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.