Full hydraulic crawler compost turners are automated integrated equipment specially designed for aerobic fermentation of organic waste, supported by a full hydraulic drive system and a crawler walking chassis. They integrate functions of turning, composting, and stacking, serving as core equipment for modern organic fertilizer production and solid waste recycling.
1. Core Definition of the Full Hydraulic Crawler Compost Turner
1.1 Basic Concept
Also known as a full hydraulic crawler type compost windrow turner, the full hydraulic crawler compost turner is powered by a diesel engine or electric motor. It adopts full hydraulic control for traveling, steering, drum lifting, speed adjustment, and material pushing. Equipped with a self-propelled crawler chassis, it performs continuous turning, stirring, crushing, aeration, and cooling on windrow-type organic materials.
Primarily used in the aerobic composting process, it achieves harmless, resourceful, and fertilized conversion of livestock manure, crop straw, sludge, kitchen waste, and other organic wastes.
1.2 Working Principle
The equipment operates based on the core principle of aerobic fermentation. It strides over long-strip material piles with its crawler chassis, and the hydraulically driven rotating drum deeply smashes, turns over, and displaces materials. This process allows full contact between materials and air, improving oxygen content, breaking up agglomerates, and adjusting temperature and humidity.
It activates the activity of aerobic microorganisms, accelerates the degradation and maturation of organic matter, discharges fermentation waste gas, shortens the composting cycle, and improves the purity and stability of finished organic fertilizer. The whole process requires no tank construction and adopts ground windrow operation, featuring high flexibility and efficiency.
1.3 Core Structure
The machine consists of seven core components: crawler traveling assembly, full hydraulic control system, power engine, composting drum mechanism, hydraulic pusher, operating console, and main frame. All actions are executed by the hydraulic circuit, with no wear from traditional mechanical hard connections, ensuring easy control and stable operation.
2. Core Advantages of the Full Hydraulic Crawler Compost Turner
Compared with manual turning, forklift operation, wheel-type compost turners, and channel-type compost turners, the full hydraulic crawler compost turner has irreplaceable strengths in adaptability, efficiency, cost, and stability, making it the optimal choice for large-scale composting.
2.1 Full-terrain Adaptability for Unrestricted Operation on Complex Sites
With widened anti-slip tracks, the machine has low ground pressure, avoiding sinking and slipping. It runs stably on muddy, soft, wet, and sloped sites (up to about 30° climbing capacity). It supports 180°–360° in-situ steering with a minimal turning radius, saving space in fermentation yards.
It perfectly adapts to unhardened ground such as farms, open-air stockpiles, and simple workshops, breaking through the site limitations of wheeled and channel-type equipment.
2.2 Full Hydraulic Control, High Efficiency, Low Consumption and Easy Operation
Full hydraulic drive and integrated lever control enable a single operator to complete forward, backward, steering, drum lifting, speed adjustment, and material pushing. The hydraulic system features soft starting, reducing mechanical impact and wear on bearings, chains, and tool shafts. The failure rate is much lower than traditional mechanical transmission equipment, with lower energy consumption.
A single machine can process hundreds to thousands of tons per day, greatly shortening the fermentation cycle.
2.3 Uniform and Thorough Turning for Higher Fermentation Quality
The turning depth of the drum is adjustable, realizing synchronous mixing of deep and surface materials. It integrates four functions: crushing, stirring, stacking, and aeration. This ensures even distribution of temperature, humidity, and oxygen, avoiding local anaerobic environment, incomplete fermentation, seedling burning, and stench.
The organic fertilizer produced meets the national standard NY/T 525-2021, with more stable fertility and no secondary pollution.
2.4 Low Investment, Easy Maintenance and Lower Comprehensive Cost
No fermentation tank construction is required, saving civil engineering costs. The equipment is movable and transferable, serving multiple purposes with one machine. It has no vulnerable tires, durable tracks, simple hydraulic system maintenance, and fewer consumables.
Labor, fuel, and maintenance costs are greatly reduced, with a short return on investment cycle, suitable for small and medium-sized farms to large-scale organic fertilizer plants with different budgets.
2.5 Environmentally Friendly and Compliant, Reducing Pollution and Odor
Continuous turning and oxygen supply inhibit the production of malodorous gases such as hydrogen sulfide and amines, reducing leachate and mosquito breeding. It meets environmental emission requirements, helping breeding, agricultural, and environmental protection enterprises pass environmental acceptance and solve the pain points of organic waste treatment.
3. Main Application Scenarios of the Full Hydraulic Crawler Compost Turner
The full hydraulic crawler compost turner is suitable for organic solid waste treatment in agriculture, breeding, environmental protection, and municipal sectors, covering scales from individual users to large factories, with a wide range of applications.
3.1 Livestock and Poultry Breeding Industry
It mainly treats breeding waste such as pig manure, cow manure, sheep manure, chicken manure, and duck manure, serving as core equipment for on-site treatment and waste-to-fertilizer conversion in large-scale farms. It relieves environmental protection pressure, avoids soil and water pollution caused by random discharge, and produces organic fertilizer for internal use or external sales, increasing additional breeding income.
3.2 Organic Fertilizer Manufacturing Enterprises
As core production equipment for professional organic fertilizer plants and biological bacterial fertilizer factories, it is used in windrow-type fermentation production lines to process various organic raw materials, realizing continuous and large-scale fermentation production. It adapts to large, medium, and small organic fertilizer production lines, improving capacity and product quality while reducing production costs.
3.3 Agricultural Straw and Forestry Waste Treatment
It is used for composting mixed with crop straw, fruit tree branches, fungus residues, sawdust, mushroom residues, peanut shells and other forestry and agricultural wastes, combined with livestock manure. It realizes straw returning to the field and resource utilization, solves field incineration pollution, produces organic materials for soil improvement, and supports ecological and circular agriculture.
3.4 Municipal and Environmental Solid Waste Treatment
It is applied to the harmless composting of municipal domestic sludge, kitchen waste, garden waste, etc. With strains and accessories, it achieves reduction, stabilization, and recycling of organic solid waste, suitable for centralized treatment in sanitation departments, solid waste treatment centers, and garbage transfer stations, in line with low-carbon and environmental protection policies.
3.5 Fruit and Vegetable Planting and Ecological Parks
Large-scale planting bases, ecological farms, sightseeing agricultural parks, and soil improvement projects use it to produce homemade organic fertilizer, improve hardened soil, increase organic matter content, reduce chemical fertilizer use, and produce green, pollution-free fruits and vegetables. It is ideal for ecological planting, organic planting, and soil remediation projects.
4. Summary
The full hydraulic crawler compost turner is a modern composting equipment integrating high efficiency, flexibility, environmental protection, and low cost. Centered on full hydraulic technology and a crawler chassis, it thoroughly solves the pain points of traditional composting, such as low efficiency, site limitations, uneven fermentation, and substandard environmental protection.
It builds a complete recycling chain: organic waste – efficient fermentation – high-quality organic fertilizer. It is essential core equipment for breeding, agriculture, environmental protection, municipal and other industries to achieve solid waste recycling and green low-carbon development.