"Richard Savage" wrote in message
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Recomendations please regarding the choice and purchase of a garden
shredder.

We have just acquired a wheelie bin for (council) disposal of green
waste. The collection is fortnightly and I wish to get maximum value
for money by cramming as much as possible into the bin.

To this end I reckon that I should shred everything bar grass clippings
that is destined for the bin.

I also have a Lawson Cypress hedge that I'd really like to put out for
the bin men! Unfortunately it is 25 years old with trunks
proportionally huge, however I'm tempted to reduce it's height if I can
direct the suitably reduced branches into the bin.

Incidentally the bin will accept branches up to 50mm diameter by about
1m length but I think that putting anything that size in it is a waste
of the limited number of collections.

The bins are emptied by machine, unlike our domestic refuse
collection(!), so weight is not an issue.

TIA Richard


I have a Ryobi shredder, it's not as quiet as a Bosch but it will handle
leaves and juicy stuff much better. It has three different inlets one for
leaves, one for clippings and another on the side for branches.

I previously owned a Bosch 1600 quiet shredder and I found although it was
very good for small branches and cuttings, it tended to block up very easy
with soft stuff. The reversing switch did not always clear the blockages and
then it was a pig to unblock.

Martin