David Jenkins
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| posted on 17/3/09 at 11:20 AM |
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Garden shredders?
Our poor old Al-Ko garden shredder has eaten its electric motor and gone to the scrapheap...
Now I'm looking for a new one and the prices are making my eyes water! 
Can anyone recommend a reasonable one for around £100? Not looking for gimmicks - just a reasonably competent one that (preferably) is maintainable
and doesn't jam all the time.
Oh - and a good place to buy one?
Ta.
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Schrodinger
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| posted on 17/3/09 at 11:07 PM |
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Not sure of the price but I have a Bosche shredder that uses a screw action rather than a rotary blade and although it is probably coming to the end
of it's life it has done good service and cuts through anything up to about 45mm.
Don't use a shredder on conifer cuttings though as the resin causes all sorts of binding/blocking.
It's similar to this top one
http://www.garden4less.co.uk/search.asp?pg=1&stext=bosch&scat=53&gclid=COLd16aKq5kCFQ2ZQwod5hl9KA
[Edited on 17/3/09 by Schrodinger]
Keith
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Hellfire
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| posted on 18/3/09 at 05:48 PM |
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You doubt you will get a half-reasonable one for £100.
Steve
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MikeR
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| posted on 18/3/09 at 05:59 PM |
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I got a terrible one for about 80 quid a while ago - B&Q special. Lets just say it found a new home 
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 18/3/09 at 09:13 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Hellfire
You doubt you will get a half-reasonable one for £100.
Steve
The cheapest Bosch is around £125 - which is possibly what I'll end up with.
As I was trying to repair the old one I remembered that it only cost me about £75 - but that was about 15 years ago! If you add in the inflation it
works out a lot more expensive than the new Bosch...
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Hellfire
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| posted on 20/3/09 at 04:56 PM |
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Much cheaper to Hire one... but depends on how often you'll require it's use.
Steve
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JoelP
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| posted on 21/3/09 at 04:20 PM |
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having been watching too much discovery channel (mega machines!), i would suggest building a big one. 
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Staple balls
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| posted on 21/3/09 at 05:30 PM |
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Make an array of Blendtec blenders 
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RoadkillUK
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| posted on 21/3/09 at 06:43 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by JoelP
having been watching too much discovery channel (mega machines!), i would suggest building a big one.
Are you talking about the one that ate the tree trunks?
Roadkill - Lee
www.bradford7.co.uk
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Hellfire
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| posted on 23/3/09 at 11:19 PM |
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I am currently making an Industrial one to pulverise tables and chairs for use in the recycling business.
You could hire that - takes about 10 seconds to totally destroy a door/table into 1-2" chunks!
Steve
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