GeoTech-Pro PCS 160 BSE PRO - Professional petrol garden shredder - B&S XR2100 engine

GeoTech Pro PCS 160 BSE overview:

• PCS: Professional Chipper Shredder, heavy-duty wood chipper
• BSE: Briggs&Stratton Electric, stands ofr the engine brand and electric start.

The GeoTech Pro PCS 160 BSE 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 hitch, which allows the transport by any means. It is also equipped with the modern electrical safety devices which meet the CE standards.

GeoTech Pro PCS 160 BSE main strengths:

• Sturdiness thanks to the system with steel rotor.
• Cutting diameter: (easily reaches 100 mm on green wood, not dry, compared to the 80 mm max. cutting diameter reached by standard 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 suitable for shredding grass, leaves, pine needles, etc.… (it is designed to shred branches, but it can also grind the leaves, needles and other vegetation that may be attached to them).

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);

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.

The Garden Shredder is powered by a powerful Briggs&Stratton XR2100 4-stroke air-cooled engine 420 cc, with overhead valves and aluminium cylinder.

Features:

• Engine type: 4-Stroke - OHV - single cylinder
• Cylinder type: aluminium
• Cooling system: air-cooled
• Cubic capacity: 420 cc
• Power supply: Petrol
• Activation: Electric with key
• Tank capacity: 6 L

Nominal power: 13.5 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: 12.06 Hp
It is the real power of the engine. This is the power indicated as official in the engine instructions manual.

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

WARNING!

The engine is PROVIDED WITHOUT OIL.
Make sure to carefully read the instructions manual before starting the unit.

The only one of the category with intermediate double 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.

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

SIZE: (WxH) 60x48 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 (focus on the hopper opening).

SAFETY SYSTEMS:

1. Hopper opening sensor: it prevents the machine operating if the hopper is opened.
2. Safety lever under the hopper. By pushing the lever the machine stops immediately.

Large and highly-thick 2 shredding blades mounted on a steel spinning rotor. Rotor diameter: 350 mm.

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

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

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

All shredders equipped with roller system ensures best performance by entering branches already trimmed and cleaned branches (not thick and with excessive branching). 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.

Compared to the previous model, this new model GeoTech PCS 160LE has been provided with 2 large traktor wheels that allows easy transport. Furthermore, despite its weight it can be easily moved by means the 2 rubber pivoting wheels.

Focus on the towing hitch