GeoTech-Pro PCS 150L - Professional petrol garden shredder - Loncin 15 HP engine

GeoTech Pro PCS 150L overview:

PCS: Professional Chipper Shredder, heavy-duty wood chipper

150: stands for the engine power, 15 Hp

L: Loncin, the engine brand.

The GeoTech Pro PCS 150L shredder or wood chipper is specifically designed for shredding medium and large-sized branches and small logs reducing their volume up to 5/6 times. Ideal for forestry and public green maintenance companies that need to quickly remove and grind biodegradable waste from the soil. It is provided with a towing hook, which allows the transport by any means. It is also equipped with the modern electrical safety devices which meet the CE standards.

Major strengths of this machine:

• Sturdiness thanks to the system with steel rotor.
• Cutting diameter (easily reaches 90 mm on green wood, not dry, compared to the 80 mm max. cutting diameter reached by petrol garden shredders);
• Exceptional working capacity, it can carry out intense and demanding operations even when constantly grinding large diameter wood.
• High hourly output, over the standard petrol wood chippers consisting of rotor with blades and hammers (it can reach 4/6 mc/h).

Limitations: the final size of the wood chips is larger than average due to the lack of centrifugal hammers. These wood chippers are specific for chipping medium and large-sized diameter branches (according to the max. cutting diameter indicated on each model), not suitable for small leaves and green material and less suitable for small diameter branches.

It can also be used for grinding palm trees.

Warning: Like all wood chippers and garden shredders, it is not suited for shredding grass, leaves, pine needles, etc. (it is intended to shred branches, but it can also grind leaves, needles and others)

Garden shredders intended use:
- The wood chipper must grind only green branches and not dried ones (which would limit its shredding capacity and lead to quick deterioration of the blades);
- The branches must be preferably long, smooth and not knobby (otherwise the cutting diameter would be reduced);
- The branch cutting diameter indicated is the maximum, so it is advised not to shred larger branches. In this case it would be better to purchase a shredder with a larger branch cutting diameter;
- The cutting diameter can vary according to the amounts of wood (e.g: oak, olive, plum and peach are hardwood and can reduce the cutting capacity of the wood chipper);

Features:

This garden shredder, like all petrol shredders with roller rotor, must be strictly used at max. engine speed; the shredding rotor is large and must reach the max. speed to ensure high results by harnessing its centrifugal force.
WARNING: operating it at less than full speed can lead to several problems and the wood chipper won’t be able to shred large branches ensuring high quality performance.
- Slowdown or engine shut-down during use;
- quick worn of drive belts between motor and rotor;
- damage to the centrifugal clutch which does not fully expand if the engine is not at maximum speed, leading the engine to wear out and irreparably damaging it;

Nominal power: 15 Hp
The correct term would be "Commercial” Power, meaning the standard definition used until a few years ago by all well-known engine manufacturers.

* This technical feature is the one indicated in the main sales channels, even if it is higher than the real power of the engine.
Rated power: 13 Hp
It refers to the real power of the engine. This is the power indicated as official in the engine instructions manual.

* This technical feature may vary from a an engine model to another according to the rotation speed provided by the manufacturer.

The engine is PROVIDED WITHOUT OIL.
Please carefully read the instructions manual before starting the unit.

The machine is provided with centrifugal clutch. It is important to let the engine running at high speed in order to ensure a proper functioning.

It is the only machine of its category with intermediate 2-belt drive transmission.

This feature gives high sturdiness to the unit, protecting both the engine and all the shredding system from every possible internal hit or kickback.

Higher durability over time compared to the standard system of all the manufacturers of petrol-powered machineries, as the transmission is directly connected to the shredding cutting system.

The transmission is also equipped with special centrifugal clutch.

Focus on the protection cover with dual ventilation air intake.

UNIFIED: considerably simplifies and speeds up operations compared to shredders featuring two feeding hoppers.

SIZE: (Wx H) 49 x 44 cm * This value refers to the useful inlet size of the hopper

SELF-FEEDING: once introduced the branches into the hopper, the shredder draws them inside the shredding chamber autonomously.

HOPPER: the hopper can be opened.

SAFETY DEVICE: hopper opening sensor. It prevents the machine operating if the hopper is opened.

Large and highly-thick 2 shredding blades mounted on a steel spinning rotor.

The dual blade system also includes a counter-blade placed in the shredding chamber.

This ensures high-quality wood chips with a hourly output varying from 4 to 6 mc/h.

Inner blade-holder rotor with shaft made by balancing operation.

All roller shredders like this one allow high performance by entering leafless and cleaned branches (not thick and with too twigs);
they are ideal for quite large branches and not for many thin or green branches featuring many twigs; this is because the roller system is technically unsuitable for grinding small diameters branches, or green material in general, while they really give their best with larger branches.
This is due to their less "centrifugal" power compared to standard disc and blade models, and to the "greater distance between blade and counter-blade", designed for single branches that are already well cleaned but with a large diameter.

Adjustable discharge chute, 1.5 m from the ground, equipped with adjustable-tilting deflector .

It allows discharging the wood chips directly into a box.

Further to the deflector tilt, it is also possible to adjust the discharge chute: indeed it can rotate and simply adjusted either to right or left by manually loosening or tightening the proper knobs.

Focus on the tow hitch.

The front support stand is very large and provides stability to the machine. This allows distributing the weight over a greater surface area, thus preventing the garden shredder sinking into soft grounds.

Compared to the previous version, this new model of the GeoTech PCS155LE shredder has been equipped with a folding support stand to facilitate moving and minimise space requirements.

The wood chipper is also provided with large wheels that ensure easy transport.