949]

Thanks J_J. It looks like the length of wood cut is a function of the diameter of, and number of choppers on, the cutting wheels.

 

[Wyobuckaroo]

According to the videos, the pto on those tractors turns counter clock wise.... I don't know how fast...
Even on the chippers that look home made there is a lot of good engineering and quality machining that has
gone into the building of those machines...

I don't heat with wood, but suppose a fire box monitored by a thermostat and good damper controls would
make that size wood burn as efficiently as any other...

Good engineering and work.....

 

[Wyobuckaroo]

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Here is a video of the kind of chipper shown in reply post #4.....
It appears it make a course type of landscape style mulch/chip product...
I have seen both wood heaters and outside boilers that use a fuel product
like this that is augured to the fire box from about a 2 cubic yard hopper...

Looks like a good system, if you have the need for that size unit...
Good luck

 

[deerseeker001]

that would have been great to have years ago when i burned wood.

 

[SensibleNick]

I ran into these things a couple of years back when I was wondering about making a chipper: I'm pretty sure that they're cutting the wood for "Wood Gas" or "Bio Gassification". The idea is to pack a load of wood into an airtight burner - where it burns in a low-oxygen environment and produces flammable gas. You can even run cars on it.

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