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Bosch AXT 1600 HP
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4 Reviews For Bosch AXT 1600 HP

  • gunnag Rank: Lance Corporal 25th Apr 2006

    Reviewer rating: 4 stars


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    Good Points: Powerful
    Good design
    Sturdy


    Bad Points: It does not take small cuttings


    General comments: I bought the Bosch AXT1600 HP garden shredder because I was cutting down two conifers and needed some way of disposing of the waste.

    Having cut down the offending conifers, the ATX1600 was used to dispose of the majority of branches.

    The machine will take branches up to 33mm thick, and once started, it will automatically pull them down.

    One drawback I found was that branches typically have loads of greenery at one end and none at the other. When feeding the woody end in to the machine, all is well until near the end of the branch, when all the greenery is pulled in. If there is too much greenery it can cause jamming, so it's best to trim off excess greenery beforehand.

    The worm screw cutter can be reversed to free jambs, but it's often necessary to manually pull greenery out as well.

    The machine will take hedge clippings, but these may have to be pushed in for them to reach the worm screw cutter.

    I bought mine on Ebay as an orange grade refurb, and overall it's a good bit of kit.

  • BCad 23rd Feb 2006

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    Like every piece of equipment the Bosch AXT has a design point, or to put it another way, it is designed to perform a specific task. In this case it is shredding small branches from hedges, bushes and trees and it does this superbly well. It's spiral cutter is slow running and therefore quiet so it does not waken the whole neighbourhood when running unlike most of my neighnours rotary mowers! It's only failing is that it does not take kindly to branches with too many leaves, but otherwise it is ...

  • Derek Platt Rank: Lance Corporal 6th Nov 2005

    Reviewer rating: 1.5 stars


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    The Bosch AXT 1600 HP takes thicker wood materal well, but not soft material like flower, leaves. They get stuck & it is then not possible to feed other material. I spoke to Bosch who said "This machine is not designed for soft material, you will be fortunate if it takes other than thin or thick branches". I wish I had known that before I bought it.

  • Profjim Rank: Lance Corporal 26th Mar 2005

    Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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    After buying and returning two other shredders, I came across the Bosch AXT 1600 HP which has a spiral blade rather than a rotating blade. This means that instead of using a high speed chopping action, it uses a low speed, quiet rotary action. The spiral blade pulls the branches down, and any soft matter such as leaves etc as well. After using rotary blade shredders, this type is awesome. The only drawback being that it cuts the branches into 1/2" to 1" chunks rather than shredding them...a smal ...