Wurdinger Manufacturing's Portable Christmas Tree Palletizer is helping Christmas tree farms, growers and distributors reach large retail and wholesale markets such as box stores to increase sales, by providing Christmas tree producers and shippers a portable and affordable Christmas tree palletizing solution.
Designed to be the most efficient and reliable palletizer on the market. Innovative design allows for easy loading of pallets and trees. It features power banding feeds that greatly simplify pallet banding and increase production.
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Large Christmas tree retailers, Big Box stores and regional distributors are increasingly demanding Christmas trees shipped on pallets. By packing Christmas trees on pallets, manpower for loading, shipping and storage is greatly reduced. Christmas tree Palletizer allows different tree types and sizes to be easily shipped and stocked sold.
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If you are in the business of producing and selling Christmas trees you know that being efficient and delivering what your customers want is the key to being successful, and that's why we've designed our portable tree palletizer to be the most cost-effective and reliable unit on the market.
It goes to work quickly wherever you need it, and our revolutionary design is simple to operate, requiring only a minimum of manpower keep your costs low.
It's available in 3-point, trailer-able and forklift version, powered by your tractor's hydraulic system or a on-board power unit.
The Wurdinger 4800, helping growers reach larger markets and improve their bottom line.
How the Portable Christmas Tree Palletizer Works:
To get started, simply start your tractor or the on-board power unit, load the vertical bracing boards and adjust the pallet size for standard 42" or 48" pallets using the color coded adjustments.
Next, drop in a pallet and start loading trees.
Open, design allows for fast loading from both sides by one or more operators, while the simple workflow keeps production moving smoothly and efficiently.
Standard trees sizes of up to 72" or more are easily palletized providing your customers with a clean and easy way to stock , store, and sell a variety of tree sizes and types.
Our adjustable electric over hydraulic control unit delivers maximum compaction without over-compression or product damage.
Once compacted, load the top bracing boards and engage the dual push-button power banding feeds.
Large banding rolls are easily replaced from ground level and precision guide rails make fast and secure banding a snap.
Completing the banding operation is straightforward. Cinching, clamping and cutting are completed in seconds without the need for clips or fasteners. Top quality banding tools are provided within easy reach.
Next, raise the vertical and horizontal compression rails and eject the completed pallet.
Robust hydraulic and mechanical components are standard off-the-shelf items to keep downtime and maintenance to a minimum.
Up to three pallets can be completed before removal is required. Extended ejection rails and conveyers are also available for reduced manpower operations, staging and direct-to truck loading.
Palletized trees are fast and easy to move, and what more distributors and retailers not only expect but are demanding.
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Thoughts on Palletizing in 2010
One of our larger customers requested that they wanted us to palletize the trees that we were to send them in 2010. For years we had talked
about palletizing trees and it had always been a negative subject as to how to do it and the problems it would bring. But when one of your
largest customers request palletizing then you need to seriously look at doing it for them.
The first thing we needed to do was decide which palletizer to purchase and why. In looking at what other tree companies were doing and
what was available on the market we choose to use the Wurdinger Palletizer. I felt that the Wurdinger palletizer was the best choice due
to the following reasons;
- It seemed to be the fastest palletizer that we had looked at.
- It was the most compact machine on the market.
- We had options on how to run the machine with either electric, gas or tractor power.
- The machine had power strapping to save time.
- We had a local manufacturer for possible service problems.
- The Manufacturer was on site to look at our needs.
- Everything is done from the ground level.
- We could do it under a roof for the crews comfort.
As we went ahead and purchased two machines we found out how much easier it was to produce the trees for shipping to customers.
The labor cost was a little more expensive due to bringing everything into a loading yard. But the loading of trucks was much smoother
due to a 45 minute load time verses the 2 hour load time in the past. The truck driver was much happier as he did not have to touch the
load which helped in a reduced cost of trucking. Customer was happy as they did not have to provide a unloading crew when the truck showed up.
We did not have many problems on tree counts as the pallets had the same count on each pallet. All in all the palletizer brought much more
flexibility to the shipping process for us.
Our experience of working with Wurdinger was great. The machines were delivered on time and if any problems developed they were there right
away to fix the problem. Wurdinger gave us advice on finding materials to use on the palletizers.
In looking back using the two machines for palletizing we were producing a pallet of trees about every two minutes. The Crew was much happier
loading trucks, the truck driver was much happier, and the customer was happy receiving trees. We look to expand this coming year with
palletizing and look forward to working with Sid Wurdinger and his crew to achieve this.
Gary Snyder
The Kirk Company
Dear Sid,
I wanted to take the time to thank you for the work you put into the development of the Christmas tree palletizer you developed for the Christmas tree industry. As you recall, last year our company was asked to provide palletized trees to one of our biggest chain store which accounts for a significant portion of our sales.
We looked at both types of commercial palletizers available currently, and felt your model would be the most useable in our yard situation. We appreciate the time you took to have your prototype model made available for demonstrations. The improvements you made were well thought out and your willingness to make adjustments to the design before and during the season as we saw where improvements could be made to be more efficient in our operation is very much appreciated.
It is amazing the compression capacity your palletizer design provides. We actually found it had more compression than some of the 2 x 4s could handle. The ability of your palletizer to run the strapping was a great time saver also.
The integrity of the finished pallets was great. We had to stack most of our pallets on a side hill and had no problems with shifting of the upright or cross 2 x 4s. All in all, our very successful first season palletizing our Christmas trees can in large part be credited to the state of the art palletizer design you have created.
Thank you for listening to people in the industry and developing a well thought out answer to meet our needs.
Have a great day,
Bob Schaefer
General Manager
Noble Mountain Tree Farm