City Gloss

Summer 2010 proved to be unusually hot. According to meteorologists, as high temperatures, never did. The heat exhausted people forced to flee the stifling cities into the countryside. But the 'hot' summer was not only due to temperature. To hot Air people are more or less able to adapt. Greatest danger of a forest and peat fires. Dozens of people died in the fire. Thousands of homes destroyed.

And to prevent such serious consequences was quite real. One of the reasons – lack of preparedness of forests to drought. Recent years, fire-prevention measures were insufficient. Firebreaks thickets. Irrigation canals have dried up. Forest is not cleared of dead wood. As a result, heat forest blazes up like a matchstick. After a rough July, during which Moscow choking from the smoke of fires, the government decided to do same reduction of forests in order.

One of the necessary funds – create firebreaks. And then, as always, there is a problem: no equipment, it is unclear what rabotat.Yasno that manually such things are not done. Band width – 5 meters length – miles, more tens of kilometers. And on site, which should be firebreak, often growing young forest. The classic version – plow. True first tree growth sawed by hand, writhing tree stumps, and only then can be routed band. Alternative – the wood chipper. It eliminates the need for less time-consuming and does not require manual labor in clearing the younger forests. What is the given cutter? The main working body – a rotor with mobile or fixed hammers, cutters. Rotor spinning blades (hammers) crushed everything that falls under them. In fact, after the passage remains the bare earth. Some models may delve into the ground. Installed crushers for all types of tractors. Since the operating speed – up to 5 km / h, the tractor must be equipped hodoumenshitelem.