Woodchipper with grinder

• Back in mid 2013 Ritlee started to make their first wood chipper machine which can also grind the wood chips it produces to process these chips into a consistancy and form size ideal for cattle feed

• Back in early 2016 during a real bad drought,  we sold our first batch of chippers with grinders to a group of farmers in the Senekal area where we chipped and ground Vaalbos
  • We demoed to a group of farmers on on Willie Moolman’s farm in Stella.
  • The event was extremely successful, Senwes Co operative was also present and testing and results conducted on Vaalbos proved successful.
  • From this demo 7 units were ordered and delivered within 4 to 6 weeks from order.
  •  Willie is a Dairy Farmer and still uses this practice today. This demonstration resulted in the first 6 units been sold into the area.Click here to see a analysis of Vaalbos and other bush analised by reputable institutions>

    • • Analysis Vaalbos, karee, SWDoring

      • Analysis Vaalbos HaakenSteek Cedara

Ritlee 225 early chipper chipping and grinding Vaalbos

Pelletising machines

All that has been chipped and ground and allowed to lie for some 24 hours is then fed into the feeding hopper.

Promo of Ritlee pelletising machine

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A further advantage of our wood chipper with grinding:

Both our 225 wood chipper with grinder and our Model 100 with grinder can grind down hard and soft material like nut shels into a calibrated “powder”

Video of Mac Shells being ground through Ritlee model 100 with grinder!

Up in Namibia manny of our customers chip and grind Kameeldoring pods.– The cattle really love this as a feed.

Kameeldoring Pods

After Grinding

Kameel Doring Pods after Grinding – a favourite for Cattle

In the Nut industry application.

Macadamian Nut shells after grinding!

Trailer unit doing its thing!

Macadamian Nut shells after grinding!

In the cattle feed application:

Chipping and Grinding swart haak

Chipping and grinding Ouhout

Ritlee 225 early chipper chipping and grinding Vaalbos

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When using black wattle as bush feed, Farmers have reported:

• a better classification level for slaughter price after 5 days on Black Wattle – 1 level improvement of the available 5 levels.
• Higher calving percentage (Kraal cattle 6 weeks on Black wattle them Bull released in kraal 89% calving). Free range cattle, no black wattle, then Bull released also after 6 weeks 75% calving.

Cattle eat this consistency with relish. It is ideal for roughage and forming of cud. (Read analysis given to me by Eastern Cape Farmer).

Eating freshly chipped and ground Black Wattle with 10% chop

Black Wattle for bush feed

Wattle after chipping and grinding

Black wattle grindings pelletised by Ritlee

Ritlee now have well over +100 farmers scattered all over SA, Namibia and Botswana using our 225 wood chipper with grinder, and all with great success.

With regard to Tannin content after wattle has been chipped and ground into feed consistency:

• Ritlee always recommend that a product like Browse Plus is added to the drinking water, or if not possible mixed in with the wattle grindings.
• A lot of farmers do not add this or similar as they believe the Tannin is mostly dissipated after chipping and grinding and left for 12 hours after processing.

DOWNLOAD & READ 12 MONTH EXAMPLE OF BUTTER FATS AND PROTEIN LEVELS FROM FARMER IN EASTERN CAPE WHO PRODUCES FROM 65,000 TO 600,000 LITRES OF MILK PER MONTH

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Trailer mounted Disc Chippers PTO operated.

Wood Chipper – Tractor Mounted – Ritingwe 200mm Std, or with chip grinder

Wood Chipper – Trailer Mounted – 225 Gravity Feed

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Many farmers produce bush feed for their cattle and sheep, achieving excellent results. Farmers have tried different bush-based rations depending on the availability and cost of supplements. The use of local pods and drought resistant fodder crops, such as camelthorn pods and spineless prickly pear as supplements are found to be great options to enhance nutritive value. Here in Southern Africa, trees and shrubs have been used for centuries as a source of feed for animals. All Acacia, which are legumes, are able to convert by means of rhizobium bacteria atmospheric nitrogen into usable nitrates. This gives them the exceptional quality of being able to grow in nitrogen-deficient soils. (Rhizobia are diazotrophic bacteria that fix nitrogen after becoming established inside the root nodules of legumes.) This practice will once again slowly clear lands for your grazers allowing regrowth of grasses when your rains eventually arrive again. This bush, which has been regarded as a encroach plant, is a cheap source for the production of feed.

Kameeldoring Pods

Cameeldoring pods ground through Ritlee chipper grinder

Witgat Bush also edable if necessary

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Bush Feed Bos Voer Bushfeed

Industrial Hand-fed Brush chippers 12 to 20 inch

Pelletizing Machines for Cattle & Game Feed

Trailer mounted Disc Chippers PTO operated.

Wood Chipper – Tractor Mounted – Ritingwe 200mm Std, or with chip grinder

Wood Chipper – Trailer Mounted – 225 Gravity Feed

Hammer Mill + Chipper + Grinder – All in One

Horizontal wood grinder for grinding brush to wood with 550mm diameter

Hydraulic Wood Chippers – Imported by Ritlee – 190mm to 330mm capacity

Industrial Hand-fed Brush chippers 12 to 20 inch

Trailer mounted Disc Chippers PTO operated.

Whole Tree Wood Chipper range – Lippel Brazil

Wood Chipper – Tractor Mounted – Ritingwe 200mm Std, or with chip grinder

Wood Chipper – Trailer Mounted – 225 Gravity Feed

Wood Chipper for garden and bigger 100, 70 and 50mm 100mm

Wood Chipper Junior 100 – Trolley Wood Chipper – 18hp / 135hp

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Built for chipping and grinding bushfeed bush and trees into a consistency ideal for cattle, goat and game feed in one pass

Tractor Mounted Hydraulic feed wood chipper with grinder

Wood chipper with grinder Hydraulic feed Tractor mounted with optional grinder. As chipper 250mm capacity then flip lever to grind through 8 to 20mm screen

Trailer Mounted Hydraulic feed wood chipper with grinder

Wood chipper Hydraulic feed with optional grinder on trailer Capacity as chipper 250mm then flip lever to grind through 8 to 20mm screen

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Technical Specs on the grinder option

• Production: 4 to 5 cu meter grindings per hour
• Blades: 40 x special profile blades fitted
• Blade bolts: 4x Super H/D long bolts used
• Screens Available:  8, 10, 12, 15, 20mm holed screens 4 to 6 mm thick steel used.
• This option to be ordered when new machine ordered!

Pictures showing Grinder features

Grinder head with lever to engage chipping only or grinding only!

225 Grinder head explained

Changing screen for grinding:

Screen on 225 wood chipper with grinder!

Grinder head with reinforcing centre support plate, plus 4x reinforcing alignment bolts:

Grinder head fitted on all Mk2 chippers with grinder

Grinder screens 3mm thick! 8, 10, 12, 15, 18, 20mm holes:

Screens to fit all Grinders

Double H Tensile blade bolts:

Grinder blade and long HT bolt

Blades with reinforcing:

M3 Grindwer blades with reinforcing hollow!

Pullies used for drive to grinder head

Taper lock over counter Pullies used — here deriving B section belts

Pullies fitted here drum and grinder drive shown!

Larger sized pully with large bearing and easily tensionable

Not 40% larger jockey pully with larger Tamken bearing fitted with inner seal taken out!

Larger Pullies and inner bearings

Easy to tension and lubrecate

well mounted and supported and lubricate-able large pully!

Pully bolt which is easily greased

Quick Video:

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Built for chipping and grinding bushfeed bush and trees into a consistency ideal for cattle, goat and game feed in one pass

Tractor Mounted Gravity feed Chipper Grinder

225 Tractor Mounted Gravity Feed Wood Chipper with Grinder Option at the Flip of a Switch

Trailer Mounted Gravity feed Chipper Grinder

225 Trailer Mounted Wood Chipper with Grinder – Built for chipping and grinding bushfeed bush and trees into a consistency ideal for cattle, goat and game feed in one pass

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Technical Specs on the grinder option

• Production: 4 to 5 cu meter grindings per hour
• Blades: 40 x special profile blades fitted
• Blade bolts: 4x Super H/D long bolts used
• Screens Available:  8, 10, 12, 15, 20mm holed screens 4 to 6 mm thick steel used.
• This option to be ordered when new machine ordered!

Pictures showing Grinder features

Grinder head with lever to engage chipping only or grinding only!

225 Grinder head explained

Changing screen for grinding:

Screen on 225 wood chipper with grinder!

Grinder head with reinforcing centre support plate, plus 4x reinforcing alignment bolts:

Grinder head fitted on all Mk2 chippers with grinder

Grinder screens 3mm thick! 8, 10, 12, 15, 18, 20mm holes:

Screens to fit all Grinders

Double H Tensile blade bolts:

Grinder blade and long HT bolt

Blades with reinforcing:

M3 Grindwer blades with reinforcing hollow!

Pullies used for drive to grinder head

Taper lock over counter Pullies used — here deriving B section belts

Pullies fitted here drum and grinder drive shown!

Larger sized pully with large bearing and easily tensionable

Not 40% larger jockey pully with larger Tamken bearing fitted with inner seal taken out!

Larger Pullies and inner bearings

Easy to tension and lubrecate

well mounted and supported and lubricate-able large pully!

Pully bolt which is easily greased

Quick Video:

Plenty more videos on our chipper pages:

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Ritlee Chipper Grinder used for processing bush feed

WHEN CHIPPING AND GRINDING SELECTED BUSH AND TREES:

• For best feed properties use BOTH the branches and leaves which are 2 years old and younger.– Here is the highest protein levels, iron, carbon, etc.
• For bulking, use older growth, but do not expect any feeding properties.
• All Acacia has tannin in it — some more than others.–
• We have found that a high percent the tannin disperses after harvest. Allow it to lie for a some 2 days after harvest before chipping and grinding.
• At chipping even more tannins disperse.
• When harvesting for chipping and grinding, please select carefully what you will use and cut it in such a way for easy handling and loading into chipper.
• Proper management and training here will save you a lot of labour hours into the future.
• When harvesting Black wattle, Poplar, Port Jackson etc, it is suggested that harvesting is done a day or two before chipping, in manageable pieces.
• In the rainy season when growth is prolific, please cut your harvested pieces a max of 1 to 1,5 meter in length for loading– This to allow the grinding chamber to keep up with the chipping function without being over fed and causing blocking.
• Otherwise, 2 to 3 meter lengths no problem!
• Here too growth which is 2 years and younger is best!

Ouhout chipped and ground

Black Wattle after chipping and grinding

Swart Haak

Want to start producing your own bush feed? Browse our products:

Bush Feed Bos Voer Bushfeed

Industrial Hand-fed Brush chippers 12 to 20 inch

Pelletizing Machines for Cattle & Game Feed

Trailer mounted Disc Chippers PTO operated.

Wood Chipper – Tractor Mounted – Ritingwe 200mm Std, or with chip grinder

Wood Chipper – Trailer Mounted – 225 Gravity Feed

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Bush Feed is produced from selected indigenous trees and shrubs mostly from the Acacia family, this, chipped and ground into animal feed only for Rumenoids. Exampples are Black Wattle, Port Jackson, Poplar trees etc.

The younger growth with leaves of some 3 years and younger (Because this has the most nutritional value as well as a good bulker.) are harvested left in field for a day or two then chipped and ground through a screen of your choice– All in one pass! using for example our Ritlee 225 wood chipper with Mk 3 grinder head– Both Tractor or trailer mounted!

Illustrating the Ruman in a animal

The practice of harvesting, chipping grinding and mixing feed for cattle and game can be done at any time during the year as well as during good wet years and dry drought years.

This is a massive cost of feed saver!– Farmers have testified to me costs which i will talk about in a later post!

Typically:

• In Dry areas it is found that mostly Acacia bush and trees is used.
• In normal rainfall areas then Black wattle, Port Jackson, Poplar, Soet doring etc is used.
• It also allows maintaining the herd size during times of fodder shortage.
• The majority of respondents provide bush-feed to their cattle and sheep.

In this BushFeed game Ritlee pioneered.

• THE design and MANUFACTURE OF THE FIRST DRUM STYLE CHIPPER IN SOUTH AFRICA.
• WE PIONEERED THE FIRST DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE OF A GRINDING OPTION BUILT INTO A WOOD CHIPPER. THIS DONE INTO OUR 225 WOOD CHIPPER RANGE.

In The Start!

Want to start producing your own bush feed? Browse our products:

Bush Feed Bos Voer Bushfeed

Industrial Hand-fed Brush chippers 12 to 20 inch

Pelletizing Machines for Cattle & Game Feed

Trailer mounted Disc Chippers PTO operated.

Wood Chipper – Tractor Mounted – Ritingwe 200mm Std, or with chip grinder

Wood Chipper – Trailer Mounted – 225 Gravity Feed

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The first wood chipper with grinder took a few years with a lot of testing with exceptional results!

On the 06/04/2016

The first Ritlee 225 bush feed unit was successfully demonstrated to several cattle farmers, who were invited and hosted at Wesmelk Boerdery in Stella, by owner Willie Moolman.

This was our first effort with helping farmers produce feed from local selected indigenous bush and trees

Demo being done to Senekal Cattle farmers:

First Wood Chipper with Grinder – 225 Demo at Senekal on Vaalbos

Vaalbos being fed into our first design chipper with grinder

Chipped and ground Vaalbos!

Farmers having a good look

Cattle waiting for their feed!

Chipped and ground Vaalbos Mixed with some molasiis

The event was extremely successful, Senwes Co-operative was also present while testing and results conducted on Vaalbos proved successful. Willie is a Dairy Farmer and still uses this practice today. This demonstration resulted in the first 6 units been sold into the area.

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Click here to go to our Bush Feed page with all the info we gathered

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