I want to buy a garden shredder. Has anybody on the group got any advice on
what to buy or what to avoid. All feedback gratefully received.

Ian

I want to buy a garden shredder. Has anybody on the group got any advice on
what to buy or what to avoid. All feedback gratefully received.

Ian


Electric shredders are usually ideal for anything the amateur gardener wants a
shredder for. Bosch do a couple of powerful electric shredders that are very
quiet. One has a helical screw which draws the material down and cuts it up as
it does so. Another version that takes even larger sized material has what at
the moment I can only describe as a cog which rotates drawing the material down
and cuts into the material cutting it up as it does so. At this time of night
I can't think of the correct technical engineering terms to describe what it is
exactly.

The only disadvantage with these two systems is that they are not ideal for
very soft vegetable matter, but are ideal for woody material taking branches up
to about 25 or 30mm as I remember. They're available from places such as B&Q
and Homebase.

I hope that this helps, though if you don't need to use one very often some may
well suggest that you hire one for a day or so. I guess it's up to you to
decide on how often you think you'll use it.

Dave.

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I want to buy a garden shredder. Has anybody on the group got any advice
on
what to buy or what to avoid. All feedback gratefully received.

Ian


Electric shredders are usually ideal for anything the amateur gardener
wants a
shredder for. Bosch do a couple of powerful electric shredders that are
very
quiet. One has a helical screw which draws the material down and cuts it
up as
it does so. Another version that takes even larger sized material has
what at
the moment I can only describe as a cog which rotates drawing the material
down
and cuts into the material cutting it up as it does so. At this time of
night
I can't think of the correct technical engineering terms to describe what
it is
exactly.

The only disadvantage with these two systems is that they are not ideal
for
very soft vegetable matter, but are ideal for woody material taking
branches up
to about 25 or 30mm as I remember. They're available from places such as
B&Q
and Homebase.

I hope that this helps, though if you don't need to use one very often
some may
well suggest that you hire one for a day or so. I guess it's up to you to
decide on how often you think you'll use it.

Dave.

I have an Alco shredder with fast whizzing blades on a disc at the bottom of
the hopper : this too, easily clogs with soft stuff so it looks as though
all the different technologies have this drawback.
The Alco (I think the model is 1100S) is quite good for woody stuff but it
is noisy and the blades need sharpening/replacing fairly often - one stone
is enough to blunt them badly. If I was to buy a new one I would certainly
look at the Bosch ones Dave describes above.

Mike

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I want to buy a garden shredder. Has anybody on the group got any advice on
what to buy or what to avoid. All feedback gratefully received.

Ian


The Alco 5000 uses a cog mechanism, takes branches up to 45mm and is
very quiet. I paid about £300 for it this year. I think that short of
paying nearly £1000 for a petrol model, this is the best bet.
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PAUL FEARNLEY
POOLE
DORSET
UK

depends how much you want to spend and how much you're going to use it.
Basic thing to think about is the diameter of the stuff you want to shove
into it. I have a small garden with a few trees and woody shrubs where you
can easily pile up heaps of sticks getting in the way. My Black & Decker is
the basic thingy, cost £85 and does the job more than adequately with the
occasional bung up, makes good mulch

Jon


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Ian

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Thanks All for the advice,

I am going to go for a "cog" type model as this "seems" to be less clog
prone. So It will be an Alco 5000 or Bosch I guess.

cheers

Ian
oxymel of squill wrote in message
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depends how much you want to spend and how much you're going to use it.
Basic thing to think about is the diameter of the stuff you want to shove
into it. I have a small garden with a few trees and woody shrubs where
you
can easily pile up heaps of sticks getting in the way. My Black & Decker
is
the basic thingy, cost £85 and does the job more than adequately with the
occasional bung up, makes good mulch

Jon


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I want to buy a garden shredder. Has anybody on the group got any
advice
on
what to buy or what to avoid. All feedback gratefully received.

Ian

I find they're fine for woody material, but I don't have a wood to shred.
For garden materials the 3 or 4 I have tried all clogged up. I have even
resorted to trying to dry the material first in a green house, but by the
time most of it comes up - November - it's too late to dry it!

An expensive £400 mistake IMHO.

Trevor


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Ian




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BTW it's a 'Cog' type, and it's up for sale


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Where are you, and how much would you accept? I gather it's hardly been used?
I may well be interested.

Dave

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Trevor

Where are you, and how much would you accept? I gather it's hardly been
used?
I may well be interested.

Dave


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East Yorkshire


Sorry, but it's a bit of a treck from North London.

Dave.