Chaff cutter

A shredding machine (short chop ) is an agricultural implement for crushing plant parts (straw, corn, etc.) into pieces of 1 to 10 cm size.

The flywheel is provided with two cutting is operated manually and the shredded material is nachgeschoben in wooden box. Depending on the machine, the supply is automatically set with curved tines rollers which rotate in the opposite direction, take the straw and push forward. The knife lying on the flywheel being bent so that the cutting angle and therefore the resistances at the various stages of the cut always remain optimal. The crushed plant parts are referred to as chaff and are for example used as animal feed or for composting or fermentation ( silage) deposited.