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We are looking for a good shredder which would deal with all sorts of garden
"rubbish" - i.e. tree prunings up to 2 or 3" diameter as well as softer stuff. At the moment everything goes in the council's compost bin but I feel we could make more use of the material if shredded. Hubby thinks electric wouldn't be man enough so we are looking at petrol/diesel but if we go down this route, it would need to be self-start. Anybody got any recommendations? Jeanne |
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"Peter & Jeanne" wrote: We are looking for a good shredder which would deal with all sorts of garden "rubbish" - i.e. tree prunings up to 2 or 3" diameter as well as softer stuff. At the moment everything goes in the council's compost bin but I feel we could make more use of the material if shredded. Hubby thinks electric wouldn't be man enough so we are looking at petrol/diesel but if we go down this route, it would need to be self-start. Anybody got any recommendations? No recommendations, except to say: "hubby" is absolutely right! I've had a couple of electric shredders (current one is Bosch, so not rubbish), and they're useless: noisy, slow, noisy-slow, and slow slow slow! I never use mine now, and would sell it, if I had the brass-necked cheek to palm it off on someone! BTW: the group will be wanting details of how much, and what sort of, garden you have, in order to assess the size of machine you need. John |
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On 13/10/2014 09:41, Another John wrote:
In article , "Peter & Jeanne" wrote: We are looking for a good shredder which would deal with all sorts of garden "rubbish" - i.e. tree prunings up to 2 or 3" diameter as well as softer stuff. At the moment everything goes in the council's compost bin but I feel we could make more use of the material if shredded. Hubby thinks electric wouldn't be man enough so we are looking at petrol/diesel but if we go down this route, it would need to be self-start. Anybody got any recommendations? No recommendations, except to say: "hubby" is absolutely right! I've had a couple of electric shredders (current one is Bosch, so not rubbish), and they're useless: noisy, slow, noisy-slow, and slow slow slow! I never use mine now, and would sell it, if I had the brass-necked cheek to palm it off on someone! BTW: the group will be wanting details of how much, and what sort of, garden you have, in order to assess the size of machine you need. John I switched form electric to petrol, but it kept jamming, no matter what tricks I tried. So I am now using a Bosch electric, which is certainly much quieter and rarely jams. I have just spent the last 1 1/2 hrs. shredding 2 large "Butterfly bushes, no problems. |
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Broadback wrote: On 13/10/2014 09:41, Another John wrote: In article , "Peter & Jeanne" wrote: We are looking for a good shredder which would deal with all sorts of garden "rubbish" - i.e. tree prunings up to 2 or 3" diameter as well as softer stuff. At the moment everything goes in the council's compost bin but I feel we could make more use of the material if shredded. Hubby thinks electric wouldn't be man enough so we are looking at petrol/diesel but if we go down this route, it would need to be self-start. Anybody got any recommendations? No recommendations, except to say: "hubby" is absolutely right! I've had a couple of electric shredders (current one is Bosch, so not rubbish), and they're useless: noisy, slow, noisy-slow, and slow slow slow! I never use mine now, and would sell it, if I had the brass-necked cheek to palm it off on someone! BTW: the group will be wanting details of how much, and what sort of, garden you have, in order to assess the size of machine you need. I switched form electric to petrol, but it kept jamming, no matter what tricks I tried. So I am now using a Bosch electric, which is certainly much quieter and rarely jams. I have just spent the last 1 1/2 hrs. shredding 2 large "Butterfly bushes, no problems. The blade type are much noisier than the 'cog' type. When this has come up before, the consensus is that by far the best is/was the Bosch 2200 quiet (electric) shredder. It doesn't handle very leafy or fleshy material, and its limit is 1" of hard wood or 1.5" of softer material. It's also fairly compact. I have one, and it is excellent. To shred larger material, or very large quantities, one needs a proper horticultural model. The cheap machines that claim to do the job almost invariably have a lot of problems, but the ones that don't are both very expensive and usually very large. But that is all second-hand information. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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On 13/10/14 10:39, Nick Maclaren wrote:
To shred larger material, or very large quantities, one needs a proper horticultural model. The cheap machines that claim to do the job almost invariably have a lot of problems, but the ones that don't are both very expensive and usually very large. But that is all second-hand information. I agree. When a neighbour with a chainsaw helped me take 6' off a hawthorn hedge, I hired the biggest chipper the hire shop had - it was one level down from a tree surgeon's machine, but had powered feed. I ran it flat out for 5 days and burnt about 6 gallons of petrol. However now the war has been won, I might be interested in one of the Bosch cog-crusher types for ad hoc pruning. The problem I see is the domestic devices all have very tight throats for safety reasons so sticking hawthorn in would be a non starter - or any bushy material - but long thick twigs like ash would probably work very well. |
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Go along with everything Nick says, especially the limit on dimensions of
stuff you put in considering the OP's question. We shred a lot of stuff and even though we only have a small garden, 120 x 25, we 'scrounge' our neighbours stuff to 'save him a trip to the dump' :-) Mike .................................................. watch this space "Nick Maclaren" wrote in message ... In article , Broadback wrote: On 13/10/2014 09:41, Another John wrote: In article , "Peter & Jeanne" wrote: We are looking for a good shredder which would deal with all sorts of garden "rubbish" - i.e. tree prunings up to 2 or 3" diameter as well as softer stuff. At the moment everything goes in the council's compost bin but I feel we could make more use of the material if shredded. Hubby thinks electric wouldn't be man enough so we are looking at petrol/diesel but if we go down this route, it would need to be self-start. Anybody got any recommendations? No recommendations, except to say: "hubby" is absolutely right! I've had a couple of electric shredders (current one is Bosch, so not rubbish), and they're useless: noisy, slow, noisy-slow, and slow slow slow! I never use mine now, and would sell it, if I had the brass-necked cheek to palm it off on someone! BTW: the group will be wanting details of how much, and what sort of, garden you have, in order to assess the size of machine you need. I switched form electric to petrol, but it kept jamming, no matter what tricks I tried. So I am now using a Bosch electric, which is certainly much quieter and rarely jams. I have just spent the last 1 1/2 hrs. shredding 2 large "Butterfly bushes, no problems. The blade type are much noisier than the 'cog' type. When this has come up before, the consensus is that by far the best is/was the Bosch 2200 quiet (electric) shredder. It doesn't handle very leafy or fleshy material, and its limit is 1" of hard wood or 1.5" of softer material. It's also fairly compact. I have one, and it is excellent. To shred larger material, or very large quantities, one needs a proper horticultural model. The cheap machines that claim to do the job almost invariably have a lot of problems, but the ones that don't are both very expensive and usually very large. But that is all second-hand information. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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"Peter & Jeanne" wrote in message ... We are looking for a good shredder which would deal with all sorts of garden "rubbish" - i.e. tree prunings up to 2 or 3" diameter as well as softer stuff. At the moment everything goes in the council's compost bin but I feel we could make more use of the material if shredded. Hubby thinks electric wouldn't be man enough so we are looking at petrol/diesel but if we go down this route, it would need to be self-start. Anybody got any recommendations? Jeanne Which mag's Best Buy is: Bosch AXT 25 TC mark |
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On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 14:59:19 +0100, mark wrote:
"Peter & Jeanne" wrote in message ... Anybody got any recommendations? Jeanne Which mag's Best Buy is: Bosch AXT 25 TC That's what I've got, it's a good machine which handles quite thick branches. It does clog if you put a lot of green leaves through, and it's not really very fast when there is a lot of pruned material to put through. -- Gardening in Lower Normandy |
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Good morning,
the thread produced some answers already and I can now throw in my own real experience. On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 09:23:45 +0100, Peter & Jeanne wrote: Hubby thinks electric wouldn't be man enough so we are looking at petrol/diesel but if we go down this route, it would need to be self-start. “man enough” can mean “not strong enough”. In this case I object. The trouble with all electric equipment [is are] *) the cables. Of course, you can easily find electric shredders for little money which are worth even less. These toys are not what I refer to. Unfortunately, even the more expensive machines are too diverse and the price does not give an indication on the real value. I have compared shredders for a long time and as I am currently unable to make a 600€ investment for a decent petrol shredder, bought an electric model which serves me well since 2012. It cuts branches up to 4cm of diameter and depending on the tree or brush, even a little more than that. Unfortunately, all the labels have gone off, and I do not remember the brand-name. My decision was, in addition, based on the way that the machine had been advertised... pratically not at all. But it stood in the shop beside another one, qualified to do the same job for a little more money. The promises were so many that I refused to give in and bought demonstratively the other one. Sidenote. Where my wife and I need to shred smaller branches and brushwood at a distance from our buildings, we use our lawn-mower. People are sometimes afraid to risk damage to their mower, but for no reason, as long as it has a metal casing. The material that we gather that way serves the very same purposes as the output of the shredder and the lawn mower gives us the independence that the electric shredder lacks. Cheerio, Michael *) is/are - make your choice. I am losing my English. -- Location: Lower Normandy (Orne), France GnuPG/OpenPGP 4096R/3216CF02 2013-11-15 [expires: 2015-11-15] sub 4096R/2751C550 2013-11-15 [expires: 2015-11-15] |
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Peter & Jeanne wrote:
We are looking for a good shredder which would deal with all sorts of garden "rubbish" - i.e. tree prunings up to 2 or 3" diameter as well as softer stuff. At the moment everything goes in the council's compost bin but I feel we could make more use of the material if shredded. Hubby thinks electric wouldn't be man enough so we are looking at petrol/diesel but if we go down this route, it would need to be self-start. Anybody got any recommendations? That sounds more like estate management than a domestic garden. For some time I have had, and been very pleased with, an Alko SP5000, cog type. It has recently needed the capacitor replacing, but that was reasonably easy and inexpensive. It won't quite reach the diameter you mention, but how much of that do you actually have to cope with? Chris -- Chris J Dixon Nottingham UK Plant amazing Acers. |
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Now you've got me thinking........
The trouble with all electric equipment is the cables. The trouble with all electric equipment is, the cables. The trouble is, with all electric equipment, the cables. No it has to be 'is'. The trouble with all electric equipment are the cables. 'are' just doesn't work. -- David |
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In message , David B
writes Now you've got me thinking........ The trouble with all electric equipment is the cables. The trouble with all electric equipment is, the cables. The trouble is, with all electric equipment, the cables. No it has to be 'is'. The trouble with all electric equipment are the cables. 'are' just doesn't work. You are correct. The subject of the sentence is "trouble" which is singular. Therefore the verb is in the singular. David -- David Rance writing from Le Mesnil Villement, Calvados, France |
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On 15/10/2014 10:36, Michael Uplawski wrote:
Sidenote. Where my wife and I need to shred smaller branches and brushwood at a distance from our buildings, we use our lawn-mower. People are sometimes afraid to risk damage to their mower, but for no reason, as long as it has a metal casing. The material that we gather that way serves the very same purposes as the output of the shredder and the lawn mower gives us the independence that the electric shredder lacks. On that sort of line, we sometimes deal with small-ish stuff by piling it up and attacking it with an old electric hedge trimmer which is kept for such purposes. Otherwise, its the mainly trusty Bosch 2200 -- regards andy |
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On 15/10/2014 10:36, Michael Uplawski wrote:
I am losing my English Like India, it is probably down the back of the sofa -- regards andy |
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