The wood shredder, also known as double shaft shredder or two sharft shredder, is a powerful machine designed to reduce large pieces of wood into smaller wood chips or shreds. It’s commonly used in forestry, landscaping, and recycling industries to process wood waste into manageable sizes for various purposes like mulching, composting, or biomass fuel production. It is one of crusher equipments for raw material preparation in charcoal briquettes production line.
The Structure of Wood Shredder
Hopper: This is where the wood material is fed into the wood shredder.
Cutting Chamber: It contains rotating blades that break down the wood into smaller pieces.
Rotor: The rotor houses the cutting blades and is connected to a powerful motor.
Motor: Provides the necessary power to drive the rotor and blades.
Output Chute: Wood shreds exit through this chute.
Working Principle of Wood Shredder
Feeding: Feed the wood material into the hopper.
Shredding: The motor powers the rotor, which spins the shredding blades inside the cutting chamber at high speeds. As the wood passes through the cutting chamber, the wood material is shredded into small pieces through the comprehensive action of tearing, squeezing, and shearing by the shredding blade.
Discharge: The shredded wood chips or shreds are expelled through the output chute.
Raw Materials
Wood: Including various types of wood waste such as tree limbs, branches, trunks, stumps, pallets, lumber offcuts.
Biomass Material: Including wood chips, sawdust, wood shavings, and wood pellets, agricultural waste, like straw, hay, cornstalks.
Green Waste: Like yard trimmings, grass clippings, leaves, shrubbery, and garden waste.
Plant Debris: Besides wood, wood shredders can shred tree and plant debris such as bushes, hedges, vines, and small to medium-sized trees.
E-Waste: Various electric waste can be shredded into small pieces by two shaft shredder.
Construction and Demolition Waste: Wood shredders can handle wood waste generated from construction and demolition activities, including lumber, plywood, particleboard, and wooden fixtures.
Finished Product
Features of Wood Shredder
- 1. High Quality Blades: With special alloy steel tools, it can easily crush more than 50 materials.
- 2. Large Feeding Port: The combined structure of the extra-thick plate precision processing frame, the large-angle hexagonal column rotating shaft, and the large-diameter sturdy input hopper, allowing for putting large-scale raw materials and continuous feeding of wood material and reducing the need for frequent pauses to reload.
- 3. High-Strength and Stable Bearings: The spindle adopts 40cr quenching and tempering to enhance the stability of the spindle.
- 4. Intelligent Electrical Control System: The electrical control system adopts branded electrical components and an intelligent control system.
- 5. Durable Construction: Wood shredder is built with robust materials such as steel or heavy-duty cast iron to withstand the rigors of shredding dense wood material over extended periods.
- 6. Noise Reduction: Incorporate noise reduction technologies to minimize operational noise levels, improving comfort for operators and reducing disturbance to surrounding areas.
- 7. Safe: Wood shredders are equipped with safety features such as emergency stop buttons, safety guards, and overload protection systems to prevent accidents and injuries.
- 8. Easy to Maintain: low maintenance cost, economical and durable.
Application of Wood Shredder
Forestry and Logging: In forestry operations, wood shredders are used to process logging residues, tree limbs, branches, and other wood waste generated during tree felling and timber harvesting for further processing.
Biomass Energy Production: Shredded wood chips or shreds can be used as feedstock for biomass boilers, cogeneration plants, and pellet mills to generate heat, electricity, or biofuels for residential, commercial, or industrial applications.
Recycling and Waste Management: Wood shredders are used in recycling facilities to process scrap wood, crates, and other wood packaging materials into recyclable materials. Shredded wood can be further processed into particleboard, fiberboard, animal bedding, or fuel pellets, reducing the need for virgin wood resources.
Construction and Demolition Waste: Wood shredders help to manage wood waste generated from construction and demolition projects, including lumber offcuts, plywood scraps, and wooden pallets.
Landscaping and Mulching: Wood shredder is commonly used in landscaping and gardening to create mulch from wood chips or shreds. Mulch helps to suppress weed growth, retain moisture in the soil, regulate soil temperature, and improve soil fertility.
Animal Bedding and Livestock Management: Shredded wood chips or shreds are commonly used as bedding material for livestock, poultry, and pets. Wood bedding provides comfort, insulation, and moisture absorption.
The versatility, efficiency, and environmental benefits of wood shredding make it an essential process for managing wood waste and promoting sustainable resource utilization.
