Gilles also has his own approach to screening. ‘You can’t work against nature and screen anytime you like. The material has to be right, and so does the weather. Then the performance will be right.’ He adds, ‘and if you have the right equipment, you get even better performance.’ The Nemus drum screen he just bought is the right equipment, in his view. The screen drum has a special wire arrangement mounted in it. ‘That makes the interior surface more aggressive and moves the material around more. Also, the slight slope makes it easier for the pieces to fall through. It all adds up to fifty percent higher throughput.’
For some years, he has processed woody materials from gardening, landscaping and clearing work into biomass fuel. Here again, a green machine won his technician’s heart. ‘I don’t think it took more than three minutes of watching a demo. It was clear to me that the Crambo was simply the perfect machine for my material, which has stones, soil and metal pieces in it.’ But he wouldn’t be who he is if his Crambo didn’t have a special feature. A screen basket with offset holes made especially for him gives better shredding, in his opinion. ‘Technicians and machine developers should get out more often and see the machines in their working environment,’ says Gilles. ‘You can only come up with the right solution when you understand the overall situation.’
