written by selectron on 09/07/2013
Mountfield 2200W electric garden shredder. I bought this shredder after moving into a house in the country that came with a large garden and some woodland. That was seven years ago and I bought this shredder in a hurry because I had lots on the go at the time But I am glad that I did. In the past seven years it has been used every year to shred overgrown shrubs and branches from trees that have been cut down, it has seen so much use that I expected it to give up a long while ago but it is still going strong. I like the way it crushes the material and delivers it in small sections the make it ideal as a surface for the paths in the woodland and garden.
It has done a great deal of work and the case is fine, plenty strong enough for what is required, I have read some of the other reviews and am amazed at how stupid some people can be-cutting a larger feed hole in the top!-if it will go into the hole then it will shred it. Not cutting properly- read the instructions and you will see that the mechanism can, and needs to be adjusted periodically with the allen key supplied via a hole in the side of the casing.
If you want to be at all critical then it is a tad unstable to move around but fine when set up. All the critical reviews tell me that people do not read the instruction book, expect to much of the machine and are incompetent.