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Tree Crusher GF Series Green Flaker. A recycling machine that crushes pruned the trees along the roads and in other areas (e.g., parks, gold courses, schools, and orchards) and recycles them effectively for compost, thus contributing to the suppression of carbon dioxide and dioxin.
GF-series Lineup Applications of Green Flaker Application of crushed chips
Demonstration scenery (animation)
GF-series Lineup
Self-propelled type (diesel engine type): GF165D Self-propelled type (compact type): GF115
Light truck mounting type: GF120S Three-point link, tractor mounting type: GF170TR
Three-point link, tractor mounting type (compact type): GF117TR
Self-propelled type (diesel engine type): GF165D
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- Equipped with a water-cooling 4-cycle diesel engine that is clean and environment-friendly.
- Ensures crushing performance ensured only by the diesel engine.
- Adopts a centrifugal clutch for the transmission of power to the processing edge, thus realizing easy and safe operability.
- Manufacturer's suggested retail price (tax included) : 3,554,355 yen
- Details of GF165D
Self-propelled type (compact type): GF115
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- Equipped with a water-cooling 4-cycle gasoline engine with a maximum output of 9.9 kW (13.5 HP).
- Compact with a mass of 300 kg and external dimensions of 1,575 x 940 x 1,300 mm and can be loaded to light trucks.
- Crushed trees are transferred at a speed of 11 m per minute with a newly developed auto-control mechanism of hydraulic pressure sensing type.
- Manufacturer's suggested retail price (tax included) : 1,332,240 yen
- Details of GF115
Light truck mounting type: GF120S
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- A maximum processing diameter of 120 mm is realized though the mass of the unit is only 345 kg.
- Loaded to light trucks for speedy movement to narrow places.
- An optional rotating platform ensures comfortable work in narrow places in any directions.
- Manufacturer's suggested retail price (tax included) : 2,056,845 yen
- Details of GF120S Mowing operation (WMV: 3.6 MB)
Three-point link, tractor mounting type: GF170TR
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- Mounted to your farm tractor, which ensures excellent cost performance.
- Mounted to your farm tractor for speedy movement between work sites.
- Incorporates a power take-off (PTO) drive shaft that uses a one-way clutch system.
- Manufacturer's suggested retail price (tax included) : 1,846,425 yen
- Details of GF170TR Mowing operation (WMV: 2.4 MB)
Three-point link, tractor mounting type (Compact type): GF117TR
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- Mounted to your farm tractor, which is economical and ensures ease of movement between sites.
- Incorporates a standard PTO drive shaft that can be directly mounted to the three-point link of your tractor.
- Compact and as light as 225 kg and can be mounted to tractors with 13 HP or over.
- Manufacturer's suggested retail price (tax included) : 1,028,370 yen
Applications of Green Flaker
The Green Flaker plays an active part in the following cases.
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- A capacity reduction of pruned branches of trees, such as garden trees at home and roadside trees.
- A capacity reduction of trimmed branches of roadside trees and others, such as those in public facilities.
- Crushing disposal of thinned wood collected from the mountains.
- Crushing disposal of pruned branches of fruit trees, such as apple, mandarin orange, and pear trees.
- A capacity reduction of woody industrial wastes, such as scrap wood from construction and house demolition sites.
- Crushing disposal of waste materials after log processing.
- Crushing disposal of plants and fallen leaves.
- Crushing and capacity reduction of old rose trees.
- Crushing disposal of bamboo trees.
- Crushing disposal of bark.
- Crushing disposal of pruned branches collected from chestnut gardens.
- Crushing disposal of pruned branches of trees on the exclusive roads and courses of golf clubs.
- Crushing wood pieces for growing shiitake mushrooms.
- Crushing disposal of residual tobacco plants.
- Crushing disposal of wood, such as driftwood at sluice gates of dams.
- Crushing disposal of corrugated paper and old newspaper.
- Processing of residual vines, such as tomato, melon, and watermelon vines.
- Crushing disposal of unnecessary scrap wood for charcoal materials.
- Crushing disposal of straw.
- Crushing disposal of compost and feed bags.
- Old tatami mats.
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Crushing work of pruned branches by GF165D (self-propelled type)
Crushing work of pruned branches of GF120S (mounted to light truck)
The Green Flaker is playing an active part in the following places.
| Golf course | Gardening engineering business | Senior manpower center |
| Government and municipal offices | Dumping ground | Shiitake mushroom farmhouse |
| Orchard | Track laying company | Fruit tree research station |
| General factories | National Agricultural Experiment Stations | Leasing company |
| Forestry association | Ground building | Bamboo growing farmhouse |
| Garbage incineration place (city office) | Schools (agricultural colleges agricultural high schools) | Electric power company |
| National Grassland Research Institute | Amusement park (theme park) | Seeds-and-saplings farmhouse |
| Dairy farmer | Japan Highway Public Corporation (JH) | Green park |
| Shrine and Buddhist temple | Horticultural farmer | Flowering farmhouse |
| Professional home wrecker | Bamboo material dealer |
Use of crushed chips
Crushed chips are recycled as explained below.
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- Changing pruned and crushed trees and branches into compost and returning them to the ground.
- Changing pruned and crushed branches of fruit trees, such as apple, orange, and pear trees, into compost.
- Using crushed chips as moisture adjustment material for stock raising compost.
- Using crushed chips of woody industrial waste, such as house demolition waste, for mulching material and compost.
- Using crushed chips for mulching material for promenades of golf courses and parks.
- Changing pruned branches of fruit trees, such as apple, orange, and pear trees, into mulching materials.
- Using crushed chips of bark for livestock litter trays.
- Using finely crushed chips (substitution of sawdust) for oil absorption mats.
- Mixing and using roughly and finely crushed chips for bacillus flooring material for mushroom cultivation.
- Roughly crushed chips for smoked chip material.
- Carbonizing and using roughly crushed chips for a sewage disposal agent.
- Carbonizing and using crushed chip for a soil improvement agent.
- Mulching and using crushed chips for weed deterrence material in woodlots.
- Mulching and using crushed chips on the roots of roadside trees for water holding, heat insulation, and for weed deterrence.
- Using crushed chips as woody biomass fuel.
- Carbonizing and using crushed chips for humidity conditioning under floors.
- Using crushed chips as mat material for insect breeding.
- Mulching and using crushed chips for cushion material under outdoor play equipment.
- Mixing and changing crushed chips with kitchen garbage from restaurants into compost.
- Crushing and using corrugated paper and old newspaper for feces-and-urine moisture adjustment material.
- Crushing and changing residual vines, such as tomato, melon, and watermelon vines, into organic fertilizer and returning them to the ground.
- Crushing and changing rice straw, wheat straw, and old tatami mats into compost and returning them to the ground.
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Wood chips
Bamboo chips
Hop chips
Demonstration (Video)
Demonstration of Green Flaker
The following demonstration videos (in WMV format) are available. Watch them in broadband (high-definition) or narrowband (low-quality) mode.
| Type | Model | Broadband | Narrowband |
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| Self-propelled type(diesel engine type) | GF150D |  (4.9MB) |
(294KB) |
| Self-propelled type (Gasoline engine type) | GF150 | (3.2MB) |
(188KB) |
| Light truck mounting type | GF120S | (3.8MB) |
(386KB) |
| Three-point link, tractor mounting type | GF150TR | (2.5MB) |
(147KB) |
(Windows Media Player (freeware) is required to view the videos.)