I can vouch for the 2200 and also what it will do. I bent the mounting plate
yesterday with a Hawthorn Branch which was too big. Stopped the machine
dead. Great big red button to knock the power off.

Comes to pieces very easily and I had a new plate on its way to me via the
blown apart sectional drawings on a web site. Tip. Order a couple of extra
blades and a bench grinder if you are doing a lot. Our gardens are only
small, but we take in 'stuff' from our neighbour to 'save him taking it to
the tip' ...... we do him a favour and we get the compost.

Highly recommended

Mike



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In article ,
Tim Watts wrote:

I did read this:

http://www.u-r-g.co.uk/shredder.htm

but if I was looking for a shredder/chipper to handle odd branches and lots
of hawthorn clippings, which would be a good model?

The purpose is to have less bulk and more ready to compost material.

Electric is OK. Bosch have a few that will do (claimed) up to 4cm or so
thick branches. I will have a few of those, but mostly I'm looking to deal
with a wheelie bin packed solid with finer clippings from mainly a hawthorn
hedge.

Will any of the consumer ones be useful rather than a PITA? Last time I
used
a chipper it was a full sized hire one - as in "stuff in an entire 3"
hawthorn trunk with branches and watch as the hydraulic power feed sucked
it
to its doom".

The Bosch 2200 quiet model is excellent, but will not handle leafy
or fleshy material. It will handle up to c. 4 cm, but ONLY soft
wood - and hawthorn is a very hard wood. It will compress such
things as hawthorn clippings.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.