Papercreters: [papercreters] Re: Wood Chipper for papercrete

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

[papercreters] Re: Wood Chipper for papercrete

I own a 10 hp chipper/shredder, it came with fiberglass catch bag. It
does work pretty good and does have to be emptied often, the thing I
don't like about it is the noise, I can't hear myself think when it's
running, and I think all my neighbors wish I would go somewhere else and
do that. Be sure and just throw a few pages in at a time, if you throw
in the whole book it could damage the chipper

Bob the builder

--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "thelandyachtaustin"
<thelandyacht@...> wrote:
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> OK. So a couple of days ago I got around to a test-run of USING the
chipper, although I can't get around to makin crete yet...it's been
rainin almost continually for 2 weeks.
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> On the only dry day we saw last week, I got around to my friend's
place with a couple of old phone books. (the thick yellow pages).
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> We fired up the chipper...We tossed the phonebooks in the hopper...and
watched shredded paper FLY!
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> Oddly, a few pages made it through almost completely intact.
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> From the toss to the end of the experiment (for each book) took about
2 seconds.
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> I guess this means the most difficult part will be findin a way to
turn the "cloud" of shredded paper into more of a "pile". Maybe a huge
canvas sack tied onto the output of the chipper? I'd have to empty it
every few minutes but that seems the most sensible.
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