Bush chopper
A bush chopper is a gardening and landscaping shredder used to chop twigs and branches. With the professional device, the bush chopper is a trailer for a tractor or truck . The required drive power is provided either by a PTO shaft from the engine of the towing vehicle or by a built-in separate motor.
Working method
A gear wheel pulls branches and twigs into a metal funnel. There is a rotating knife in the device that shreds the branches. The wood chips produced are transported to a truck for transport or directly to the vegetation for fertilization .
Since the 1990s there are also electrically operated bush chippers for private use (see shredder (machine) # chopper for shredding garden waste ).
literature
- Anton Olbrich: Wind protection plantings: on behalf of ligniculture . Verlag Schaper, 1949, p. 9 ff . ( Google Books (limited preview) ).