W-W Grinder Renegade 250 Chipper
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Comments (109)Well, here's my experience... I have had the Mackissic 12PT10 for about 7 or 8 years or so now... I primarily bought this model hoping to shred my crazy jungle full of palm fronds and giant bird of paradise here in So. Cal. First of all this hammermill chipper/shredder works awesome for any woody type material... it just eats em up without any problems at all.. The circular knife shredder/hopper portion of the unit works awesome for long branches also. As for wet stuff like palm fronds the hammermill can work fairly well, but you gotta have a system down, otherwise the thing will just get clogged up with a bunch of wet mush. Another problem with palm fronds is that they can wrap around the shaft and bind it up fairly easily... Don't put the fronds in the hopper, it will bind and cause problems. Steps to keep this thing from clogging or binding.. 1. the metal screen that comes with 1 to 2 inch holes is no good for palm fronds and wet materials.. I ended up cutting out the holes so that they were about 3 inches or so with my handy grinder. Bigger holes in the screen is better, but can't just remove screen because the fronds will just shoot out and not get shredded at all, so just use a screen with giant holes. Works waaaay better. 2. It's best not to throw full length palm fronds in the hammermill, it will slow it down.. Recommend cutting them first into 12 or 16 inch lengths first before shredding them.. Same with the giant bird of paradise leaves/stems. Note: recently I have been using an electric lawnmower to shredd my giant bird paradise leaves/stems... it will shredd em so dang fast.. just tilt the lawn mower up and open the side exhaust/bag connection shoot and feed the giant leaves (stems first). Whatever is left at the end can easily be thrown into the 12PT10.. 3. Also after a few years, the hammermills do get a bit dull. Just take a cheap 4" carbon fiber grinding disk and sharpen up the edges of each of those small steel hammers.. Doesn't take long. Just remove the screen and you can sharpen them up while they are still mounted on the machine. My yard has about 50 palm trees and 20 giant birds that I need to tend too myself along with tons of other tropicals, so this 12PT10 has come in real handy for creating my super mulch pile.. Beets putting out 12 or 15 cans each week overfull of fronds and cuttings....See MoreLeaf Grinder Suggestions??
Comments (11)Each method of grinding has it's benefits and it's drawbacks. Even the act of grinding could be seen as "bad" when you think about the energy it uses-the gasoline with a lawn mower or chipper type grinder or gas powered type of weed eater. The electricity used in a flowtron (what I have been known to use from time to time)or that style weed eater or chipper grinder. Plus the air pollution involved in using gas or burning coal at the power plants that make the electricity. And there is your own energy and time used to grind up said leaves/grass clippings/straw/hay/paper stuffs/food wastes or whatever else some people feel the need to grind. A lawn mower (which I have also used from time to time))is good for grinding huge amounts of leaves, but you'll need a lot leaves to make up for the scattering and tremendous mass reduction and the need to rake or vacuum the stuff back up. A chipper grinder will give the same effect but is somewhat more expensive to purchase and with a lawnmower you can cut your grass as well as grind leaves. A flowtron allows you to contain the grindings just like a weed eater in a trash can but it can be dusty and its best if you only grind leaves cuz small sticks wear out the nylon string faster, but doing it that way at least means no need to sift/screen your compost when it is finished, if screened compost is your thing. Some mechanical grinding methods are at least a little loud but most are deafening. If you want you could just wait for your compost to cold compost and you won't need to grind or turn or fluff, it just takes time or you could make hot compost and allow the heat to brake apart the leaf particles or as a real professor told me :"The heat acts on the organic matter the same way heat in a crock pot makes the food in it softer and more apt to fall apart". but you do have to fluff or turn it or find some way to put oxygen into the mass (if it is a home owner type pile less than 4x4x4). If you have a pile that's about 10x10x10 then you won't have to turn it to get it hot and keep it hot. but you'll probably need a bobcat to handle/harvest it. is that too much info? I usually skip the really wordy stuff that some people post here. IALBTC...See Morechippewa chipper
Comments (2)I once had another device of theirs and I never found any info on it. From general searching, it appears that Sears or MTD might have a little info on some of their devices but I wouldn't expect parts. I found an exploded view on something that probably wasn't your unit. I would try to determine how to remove the blade and sharpen it yourself....See MoreWW Grinder Inc, Chipper/Shredder Question
Comments (50)My name is Patrick Perry I own ‘A Worm’s Tale’ in Jacksonville Florida, Coos Bay Oregon, Cedar City Utah, Vancouver British Columbia and other locations. We are the largest producer of organic worm castings in the world. I live in Salt Lake City, but I evaluate each location every year. I have been using WWGrinder, TroyBilt, Craftsman, MTD and other chipper shredders for over 30 years. I prefer the basic WWGrinder design that has been coppied by others. I currently have over 20 machines that work well. I like extra heavy made flails with the exit screens these machines use for reducing the size of materials. After shredding, we sift using an expensive 1/8” trommel and reshred the larger materials. A worms mouth is 1/40 of an inch, so we regrind all shredded materials after they pass through a 1/8” screen. We also have at least 10 commercial grinders; we prefer burr grinders. We stock parts and know who manufactures parts for all these shredders. We usually buy hundreds of flails, chipper knives and have 10 screens of one size custom made at a time (1.5”, .75”, .25”, 125”); they usually cost $150 each. At each location we have mechanics that overhaul and maintain our shredders. We also have HUGE custom built chipper shredders that output material smaller than 1/8” If you need advice, parts or want to sell a working or broken machine, we buy and sell them after reconditioning. Most of the chipper shredders with exit screens are no longer made in the USA. The Chinese replacements are cheaply made with inferior steel and parts; they do not work very well; parts and exact engines become unavailable very quickly. Most people throw them away when they break. We keep a bone yard of obsolete machines for parts if you want to discard one and help others to repair their machines. We believe organic nutrients are the healthiest way to live and we encourage shredding organic materials for growing nutritional foods. (385) 202-4446 texts with a picture is preferred...See Morestevemar36_epix_net
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