Tire Shredder

Tire shredders play a very large role in tire recycling.  Usually one of the first steps to converting whole tires into some usable product or something that can be put in a landfill is to shred them.

Tires are incredibly durable and resilient to destruction.  It requires a great deal of force to tear them apart.  For this reason, tire shredders tend to have more power and more torque than garbage shredders or wood shredders.

The most popular type of tire shredder is called a shear shredder.  These are typically slow speed with two shafts of knives.  Most of these machines are equipped with built in safeties so that if a foreign object falls into the machine the machine will reverse before serious damage is done to the knives or shafts.

Tire shredders for doing low volume passenger tire shredding may cost as little as $50,000 on the lower end.  Shredders for higher volume passenger tire or for truck tire shredding require several hundred horsepower and typically run on the far side of $125,000 and some machines sell for over half a million dollars.  Any of these machines may be stationary units that are set in one place and hooked to three phase power or portable machines with engines or generators.  Portables are always more expensive than stationary because of the extras needed to make them move and provide power.

Call Unlimited Resources Corporation to discuss your needs and let us help you determine what type of machine or system will do what you need to do.