Homebase garden shredder chipper deal

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

I got lucky finding this and I thought I'd share, 100 quid

They are usually 160 bananas new

Got a giant triffid bush to do and this thing is turning it into handy bagloads

The limit is 40-45mm but I never put anything over 30mm thick into it

Edited By Ady1 on 29/01/2018 11:54:20

[peak4Participant @peak4]

I picked up one of THESE a while ago from Screwfix, when I had a spare coupon. ( think it was £20 off if you spent £100)

Seems to work well enough, provided you remove a few plastic tines from the output chute.

Bill

[Russ BParticipant @russb]

Bill, I think you'll find these are two very different types of shredder.

The one from homebase uses a sort of gear wheel rotating slowly at 45rpm to hog lumps out of branches, you set the choke width using a hand wheel on the ouside, it's kind of like a thickness planer. They chuck about 5 or 10 lumps out a second.

The Titan one you linked is a rotating flywheel spinning at ultra high RPM, they're kind of like a lawnmower upside down, personally, I don't like these, it seems like you have to force everything in to them, more of a mulching effect than a chipping effect, I find the blades dull easily especially with harder wood.

Ady1 how are you finding it, I'm very tempted since I have the flywheel type, and these slow gear type things make it looks so much easier!

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Plastic gears? I was once given the remains of a B&D one using a toothed belt to slow down their screaming drill motor. Owner had trashed it in a couple of months.

I've had an Alko for 20-30 years and all the important bits are metal direct drive on the motor shaft and metal not tin body. The blades are just mild or slightly harder steel that can be sharpened with a file (softish metal for safety so they can't shatter if a stone gets in) and remade by a engineer when required.

[Ady1Participant @ady1]

Ady1 how are you finding it, I'm very tempted since I have the flywheel type

It's saved my hide on what is a huge job for me and now HAS to be done

Been 3 days so far, 3 hours a day, 1 hour cutting 2 hours mulching, probbly about five days to go

The cutter is like a sharp cog and it bears on a sacrificial steel surface which can move slightly even though you tighten that bit up via the adjuster wheel

It hogs everything into small chips to 40mm and can be bagged

It's a bit like a 2.8KW lathe operating on the backgear and has a lot of grunt

I'm a very happy and relieved bunny because this job was about to get out of hand

Edited By Ady1 on 29/01/2018 16:05:44

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