Gear News RETROFIT JEFFREY WOOD & BARK HOGS esigned to clear plugged chutes safely and quickly and to minimize downtime, the new wood and bark hogs from Jeffrey Rader Corporation have been redesigned with Jef- frey Rader’s exclusive EZ Access technology. This new technology allows safe, fast, and easy access to the hogs’ hammers, rotors, and liners. As a result, maintenance operators can now perform routine maintenance with more safety and ease. In addition, the EZ Access technology lets operators remove the hog’s rotors without removing the feed chutes. Jeffrey Rader has redesigned the machine so that it can be easily retrofitted to Jeffrey Rader WB wood hogs. Because this is a ret- rofit, many of the existing components can be reused, minimizing the cost of the retro- fit while providing all of the technical fea- tures of the EZ Access wood and bark hogs. Jeffrey Rader wood and bark hogs are avail- able with a rugged, disc-type standard rotor or with an SS design for difficult applications. Hammers are offered in several designs, in- cluding Jeffrey Rader’s exclusive Duratip hammer with replaceable tips for easy main- tenance. Additional product features include alloy-steel liners that are drilled and tapped for easy maintenance, rotor disc lugs to as- sist with the cutting of stringy material, and Slant-Flow screen grates for long life and optimum capacity in high-wear applications. www.jeffreyrader.com, 1-800-615-9296 (tel), 1-864-476-7510 (fax) BM2 MOISTURE METER ast, accurate, and easy to use, the new Check-Line BM2 Biomass Moisture Meter measures the moisture content of wood chips, bark, wood, straw, Miscan- thus, elephant grass, wood shavings, and sawdust. It allows moisture-related ma- chinery issues to be detected early before serious problems arise. It also helps bio- mass producers, suppliers, and end users AD INDEX Amandus Kahl Beltran Technologies Bliss Industries 6 7 24 Buhler 9 Cardinal Distribution 35 38 CanadianBIOMASS BRUKS MOBILE CHIPPER EXPANDS INTO NORTH AMERICA ruks has introduced a market devel- opment program for its mobile chip- pers for North America, says Blase Grady, vice president of Bruks. Bruks kicked off its effort with live demonstrations at the Oregon Logging Conference in late February 2010. The forwarder-mounted 450-hp drum chipper was mounted on a Valmet 890.3 forwarder provided by Modern Machinery, the Bruks dealer for the Pacific Northwest. Modern Machin- ery has begun marketing the chipper in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Northern California. Power Motive is the dealer for Colorado, and Bruks is working on setting up other dealers across the USA and Canada. The live demo at the Oregon Logging Conference was the first time that many of the logging contractors, timberland owners, and Forest Service people of the Pacific Northwest have seen this combination of equipment, which is a popular way of harvesting biomass energy chips in Europe. The chipper, with its own bin mounted on a forwarder, can travel off-road to spots where traditional equip- ment cannot go. After chipping slash or logs up to 20” in diameter, the unit brings the chips back to roadside and dumps into a chip trailer or container. www.mobilechipper.com, [email protected], 1-877-809-2589 ensure that they are not paying for exces- sive water content. To operate, fill the stainless steel mea- suring chamber with sample material; no prior sample preparation is required. Use the keypad to select the correct ma- terial calibration curve. Common curves are included in the software, or use the customer calibration function for special products. In seconds, sample tempera- ture in Fahrenheit or Celsius, and mois- ture content from 5 to 60%, appear on the large, back-lit, LCD display. A built-in datalogger stores up to 10,000 entries with suppliers’ data and batch numbers. Measurements can be transferred to a computer or printer. An integrated online function allows stored data to be transferred to other third-party programs. The BM2 has a resolution of 0.5% water Continental Biomass Industries 32 Duratech Industries Elmia/World Bioenergy First Union Rail Hurst Boiler Jeffrey Rader 30 31 13 40 content and a calibration ac- curacy of ±1.5%, with automatic temperatur e compensation and self-calibra- tion. Four AA batteries provide power for 900 readings. Gauge menus are available in English, German, French, and Italian. The BM2 is supplied with a sample mea- suring bucket, interface for PC transfer, data link cable, USB/RS-232 adapter, LogMemorizer software, four AA (1.5 V) alkaline batteries, calibration certificate, and operating manual. It can be bundled with an optional digital scale and comes with a two-year warranty. www.checkline.com, 1-800-645-4330 John Deere Keith Manufacturing 2-3 37 Morbark 8 Peterson 39 Teaford Canada 12 West Salem Machinery 18 20 MARCH/APRIL 2010
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