Mac Allister Garden shredder/Chipper

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A garden shredder is a clever piece of machinery, usually housed in a shed, that converts bulky waste into shreds and woodchip in an effortless manner. Some have a blade mechanism to slice twigs and branches, others (more robust ones) use a ridge roller to pull through the waste and crush it. But we'll go into this in more detail later. Once you've shredded your garden waste, either pop it in your garden bin to be collected, or you could use it in your own garden for: Mulching

Alternatively, you can spit them straight into a wheelbarrow depending on your preferred working style. The plate inside the garden shredder can cause a jam when feeding through chunky branches into the feed hopper, but this happens very rarely. The Handy Impact Shredder is different. It was pipped to our best impact Shredder for 2019/2020 by the Bosch AXT Rapid 2200. We highly recommend the Handy. What stands out for us is the the fabulous Bosch AXT 25TC. It’s the current Garden Shredder Review – Best Buy Garden Shredder. going to take a look at the offerings from each of these. However, we are also going to take a look at So far, we haven’t looked at Petrol Shredders on the Garden Shredder Review. That’s beginning to change as more of our visitors want flexible solutions to cope with large gardens. We will take a look at these Mighty Mac machines at that time.Another benefit of having your own shredder is that you can fit more green waste into your garden bin. Plus, if you’re a keen gardener, you can also use the waste to create handy compost. Electric wood chippers produce no smoke from petrol fumes so are more environmentally friendly, plus they're quieter, making them more user friendly.

Find yourself stowing away bags of garden waste in your shed while waiting for the brown bin to empty, or keeping an unsightly pile in your garden until the weather dries up enough for a bonfire? There is another solution - a garden shredder. What is a garden shredder? Looking to turn a lot of freshly cut wood into woodchip? The Forest Master FM6DD has the muscle for the job. It will chip branches of up to 5cm in diameter and hurl the chips out from the discharge chute on the size. You can angle this to create a pile on the ground or spit them straight into a waiting wheelbarrow. You can also cram some pretty chunky branches into the feed hopper, though a plate inside it can cause the odd obstruction when you’re feeding them through. Two steel blades chop down garden waste in this design. There’s a motor circuit breaker to prevent overloading, too. How to choose the best garden shredders Our first average we look at for Mac Allister MSHP2800D-2 Electric Silent shredder is to judge it against other products from the same brand, in this case it’s Mac Allister. This tells us that there are a total of 262 Mac Allister products at B & Q.Similar to the Bosch AXT 25 TC garden shredder, the Makita UD2500 (electric) also makes an excellent top-performing heavy-duty roller. Although it may be an investment, this shredder is a fair price for what you get, which is an effective cut-and-crush system. Alongside minimising the volume of shredded waste and easy-to-use control panel, the shredder comes with a large collector bin.

Garden shredders work in one of two ways - either they have spinning cutting blades that chomp through the material (much like a food processor). These are called impact or rapid shredders. Impact garden shredders are typically lightweight and manoeuvrable. Trees and hedges take a lot of looking after, and once you’ve put down the hedge-trimmer, loppers or chainsaw, that doesn’t mean you’re finished with the job. Simply getting rid of hedge clippings, branches and shrub prunings can be a major endeavour, particularly if you’re dealing with established plants, larger trees or fast-growing conifers.Then there are quiet electric shredders, which produce lower decibels and are self-feeding; perfect for branches and twiggy, woody material. Quiet electric shredders use either a cutting drum or spiral cutting mechanism. If you plan to compost shredded woody materials, they will need to be mixed with nitrogen-rich materials such as lawn mowings to increase their decomposition rate. It will take typically three to four years for woody chippings to break down into crumbly compost. Shreddings with a larger proportion of greener/younger wood may reduce the time required. Once well-rotted, it can be dug into the soil to improve its structure. Do I need a garden shredder? Whether you're composting or looking for an effortless disposal method, the main use of garden shredders and chippers is to reduce garden waste. A garden shredder is essentially a gardening tool that cuts down on garden maintenance time. The shredder works to break down the excess material in the garden, especially the larger, peskier items like twigs and branches. Electric vs petrol garden shredders