Wood Chips Break Glass?

123Craig

123Craig

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Does anyone know of any footage showing a chipper throwing wood chips onto car glass so that it breaks the glass?

The boss got stung for $70 windshield chip repair from a nearby parked car.

The windshield in question was facing away from the side of the bucket truck box we were chipping into.

The boss and I say it was impossible that we could have done it - but the boss paid for chip repair (not new windshield) in order that we don't get a bad review.

The lady couldn't be convinced otherwise and looked as though she genuinely believed we did it.

She was nice to us earlier, and gave us water.
 
The only way I can see it happening is like Brocky said, or a huge chunk. Something like when an Doug fir sub goes in sideways on a disk chipper.
I saw the aftermath of a steel winch hook pass through a drum chipper, putting a huge dent on the far side of the chip box. Amazingly it caused no damage to the knives or drum. Just passed through and got spit out HARD.
 
Had the same thing happen to me once. Car was well out of the work area but in the same driveway, lady called after job was completed,said we broke her windshield. I told her there was no way we could have but she was adamant saying “you had all that equipment there and now I’ve got a broken windshield.” I think what happened was she sprayed her car with the hose to rinse off the dust and when the cold water hit her hot windshield it cracked it. Maybe from an unnoticed stone chip or crack.
 
I have never seen anything like that happen, and I find it hard to believe with a windshield facing the wrong way, unless you lobbed a rather large rock at it. I would just chalk it up to a dishonest customer, and not do work for her again.
 
Flash floods can deposit rocks in trees at amazing heights. Maybe there are other phenomena that do so as well. Not saying that happened...
 
colb said:
Flash floods can deposit rocks in trees at amazing heights. Maybe there are other phenomena that do so as well. Not saying that happened...
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I never thought about that one, we don’t have flash floods around here.
 
Breaking a car window that isn't within like 10 feet of the discharge chute seems unlikely to me, especially given that car windows are usually sloped causing more of a glance than a straight-on hit... but I suppose it's not impossible. Sometimes you just have to pay a few bucks to make people go away unfortunately.

I have seen chips stuck into 4x4 lumber like throwing knives though.
 
Kinda just needed some footage of wood chips blasting against a window/windshield - ha ha!

All these descriptions were interesting though!

I understand that little bits of grit can get in the chipper even if you're diligent (and I am) - though that object would have had to somehow escape through the side of the bucket box, fly over (or around?!) the car, then somehow change direction 180 degrees to come back the way it came from, with enough force to then chip the windshield.

More plausible to me - the lady had a chip in windshield prior, and didn't realise it.
 
I can tell you, it dont take much to break a windshield. Something small as a pebble, at slow speeds can crack it. I have a rock drive way at my house and my (at the time) 7 year old boy decided one day that the few pebbles in his hand, he was gonna toss up high(standing infront of my wife's car). He only tossed them up maybe 12ft. After it hit the car we seen a little round hole around the top portion of the glass. You could tell it was fresh because the little white particles dusted off of it. Now to answer your question, I really dont think yall broke it being the windshield was pointing away, yall would have had to boomerang a rock or rickashe a rock off of something to get it going the opposite direction. Unfortunately in this business we are going to find the people who want something for nothing and sometimes there just ain't fighting it. Atleast it was only 75$ and not 7500$. Yeah it sucks but karma will get those people back.
 
Don't overlook the possibility that tramp metal may be in the tree. I also see metal used to hang bird feeders, etc. quite often.
 
Interesting game kids used to play around here in junkyards was to get broken spark plug ceramic and throw them at car windscreens - they would smash even with a tiny piece. About cutting the surface tension on tempered glass and it would explode - even with a tiny piece.

I have seen brush cutters flick small rocks to smash windows one would never think would.

Have seen hard seeds fall from trees and crack windshields and dent car hoods.

new range of chippers from Bandit throw so hard wood chips can dent steel chip boxes way up near the cab of the truck.

Add in gravel from loose rakings, or embedded in bark - not impossible.

But none of us was there. Boss did right thing, even just to protect himself.
 
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