Hello there, Smallblue planet. What type of shredder you buy depends on what you want to shred. I have a Bosch 1600, a type that uses a spiral sort of thing (a bit like in a mincing machine). It is brilliant at chopping up woody prunings but useless at doing anything softer.

There is a website, I think its called fredshed, or something like that (no doubt another grape will know what I mean and be able to put up the address), that gives unbiased opinions about allsorts of garden tools. On there is a load of info. about shredders.

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