TP OPTICUT - a ground-breaking wood chipper blade system

You will find the TP OPTICUT blade system on a selection of the Danish-produced TP Wood Chippers.

TP OPTICUT gives you:
*a low fuel consumption level
*a uniform chip quality highly suitable for heating purposes

The latest newcomers in the TP Wood Chipper portfolio are all designed with the TP OPTICUT blade system.

Instead of long blades across the rotor disc, chipping is performed with two-piece and offset blades. The result is less vibration, more evenly distributed strain on the machine and lower fuel consumption.

[awfab]

I'm curious on why the chippers I have seen have blades 90 degrees to the wood being chipped. If you cut a tomato by just pushing strait down with a knife, unless that knife is razer sharp its going to smash it a bit and waste energy, but give it a slight slice while pushing down and a dull knife can make a clean cut. Same with wood chippers your hitting the sticks dead on with no slice. Just angle the blades as much as possible and you will slice through the wood much easier. On most chippers this is happening 3400 times per min so you will save a ton of energy and keep that flywheel from bogging down. I have a coffee grinder and a smoothy maker .the blades are curved so it starts the cut on one side the slices to the other. Without the slicing effect blades dull fast and all it needs is to be angled.

[johnnypruitt]

I remember being in that Alabama heat changing these blades