Catching/Bagging Straight from Chipper

[Stephen Blair]

The greenmech merc? What was that made for, a job??

 

 

For a council to do door to foot recycling into bins.

Pete made about a Gazillion pounds on that deal lol!!

 

 

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[PeteB]

The greenmech merc? What was that made for, a job??

 

Redditch and Bromsgrove Borough Council pioneered a Chip or Shred doorstep service originally using a standard unit behind a truck. You rang and made an appointment, they appeared, did whatever, left it in bags for the household. It worked in reducing the amount of garden type stuff taken to the local tip. A section of Warwickshire Council did a business plan and after an awful lot of work later, got the budget for 3 purpose built units. They supplied one chassis cab and we supplied two more.

 

A brilliant concept of taking waste out of the usual route but the fashion is still for brown bins and the "bin it and forget it" mentality - but it still goes in the landfill or is minced into compost which nobody wants from their tip!

 

The unit off of eBay recently got sold to a chap down south and he us well happy with it!

[64treefrog]

Used an entec cyclone unit years ago and it worked well, maybe a secondhand one? there must be plenty about.

 

To be honest we just chip into a bag hung from road pins, some clearing up but..

[kimtree]

Does anyone have any experience/ideas about the best way to catch chips coming out the chipper spout and redirect it straight into dumpy bags?

 

I'm thinking about something like the funnel type top section of a rubble chute held in front of the spout (about 6' high) to catch the chips and direct straight downwards? The trick would be to catch the chips but not all the excess air coming out which would just blow it straight out the bag.

 

Any ideas?

 

Alex

 

what sort of chipper is it

[Marko]

We tried it with a builders chute which worked fine but was all a bit too much fuss for the return. It was easier to tip onto the floor and load bags with a bucket.

[gensetsteve]

We tried it with a builders chute which worked fine but was all a bit too much fuss for the return. It was easier to tip onto the floor and load bags with a bucket.

 

I have a large green mech and tried all the above and give up and just blast it on the floor and scoop up with bobcat. The green mech seems to have a strong blast which is a good thing especially when things get wet and gooey

[alexm]

Thanks everyone for the suggestions so far

 

what sort of chipper is it

 

It's just a Bearcat 5" PTO shredder/chipper so we're not talking huge volumes

[TreeTomass]

I've got a chute made from about 8 buckets stuck inside each other, just hook top handle over top of spout and works a treat

[TreeTomass]

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=161948&stc=1&d=1406327037

[Fredward]

That is brilliant!