chipper or shredder

[ukbertie]

im a landscape gardener and do a lot of cleareance work ie hedges ,shrub small trees and ofcourse bloody leyandi . i have hired timberwolf 150 and they have done a very good job but have been told by my local dealer that as im looking to buy a machine i should really be looking at getting a 6inch shredder , same as a chipper but uses flail instead of blades , dealer said this would be better as i can put more material ie leyandi hedge etc though it

any help would be welcome

[Tim Stobart Tree Surgery]

I had similar advice, but I've ordered a CS100 (greenmech). Check out the wee chipper club thread.

[Boaty]

If it's just green waste ie trees conifers 150 are a lovely little chipper and theirs so many you can get them quite cheap if you don't need a new sparkly one

[richy_B]

Last week I had a S426TFTR on hire. My first experience of a shredder (compared to years of chippers) and I had generally a positive experience. I went with a shredder because I had some already chopped and piled up, knarly twisted branch material with decade old ivy wrapped around. My logic was you could shove more in with less prep/snedding compared to the chipper. As mention it was a good experience and did a really good job of it (obviously quite a powerful machine though). I would imagine it would work well for conifer/hedge material although a chipper might be as good. The realy benefit is the tolerance of small metal. If there is a risk of fencing wire, nails in posts, etc then a shredder comes into its own.

 

My only negative was that I had a few odd bits of green willow lengths to go through and found these jammed. I presume it was the fiborous nature of willow that mean it feather out rather than were smashed off.

 

On a side note the S426TFTR is a beast of a machine. Feels significantly bigger and heavier than the TW 9" tracked chipper.

[ukbertie]

update i have bought a Kompos 50 6 inch shredder with a lombardi diesel eng , its a few years old but i got it for a good price , it is a very good machine very fast and as yet everything i put through it has been eaten and spewd out without any problems

[tractorboy1]

update i have bought a Kompos 50 6 inch shredder with a lombardi diesel eng , its a few years old but i got it for a good price , it is a very good machine very fast and as yet everything i put through it has been eaten and spewd out without any problems

 

Good to hear looking for a shredder myself so many to chose from.

[njc110381]

I know the answer kind of seems obvious, but can this thing still eat 6" solid logs? It must have some serious hammers in there to do that. Any chance of a picture of the chip it produces at some point when it's convenient? I assume the chip isn't as neat or fine as it would be from a chipper?

 

The reason for all the questions is that I do a similar job myself, and quite often the stuff the needs to be fed through the machine is too fine for a chipper to deal with easily. I usually end up having to burn a lot of it but that can be a real pain especially in the summer. I've had absolutely no experience with a large shredder to judge it by so your opinion would be really handy.

[dogman]

Probably not big enough for you guys, but I recently got an eliet major 4s. I also have an entec treebusta, but that does struggle with the small stuff, so I got the eliet.

It eats everything I put in it, & is supposed to do 2", but not tried it as I doubt it would cope well. But for me as a gardener doing mostly hedges & stuff up to half inch or so it great.

 

Rob

[combined tree services]

I once had the delight of using a Gandini shredder when working for a company in Devon ! Yes it would shred almost anything including construction timber etc it even smashed up concrete blocks and made a fair mess of a scaffold bar (part of the demo ) but it didn't have the power to throw the shred dings from conifer to the back of the Isuzu tipper . It became a nightmare and thankfully the company soon got rid of it .

[gensetsteve]

I think I have a greenmech ecm150 with a chute for chipper and a seperate chute for shredder with 22 blades. Seems to do everything we need a chipper would only be 30% of the job for us.