chipper or shredder

[garry kidd]

havent posted in while but here goes

 

i have a few jobs lined up and going to hire one of the mentioned machines just after some advice as to which is better ie which will give the best possible chance of resale/recycle for the waste which leaves the less mess which is quicker ect thanks for any advice given

[Adam Bourne]

chipper in my opinion mate:thumbup1:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

dont know if you cvan hire one with no experience and certification, which if you had would not be asking those questions?

 

chipper is best, sharp blades will make all the difference as will shear bar adjustments.

[Mark Bolam]

Depends what you need to chip/shred.

[garry kidd]

got my tickets and over 5 years experience withs chippers but never used a shredder and never heard of any 1 else using them hense me asking and it will mainly be brash no timber over 4 inch i want as much firewod as possible lol

[Mark Bolam]

Chipper mate.

 

Shredders win on dirty stuff like pondweed etc. but the 'chip' quality is poor.

 

Greenmech do (or did?) a chipper/shredder combo.

 

Pete B on here could fill you in on that.

[garry kidd]

cheers il get in touch with him

[dumper]

we put clean material through the chipper the shredder takes roots, dirty timber, pallets, green waste,pushed up brush, floor boards and other demolition waste

[garry kidd]

chipper it ts then lol cheers

[Gareth Dalzell]

I think you're sorted now, but anyhow. We have both Schliesling chipper and Saelen Cougar Shredder.

We use the chippers for tree work and clean material

 

The shredder is great for volume reduction especially hedge cutting and landscape prunings as it starts to chop with a flail first before the blades get involved. We tend leave most of this material on sites.

 

The chip quality with the shredder is not nearly as good initially as a chipper. But as it rots down the stringy bits rot away. Also as it has hammered the living daylights out of the material in the process, they rot pretty quickly.

 

We're looking for another chipper at the moment, don't see us getting another shredder for a while.

One last point - the shredder we have is very very noisey - much louder than the chipper!