Bosch AXT 2000 HP 200w Electric

ok for crunching branches but as soon as anything green goes down it just jams up and has to be taken apart to declog..wonderful!just bought spare blades for the 20 year old rotary shredder..at least that only takes a few secs to declog it.

I had to deal with a severely overgrown Leylandi and Laurel hedge. I soon discovered that disposal of that waste, which I could not burn on my stove, was my biggest problem.

I bought the Bosch from B&Q after seeing a similar machine gobble up half an ornamental tree on You Tube - the video seemed quite genuine, home made and convincing.

The box it came in implied it could handle wood of a diameter of up to 35mm. I assembled the machine according to the instructions and plugged it in to test it.

I tried a small branch of the Leylandi that was lying on the floor closest to me. The machine failed and overloaded after 3 seconds. I measured the diameter of the branch I had put in and it was 22mm. An under performance of just over one third.

To add insult to injury their is no cut out reset. It does it by itself seemingly. This one reset after about 3 minutes. - I am returning it to B & Q.

Very slow to shred a load of cuttings, keeps getting bunged up, will not cut the thickness it says and after doing not a lot of work has now packed up.

we used it twice did not cut the thickness specified and kept jamming up B&Q would not refund our money or give us an upgrade even though it was still under two year warranty we will not be buying another Bosch product

Its light, it has a two year warranty and easy to change the blade.

Not very noisy and cheap to buy, what more do you want?

Tips

Dont overdo the soft stuff,clean after use,stand it in one of those

bulk bags to catch the chippings.

Read Fred the shed web site

I've used various shredders over the years and have come to the conclusion that to have a shredder that will "do all" is impossible unless you pay thousands. My solution is to have both the AXT 2000 with the spiral cutter and the AXT 2000 rapid. Hard material in the first and soft in the second. I never let anyone else feed the machines except me and so all is fine.

I have had this shredder for two years now, and I think it is one of the best on the market.

The two previous models were disc shredders which are cheaper but useless.

This machine uses a spiral cutting machanism which deals with most shredding with ease and aplomb.

I was surprised to read reports of dismantling the machine, and it makes me wonder if the reviewer was talking about the same machine, as dismantling is an almost houly occurrence on disc shredders.

To sum up, if you need a shredder, you will struggle to find a better shredder on the market than the Bosch AXT 2000HP.

This Bosch AXT 2000 HP 200w Electric is a very clever machine. If it detects you have more than five leaves per pruning then the automatic clogging mechanism operates within minutes! in the hope it will clear itself you might try putting put a couple of larger leaf-free pieces in. Unfortunately at this stage these usually go in the top but with nothing coming out the bottom! Then you're really in trouble! The only way to clear it is to dismantle the whole darn thing (3 times so far this year). Only bought it last year but have wasted so much time trying to make it work for more than a few minutes by removing most of the leaves, alternating types of wood, thickness of cutting etc. leaving prunings to dry out first etc. I have now given up. I am going to take it up the tip with the next lot of prunings.

The adverts for the Bosch AXT quite clearly state the waste will be 'ready for composting' and 'material is ideal for rapid composting'. This could barely be less accurate. The waste comes out in approx 25mm long pieces which, with anything over 5mm will take AGES to compost... Doesn't perform at all well with leaves either so its just a method of compacting small branches- This product is not fit for purpose so am returning mine

If you have a mixture of dry and green material that you can alternate then the Bosch AXT 2000 may be satisfactory but for green material on its own it's hopeless!