AD plants,there is one of the biggest cons going,using waste to generate power (like you do) is fine but the growing of crops to feed an AD plant is sheer lunacy! the fuel,land,fertiliser,pesticides used to grow crops,mainly maize & fodder beet in my area,would cost more than the actual fuel produced, if it wasn't for the GGSS (Green Gas Support Scheme) none of these would be operating,more government crap. was feeling 85% but down several points on that now 😂

Hi Olly. Great vid. When in Herefordshire next go back to Andrew Burton's and look at his own built AD plant. Not built like any other . His workshop is also a little different 😂

waiting with baited breath for the new chipper...oh yeesss

Absolutly facinating vid today. Those AD units like my tummy - food to gas

Absolutely superb

Tree surgeons here use jenz tractor mounted drum chippers, My timberwolf is a flywheel chipper, still can munch 150mm though. I don't know that make.

Would they not be better just putting fuel into the generator to produce electricity!?😅 If you counted up the amount of fuel to establish crop, harvest crop, haul out digestate liquid/fibre, spread it. Would keep it going for a long time? Plus there's fertiliser and chemicals used to grow crops.🤷

Very interesting Olly about the AD plants and how they work.

Hi Olly you need a shredder not a chipper

great video

Nice, think thats basically a CHP unit, Combined Heat and Power but only using the electricity it produces. Uts odten a big Perkins or MAN (or other) enginr running on gas

Thats alot of chin rubbing! You must be giving it some serious thought regarding chipper! Free pen! Well worth the journey from Yorkshire! 👍👍

Very interesting 80%

Hi Olly, i know fuelwood well, great company. But can i suggest you look at a Wiilbrand green material shredder. Being in the woodchip sector for a while i know that a woodchipper wont produce a good material from the sort of stuff you have dropped. They really are for actual tree waste not mixed green waste. You either only take in woody tree waste or look for a machine designed for green waste. Hope this helps a little Great video of the AD plant.

Great video Ollie never have seen how a AD plant work, the chippers are very impressive and they look well made to. 70% Today.

Heizo is definitely the way to go. You could take it with another tractor and a grain trailer to the material eg a stack of timber and chip on site rather than burning or bringing stuff back to the yard. Currently chipper would be a bit hard to do that 😂

Absolutely superb walk around that AD plant. Very interesting indeed Olly. Certainly must be the way to go. Your new chipper plans seem to work well, lots for you to think about. Ian is great on the birthday bumper! 😊

AD Plant very Interesting Looks Like BIG Expenditure for a New Chipper.

Excellent vid

The AD plant that I use to be involved in had a 40% waste content in the feed. Poultry litter is difficult to add as it is very aggressive becouse of the nitrogen content.

I wouldn’t go to a blower style chipper for green waste, I think inamongst wet heavy grass you’ll soon regret the move. You’re dealing with a lot rougher material than just logs. Waste needs a big intake hopper in my opinion. Get in touch with CRJ about a jenz, they are by far the best chippers for green waste at the moment for tons per hour.

Hi Olly Really interesting video today especially liked the AD tour & explanation. About 40% today not one of my best days Can’t wait to see how you decide to go with the chippers, makes a lot of sense using the tractors just not sure you would get the same volume through as you do using your current machine Good luck though 👍👍

Looks very inefficient tbh, alot of these things are only kept going by subsidies now. Great ideas on paper. Can you imagine all the diesel burnt to provide the fuel for that place.

Another great blog. You have a knack of explaining the workings of machinery so that all levels of listeners can get something out of it. Interested to know what the payback is on the digester? Does it work without sudsidies and incentives?

There are 2 of these AD pants south of Whitchurch. I wonder what the cost is to run these plants and how much subsidy is involved in keeping them running.

Think it is a shame yourself and Wardy aren't going to be more involved with the NFU. Both have similar reasons for not doing so and can fully understand. Yourself with your young family who need dad time. They grow up so quick. You do a lot for the farming industry with your Blogs like a lot of your fellow you tubers do. Keep up the good work

They are fantastic chippers they can eat a huge amount of wood in a day

Hi Olly. That AD plant did not use it, but I have seen a plant that utilizes food waste, This is great where you have a seaside area full of hotels like Poole/Bournemouth in the South. I had a company that collected the waste from various businesses. The main advantage of food waste being used in an AD plant is that it seriously reduces the cost for the producer of waste removal. Nick

I know where your to at the AD plant. My mum used to pick up spuds there to go to fruit and veg markets all round the country. Then when she bought her own lorry she used to park it there. As we live in Ross-on-Wye. They make Two Farmers crips there now. Gamber Produce

I have lived on a farm nearly all my life and the liquid produced from the digester absolutely stinks when used thru dribble bars far worst than normal cow waste.

Nice One Olly there's 2 AD plants near me keeps the contractors busy Interesting to see what chipper you get next Thanks again

It is around 1000 acres/MW produced needed to produce energy,it has been said its easier to just run the engine on diesel to produce the electric,work out how much fuel is used to grow, harvest, transport the crop in and out .

Do love an AD plant👍 I also love those heizohack chipper, there really well built and can take some punishment… just not sure it would cope with the rubbish that’s mixed in with the waste you get. The bigger the drum and bed the easier it will be for you, just make a feed table for the ringed wood to make life easier

Good vid again thanks Olly. If you go for a tractor run chipper you may want to put a steinbauer box on the tractor , I used a big Case a few years ago on a Heizohack chipper it made that sing with a box on , would never have run it productively without .

That digester was some serious kit.

I thimk there are 2 ways to look at AD one is you can think its green energy and yes you can return nutriants back to the land, the other is like all farming it wont work without subsidy, most of them are fed by crops grown specificaly to feed the digester. The 25 percent chicken muck is mixed with another 75 of crops mixed with water so becomes a major logistical operation to move to suitable land and spread, plentu of digesters hauling crops and digestate 20 or 30 miles which must have a huge carbon footprint, and as it is so heavily subsidised other smaller farmers have no chance of renting land becouse they cannot compete with digesters, theres talk of spud land in herefordshire making over £700 per acre, somebody once told me 4 acres of solar panels would equal 4000 acres though a digester, all the same its a good way to make money and they keep a lot of contractors busy

We also live near an AD plant off of A4074 in South Oxfordshire so your video was very interesting showing us how the plant works - we can often be following behind a tractor and trailer taking its load to the plant or passing same when emptied - and often having a guessing game trying to see what the tractor is 🤣🤣

The AD plants are interesting. Green energy, 😂😂 not in my eyes except for the odd plant that uses a waste product but these are few and far between

Hi Olly very interesting video on how the AD plant works ..😊😊😊20%

Feeling a little bit better today 39% have a good evening

Very interesting olly 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍🏻

Really interesting video! 75% today, been filling in the calendar every day so far.

Great video Olly

Great video Olly and a interesting one 👏👏👍👍

Not from my neck of the woods, interesting places the AD plants. Went to Fuelwood several years ago on a demonstration day

Have to get the big case out the back of the shed for the chipper

Compost bins from house holds should be filling the digesters seems a waste growing crops for

APF 2024 19 - 21 September. Got to be worth the wait to see all your chipper choices in a row. The people at Fuelwood are excellent though.

Could you try the chipper your mate has and see what the chip quality is like? It would give you an idea?

We have tanks like that in western Canada and they dump dead animals and such in tank and ends up doing the same thing producing natural gas 🇨🇦

What you are currently running is a shredder, not a chipper. The ones you where looking at today are chippers. 2 completely different machines desined to do different things. A chipper is made to chop logs and branches into woodchip. What you are taking in at youre yard is green waste, wich obfiously includes logs, but also leaves, grass, and all sorts of other organic matter. A chipper like you where looking at today doesnt like to chop greenwaste and it will not work well. You will need a shredder type machine like the one you have now. There are a lot of options as in brands that make shredders al with different advantages en disadvantages (because there is quite a bit of difference between the different brands). Shredders are used for shredding lots of different kinds of waste like wood, tires etc. Different brands and tipes will have advantages and disadvantages in different kinds of products. I hope the salesman off the chippers knows that a chipper isnt the machine you need. The only problem is that there are no shredders made to be powered by a tractor like a lot of chippers. In my opinion a Peterson shredder would be the best machine for you, only i dont know i the make a size that would be affordable for you since you dont a huge amount of shredding. Peterson is an American brand. I run a peterson 5700c myself wich has been a great machine. Coming from a jenz ba715, wich i think is a very comperable machine to youre shredder, it is a massive inprovement. On the jenz the theeth could swing independently from the drum just like youre comptech. On the peterson the theeth are fixed to the drum, wich is far better because you have a lot less moving parts and less ware en tare en mantainance. On a peterson there are for screens, wich the first one can swing away when there is a big impact like a iron object. This works with a airbag, of wich you can change the persure to set how easily the screen can swing away. This system works very well and this is why it can run with fixed theeth because a iron object will exit de drum when the top screens wings away.

AD plant near me in Suffolk fed on maize and rye supplies direct to the gas main rather than generating electricity.

There's a couple of plants up the road from us in NW of Glasgow. Requires a huge number of vehicle movements per day (Fendt/JCBs with large slurry tankers) on the local road network, so have to wonder whether the sustainability case actually stacks-up when you consider the emissions from the vehicles. Also, when combusting methane, it's still producing CO2, so still producing greenhouse gases (similar to combine cycle Natural Gas generation).

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Not a lover of these when agricultural products are grown specifically for them. They were designed for urban waste food but efficiency was improved if agricultural green stuff was added. The problem when not built on a farm that can use the waste is transportation of it. There is we are told, and I had to research this, 95% solid waste so for every 100 tonnes fed 95 tonnes is solid waste to be scattered on fields. What was discovered was that local farmers grew crops for an independent digester. In stead of 300 tons of nitrate fertiliser 30,000 tons of waste would be transported through the 14 ft road of our village and a 100 tons of nitrate would still have to be added to the fields. So in truth the sheer cost of transport over distance is not very viable and totally disconnects local community it passes through. It is a valuable adjunct for recovering urban waste if the digester is next to fields that can immediately use the product but that must go on year round. The use of sugar beet distorts the market as digester companies are paying slightly higher price than British Sugar and so we import more cane sugar. While I mention cane sugar why are NI farmers being paid a supplement not to grow a product that cannot be grown there? That is a waste of money for everybody.

There's a big AD plant in Holsworthy in Devon we look after some of their forklifts, I think they just use food waste.

My neighbors with the gigantic dairy farm are putting in 2 methane digesters, the gas will go into the pipeline, so they say? I agree with your thinking on the chipper, it would be great if you could turn them over frequently with the dealer, someone would get a good used chipper and you could have a new one with less problems? But you most likely are way ahead of me on that!

Great video mate the ad plants are a great thing but the goods to run them all have to be transported to them so i doubt if they would ever be eco friendly

Nice chippers there, some big old blades and smashers in there. Could tgey fit a metal detector to the infeed to save any brokdn teeth. Similar to the ones on forsge harvesters. Would save a few quid on blades . 55% today .

Hope interest rates come down a bit before you buy a new chipper/ shredder. Good luck choosing the right bit of kit.😊

A d plants do produce fertiliser as well as energy

I wouldn't think those chippers could handle the volume like your current model but you've obviously looked at that. The farther in law knows a farmer on the Wirral with an AD plant. Apparently he's very happy with it 👍 I would look into wood gasifiers to generate heat and power from wood chip. You've already got a lot of that infrastructure anyway I think 👍

13:19 great content again

there are other tractor powered chippers which are offered with a conveyer belt for the output of material

115%, 3 yellow cars from going down the shops and back, maybe 1.5 miles total.

Good video 👍80% smaller chipper would go on the xerion.

Not sure I agree with virgin crops being put in, I always thought they were designed for just "waste" to produce electric. How can burning diesel preparing the land, planting the crop, fertilizing the crop, spraying the crop, harvesting the crop and then carting it miles to the AD plant supposed to be green energy ??

A D plants are fine but a lot of maize is grown around me to feed one and at harvest time the amount of big horse power tractors and trailer running around makes it difficult to see if they are cost effective. Chipper wouldn’t it maybe tie up a big tractor at peak arable periods ? But suppose you could always hire one in

Hopefully getting similar chipper will be looking for reverse drive fendt not sure if 728 dose reverse drive

On Farming Simulator 22 I have a biogas plant, I am currently filling a silo with grass but I will be getting some beet and crops like that #96%

Try a pezzalato Woodchiper if considering buying one

What everyone forgets about is the cost involved in transportation of the products to the site, so it’s not particularly a green way of producing energy, in my humble opinion

I used to work on one of them ollie pain in the arse they are .good, how work's but pain in the arse . 😂

Rob likes this video 😂

Like anything a chipper has great pro's and cons, but Im just wondering if you can afford to have a tractor tied up with the chipper though when in harvest mode but I see your point about if something goes wrong it would hopefully be the tractor side of things, I also wonder if you did get a crane version one, whilst the price is high for one with, do you get much demand for chipping on sites or if you might be able to even offer that service anyways without one

Yeah we have a lot of problem phosphate that into the river wye from chicken farms which are bad for the environment,

Are you sure its aerobic and not anaerobic? Aerobic, pumping air through it causes it to create CO2. If you keep O2 away from it (Anaerobic) it creates Methane.

It’s broiler muck so no good for me because there’s to much grit in egg laying hens muck all ways on the look out for people to take my hen muck but it’s the transport that’s the killer

Ollie would that be something you could see urself getting into?

Hi Olly, the chipper is not suitable for green waste - have you visited any other green waste sites ? Are any of them using chippers, probably not as chippers are for forestry material - logs and brash. Trust me I’ve learned from making that same mistake and went back to a shredder. If you do decide on the chipper make sure your chipper dealer signs a contract that their machine will handle your material as you expect it. I would bet they won’t sign anything……………… just my thoughts

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Surley better to burn the diesel to male electric rather than fad about with a AD plant

Surely these are very small and too small for your throughput?

Think enough human wast Which see go back in manholes lorries pumping Back in and landfills sites Pumping wells water waste Go in pipe in river ousie Lorries turning up pumping Dumping beet brewers grain chicken muck into Pelts spread on land Farming going king Edward's and tweed and Greed

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Always a difficult decision when a major investment is involved!! Do I go left or right, relative speaking 🤷🏼🤷🏼 I wouldn’t want to be in your shoes in making that decision.

SQUOZE I’ve only ever heard circle head Karl pilky say squoze