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@@enlightenedrogue2728 not sure of a hard figure but it’s deafening.

@@grindersandheavyiron1741 Thank you. It's not in any of the manufacturers literature either. I figured that was why. Was thinking about buying but my municipality has a hard decibel limit of 70 and from the video I think the machine is well over the limit.

@@enlightenedrogue2728 oh yeah it’s way more than 70 db. I don’t know of any that would be 70 unless you went electric or had massive mufflers.

@@techman9634 yes sir, the truck is in Harrisonburg. The bed doesn’t dump but I have seen people modify them to do it. It has a PTO to run the winch which could be modified to run a dump cylinder I believe.

I appreciate the feedback Sir

Thanks Steph

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Amen, I must have missed this class in school ;) Theory and practice are two different animals.

Thanks for watching

Thank you very much:)

Back from the dead ;)

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Thanks Zach!

Thanks Ma’am ;)

Yes Sir, this one took forever to get up but the others will be much faster and informative. Stay tuned

Thanks, glad you liked it

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Great question. I wondered the same thing before working here. Excavators are the work horse of these operations but their big downfall is the logs have to 1) be parallel with the thumb/bucket to pick it up and 2)the excavator has to be perfectly situated to then load those logs on the infeed chain. Knucklebooms are awesome because you can spin the grapple 360 so no matter where the log is, you can grab it. It’s also handy to inspect a log quickly by spinning it for metal.

@@grindersandheavyiron1741 Thank you for your response!

No sir, that machine is called a stacker. The purpose is to stockpile the material in a cost effective way. If you didn't use one, it'd take maybe an hour or so before the material backs up to the main conveyor and you'd have to shut down. With that stacker, you may be able to stockpile 800 yards in one spot without moving your grinder. It's a lot cheaper to run one of those than to have a guy on a loader or excavator moving the material away as well. Some clever operations add a cross belt magnet to the stacker. There's no way to avoid hitting metal during the first grind but for the metal that gets through, the cross belt magnet will also pull the metal out so on the next pass, you're not hitting the same metal again.

Like most people around this type of equipment, I've had some close calls. The main thing running grinders and what not is the material or parts getting thrown. The mills run so fast and violent when something goes wrong, it goes really wrong. In one of the videos where I'm standing on a pile a decent ways away, a chunk of wood gets ejected and almost hits me. I have to duck which you can see in the video. As far as miserable days at work stories, I had a grinder that was tracked and blew a hydraulic line going to the final drive in the middle of winter. It was in such a bad spot when it blew that professional mechanics came and turned down the work. I had to chisel frozen mud for three days just to get under the machine where I could change the line myself. I worked by myself at this time. This industry builds character to say the least.

@@grindersandheavyiron1741 Thank you for this. As someone who is considering going into the industry this is helpful

@@WascallyWabbits I am working on a new video I hope to put out in a week or two. It'll be lessons learned and advice about the industry having started, and then losing, my business 5 years later. I learned a ton the hard way but unfortunately, it was too little too late. My goal is to help encourage people to take the leap if they're considering becoming an business owner, but to also prevent anyone from repeating the same mistakes I made. If you have any questions in the meantime, please let me know. I always love to talk shop about the mulch world.

I think that's a wonderful idea and thank you! I haven't put any videos out in quite a while and I need to start again. I had my own mulch business and then I worked at a biomass yard so it used to be easier to make videos, but now I'm in a different industry so it's harder to make my own content. I am currently in the works of making a video that I'll post soon specifically about the business side of running a mulch business. I'll do your idea after that. Keep the ideas coming, they're appreciated.

When I was there at this demo, no, but I could see the potential for thin green sapling trees getting wrapped around the shafts

Yeah I feed one everyday that is wore out and you can only run certain material through it without it clogging up then you have to crawl inside and clean it out. Personally I don’t think it’s one of the best designs but I guess it gets the job done.

I think shredders have unbelievable potential, especially ones like the Doppstadt Inventhor 9, but they need to find a way to force bigger material to get chewed up. All of them, and especially 2 shafts, just have the wood bounce around. They're great at brush but mulch yards get tons of chunkwood and they're just too slow in my opinion

Harrisonburg, VA

Harrisonburg, VA Asking $14,200

Harrisonburg, VA

Harrisonburg, VA

haha yeah I saw that too.

Surprised they didn't edit it out. My thoughts were wtf 😊.

New this machine is $1,000,000 usd, used it’s $350-450k usd if it has 5,000 hrs. They’re veryyyyyy expensive to maintain

I understand your point but if you haven't worked around these machines before, that is extremely dangerous to do. If one of the teeth or chunks of wood fire out "which they do regularly", it would kill you. In fact, in one of my videos you can see me actually duck when a firewood size piece came directly at me and I was almost hit. I wish I could have gotten a straight on shot but it was simply too dangerous. Sorry

The wood chips are used to fire a boiler in a power plant instead of coal

I would love to but recently I switched industries over to construction and it's hard to find the time. Once I get settled in I will certainly try

And thank you

Agreed, very hard on the chain deck

@@grindersandheavyiron1741 Exactly. And a third are bouncing off the end because of the velocity. Just because you can drive it…