Customer Rating: 
Summary: Silent, Powerful and Problem-free.
Comment: I've been having this shredder for nearly 3 years. It's extremely silent, powerful, effective and in short it does everything which has been meant on doing causing no problems at all. It rarely clogged and only when the hedges inserted where a bit wet and too much for the opening. It shreds to small pieces at the size of a sugar lump I would say. One piece of advise: first shed the fresh, green parts and keep the harder trims last or for in-between. You may occasionally need to use the harder trims to clean the teeth of the blade by shredding them through, when green or wet trims have accumulated on the teeth. If you can afford it, go for the next more powerful model with a larger opening.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Top shrub-chomping action
Comment: A very solid and impressive bit of kit for ploughing through branches, etc. If you resist the usual temptation to put too much through at once, it will steadily chew up branches and foliage. Mixing greens and browns seems to work well and is better for composting too. Tips include making sure you have a 13A extension lead, it can blow the fuse on 10A leads. Also wear gloves when dismantling the cog mechanism, the blades are razor-sharp! Make sure you have lots of suitable containers or bags for the shreddings, it quickly fills them up. It might be better just to shred onto a tarpaulin sheet. There is also nothing to stop you putting shreddings through a second time if you want woody stuff mashed up some more.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Does the job with ease
Comment: Excellent product, easy to assemble and use. It comes with a bag to collect the shredded material in and is quiet. Plant material feeds itself through without the need to be pushed and it doesn't get blocked.
We are using our shredded material now to produce our own compost for the garden.
I can definitely recommend it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Superb machine
Comment: This is everything I would expect from Bosch. Firstly it is so straightforward to assemble from the box. Secondly it is a dream to use, - much quieter than any other we've used or seen in action and soooo effective in producing compostable or mulching material from wet or dry prunings, right up to 40mm in diameter. On the odd occasion it may clog up, the reverse motor facility clears it in a trice. Alternatively, if too much 'wet' material accumulates around the blade, just push through some dry, harder stalks / branches to quickly clear. Thirdly, the build quality is excellent and it is very stable in action without being so heavy and therefore difficult to move before & after use. Indeed it is easily moved by my slightly built wife. If you buy this machine, you could like us enjoy using it so much you may even be disappointed at how fast the vegetation you've pruned is gobbled up and then go hunting for more!
Customer Rating:
Summary: A doddle to use!
Comment: Even the instructions for getting the thing out off the box are well thought out.Assembly is straight forward.It seems to be well built,it is built in Germany(it says so on the box).Strange that their labour costs
don`t stop them from manufacturing in their home country!The stop/start buttons could be bigger.Mine came with the bag.This does not fit very well on the two "hooks" on the machine,so certainly don`t buy one.Much better to use/buy a plastic storage box.Noise.Well the figures stated on Amazon are different to that stated on the box.However,its quieter than my cement mixer which is rated at 85db!Even when chomping its way through
3-4cm "branches".So noise ,don`t worry about it.How good does it do the job? Well it eats it way through anything that goes through the slot.
However,I`m pleasantly surprised at how well it chops up leafy,thin twiggy material.Every now and then it needs a woody branch to clean the cutting drum.Is it worth the money? Well it doesn`t require a huge leap of imagination to realise that something spinning at 1000`s RPM is noisey. This turns a leisurely 40 RPM, does a very good job, you
can carry on a conversation at the same time and once you get the branch started ,it feeds itself.What more do want?
Robert Bosch,I want a discount on a hedge trimmer I will probably buy from you!
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