Wood Chipper Machine

RICHI wood chipper machine converts logs, branches, and factory wood leftovers into standard commercial chips through an automated cutting process. This heavy-duty system fits biomass pellet production, turning loose forest waste into premium reusable raw materials for diverse industrial setups.

Product Overview

This heavy-duty wood chipper machine operates as the primary pretreatment solution to process irregular tree branches, roots, slab slabs, and veneer waste smoothly. The balanced mechanical layout cuts messy materials into clean wood chips featuring uniform lengths and excellent physical quality for commercial storage.

RICHI Machinery integrates flexible hydraulic auxiliary components and centralized control systems to ensure smooth operation during long, continuous factory shifts. As the essential front-end choice for biomass pellet manufacturing lines, this versatile machinery model satisfies small regional workshops and massive industrial operations perfectly.

Capacity: 3-18 T/H

Power: 4-110 KW

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Technical Structure of Wood Chipper Machine

This professional wood chipper combines several heavy-duty structural assemblies that work together in perfect harmony to handle massive timber loads smoothly and maintain stable material sizing during long operating shifts.

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Feeding Mechanism

The feeding mechanism utilizes a powerful forced-intake structural design available in horizontal or inclined configurations to receive large raw material batches smoothly.

The spacious rectangular feed chute aligns with the internal knife roller path to prevent mechanical bridging when loading messy branches or wide slab waste. Heavy internal rollers pull the timber chunks forward at a highly consistent speed without sudden slippage or material back-ups. This steady intake action ensures a perfectly balanced processing volume for the cutting assemblies.

Cutting Cylinder

The cutting cylinder serves as the primary processing heart of the wood chipper machine and carries two specialized high-alloy steel cutting blades securely.

Custom-hardened locking bolts and heavy-duty pressure wedges clamp these sharp knifes onto the rotating drum body to prevent loose movements during high-speed actions. The balanced assembly rotates rapidly without physical vibration or tracking alignment drift to keep your output sizes perfectly uniform.

This rigid installation guarantees excellent cutting accuracy and long-term security.

Hydraulic Control

The hydraulic control assembly incorporates a manual oil pump unit linked directly to the heavy upper steel enclosure doors for easy workshop maintenance. Operators open or close the heavy top cover safely to replace worn blades or modify the cutting clearances within minutes.

The matching electrical control cabinet regulates the main motor startups, emergency shutdowns, and intake conveyor speeds through a centralized interface. This smart panel manages operational metrics automatically to protect your staff.

Rigid Frame

The wood chipper machine utilizes a rigid frame made of thick high-strength structural steel plates welded into a single solid base to support the moving components effortlessly. This heavy-duty foundation absorbs high operational forces and resists physical distortion when processing thick tree stumps or dense logging waste.

An independent automatic discharge conveyor attaches to the bottom gate to transport fresh wood chips out of the machine house continuously. This layout links with downstream processing systems to enable efficient assembly line workflows.

Feeding Mechanism

Cutting Cylinder

Hydraulic Control

Rigid Frame

Wood Chipper Machine Technical Parameters

RICHI Machinery has a wide range of commercial wood chipper for sale. Each model features factory-verified performance metrics to perfectly satisfy your specific production capacities and budget targets.

Model	W-Drum-215	W-Drum-216	W-Drum-218
Feeding Size(mm)	160*400	230*590	300*680
Number of blade (pic)	2	2	2
Rotated Speed (r/min)	590	590	650
Capacity(t/h)	3-5	8-10	14-18
Main Motor Power(kW)	4-45	4-45	4-110
Feeder Power(kW)	(2.2-3)*2	(3-4) *2	(4-5.5) *2
Oil Pump Power(kW)	1.5	1.5	1.5
Transportation Power(kW)	3	3	4
Weight(kg)	2990	5030	7000
Dimension(mm)	14701550970	180019001210	220021501500

Operational Principles of Wood Chipper Machine

This automated wood chipper shredder utilizes powerful feed rollers and a high-speed knife drum to reduce bulky logs into uniform commercial chips through a continuous cutting sequence.

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Forced Infeed

Internal feed rollers grab incoming timber logs or loose forest branches firmly from the intake chute.

This floating intake mechanism adjusts its height automatically to pull varying material thicknesses into the processing zone smoothly.

The steady pulling action prevents machine slippage or material jamming during busy shifts, delivering a consistent wood feed into the cutting chamber of the powerful wood chipper machine.

Precision Impact

The heavy-duty knife drum rotates rapidly under powerful motor drives while working alongside fixed counter-knives and structural comb plates.

These components cut the passing timber blocks into neat, uniform chips through continuous high-speed impact forces. Oversized wood chunks stay inside the drum chamber for a secondary trim until they pass through the sizing screen holes.

Automatic Output

The qualified wood chips drop through the bottom screen grid and enter the integrated discharge conveyor system immediately.

This automated transport framework moves the fresh commercial chips to your designated storage piles or downstream auxiliary equipments without manual assistance.

The complete cycle operates continuously to keep your factory floor perfectly clean and efficient.

Key Advantages of Wood Chipper Machine

Investing in our industrial wood chopper machine brings outstanding processing benefits to your facility by combining broad material flexibility with a highly durable structural layout to lower your operational costs.

Material Flexibility

This versatile industrial wood chipper machine processes diverse timber materials without requiring pre-sorting steps on your production floor.

It handles irregular forest leftovers, furniture factory offcuts, and green yard trimmings smoothly to maximize local resource utilization. Your business can purchase cheap local wood waste instead of expensive fresh logs, reducing raw material expenses while eliminating waste accumulation issues completely.

This stable processing framework helps small industrial plants manage various challenging wood input streams efficiently while lowering their overall operations overhead significantly during continuous manufacturing seasons.

Uniform Quality

The adjustable blade gaps and high-speed cutting drum produce uniform wood chips that meet strict market criteria easily.

Your commercial output matches the exact sizing demands of paper mills, particleboard manufacturers, and biomass pellet factories perfectly. Eliminating irregular chunks removes the need for extra screening steps, saving your company substantial labor hours and secondary processing costs.

This continuous quality assurance delivers premium production standards automatically, which allows factory managers to satisfy strict industry supply contracts while increasing their total manufacturing efficiency across every production shift.

Rugged Body

The main frame incorporates thick high-strength steel plates and wear-resistant alloy blades to withstand severe mechanical shocks effortlessly.

This heavy-duty construction works alongside stable hydraulic systems to minimize component wear and prevent accidental operational breakdowns. Your plant can run long production shifts continuously with very few emergency maintenance stops, keeping your daily manufacturing targets stable.

The durable design extends equipment lifespan considerably, empowering modern timber processing factories to maintain maximum productivity and ensure steady operational security under the most demanding industrial working conditions.

Scalable Capacity

RICHI Machinery provides a diverse selection of wood chipper machine for sale, with equipment sizes ranging from three to eighteen tons per hour to match your exact business scale.

Small regional workshops can select compact models to minimize their total investment costs while large energy plants can install high-power configurations completely. This broad commercial graduate line always matches your precise financial budget and output goals perfectly.

The specialized layout optimizes workflow efficiency, helping global producers step up manufacturing capabilities smoothly while securing highly dependable performance for diverse high-volume processing demands.

Global Case Study

RICHI Machinery has deployed its high-efficiency wood chipper machine models across diverse international markets, helping commercial clients turn messy timber waste into valuable production assets.

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Wood Chipper Machine Project in Nigeria

A forestry enterprise in Nigeria faced severe waste accumulation issues. They needed a reliable pretreatment setup to process this messy wood into useful raw materials for biomass fuel production. We supplied our W-Drum-216 wood chipper model to match their specific medium-scale output targets perfectly. This automated system cleared their storage yards rapidly and secured a steady ingredient supply for local pellet mills.

Wood Processing Plant Project in Thailand

A large lumber processing facility in Thailand generated massive amounts of wood slabs, trimmings, and scrap veneers every day during sheet manufacturing shifts. We recommended our heavy-duty W-Drum-218 model wood chipper machine to accelerate their recycling speed. The spacious intake gate swallows wide sheet scraps effortlessly, while the high-speed drum maintains an impressive output of fourteen to eighteen tons per hour. This asset enhanced their workshop safety and created a profitable new revenue stream.

Wood Chipper Machine Project in Bangladesh

An independent paper mill in Bangladesh required an absolute guarantee of uniform wood chip sizes to protect the paper pulp quality during chemical cooking phases. RICHI Machinery integrated our precise W-Drum-215 model into their material preparation section to resolve this quality challenge. The equipment maintains excellent cutting accuracy, delivering highly uniform chips that satisfy strict paper manufacturing specifications perfectly.

Biomass Fuel Plant Project in Kenya

A renewable energy plant in Kenya wanted to process mixed local hardwoods and brushwood into premium feedstock for biomass boiler fuel manufacturing. We provided our adaptable W-Drum-216 wood chipper machine configuration to handle this tough material mix safely. The automated system adjusts to diverse wood densities smoothly and delivers consistent cutting results without motor strain. This dependable performance provides a solid foundation for their full daily biomass fuel processing goals completely every year.

Application Scope of Wood Chipper Machine

This versatile wood chipper shredder for sale operates efficiently across diverse industrial environments, handling multiple timber waste varieties to supply essential materials for renewable energy and manufacturing sectors.

Industry Applications

Biomass Fuel Processing: Used for raw material pretreatment sections in biomass pellet fuel manufacturing industries. Machine fits initial crushing setups to prepare uniform wood fiber for downstream equipment.

Paper Manufacturing Plants: Applied in wood chip preparation and processing stages within various paper milling factories. System works in material intake areas to deliver consistent fibrous pulp raw materials.

Panel Board Production: Used for flake and fiber preparation sections in particleboard and fiberboard manufacturing lines. It fits heavy-duty industrial processing environments to handle bulk timber feedstocks.

Processed Materials

Forestry Logging Residues: Handles harvested logs, roots, tree forks, and other natural forestry waste. The wood chipper machine fits heavy-duty cutting stages to process raw whole trees directly.

Woodworking Factory Waste: Applied in recycling wood slabs, strips, and veneer residues from furniture manufacturing plants. It handles thin or irregular production offcuts inside timber processing workshops efficiently.

Urban Greenery Waste: Supports size reduction of waste wood matter from city landscaping and orchard trimming. Application covers municipal organic waste management sectors requiring high-efficiency volume reduction.

Finished Chip Uses

Standard Raw Pretreatment: Used for material standardization in medium and small scale wood processing workshops. Dried or green chips fit standard sizing screens before chemical or mechanical treatments.

Biomass Line Matching: Applied as essential front-end feeding stock for large-scale biomass pellet production lines. Finished chips fit specialized conveyors leading to drying and fine grinding units.

Timber Recycling Systems: Used for centralized waste material regeneration in commercial scrap wood recycling enterprises. The outputs fit standard storage yards to undergo further bio-energy transformation stages.

Buyer’s Guide & Support Center

All your questions are answered here! Below are answers to frequently asked questions about the wood chipper machine, providing you with comprehensive answers.

Can this machine process old construction timber that contains metal nails?

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You can definitely feed this wood chipper old formwork and scrap building timber that has a few small nails in it. Honestly, it is a super practical setup for everyday construction wood recycling. Just keep in mind that if your raw material is loaded with big metal bolts or heavy hinges, it is best to do a quick manual sort first. Doing that simple check keeps your blades sharp, protects your wear parts from getting beat up, and keeps the whole machine cutting smoothly day after day.

Different manufacturing sectors require distinct chip sizes, can we adjust the final output dimensions easily?

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You can easily change the size of your wood chips to meet the exact standards of paper mills, pellet lines, or board factories. All your operators have to do is adjust the spacing of the blades or swap out the bottom sizing screen, and you are good to go. The whole adjustment process is really straightforward and doesn’t require any complicated machine makeovers. It makes it incredibly simple for your workshop to switch up products and target new buyers whenever you need to.

Are there strict limitations regarding the maximum thickness or length of the incoming wood?

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The machine works best when you feed it wood that fits its standard design limits. Because of that, it cannot handle massive logs thicker than 350 millimeters, or super thin scraps under 5 millimeters, or pieces shorter than 250 millimeters. Shoving oversized chunks into the chute can really strain the main motor. On the flip side, tiny wood pieces might slip right past the knives without getting cut properly, which ruins your size uniformity. For the cleanest output, just stick to the recommended sizes.

What comes with the standard package for the small wood chipper?

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Our small wood chipper for sale arrives ready to work, including the main chipping unit, hydraulic system, control panel, and feed conveyors. No extra add-ons are needed to start processing. For future expansion into a full recycling line, we can also integrate high-volume conveyors or dryers.

Which mechanical areas should our workshop maintenance team inspect regularly to prevent wear?

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To keep your machine running strong for years, your team just needs to focus on three main areas, the cutting blades, the hydraulic oil setup, and the main shaft bearings. We highly recommend checking blade sharpness every day. Keeping them sharp means your motor doesn’t have to work as hard and prevents the wood from tearing. Also, remember to top off the hydraulic pump oil and clear out any packed sawdust from inside the cutting chamber once a week to give your bearings a break.

Is the wood chipper machine operational interface difficult for new workers to master, and do you offer field training?

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The control system is actually incredibly simple. The button layout is clear and intuitive, so new operators usually get the hang of it after just a few test runs. RICHI Machinery won’t just leave you hanging either, as we provide complete on-site installation, machine calibration, and hands-on training for your crew. Plus, we back you up with a detailed, easy-to-read manual that covers daily operations and quick troubleshooting tips, giving your team total confidence from shift one.

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