PVC pipe through a woodchipper?

[nooie]

1 minute ago, eggsarascal said:

I'm no expert but if it does have a half inch wall I doubt it would do your chipper much good.

Aye, I'm thinking a day's hire isn't worth the hassle of possibly an expensive fix later..

[eggsarascal]

5 minutes ago, nooie said:

It gets thin where there's bends, but most of it is still pretty thick. Our poly tunnel has just stood up to 80mph winds no problem. 

Fair point, it does wear on bends mainly. Makes you wonder how much poly is entering our waters.

[Mesterh]

Ill buck the trend and say, narr it will be fine.

An inch of plastic v a 6/10 inch  bit of timber. My bet is on the timber being harder work. If  the cheaper has an auto feed then it makes no difference IMO

 

Who really knows until you try it though.

 

 

[Mark Bolam]

Would a mini concrete crusher work?

[openspaceman]

11 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

It's not much use if its being replaced, the pellets traveling through it at high speed wear it very thin. I'm staggered that it's got a half inch wall, schedule 80 at that diameter only starts life at a wall thickness of 8.5mm.

I doubt it would all be that thin and how thick is new underground duct pipe? Anyway I always prefer to re use rather then buy new if it's cheap.

[scbk]

Gotta be a business opportunity to fill an artic trailer with it (on a backload) and bring it over here and sell it for polycrubs?

[nooie]

3 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

Fair point, it does wear on bends mainly. Makes you wonder how much poly is entering our waters.

Or worse still, the fish eat the feed with microplastics, which is then eaten by humans (plastic has been found in the meat). We don't eat it and I don't know many fishfarm workers that do. i used to work on fishfarms and after seeing what went into fish, I wouldn't eat it.

[nooie]

5 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

Would a mini concrete crusher work?

I don't know about that.

[GarethM]

Shaft shredder would be my option if you had one.

[nooie]

2 minutes ago, scbk said:

Gotta be a business opportunity to fill an artic trailer with it (on a backload) and bring it over here and sell it for polycrubs?

Yeah, there are loads round here. You can ask the recycling guy for as much as you like. He gets paid to take it away so if anyone wants some, it saves him shipping it away.