ghostwheel

Yeah - my only worry with the 13/75 is will it cope with forkfuls of (e.g) beech hedge clippings chucked in it? I’ve had not wonderful experiences with larger rowed chippers with this sort of stuff. A shredder with hammers isn’t going to have that problem...

When I've done shrub bashing or hedge cutting outside my own place, I run over it with a mower! Anything that is woody, I chop that out and chuck it in the recycling garden waste bin, the rest gets run over several times until it gets blown into the bag and that gets added to the grass clippings and again, lobbed int garden waste bin! works a treat! 
 
If you do do this on the lawn, it can damage the grass if done to hard or vigorously - but a good watering afterwards can help.

Might as well buy the TW 13/75 at nearly the same price and weight, only one blade to sharpen also. I have one, fantastic for chipping under 80mm.

Quick question. We have quite a large small holding, with large volumes of material to be composted. I think that a lot of this needs shredding rather than chipping - the material is likely to be largely of the consistency of hedge clippings and the like. Anything larger than about an inch in diameter is likely to be processed as kindling or logs.

Does anyone have much experience of processing this sort of stuff? Would a chipper shredder (with hammers) of this type be any good, or actually am I going to be better with a good chipper?