Since we live in the woods, we knew that we would be clearing some areas for buildings, gardens, etc. We bought a Stanley CH7 chipper/shredder last year and have been giving it a workout.
To make use of the chips, we needed a good way to catch them since they tend to blow all over the place without some sort of purpose build container. I use a 31 gallon metal trash can with a homemade 1/8″ hardware cloth funnel to catch all of those wonderful wood chips. It works really well….much better than anything else I’ve tried to rig up.
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| The chipper is much easier to use with our funnel going from the chipper into the garbage can. |
The bottom of the chipper funnel has four semi-circular tabs that keep it from sliding around on the trash can. The 1/8″ hardware cloth is small enough to keep the chips from blowing out while still letting all the forced air out; otherwise, the chipper would blow the top off the trash can.
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| The hardware cloth is sandwiched in between two pieces of 1/2″ OSB. |
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| The finished chips ready for use. |