Woodworking industries have long been popular in our country, since forests cover most of its territory. Each owner of this type of enterprise must make every effort to increase its profitability.
This can be facilitated by a wood waste crusher. It helps to process a huge amount of substandard wood, which is usually emitted, into a high-value and very high-quality product.
What she does?
The main purpose of this kind of technology is the processing of wood into wood chips. Recently, demand for it has risen sharply, as industry produces OSB boards from chips. They are very popular with buyers, as this material provides a real opportunity to build a cheap and high-quality house.
What are wood waste crushers?
Each wood waste crusher can be mobile or stationary. Depending on the device, they are drum or rotary. But the techniques go even further, dividing them into other varieties:
- rotary tool with vertical or horizontal shaft arrangement;
- hammer crushers;
- disk and cone models;
- screw and roll varieties;
- ball type mills .
Some features
Disk varieties of crushers work due to the fact that a rapidly rotating disk with a cutting edge breaks the wood into chips. Disks are flat and conical, and cars with the latter variety are considered more powerful. This is especially true when their surface is profiled.
It is believed that a wood waste crusher with a large number of knives on the working disk is able to process more raw materials in a shorter period of time.
The fact is that models with fewer knives work by grinding all the material within one cycle, while in varieties with several cutting surfaces at least one knife constantly comes into contact with wood.
Methods of supplying raw materials
The feed mechanism is either vertical or horizontal. That wood waste crusher that can use an additional conveyor to feed it will cost more. In general, submission methods are divided into manual and forced. But far better and safer are those varieties that have a vacuum or gravity feed.
Nutrition
The stationary wood waste crusher, the rental of which is offered in almost any large city at a bargain price, is in most cases equipped with an electric motor.
Such machines are equipped with hydraulic feed systems. Most often, they are used in urban environments when trimmed branches are processed.
Mobile varieties are equipped with powerful diesel engines, and sometimes they are simply built on the basis of wheeled or tracked tractors. The process of their operation is greatly facilitated by the fact that the material is fed into the drum automatically, no human involvement is required.
What is the price? A wood waste crusher costs about 260 thousand rubles and more.