loudmouth wrote:almost sounds like a bio mass grinder.
and the way they sound like it takes hours to stop spining sound like an disc chipper ..or brush chipper (more commenly known as)
agrcultural high school (yes im an aggie kid) taught me alot on chippers. in the morring ill find some info on chippers bio mass grinders (which use eather spinning hammers or a drum with hammers on it to chew away any thing you feed it) * some can take trees up to 9'to 12' diamter and any thing such as metal asphalt concret the list goes on* but ill get you some links in the morring for you if you like Robert.
~nick
Yes, thank you, Mouth.
I work partime for a tree company.
(Just promoted myself to "branch" manager...)
Years ago my boss had a chipper which spun so quickly that it sounded like a siren. Would drop pitch as wood was pulled in and chipped.
I recall they pulled wood in in a matter of only seconds.
At least one person has gotten clothing caught on a piece of wood and been pulled in and "morselized" before they even had a chance to do anything about it.
Our Vermeer chipper has toothed feed wheels that must be engaged to feed wood.
If one is caught, they grab the safety bar and the feed wheels reverse.
Bar must be pulled out to feed wood in.
It's huge cutting disk does not turn fast enough to "siren", but it'still noisy
and we must wear hearing protection.
Did they have bio-mass chippers in 1976?
I recall being told this was for metals in a junk yard.
Also that some metals liquified when hit - the impact was so forceful!
Thank you,