Tracked Biomass Chippers

[LGP Eddie]

I was just wondering what is available out there in the form of Tracked chippers that can produce an actual screened Biomass Chip straight at the coal face so to speak?

 

I believe a few Heizo's have made it onto Tracks and the Jenz do the Tiger range?

 

Is anyone running anything like this, or actually hired one in?

 

 

The main thing people now talk about is chip quality, and everyone claims their chipper to have the best?

The Bandit 18svc was putting out some lovely looking chip at the APF, what's the perceived best chipper out there, as quite a few knock the Heizo on this, but their popularity with users would indicate otherwise?

 

 

Eddie.

[Gray git]

BigChipper.co.uk:

 

Haven't seen this working but saw it in the build stage at acprice and it was mighty impressive!

I use a hizo 8 400 and everyone where we chip are happy with the chip quality and i think this comes more down to maintaining your machine and blade's and timber type than the individual machine as in on 1 morning I chipped incredibly dry pine less than 22% and had lots of dust and fines and in afternoon got onto larch at about 27% and produced some of the most even quality chip you could ask for at g30 speck.

[LGP Eddie]

BigChipper.co.uk:

 

Haven't seen this working but saw it in the build stage at acprice and it was mighty impressive!

I use a hizo 8 400 and everyone where we chip are happy with the chip quality and i think this comes more down to maintaining your machine and blade's and timber type than the individual machine as in on 1 morning I chipped incredibly dry pine less than 22% and had lots of dust and fines and in afternoon got onto larch at about 27% and produced some of the most even quality chip you could ask for at g30 speck.

 

That's just the porn I'm looking for!

 

I couldn't agree more in the need for spot on kit and the simple fact you'll only get out what you put in so to speak?

The number of arguments I've had with idiots who think you can put topsoil in a Concrete Crusher and get Type 1 stone out the other side is untrue, and it's pretty much the same with chippers?

 

But all things being equal, brand new machines with perfect feedstock etc etc, which make would bang out the best product most consistently I wonder?

 

 

Eddie.

[Tom D]

I'm still getting to know mine, but infeed speed and drum rpm make a big difference to chip size, with my Heizo, the G30 screen produces very nice chip but with a lot of fines, I have a 80mm screen which still produces nice chip, (still quite fine) if the rpm is set at around 750, it makes bigger stuff at 540. Species will make a difference too I suspect, I have mostly chipped dry spruce with it so far.

[briquette_seller]

She's a fair beast

 

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[walkerboys]

She's a fair beast

 

 

I like that the conveyors save a lot of horse power compared to blowing chip

[old hand]

A few years ago I went to a demonstration of large well known Austria chippers. They had 2 identical machines working side by side. One had a conveyor (supposedly taking less hp) and the other was the conventional blower type, both loading bulk trucks. A light breeze was blowing and the chips from the conveyor machine were being blown over the side of the truck where as the blower model blasted them into the trailers with very little spillage. You also don't have the range of adjustment of discharge with a conveyor. Only my observations.

[HertsWood]

Phil Newson of PR Newson has a big Jenz 30" capacity (I think) that has been installed on a 15+ ton 360 tracked excavator

http://www.chipping-contractors.co.uk/page19.html

[Tom D]

Now that I have had the heizo for a while, I think the chip quality is very good, I had some samples tested and they made the g30 spec no problem. It is a nice robust machine and has made its money on a lot of site clearance jobs. My regular biomass clients have had no complaints.

 

The other good thing about Heizohack is the blade system, on site clearance stones and metal inevitably end up going through. We recently chipped a big piece of steel.....

 

The cost?...............£7

[briquette_seller]

Now that I have had the heizo for a while, I think the chip quality is very good, I had some samples tested and they made the g30 spec no problem. It is a nice robust machine and has made its money on a lot of site clearance jobs. My regular biomass clients have had no complaints.

 

The other good thing about Heizohack is the blade system, on site clearance stones and metal inevitably end up going through. We recently chipped a big piece of steel.....

 

The cost?...............£7

 

Do you have any pics of the g30 the chipper produces?