These John |Adams games are hilarious fun for youngsters and can be won in today's
Chipper competition
Chipper shares a special bond with the troubled teens because she was once a homeless youth too.
The tools used to reduce yard waste range in capability from light-duty electric shredders that can convert a bushel of dried leaves into a quarter bushel of fluffy mulch in 10 minutes, to trailer-mounted, diesel-powered
chippers capable of converting a half-ton of 8-inch-diameter tree limbs into chips in about the same time frame--so think about what you want to accomplish before taking the plunge.
Considering that the tools used to reduce yard waste range in capability from light-duty electric shredders able to convert a bushel of dried leaves into a quarter bushel of mulch in 10 minutes to trailer-mounted dedicated
chippers powered with diesel engines capable of converting 1,000 pounds of 8-inch-diameter tree limbs into a half-ton of chips in about the same time frame, you really need to know what you want to accomplish before taking the plunge.
The BC1200XL brush
chipper features Vermeer's patented SmartFeed system to monitor engine rpm and automatically stop or reverse the rollers when feeding larger hardwood material.
She fails to mention that her son told me he had just bought the
chipper that day but he had not been given a receipt of purchase, which made me suspicious.
A possible alternative equipment configuration would combine a cut-to-length (CTL) harvesting system with a smaller
chipper. A feasibility study (Bolding and Lanford 2001) using a small chipper/CTL harvesting system for forest fuel reduction and energywood production showed that the system was promising.
The
chipper drum is 48 inches in diameter and 5 feet long.
Mobile wood
chippers (Figure) shred branches and tree trimmings into mulch.
What these machines have in common is a
chipper rotor with lots of small teeth and a few large, S-shaped blades that intermesh with bed knives.
The CST--headquartered at Fort Pickett, southwest of Richmond--consists of 22 fulltime members of Virginia's Army and Air Guard,
Chipper said.