WHATS AT STAKE
A woodchipper, as its name implies, is a machine that transforms tree limbs, branches, and trunks into chips. A powerful engine turns a rotating drum set with blades or knives that cut the wood. The combination of speed and torque allows commercial woodchippers to pull in branches at 20 inches per second. As an operator manually pushes brush and tree limbs through the infeed chute or hopper collar into the hopper, the feed mechanism and drum blades grab anything within reach.WHATS THE DANGER
DANGERS OF WOODCHIPPER MACHINES- Two-thirds of woodchipper-related fatalities occur when workers get caught and crushed by […]
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