[CANUFNET] Chippers for EAB Management

Fri Apr 30 11:14:43 EDT 2021

Great information Vince!

Thanks for sharing it with us all.

Philip

Philip van Wassenaer, B.SC., MFC

Urban Forest Innovations Inc.

1331 Northaven Drive

Mississauga ON L5G 4E8

Tel:  (905) 274-1022

Cell: (647) 221-3046

Fax: (905) 274-2170

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From: CANUFNET <canufnet-bounces at list.web.net> On Behalf Of Vince Rutter via CANUFNET
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Subject: Re: [CANUFNET] Chippers for EAB Management

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.  

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.  https://www.pezzolato.it/en/  We cannot achieve the wood chip size consistently with our brush bandit or vermeer chippers.  This video may be helpful to illustrate the problem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6Cw6KmyGXM <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6Cw6KmyGXM&t=8s> &t=8s

On PEI, there is one Pezzolato wood chipper in operation creating heating fuel, it's operated by (I think) http://wood4heating.com.  

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.  

Vince

On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 2:52 PM Hungerford, Mark via CANUFNET <canufnet at list.web.net <mailto:canufnet at list.web.net> > wrote:

Hi. Mark from city of Winnipeg urban  forestry.  We use Vermeer brand chippers  for chipping ash.  Bc 1500 bc1800. Models.
They work fantastic.

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On Apr 29, 2021, at 1:37 PM, Corkum-Gorrill, Jessika via CANUFNET <canufnet at list.web.net <mailto:canufnet at list.web.net> > wrote:

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Hello,

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?

Thank-you!
Jessika

Jessika Corkum-Gorrill
Forest and Environmental Officer

City of Charlottetown
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