<div dir="ltr">Good morning, I am not aware of any small chippers (less than 20" diameter capacity) produced in North America that will assuredly produce wood chips <1" in size. Common chippers with sharp knives will produce consistently chips of that size but they have no internal screening that will eliminate occasional oversized pieces. When knives get even just a bit dull, chip quality goes down even more. <div><br></div><div>We have some biomass heating projects using wood chips for fuel and we import Italian made wood chippers that will consistently produce the right specification of chip because they have an internal screening process. <a href="https://www.pezzolato.it/en/">https://www.pezzolato.it/en/</a> We cannot achieve the wood chip size consistently with our brush bandit or vermeer chippers. This video may be helpful to illustrate the problem:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6Cw6KmyGXM&t=8s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6Cw6KmyGXM&t=8s</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>On PEI, there is one Pezzolato wood chipper in operation creating heating fuel, it's operated by (I think) <a href="http://wood4heating.com">http://wood4heating.com</a>. </div><div><br></div><div>I think that it will be up to your local CFIA inspector to approve your chipping and handling process, they may be okay with a conventional wood chipper. </div><div><br></div><div>Vince</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 2:52 PM Hungerford, Mark via CANUFNET <<a href="mailto:canufnet@list.web.net">canufnet@list.web.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi. Mark from city of Winnipeg urban forestry. We use Vermeer brand chippers for chipping ash. Bc 1500 bc1800. Models.<br>
They work fantastic.<br>
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On Apr 29, 2021, at 1:37 PM, Corkum-Gorrill, Jessika via CANUFNET <<a href="mailto:canufnet@list.web.net" target="_blank">canufnet@list.web.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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Can anyone share the make/model of chippers or other equipment they’ve used to chip ash to <1” diameter chips for EAB spread prevention?<br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Vince Rutter<br>ISA Certified Arborist<br><a href="http://www.rutterurbanforestry.ca" target="_blank">www.rutterurbanforestry.ca</a><br>807-627-6201</div></div></div>