TL;DR
A wood chipper is the engine-driven machine that feeds branches and brush against a drum or disc of knives, reducing them to chips a fraction of their volume for hauling or reuse as mulch. Capacity is named by the largest limb diameter the infeed accepts, 6-inch units for rental and small crews up to 12, 15, and 18-inch drum machines behind commercial tree services.
What it means
A wood chipper is the engine-driven machine that feeds branches and brush against a drum or disc of knives, reducing them to chips a fraction of their volume for hauling or reuse as mulch. Capacity is named by the largest limb diameter the infeed accepts, 6-inch units for rental and small crews up to 12, 15, and 18-inch drum machines behind commercial tree services. It is consistently ranked among the most dangerous machines in the trade, with feed-table protocols, no gloves with cuffs, side-stance feeding, butt-first, written in incident reports, and chipping the brush on site is a meaningful share of what a removal bid covers.
Where it sits in the glossary
Wood chipper is part of the Trade jargon group inside the ProFix Directory glossary. Browse every term in this category from the glossary index.
Why Ohio homeowners should know it
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