Dealing With Waste Question

[monkeybusiness]

1 hour ago, Scottish Cleaning Service said:

A guy up here who own's a saw mill just bought a TW s426 shredder for pallets and stuff with nails in it, works for him.

https://www.spectrum-plant.com/sales/timberwolf-shredders/

@TIMON - it could be worth you looking at this type of shredder from Timberwolf or Greenmech. It would probably deal with your tree work arising and (more importantly) the other waste you are producing - if it is being trommelled anyway then your tip site would potentially take it from you if they can blend it into the biomass product.

[monkeybusiness]

I’ve just had a a quick look at the GM website and their machine (that I thought was a shredder, the combi 200) appears to actually be a chipper so I don’t think it would be great on pallets/sheds/otherwise nail-infested material. However, I’m sure @PeteB can give a definitive answer either way. 
Otherwise, that Timberwolf shredder would definitely be worth considering IMO. 

[dumper]

I thought treated timber was controlled waste so you need to separate your pile and don’t discount a air burner

[Khriss]

Air burners cost quite a bit. 1200 squid on site last time i got a quote, think Timons site a bit volunteer / community based. So cost on pusshing it all thru a shredder would be huge. K

[PeteB]

Our Combi 200 is indeed a chipper with a huge flywheel, massive infeed rollers and conveyor for that knotty,nawlward brash etc. If you do put dirty stuff through it, it will dull the blades, but then, our disc blades are cheap enough to be able to do this.

 

One thing that does need research and careful consideration  is the stuff you process has to be clean, namely, no paint or oil or other similar stuff to be recycled and burnt according to some stuff I read some time ago!

[dumper]

Air burners are technically not difficult to fabricate basically a tin box pipe and compressor skipping and tipping isn’t cheap 

[monkeybusiness]

8 minutes ago, PeteB said:

Our Combi 200 is indeed a chipper with a huge flywheel, massive infeed rollers and conveyor for that knotty,nawlward brash etc. If you do put dirty stuff through it, it will dull the blades, but then, our disc blades are cheap enough to be able to do this.

 

One thing that does need research and careful consideration  is the stuff you process has to be clean, namely, no paint or oil or other similar stuff to be recycled and burnt according to some stuff I read some time ago!

There’s a big demolition/skip firm near us that shreds and screens all of their wood waste - the majority of this ends up going for biomass. Whether it should or not is a different matter (I do know of a farmer who prefers it to ‘proper’ virgin biomass woodchip from the official channels as it burns hot/clean and is undoubtedly cheap!...) 

[TIMON]

I’ve just had a a quick look at the GM website and their machine (that I thought was a shredder, the combi 200) appears to actually be a chipper so I don’t think it would be great on pallets/sheds/otherwise nail-infested material. However, I’m sure @PeteB can give a definitive answer either way. 
Otherwise, that Timberwolf shredder would definitely be worth considering IMO. 

I did look at the TW shredder. May be an option going forward.
Morbark do bigger tracked ones but need to be fed with a large 360 and grapple.
Maybe hiring one once every so often and firing the shred into roll on offs could keep the cost down and help efficiency.
Treated timber is a separate waste classification.
Thanks

[TIMON]

Our Combi 200 is indeed a chipper with a huge flywheel, massive infeed rollers and conveyor for that knotty,nawlward brash etc. If you do put dirty stuff through it, it will dull the blades, but then, our disc blades are cheap enough to be able to do this.
 
One thing that does need research and careful consideration  is the stuff you process has to be clean, namely, no paint or oil or other similar stuff to be recycled and burnt according to some stuff I read some time ago!

Thanks Pete.

If we did shed our waste it would definitely be classed as treated timber. I know companies such as SITA specialise in timber waste streams.
Our current pile would take forever to put through a hand fed machine.

[topchippyles]

5 minutes ago, TIMON said:

 

Thanks Pete.

If we did shed our waste it would definitely be classed as treated timber. I know companies such as SITA specialise in timber waste streams.
Our current pile would take forever to put through a hand fed machine.

 

That is what mage me chuckle when it was posted. Some people has no clue how big a pile of 300+ ton of waste is and think its weeks work for 2 men chipping that lot without the soil and green waste.

Edited December 26, 2020 by topchippyles