Machine For Grinding Eucalyptus Logs

[JungleBiker]

Hi Everyone,

Driving south from Udon I have seen a depot where the "Double A" paper company buys truck loads of eucalyptus logs and then grinds them into small bits for loading on trucks to take them south to their pulp and paper mill. Unfortunately I won't be passing that way again for a couple of months and I interested to know the name and phone number of the company that manufactures the heavy duty machine that does the grinding. I think there are "grinding depots" like this in many other places, so I am just wondering if anyone here happens to live near one and could perhaps make an inquiry about the grinder.

Thanks for any help from anyone.

Best regards,

JB.

[rice555]

Hello JB, I don't know if this is what your looking for, I'm use to the chip mills in N.Cal, OR and WA state. We

burned hog fuel(chips) for steam and electric power in a plywood mill, this a toy in comparison, but they may have bigger. NiMUT Nippon Multi Tech. Steel fabrication, Piping, Hydro/Mechanical Works Main office in BKK 02 322 9175. CM 054 222 920. Lampang 01 322 4384. Lampoon<sp> 09 701 5902.

Picture of magazine cover and picture of part of the add. July 08 issue.

In the same magazine, there are adds for soil test kits small to lab size, Kubota DC60 rice harvester, mix and make your own fertilizer machines, hand refractometer, anemometer, rototiler's and Holland papaya seed and don't forget "how to" raise ells. All for B40.

rice555

[JungleBiker]

Hello JB, I don't know if this is what your looking for, I'm use to the chip mills in N.Cal, OR and WA state. We

burned hog fuel(chips) for steam and electric power in a plywood mill, this a toy in comparison, but they may have bigger. NiMUT Nippon Multi Tech. Steel fabrication, Piping, Hydro/Mechanical Works Main office in BKK 02 322 9175. CM 054 222 920. Lampang 01 322 4384. Lampoon<sp> 09 701 5902.

Picture of magazine cover and picture of part of the add. July 08 issue.

In the same magazine, there are adds for soil test kits small to lab size, Kubota DC60 rice harvester, mix and make your own fertilizer machines, hand refractometer, anemometer, rototiler's and Holland papaya seed and don't forget "how to" raise ells. All for B40.

rice555

Hi Rice555,

Thanks for that. Yes I was looking for something bigger - industrial scale - that can chew up logs rather than branches, but anyhow as you suggest perhaps the same company makes bigger machines or they may know a company that does. Thanks again.

Best regards,

JB.

[ozzydom]

JB, is the machine your referring to ,a debarker or a chipper.?

I have glanced at that operation a few times and judging by the heaps of bark ,it is a debarking and splitting operation , but I could be wrong in that they chip also.

Grinders are also available and are usually used in grinding softwood logs to a fairly standard diameter for tanalising.

[rice555]

Hello all, JB did you mean like this?

http://www.petersonpacific.com/

I use to drive by this place coming into town for supplies each week.

Or are you looking for:

Name SMC 50 HP Low Speed Grinder

Item Number 34142

Category Hogs and Wood Grinders

Manufacturer SMC

Description

SMC 50 HP Low Speed Grinder - 2002 hopper style grinder manufactured by SMC with West Salem insert cutters. Includes 11 to 1 shaft mounted gear drive on the rotor providing a final speed of 300 rpm. Rotor is 36 inches long and powered by 50 HP electric motor. Screen has approximately 1-1/2" openings. Feed opening is 18"x 36". Includes 48" chute. Machine has been operated on softwood waste for about 2 years. New cost approximately $42,500. Item # 34142.

Morrison Knudsen fixed hammer grinder 24 x 36

Item Number 12031

Category Hogs and Wood Grinders

Manufacturer Morrison Knudsen

Description

MORRISON KNUDSEN Wood Hog - 1992 model heavy duty fixed hammer wood hog with 24” x 36” opening. Features 12” wide heavy duty hammers, spiral shaped solid rotor, 1” x 3” rectangular hole screen, sub-base and 125 HP direct motor drive electric motor. Capacity is 9 - 15 tons per hour on bark and around 5 tons per hour on solid wood. Model 36X24-003-WH. Serial # 92510-386-VI. Item # 12031.

rice555

[JungleBiker]

Hi Rice555 and Ozzydom,

Thanks for your posts which I didn't notice until today after our steel fabricating friend kindly bumped this post back to the front page.

Yes those hogs look like what we may need in the coming year. Perhaps when the scale of production increases in the future we may bigger need machines like the ones in the Peterson link you provided.

Ozzydom, I think the big piles are chips of eucalyptus wood which they eventually load onto trucks bound for the papermill - I think in Prachinburi or somewhere in that direction. They may indeed remove the bark prior to chipping, I don't know.

Thanks again.

JB.

[SabahCafeandCinima]

Paper processing is a sophisticated operation, that require specific quality grades of chips to make the product. This is controlled by chipping logs at the mill site where they can control fiber length, color blah blah. Collecting pre-chipped sounds strange to make a quality paper like double-A.

[JungleBiker]

Paper processing is a sophisticated operation, that require specific quality grades of chips to make the product. This is controlled by chipping logs at the mill site where they can control fiber length, color blah blah. Collecting pre-chipped sounds strange to make a quality paper like double-A.

Hi SC&C,

I think the chipping plant that I'm referring to (south of Udon) is owned by Double-A, or at least dedicated to supplying Double A, so I assume they can control quality at that point just as well as they can at the central pulp mill. But I may be wrong - I am just speculating.

Regards,

JB.

[soundman]

Try here. Sorry, website is in Thai only.

[ozzydom]

Hi Rice555 and Ozzydom,

Thanks for your posts which I didn't notice until today after our steel fabricating friend kindly bumped this post back to the front page.

Yes those hogs look like what we may need in the coming year. Perhaps when the scale of production increases in the future we may bigger need machines like the ones in the Peterson link you provided.

Ozzydom, I think the big piles are chips of eucalyptus wood which they eventually load onto trucks bound for the papermill - I think in Prachinburi or somewhere in that direction. They may indeed remove the bark prior to chipping, I don't know.

Thanks again.

JB.

JB In a previous life ,I had a long association with Aus Newsprint Mills who as the name implies ,manufactures news paper and APPM who manufacture fine paper.

All logs and billets are de-barked prior to chipping, many logs are chipped on site in the bush in Oz and sold direct to the chip and paper manufacturers.

Bark is not suitable for paper manufacturer and can contain hazards to the chipper blades such as stones and metal objects in fact since the greenies started driving spikes into standing trees in the hope of damaging logging equipment many mills installed metal detectors in the debarking and chipping lines.

[Badbanker]

Has any one had any luck with http://www.nimut.com/

They have big range of chippers and even a very big one!

BB

PS Does anyone know of a manufacturer of Etan local truck that has a website?

[bruceboy]

Excellent information, thanks!

[drtreelove]

Just noticed your great forum so registered as a new member. I am a retired arborist and urban forestry specialist from San Francisco California USA, living in Chiang Mai.

I don't know about availability in Thailand and haven't seen the Eucalyptus log processing that you speak of, but in California - Euc logs are chipped on site with large chippers or tub grinders then trucked to pulp mills or loaded into shipping containers. Bandit Industries, Vermeer and other manufacturers make a range of chippers and grinders. Attached are some pics of an awesome 18 inch log capacity, off road, rubber-track mounted, remote controlled, Bandit chipper that is owned by Community Tree Service in Watsonville California. Don

MVI_0017.AVI

[JungleBiker]

Thanks everyone!

JB