Miguel 

Spain

October 2011

Not from UK, but no need to reply either.

Just to thank you for you page. I have been capable of finding my way in the confuse world for wood chippers thanks to you.

All the best from Spain

 

Maura

October 2011

Don

October 2011

Cleaning up my hard disc I came across our correspondence of February 2010, and thought you might be interested in my experience with the Bosch 23 TC. So far it's all good news! It has had a lot of work and there's quite a bit more to come in the next few weeks. As you say, it is damned awkward to hump about the garden, but I have some sack trucks and use them.

After every use I give the turbine a good squirt of spray grease while it is running, and clear out the jammed fragments between the blades. The gearing makes turning the cutter hard work - much easier with the machine on its side, or even inverted.

The only snag is loads and loads of shreddings, but it's a big garden.

Trust all goes well with you. Best regards

Don 

Graham

July 2011

After our correspondence of a month or so ago - I did go ahead and purchase the Bosch 25TC Shredder - and I have to admit, it is quite a machine.

Handles the woodier stuff well - but is not as good with soft / greenery type cuttings.

The FISKARS billhook has been better than I had expected too.

Hope all well with you,

W. Graham Borland 

Mary

April 2011

Hi again Fred,

Just want you to know how smitten I am by the shredder!!  (AXT23TC)

It arrived bright and early yesterday and I followed your instructions and my husband and I whizzed through the mountain of stuff outside the back door. We are both ecstatic! Highly impressed with the design.

 I anticipate many happy years of shredding ahead. Thank you so much for your kind help and advice. Really grateful!

 Happy Easter to you and yours.

Mary

Andy

April 2011

London

Fred,

Thanks again for the advice. I went for the 25TC through garden4less and it’s been fantastic, exceeding all my expectations. It’s got through mountains of material without any problems at all, and has pretty much paid for itself already. It’s actually performing better than the big petrol one I hired last year!

Kind regards,

Andy

Norman 

Oct 2010

Aberdeen

Fred,

 Re the Lidl shredder I recently bought ,  Feel free to mention my experience on your page as you see fit.

 I  purchased the garden shredder from Lidl in Aberdeen and have 'of course' found that it is not up to the task. It was fine with dry stuff including 40mm pieces but got very quickly choked when inserting freshly cut twigs etc, i.e. anything with any kind of sap left in it.

The AXT2200 Rapid is perfect for my usage and the noise/dust are of no consequence as I guess none of us use it for more than a few hours per year and surely even the most difficult of neighbours can't complain too much about that. I will not be putting anything with sand/gravel/wet leaves etc into it as these will be bagged separately as we normally do.

 I have known about your site for a number of years and have checked it on many occasions. Quite simply, "it does exactly what says on the tin" and I can't say more than that and that it is excellent.

 I will attempt to return the Lidl one as soon as possible and order the AXT2200 rapid through your site when I have the money back.

 Many thanks for your help in this matter and enjoy what's left of the summer

 Cheers Norman

    Ray

Oct 2010

Hi Fred

 What a hero. Having trawled the internet for goodness knows how long, in a vain search for this elusive part, you come up trumps straightaway. I will certainly ‘shout your good name’ at every opportunity and will use your site to purchase whenever I can.

 Once again, many, many thanks, Ray

Pete,

Sept 2009

John Fennell, 

Middlx

 Dec 2008

Mike Ford

March 08

Thanks Fred

I used your link and code – very pleased with the advice and £20 discount!

Cheers, Pete

Julia  

Oct 2007

Simon Dear

Haslemere
Surrey

Dear Fred,

I came across your website recently (I think via a mention in someone's review on Amazon) and having read your recommendations bought a Bosch AXT2000 HP shredder as we've just bought a house with a garden that hasn't had any maintenance for three years.

Just a note to say I'm very pleased with it - much quieter than I thought, also much slower but perfectly OK for the volume of stuff we've got to get through. Shreds/chops beautifully.

Thanks for bothering to runs what seems a very altruistic website and I did of course buy from Amazon via your link.

Best Wishes, Simon

Penny

April 07

Hugh Ruddle

April 06

Hi Fred

Just to let you know I used my new Bosch AXT2200 quite a bit over the weekend and am very pleased with it. The only drawback - which is obvious really - is that with evergreen shreddings, Eleagnus in this case, the

output isn't really suitable for mulch right away. This is because it contains a lot of more or less intact leaves which would blow around the garden. Best to let it rot for a while first I think.

Thanks again for the very helpful advice. Regards Hugh

Paul

2006

Jean

Hi Fred

Just a note to say thanks for your very informative site. I have just purchased a Bosch AXT 2000 Shredder and am very pleased with it. I borrowed an impact shredder from a friend a while ago and spent more time unclogging it than actually shredding anything. I think the Bosch is perfect for my medium size garden and it is a pleasure to use.

I will keep an eye on your website for more tips.

Thank you and kind regards. Jean

Gill Gardner

Eire

Aug 05

Mike. (Micheal Bishop )

May 2005

Hi Fred,

I was interested to read your shredder review. I have owned a Bosch AXT2000 cog-type crushing shredder for around eight years now, and I'm very impressed with it.

It has done a lot of shredding and still works as well as it did when new. Obvious good points are that it self-feeds and is pretty quiet. Less obviously, it is fairly tall, so there's room for a very large bucket under the chute, which is handy when you shred as much as I do.

It is not too good at dealing with soft growth - as it can get choked up with mush - but to be fair, that's not what it is designed for.

The build quality is amazing; it really is made to last, and that goes a long way to justify its fairly steep initial price. Although spare parts must be rather expensive, the AXT2000 has never required any repairs at all. Over eight or ten years the TCO  (total cost of operation)  is very reasonable.

Regards,Mike. (Micheal Bishop )

Jacki

2005

Sylvia Mann 

Tonbridge Wells

March 05

Hello Fred

Thank you again for your advice on the Bosch "silent" shredder 2000.  Basically, it is a good shredder.  It is not really silent but it is reasonably and tolerably quiet.  The neighbours haven't complained although I was shredding rhododendron branches for two 2-hour stretches last Sunday - unavoidably near their windows!

One of its selling points for me is that it pulls the branches in once the end engages which saves me a lot of energy.  I wish that it would take larger branches as I had to cut off some of the large ends of the branches and knots which would go in the slot but could not be cut [I had to reverse them out]  but I imagine that would require a much larger and more expensive machine.  As you may know, rhododendron branches, if they are not regularly cut which mine were not, become quite curved and twisted when they seek the light and I was glad to find that the machine can handle twisted branches - they just turn back and forth in the slot as they are pulled down.

One warning for other buyers is to watch the collection bag to make sure that there is still space for the cut up branches to exit the machine.  I didn't watch and at one point the machine stopped and when I investigated I found that the cut up materials had packed up and jammed inside the machine because they couldn't exit.  Easily solved, however, I just tilted the machine up and pulled out the jammed materials and subsequently paid attention.  The machine does work very fast and the collection bag fills up quickly.

I was a bit disappointed at the size of the cut-up pieces which I had expected to be smaller.  I had intended to use the cut branches as a mulch but the rather large chucks of wood don't look like a very good weed-preventing mulch.  Could you tell me whether or not I have to compost the wood for a year or so before I can use it for an effective mulch?

(Answer to Sylvia's question, regarding how long to store before using as mulch)

 I use my shreddings as mulch immediately unless it contains wood from acidic plants such as conifers to prevent the leaching of  acidic residue.)