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| Anyone have a good electric leaf shredder they swear by?
Amazon.com provides good customer ratings on the Flowtron LE-800 Leaf-Eater Electric Leaf Shredder, and it's about $130 which is right in my price range. I'm just looking for something I can dump my soft kitchen and yard waste into to mulch up good before I bury it in my beds. I'd use the mulcher on my lawn mower, but my "lawn" is nothing but weeds and I don't want to incorporate weed seeds into my garden. I'm not looking to chomp tree limbs or anything. |
Here is a link that might be useful: The Flowtron
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- Posted by squirejohn 4 (My Page) on Wed, Aug 17, 11 at 16:59
| I have a Flowtron LE900 that works fine for dry and damp,not wet, leaves. I have to be careful not to put in small twigs as it wears the line out fast. I can' envision it working for "soft kitchen waste" except maybe leaf waste such as lettuce. I doubt it would work for the likes of stringbeans, celery etc. |
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| Ooh, that's good to know because that is the type of thing I would want to use it for. I'd like to be able to use it to break up bean and pea vines (with some beans and peas still attached), and things like that. If it worked real good, I'd go for something as heavy as watermelon rind even, but that's negotiable. Maybe I need something a little more heavy duty. |
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- Posted by jonhughes So.Oregon (jonehughes@hotmail.com) on Wed, Aug 17, 11 at 18:02
| Hey Girl, On sale it is only 300.00 bucks and works like nobodys business ;-) It'll turn everything you put in it, into an "oatmeal like" texture. Check out my video "link below"
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Here is a link that might be useful: Leaf Shredder
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| LOL Jon, love your video. Harbor Freight owes you royalties. I am seriously considering spending twice what I'd planned to get one! |
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- Posted by jonhughes So.Oregon (jonehughes@hotmail.com) on Wed, Aug 17, 11 at 23:30
| Hey, I didn't even tell you the best part, I filled it with oil and gas, and I was about to pull the starter rope, when I got"off balance" (tripped over my own feet ;-), and what occurred was a half-hearted, falling backwards, kind of pull.... that thing started right up, and every time since, I'm serious ,This thing starts up sooooo easily....it totally rocks ;-) I Love that ! ! !
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- Posted by toxcrusadr (My Page) on Thu, Aug 18, 11 at 10:28
| Hard to beat a gas powered shredder for brute strength. |
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- Posted by gardenfanatic MO zone5b (My Page) on Sun, Aug 28, 11 at 21:34
| Jon, How well does it shred sticks? Any jamming? Deanna |
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- Posted by jonhughes So.Oregon (jonehughes@hotmail.com) on Sun, Aug 28, 11 at 22:05
| Up to the present time I haven't used it to shred any sticks , I already owned this cheaper model and it does sticks with ease.So , I would assume it does great, but I don't have any sticks to chop up at this point in time.
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- Posted by gardenfanatic MO zone5b (My Page) on Mon, Aug 29, 11 at 0:49
| Does the smaller one not do leaves well, and that's why you got the larger one? Deanna |
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- Posted by jonhughes So.Oregon (jonehughes@hotmail.com) on Mon, Aug 29, 11 at 0:57
| Exactly ;-) It was way too much work for leaves... But wonderful for branches. |
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| This is what I use, but I bought mine from a widow for $700. |
Here is a link that might be useful: DR vacuum
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