On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:07:44 +0100, Broadback
wrote:

My Bosch electric shredder works fine, however I have a lot off hedging,
feeding it the clippings a "handful" at a time is laborious to say the
least. Any opinions on a shredder which will gulp up hedge cuttings
please? It does not need to be able to deal with thick branches.

I may be out of date because it is many many years since I bought my
Allen shredder.
I had the same problem as you when I was 'auditioning' various models.

The Allen and the Lawnflight 5hp (a bit OTT for just hedge prunings,
but stay with me) shredders were similar and were the only ones with
large open hopper that one could stuff copious quantities of things
into. (including your arm ** up to the elbow if you were not paying
attention !)

The Lawnflight had an unfortunate short angled throat between the
hopper and the blades which would get 'bunged up' and form an
impediment.
The Allen hopper fed directly to the nasty blades, very efficient,
especially if one removed a short 'stub' flap part way down ( but I
wouldnt suggest that, would I ?)

The more recent models come with an impractical large stout wire mesh
guard on top of the hopper.
But it is (used to be?) just bolted on,,,,,
For example ( just the first that turned up when I googled)
http://www.mowdirect.co.uk/acatalog/...DERS_1100.html

** but you can use a stick or branch instead and it will gobble that
up as well