this is the mcallister 2.8 kilowatt electric garden shredder i've actually had this for a few
weeks and i have only just had a chance to test it out today i thought to do a review you might find
it useful the lead is approximately four meters long so it's long enough for most jobs if you're
doing it down the bottom of the garden obviously you're going to need a good extension lead it
comes with a tool kit which are basically cheap pressed spanners and a hex key which you'll need
to put the wheels on you will also need a phillips screwdriver to fasten that onto the actual frame
the wheels are really easy to fit as are the two stops at the bottom
that is really the only assembly you need to do it comes with detailed instructions so i do suggest
that you read those and then you know exactly what you are doing it is quite noisy during
use 107 decibels so i would recommend wearing a pair of ear defenders and also safety glasses
it comes with a plastic push stick which is useful if you get any bits stuck and i have tried this
out and i did try a branch that was the maximum size that can fit in there which i believe is
45 millimeters and it actually chewed it up absolutely no problem at all i've not actually
managed to jam this yet but i will have a good go when summer is over with and on this end
where the collecting bucket is we have a blue lever you need to press that down before you can
pull that out and then that part there actually engages with a switch and i do have to say that
it can be a bit of a pain to get in there we got just got in now but it doesn't go in straight away
if you push it all the way back it definitely won't go up you need to pull that part out until
it's almost flush with the end there and then you can press up the lever which will engage the
switch and make the unit operational so it weighs in at 20 kilograms but the wheels are at the back
and there's no real handle on this side of it which is a bit of a bad design if you ask me
it would be much better if that was on this side and then you could pick the unit up with that end
and you could wheel the thing anywhere you wanted obviously it's not too heavy anyway
you can quite easily pick it up and carry it but it's just a bit of a pain i mean why would you
design something with wheels and put them on the same side as the handle you can of course get
your fingers under the end there and pick that up but i'm not entirely convinced that won't
break if you do use it that way the only other option is to pick it up from the bottom there
and pick it up where the basket is and then you can comfortably wheel it wherever you want
but i do think that if the handle was on this side of the machine or the wheels were on the
opposite side of the machine it would be a lot better this did have a lot of positive reviews
on screw fix and i can't exactly remember which i paid for it but i will put that on the screen you
do have to be very careful with online reviews because uh i've wrote a couple in the past and
they haven't actually been published so basically on this you have a stop button and a start button
that is a no volt release switch so if you switch it on and the power is cut when the
power comes back on the machine it will not start until you press that button again
so at the moment it's in the forwards direction so when that is pressed down and the machine is
starting with the green button it will then start to drag the material through the cutting blades
if it gets stuck you can reverse it and i've not actually had to do it yet but believe you press
that to the opposite direction and then you have to press the override button to get it to reverse
out i could be wrong about that because i've never had to do it yet obviously to stop the
machine you simply press the red button it does give you detailed instructions on how to adjust
the cutting blades but basically you do it by undoing the locking collar at the back there you
turn that anti-clockwise and then you can turn the other knob there either clockwise anti-clockwise
to adjust the blades i'm not actually going to do it because i've already set that up
but if you find that it's not quite chopping the bits up fine enough you can slacken off that
collar tighten up that knob and that will move the cutting blades closer to the stop uh you may
get some bits of aluminium dropping out the bottom so i will be careful you don't want to adjust it
too much so i'm just going to lock that back off again so i've tried a few of the largest branches
that i could find that i've been saving and it cut through them absolutely no problem at all
obviously one of these is a great idea if you have a small
to medium-sized garden as long as you're not cutting trees down
this would be absolutely adequate for most people obviously if you are cutting trees
down you're going to need a professional wood chipper that cost thousands of pounds
but for a small garden this is absolutely superb you can chip all your branches up shred them
up put them in the compost and they'll rot away you don't need to keep going to the tip etcetera
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