Hogzilla, monster tree eating machine

[mga]

i happen to catch this on the science channel the other night on the show called "Really Big Things".

awsome machine....supposedly, you can drop a whole tree in there and it comes out ground mulch:

http://www.hogzilla.com/

 

[drivadesl]

I've seen similar ones at the town dump, where they would drop in tree stumps and shoot out piles of mulch, free for the taking.

 

[FLCM]

That's a big tub grinder. You gotta watch out for flying debris. Especially when the stumps go in.

 

[mga]

they're dropping pallets in there as in the picture. i guess anything wood is food for this machine.

however, why not take those wood chips, compress them with a 500 ton press, into rectangular blocks...about the size of firewood, and use that to burn?

just seems like a waste of wood fuel making wood chips.

 

[FLCM]

If you run it through once more it makes great mulch. Most red mulch you can buy at big box stores is shredded pallets.

 

[woodchuck361]

That's a big tub grinder. You gotta watch out for flying debris. Especially when the stumps go in.

+1 yep I have seen them chuck large pieces of wood hundreds of feet in the air if it gets jambed on something or as it snaps a large branch.