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judith
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dougal
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I have a mains electric shredder of a fairly conventional design, with a fast rotating, heavy blade/cutter against which the material is pushed.
Its an Alko H1800DS (1800w motor), and I got it, not much used but several years old, via eBay for IIRC �40.
Such things make one heck of a racket when there's any material in them.
It can deal (gradually) with largish (two/three fingers?) branches as long as they are
1/ straight, and
2/ reasonably brittle
My experience of this one and a couple of others has been that 'knarly' branches are best handled otherwise, and that feeding thin and 'chewy' material needs the greatest operator skill... !!!
It takes very little trapped material to bog down such machines. One distinct difference between machines is in how easy it is to open the thing and clear the jam. (This Alko has a single knurled nut, rather than the four wing nuts and slightly fiddly realignment of the unit belonging to Someone I Used To Know.)
Wear strong gloves and be prepared for the occasional kick-back from the stuff you are feeding. Some form of safety glasses would be sensible.
I'd like to see how the Bosch 'silent' shredders perform. They take the material between two sharp Archimedes screws and simply cut it into short lengths. Jams are supposed to be clearable by reversing the mechanism. And they should be *much* quieter.
There's some shredded laurel in my compost heap.
Shreddings really do rot dramatically faster than unshredded stuff.
And a big heap of tree makes a much, much smaller pile of shreddings... |
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cab
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cab
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dougal
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cab
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