brin
Super Member
Maybe he just careless this once...Sad, how quick it can happen.
California Man Dies After Falling Into Wood Chipper | Fox News
California Man Dies After Falling Into Wood Chipper | Fox News
Man Falls into Wood Chipper...Dies
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om21braz
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I have no experience with the new ones, but the old ones were IMHO just nerve racking to operate. I'd just throw limbs at it. As soon as they touched the cutterhead, they would disappear. No feeder rolls, no safety bar, no OSHA, no brake, etc. A twelve-foot long limb of 2"-3" diameter would be chips in about 1 second. At shutdown it would take several minutes to coast down, big flywheel. They are, at best, a very dangerous piece of equipment to operate.
MossRoad
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Yeah, that happened to a guy here a few years ago. Just tragic. Traumatic for the folks that find the victims, too. 
creekbend
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I have never use one, personally. But I have seen them in use. There was a gigantic one in use at the local landfill in Manatee County, Florida. While I lived there, sometimes I would take materials to that landfill. The machine was around two stories in height and at least 60 feet long. The operators would drop in entire oak and palm trees in it. No one was allowed close to it. I observed it operating at a distance, and it would shake the ground where I was parked in the truck. At the center, there was a round cylinder that rotated with huge immense cutting teeth. I am still amazed in regards to its size and capability, just by my description of it.
Western
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From what you guy's are saying, (how the big ones "self" feed) why in the world would you have a rope anywhere near that contraption? or even be on top of it? I had a small one, home use style, that made me nervous as He##, I wouldn't have even wore a necklace around that little thing.
Tragic though, for what ever the reasons.
Tragic though, for what ever the reasons.
dmccarty
Super Star Member
At least it was quick since he went head first.
Similar accident happened here maybe ten years ago. The guy put in a branch backwards. The limbs where pointing INTO the machine instead of away. A fork branch caught him and pulled him in head first.
I used to drive by the companies office twice a day. The day after the accident they had a help wanted sign out front....
The big tub grinders are awesome to watch work. I talked to an owner once about working on our pile of wood left over from timbering and house site clearing. They had two excavators moving and loading material as fast as they could. I talked with him for maybe 30-60 minutes and in that time the chipped up half of a pile of wood that was about two stories. Just dropped in big oak stumps, grind, grind, grind, gone.
Later,
Dan
Similar accident happened here maybe ten years ago. The guy put in a branch backwards. The limbs where pointing INTO the machine instead of away. A fork branch caught him and pulled him in head first.
I used to drive by the companies office twice a day. The day after the accident they had a help wanted sign out front....
The big tub grinders are awesome to watch work. I talked to an owner once about working on our pile of wood left over from timbering and house site clearing. They had two excavators moving and loading material as fast as they could. I talked with him for maybe 30-60 minutes and in that time the chipped up half of a pile of wood that was about two stories. Just dropped in big oak stumps, grind, grind, grind, gone.
Later,
Dan
troutsqueezer
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The local story was that the rope is what got caught and it somehow went around his neck and the rope decapitated him. Ouch.
LazySusanFarms
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Chipper plus person =
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CompactTractorFan
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creekbend
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You taught me something. I was not aware that they were called Tub Grinders. The one in the video appeared to be mobile. The one at the landfill that I referred to was stationary and much larger, utilizing the same identical principle and mechanisms, but on a larger scale. The landfill was selling the mulch and trailers were being loaded just as in an assembly line. The advancement in size in relation to modern Heavy Equipment, is quite fascinating. Thanks for the info.
