After the terrible gales a few weeks ago I lost 3 huge trees including a 200+ year old Beech, very sad.I have a very large garden and hadn't used a shredder before but had often thought how useful 1 would be. After the gales I looked into hiring a shredder to deal with the

I had great hopes for this shredder, but was totally dissappointed. After less than an hour of use, gave it up as a bad job. Luckily I took it on a "hire before you buy basis" & needless to say will not be investing 700+ hard earned pounds in this item. The feed is a bit brutal & it will reject anything over 18-20mm unless forced to do otherwise, smaller twigs may pass through unmolested. These then tend to block the low outlet, causing the machine to stall- in my case 3 times in less than an hour.
To achieve anything like a mulching material, requires the output to be reshredded several times, a tiresome business.
Despite its' Stihl pedigree, this machine is not worth shed space, which is about all it would have achieved had I bought it.