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Take Control of Your Chip Supply with a Brunette Chipper

Tuesday, April 1st, 2025

Brunette Machinery Company is a key manufacturer of wood-processing and material-handling systems for sawmills, plywood mills and pellet plants like yours. We help you take control of your chip supply.

Our products include the extreme-duty stationary Drum Chipper, the Grizzly Mill Hog — the heavy-weight champion of waste wood grinding; the Brunette BioSizer® — a high-speed secondary grinder; the Brunette E-Sweeps; the Brunette Reclaimer — rotary debarker; scalping screens; and the Brunette Flare Butt Reducer.

Brunette Drum Chippers lead the market in versatility and longevity. Our robust Chippers produce premium pulp mill chips, or first-rate microchips for use in the biofuel industry.

Our wood processing and material handling machinery can handle the toughest conditions and our Whole Log Drum Chipper is no exception.

The Whole Log Chipper, a horizontal-feed machine, processes logs up to 24″ in diameter. A powered upper pressroll and lower bedrolls control log feed to produce high-quality pulp chips or microchips consistent in thickness and size from tree-length material.

With a 40″ wide throat, the Whole Log Chipper easily processes various materials and produces high-quality chips suitable for the pulp and paper, biomass and pellet industries.

The Chipper’s inertia rotor is constructed from heavy-duty steel and uses less energy when processing high volumes. Two rotors are available for our Whole Log Chipper – the standard rotor, for up to 1¼” nominal pulp chip, and our unique MicroChip rotor designed to produce a ¼” nominal chip. Each rotor can be outfitted with our standard Brunette quick-change knife system or the Key Knife system.

The Whole Log Chipper features a hard-surfaced anvil with a break-away support frame for protection from foreign materials. The rear access platform and hood make knife maintenance easy and safe. The Chipper includes a common sub-frame which ties the infeed, chipper, motor, and HPU together for rigidity, and one lift installation.

Like all our Chippers, this Chipper is available in various sizes and configurations. When you purchase a Brunette machine, you can depend on a well-tested, heavy-duty product that will deliver a long service life with low maintenance costs.

We offer more than just equipment sales! Our focus is delivering exceptional customer service. We collaborate with you to furnish solutions designed to suit your needs. From a single machine to a complete plant system, our products meet the highest standards, are easy to implement and provide true benefits.

From process planning and equipment selection to start-up and after-sales services, we build solutions that will help you boost uptime and capacity, reduce energy consumption, and maximize raw material yield in your mill.

Our qualified service technicians can assist you either remotely or on-site. They can help with technical questions, provide complete machine inspections with detailed follow-up reports, and recommend preventative maintenance measures.

Our parts and sales team are experienced professionals familiar with all our machines. When you need replacement parts, our team will ensure you get them, fast.

Visit our Equipment page for more information about our Whole Log Chipper, or talk to one of our Capital Sales representatives at 1.604.522.3977 • Toll Free at: 1.800.686.6679 or email us at:

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Brunette Delivers a Chip Supply System to Smithers, BC

Tuesday, October 12th, 2021

Brunette Machinery has been a premium supplier to the forest industry for over 75 years, specializing in wood processing and material handling systems. Our products are ideal for lumber, panel board, pulp/paper, and renewable energy industries and include chippers, hogs, log sweeps, conveyors, debarkers, Log Singulators®, butt reducers, and other wood processing and log handling equipment.

But we don’t just sell chippers and hogs! Our sales team collaborates with our customers to provide complete wood processing systems that are designed to suit their needs. From a single machine to a complete plant system, our products meet the highest standards, are easy to implement and provide true benefits.

Our latest project involved just such a plan. Our customer, a producer of industrial wood pellets, needed to expand their pellet mill facility due to increased global demand for sustainable wood bioenergy.

Our proposal was to provide them with a complete Brunette Chip Supply System, designed to maximize yield and profitability. This turnkey project includes process planning, equipment, start-up, and after-sales services. The main targets for this system are to increase uptime and capacity, improve chip quality, minimize energy consumption, and maximize raw material yield.

Our custom-designed chip supply system will provide our customer with all the elements they need to convert whole logs into microchips as the first step of producing wood pellets for biomass fuel. From the scaffolding and maintenance platforms that house the log deck, to the conveyors and the chipper, they will have the benefit of dealing with one supplier for the entire project. Not only will this increase output, but it will also save on maintenance costs.

This Brunette Chip Supply System includes:

Brunette Whole Log ‘Micro’ Chipper
Chipper Infeed Chain Conveyor
Refuse Conveyor
Refuse Conveyor Chuting
Chipper and Infeed System Support Structure c/w Catwalks
Custom Flow Control Gate
Chipper Outfeed Chuting
Chipper Outfeed Chain Conveyor
Chipper Outfeed Belt Conveyor
Outfeed Conveyor Supports c/w Maintenance Access Platform
20ft Container c/w install of HPU and Hydraulic Plumbing Design
Engineering, and Project Management

Image of Brunette Container - housing for HPU and Office

After inspection and testing, the components of the chipper system were loaded onto 12 trucks and delivered to our customer in Northern BC. Our work will continue as, Brunette Machinery will be involved with the start-up and commissioning of this system.

Brunette Machinery supplies extreme-duty machinery and complete chipper systems that meet the highest performance and reliability criteria. Our innovative machines are designed to handle the toughest conditions and can process any wood or waste wood product.

Our extensive experience ensures our products are built for longevity with low maintenance costs. Our robust R&D program gives our customers a competitive edge in today’s fast-changing global economy. We pride ourselves on our excellent customer service and live by our corporate values.