Wood Pallet Chipper
The wood pallet chipper is specifically designed to process a variety of wood products, particularly boards, boxes, blocks, and other types of wood. It is commonly used in furniture factories, wood processing plants, and wood recycling plants. It can handle even nailed and irregular wood.
This wood chipper machine takes up little space and is very easy to operate. Not only is it highly efficient and produces high-quality, appropriately sized wood chips, it is also suitable for a wide range of wood raw materials and various wood product industries.
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What is Wood Pallet Chipper?
This chipper converts various wood materials, such as lumber, boards, pallets, boxes, and blocks, into wood chips. It is commonly used in wood pellet mills, biomass fuel processing plants, furniture factories, and various wood product processing plants. For example, when our Australian client came to us to purchase and build a complete wood pellet plant, their raw materials were locally recycled waste pallets, wooden formwork from construction sites, and wood scraps. The wood processing equipment we provided was a wood pallet shredder. The video below is a test run of this equipment, providing a more intuitive understanding of its operation and the finished product.
A wood pallet chipper, also known as a pallet chipper or drum chipper, is a highly efficient machine that quickly reduces large volumes of wood into uniform wood chips. It utilizes an advanced drum chipper design, using high-speed rotating blades to cut irregular wood into standard-sized chips or coarse fragments.
A pallet chipper is not only used in a variety of industries, including wood recycling, board processing, and biomass energy, but can also serve as a core front-end device in wood processing lines. No matter how special or difficult your raw materials are, we offer a wide range of wood chipping equipment to meet your needs, and our technical department will also give you the most professional advice.
RIBPC
Model
75-220
Main Motor Power (kW)
20-32
Number of Hammers
Wood Pallet Chipper: Working Principle & Structure
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The wood pallet shredder is incredibly powerful. RICHI’s technical department selected the finest materials to ensure long-term, stable operation. The chipper’s performance was optimized and refined through extensive testing with various raw materials and numerous solutions. The result is a highly cost-effective and practical chipper.
Working principle of Wood Pallet Chipper:
Wood pallet shredder machine is a heavy-duty chipping equipment that cuts large pieces of wood raw materials such as wooden pallets, logs, wooden strips, templates, etc. into 20-40mm standard wood chips through high-speed rotating knife rollers.
Its main working process is as follows:
- Raw materials (such as scrap wood pallets, planks, and furniture scraps) enter the machine’s feed port via a belt conveyor or manual loading. The machine is equipped with a hydraulic or electric feed roller system to prevent slippage and skipping before entering the crushing chamber, ensuring continuous and stable feeding.
- Once in the crushing chamber, the wood is repeatedly impacted, split, and sheared by hammers or blades driven by the high-speed rotating main shaft. This process resembles a “large-scale mincer,” easily processing even pallets with nails.
- The shredded wood chips are carried by airflow or centrifugal force to the screen area at the bottom of the machine. Screens with different apertures control the final output size (e.g., 30mm, 50mm, 80mm, etc.), allowing for flexible selection based on different downstream applications.
- If the crushed material is excessive or hard, the system automatically adjusts the cutter head speed or reverses the rotation to prevent blockage and extend the life of the cutter heads. Some models also feature hydraulic automatic clearance for quick maintenance.
- Wood chips that have reached the specified size are uniformly discharged from the discharge port and can be directly transported via a belt conveyor to a storage silo, collection truck, or subsequent equipment (such as a rotary dryer machine or biomass pellet mill), facilitating integrated production.
The main structure of the Wood Pallet Chipper
The entire chipper is composed of several main parts, each of which has its own function to ensure the efficient and safe operation of the equipment:
Double-Layered Feed Roller System
Upper and lower feed rollers clamp the wood, ensuring smooth and even feeding of materials such as pallets and boards into the crushing chamber, preventing slippage and rebound.
High-Strength Crushing Rotor
This core component, equipped with multiple sets of wear-resistant hammers, uses high-speed rotation to crush the wood, delivering high efficiency and durability.
Replaceable Screen System
A screen at the bottom controls the discharge size. Unqualified wood chips are crushed until they meet the required size before being discharged.
Hydraulic Opening Mechanism
This allows for quick access to the cover, enabling convenient maintenance, hammer replacement, and material removal, reducing downtime.
Reinforced Liner Structure
A high-strength liner in the crushing chamber effectively protects the equipment from impact wear caused by nail-laden wood and hardwood.
Electronic Safety System
Equipped with an intelligent electrical control cabinet, it features overload protection, automatic alarms, and emergency shutdown functions, ensuring safe and reliable operation.
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In what fields can Wood Pallet Chipper be applied?
Wood pallet shredder machine is a device that efficiently chips large wood such as wooden pallets and waste wood. With good versatility and high reliability, it is widely used in many industries such as wood recycling, biomass energy, and board manufacturing. In RICHI Machinery’s actual projects, this equipment is often used as an important part of the wood pellet line, fuel pellet plant, and board chipping section, helping customers solve problems such as rough raw material processing, low efficiency, and difficult maintenance, and is well received by customers at home and abroad. Below are some of the common applications of this wood chipper machine:
The following are typical application areas of Wood Pallet Chipper:
Wood chip pellet production line
As a pre-treatment equipment before pellet production, it chips waste pallets and scraps into wood chips of uniform size to ensure smooth and efficient pelletizing, and is suitable for RICHI’s various biomass pellet production line configurations.
Biomass boiler and power plant feeding system
It can provide fuel wood chips with moderate particle size for biomass boilers or power plants. It is an ideal solution to replace traditional coal and help achieve green energy transformation.
Wood recycling and resource reuse
Process waste wooden pallets, packaging boxes, scraps, etc. from logistics, construction or packaging industries to improve resource recycling efficiency and reduce waste.
Particleboard and density board factory
Provide stable quality chipping raw materials for wood-based panel manufacturers to meet the material requirements of automated continuous production lines and improve the quality of board forming.
Agricultural and forestry straw coarse crushing pretreatment
In addition to wood, it is also suitable for the initial crushing of fiber materials such as bamboo, reeds, and sugarcane, creating conditions for subsequent crushing or granulation.
Technical features and performance advantages of Wood Pallet Chipper
When processing waste wooden pallets or nail-containing boards, customers are most concerned about the rapid wear of the cutters and the easy jamming of the equipment. To this end, RICHI’s wood pallet shredder not only uses nail-resistant cutters, but is also equipped with an automatic hydraulic feeding system, which can achieve stable and efficient chipping even for wood of different thicknesses and shapes.
1. Strong structure and stable operation
The machine is welded with high-strength steel plates, and the body is strong and durable. It can withstand long-term high-intensity operations and ensure stable operation of the equipment without failure.
2. Good chipping effect and uniform size
The blade is made of specially treated alloy steel, which is very sharp and wear-resistant. It can cut wood into uniform sizes with stable quality.
3. The blade is firmly fixed and safer
The blade is firmly fixed by special bolts and clamping devices, and it is not easy to loosen or deviate, ensuring the safe and stable operation of the machine.
4. Balanced rotation, low noise and low vibration
The knife roller is precisely calibrated and rotates very smoothly without generating loud noise and vibration, which helps to extend the service life of the machine and components.
5. Hydraulic assistance, smooth feeding
The hydraulic system can automatically adjust the position of the upper feeding roller to prevent the wood from getting stuck, sliding or backing up, making the feeding more stable and efficient.
6. Adjustable screen to meet different needs
The aperture of the screen can be customized according to needs, generally 20 to 40 mm, which is convenient for adjusting the size of wood chips and more flexible in application.
7. Convenient operation and maintenance, saving time and effort
The equipment is designed with a hydraulic cover opening function, which makes tool change and maintenance simpler. The overall structure is compact, small in footprint, easy to operate, and low in maintenance cost.
Wood Pallet Chipper Technical Parameters
Understanding the technical parameters of the pallet chipper is the key to choosing the right model and configuration. Different models of wood chipper machine have their own characteristics in terms of feed size, power configuration, number of cutters, etc., which can meet the diverse needs from small operations to large-scale industrial production. The following parameters are for your reference to help you make scientific and reasonable equipment selection according to specific production needs.
| Model | RIBPC 1000*300 | RIBPC 1000*350 | RIBPC 1250*400 | RIBPC 1250*450 | RIBPC 1250*500a | RIBPC 1250*500b | RIBPC 1500*450 |
| Feed Inlet Dimensions (mm) | 1000*300 | 1000*350 | 1250*400 | 1250*450 | 1250*500 | 1250*500 | 1500*450 |
| Main Motor Power (kW) | 75 | 90 | 110 | 132 | 160 | 220 | 220 |
| Feeding Power (kW) | 4*2 | 5.5*2 | 7.5*2 | 11+7.5 | 11+7.5 | 11+7.5 | 11+7.5 |
| Hydraulic Pump Power (kW) | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 2.2 | 2.2 |
| Discharge Conveyor Power (kW) | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
| Number of Hammers | 20 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 28 | 32 | 32 |
Project Cases of Wood Pallet Chipper for Sale
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To help you better understand the practical application of wood pallet shredder, here are some real-world project cases completed by RICHI MACHINERY. These cases cover different countries, raw materials, and production needs, demonstrating the chipper’s flexibility, efficiency, and adaptability in global wood recycling and biomass utilization projects. If you’re interested in more RICHI project cases, feel free to contact us anytime.
1.5–2.5 T/H Wood Pallet Chipper for Sale Vietnam
- Project：Furniture Factory Wood Waste Crushing Project in Vietnam
- Application: Furniture offcuts and scrap wood disposal
- Raw Material: Wood frames, MDF, plywood offcuts
- Output Size: 30–60mm wood chips
- Capacity: 1.5–2.5 T/H
- Core Equipment: small commercial wood chipper, automatic feeding system
- Project Highlight: Helping a large furniture factory achieve efficient crushing of daily scrap and waste wood. The resulting wood chips are directly used for heating in the factory’s boilers.
3–4 T/H Wood chipper machine for Sale Poland
- Project：Wood Pallet Recycling Plant Project in Poland
- Application: Waste wood pallet recycling
- Raw Material: Used wooden pallets, crates, broken packing boards
- Output Size: 20–50mm wood chips
- Capacity: 3–4 T/H
- Core Equipment: wood pallet shredder, conveyor, magnetic separator
- Project Highlight: Used pallets and wood packaging materials to process into saleable wood chips for local biomass power plants, achieving environmentally friendly recycling.
4–5 T/H Wood chipper machine for Sale Canada
- Project：Biomass Pellet Production Line Pre-Processing in Canada
- Application: Wood chip preparation for biomass pellets
- Raw Material: Waste pallets, tree, branches, planks
- Output Size: 20–40mm chips (for pelletizing)
- Capacity: 4–5 T/H
- Core Equipment: wood pallet chipper for trees, hammer mill, pellet mill
- Project Highlight: Utilized as the first pre-processing equipment in a complete biomass pellet production line, this equipment ensures that the raw material particle size meets pelletizing requirements.
5–6 T/H Wood chipper machine for Sale Brazil
- Project：Sawmill Waste Management Project in Brazil
- Application: Processing slabwood and wood offcuts
- Raw Material: Slabs, edging, bark, rejected boards
- Output Size: 20–60mm
- Capacity: 5–6 T/H
- Core Equipment: forestry wood chipper, screening system
- Project Highlight: Sawmill waste management projects will shred unsaleable scraps into wood chips for sale as fuel and compost, improving resource utilization.
Frequently Asked Questions About Wood Pallet Chipper
What wood materials can the wood chipper machine process? I have a lot of scrap pallets, boxes, and branches. I wonder if it can be used with this equipment?
Wood pallet shredder is very suitable for a wide range of applications, including the scrap pallets and boxes you mentioned, as well as branches, logs, wood strips, building formwork, and furniture scraps.
Is the chip size fixed? I need 20-40mm chips for biomass pellets. Can this be accommodated?
The chip size is not fixed and is primarily controlled by the equipment’s screen. The screen aperture is typically customizable within the 20-40mm range, which is just right for your biomass pellet needs. If you require other sizes, the screen can be adjusted to meet your specific needs, providing great flexibility.
There may be nails in the scrap pallets I’m processing. Will this damage the cutting tool or cause the equipment to jam?
Don’t worry. The equipment features nail-resistant cutters specifically designed for nail-containing boards, reducing wear on the cutters. It also features an automatic hydraulic feed system that automatically adjusts the clamping force based on the material size, preventing jamming, slipping, or backing out. This ensures stable operation even when processing nail-containing wood.
What is its processing efficiency? For example, how many tons of wood can it process per hour? Is it suitable for small and medium-sized factories like ours?
The capacity of the wood chipper mill varies depending on the model, ranging from small and medium-sized to large. For example, in actual projects, some can process 2-3 tons per hour (such as a furniture factory project in Vietnam) and some can process 5-6 tons per hour (such as a sawmill project in Brazil). Small and medium-sized factories can find a suitable model, and the selection can be based on your production needs.
Why Choose RICHI Machinery?
When choosing a wood pallet chipper, we prioritize the ability to easily transform a wide range of wood materials into wood chips, without requiring any effort or time. This is what makes a truly reliable and practical chipper. I can assure you that our chippers won’t suffer from the same issues as other vendors: producing chips of varying sizes, damage to the chipper due to nails, or even downtime. More importantly, as a professional equipment manufacturer and designer, we can customize a wide range of wood processing equipment to meet your needs and provide a comprehensive, lifetime after-sales service system.
Efficient and comprehensive after – sales service:
RICHI Machinery has a comprehensive and well – established after – sales service system. It has multiple overseas logistics routes to ensure that wood chipper arrives safely and on time. Later on, if there’s any abnormality with the customer’s machine, we’ll provide after – sales staff to offer preliminary solutions right away. And within 48 hours, we’ll send professional technicians to the site for service, minimizing the customer’s downtime.
Scientific customized services:
We have a diverse and rich product system. With over 200 products, we can meet the needs of various wood production customers. The company is equipped with a professional R&D and design team. According to your actual situation, whether it is a small wood factory or a large industrial wood processing factory, we will design personalized solutions for you based on the actual situation.
Excellent equipment quality:
RICHI Machinery has won many international authoritative certifications. The company has passed BV certification, ISO9001 International Quality Management System Certification, European CE Certification, and Swiss SGS Certification, among others. You can find us on YouTube.
