Wood Chipper - Tractor Mounted - 225 Gravity Feed with 190mm Chipping Capacity + Optional Grinder
Tractor Mounted Gravity Feed Wood Chipper drum style with 2 chipper blades. Woodchipper
All are typically yellow in colour and capable to handle wood to a diameter of 190mm.
Various combinations available:
Available in 3 Models:
- Wood chipper 225 Gravity feed with 190mm chipping capacity used for creating bulking for composting, creating mulch for flower beds, chipping prunings between citrus rows etc
- Wood chipper 225 Gravity feed with 190mm capacity as chipper plus with grinder through 8 to 20mm size as grinder. This done by the moving of a lever!
- Wood chipper 225 with 90 deg turn for row chipping of prunings and discharge under trees. 190mm capacity
Product Description
Ritlee Tractor Mounted 225 Wood Chipper
Tractor Mounted Gravity Feed Wood Chipper, bush shredder Models For Sale and hire
Ritlee Tractor Mounted 225 Wood Chippers are drum style manufactured specifically to suit the southern African climate conditions and opertors.
Ritlee have 3 Tractor Mounted Wood Chipper options for sale:

Wood Chipper for Creating Bulking for Composting,; Mulch 225 Tractor Mounted Gravity Feed woodchipper

Wood chipper 225 Tractor Mounted Gravity Feed here fitted with grinder option.(Lever down chipper only. Lever up grind the chips produced)

Wood chipper tractor mounted with 90 Degree Turn for Row Chipping of Prunings down rows and discharging under trees
To Gravity Trailer mounted wood chippers
Technical Specifications which covers All above models
- Chipping Capacity: 190mm diameter wood with ease this down to brush
- Throat opening: 258 x 200mm
- Tray angled: 460 x 911 x 1000 deep also fitted with slotted rubber curtain for extra safety
- Feed to chipper blade: Chipper Will pull in branch with brush as it makes contact with one of the 2 blades on 400Kg chipping drum –
- Blades: 2x High quality 12mm thick 2 sharp sided
- has also been hardened from 47 to 58 HRC in oil and salt bath @ 1040 deg centegrade.
- Can also be sharpened up to 5 times on each edge (10x Edges)
- weighs 2.8 kg with dimensions 26.6 cm (L) x 12.7 cm(W) x 1.27 cm (Thick)
- Anvil: 4 sided with locater bolts as well as locking in position bolts
- Blade mounting in drum: With 4x fine thread HD bolts through single 4 holed locking plate — Unique to Ritlee 225
- Drum: 400Kg Dynamically precision balanced 12mm side wall and 10mm drum wall on 50mm carrier shaft
- Drum has sealable bleeder hole for discharge of water if it gets into drum to maintain perfect balance.
- Drum Drive: 4x B Section V-Belts so large tractors can be used
- Chassis Carrier : 2,5mm rectangular steel profile
- Double reinforced at drive area. Slotted at all tensioning and setting areas
- Mounted on 2x Slasher type skid runners for ease of transport and strength of construction
- Production average: 12 to 16 cu meter per hour (Grinding obviously lower)
- Minimum Power Requirements: Tractor with 40Kw and larger
- Discharge: Discharge rotatable 360 deg with flapper
Can also be fitted with 30Kw Electric Motor which is ideal for Sawmill Waste, Tea Tree, Eucalyptus and Lavender Chippings.
Pictures showing Above Technical specifications!
Ritlee Tractor Mounted 225 Wood Chipper and all to do with the chipping function
Chipper Drum with 2x blades used on all our 225 wood chippers!

Ritlee 225 wood chipper chipper drum with 2x blades
Showing principle of chipping using blade, chip pocket and showing throw!

How drum chipper works
Chipper drum drive with easy tensioning!

Drum Drive 4 B Section belts on pully
Blade mounting above chip pocket in chipper drum!

Turning blades in drum!
Chipper Blade:
Can also be sharpened up to 5 times on each edge (10x Edges)

Blades (With 2x sharp edges- sharpenable) used in all our 225 wood chippers
Blade Mounting bolts with lock plate.
Unique to Ritlee!

Blade bolts for mounting with lock plate– Unique to Ritlee
30Kw electric motors fitted with external control box!

Chipper fitted with 30kw electric motor
Anvil:
4 sided with locater bolts as well as locking in position bolts

Anvil with locators, loc system and adjusters
Size of chipper throat of gravity feed chipper

Size of Throat of Gravity feed wood chipper
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
Larger sized pully with large bearing and easily pensionable

Mk2 grinder drive showing jockey from Drum shaft
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
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