Small Leaf Shredder - The New Must Own Gardening Tool:

With the curr and ever growing pressure on landfill sites in the United Sts it has bee every gardeners responsibility to make best use of the garden waste they produce. Critical to this effort is finding a way to turn mon garden refuse such as grass les and twigs into usable post mrial, and in rec years this has bee a much simpler task with the developm of the small leaf shredder.

A small leaf shredder is a relatively new innovat, evolving from the ger industrial er tools used to chop and chip ge wood mrial such as branches and logs. A leaf shredder does not require the cutting and shredding er of a wood chipper, but takes the same principles and basic design and incorpors it into a much smaller portable vacuum unit, very simi in look to a lawnmo with a chute attachm. In addit many shredders will include an ry point for manually inserting small branches which would not be picked up by the vacuum. Some of the ger units also incorpor a funnel which allows les to be raked directly into the machine rather than requiring the vacuum.

The unit is pushed around the garden sucking up all the les and small timber debris and chops and shreds into an attacked disposal bag, perfect for adding to your post heap. The les which are chopped and shredded break down into post much easier and quicker than whole les and so in addit to reducing their volume by more than 10 times the posting breakdown occurs much faster.

A small leaf shredder is differ from the ger chipper units in that it needs smaller rotating blades to shred the les. The er required to shred this delic mrial is also very low pared to the ger machines which need ge blades and significant horseer for chopping branches and ger pieces of wood. Most small leaf shredders will be electrically ered, the blades spinning from the mom the er is switched on, and only stopping when the er is switched off. This is in contrast to the ger units which will generally be gasoline ered and will h motors and a clutch keeping the cutting and chipping act isold from the motor er.

Internally a small leaf shredder contains a screen which only lets mrial that has been shredded to a small enough size to pass through. Screens can often be replaced with various sizes to control how fine the shredding act is. Naturally the screens will occasally clog, especially if the les are wet, but in general the shredders oper smoothly and efficily.

With growing environmal concerns the small leaf shredder has bee a must buy tool for many modern gardeners, no longer just the preserve of those with very ge gardens.

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