Deluxe Electric Leaf Shredder

Comments about Deluxe Electric Leaf Shredder:

I use the shredder primarily for shredding leaves and small annual flowering plants when they are finished. It is so easy to use. No pulling strings or cranking anything. Just plug it in, turn the switch on and you're in business. I love this little gadget. Can't wait for all the leaves to fall so I can really put it to use. I haven't found anything, yet, that I don't like about it.

Comments about Deluxe Electric Leaf Shredder:

Easy to use once I got it together. Very helpful to put leaves back on garden immediately.

Comments about Deluxe Electric Leaf Shredder:

I went through 2 of these in 2 years. The motor is not strong enough. The 2nd one was sent free.

Also the base clamp holding the 2 plastic pipes together broke very early requiring the use of clamps to make the base stay together.

My recommendation is not to buy this unless you love aggravation.

Comments about Deluxe Electric Leaf Shredder:

I used it to clean-up fallen winter leaves (which should have been cleaned-up last fall) and it did an excellent job. It may be slow, but I'm old enough to handle slow.

Comments about Deluxe Electric Leaf Shredder:

I didn't find it difficult to put this together, although there was a spot where I could have used another pair of hands. It's noisy and might fling debris in your face, so wear safety glasses and hearing protection. I managed to misplace both the user maual and the extra line that came with it, but I found the maual on line and replace the line with trimmer line without any problem.

Comments about Deluxe Electric Leaf Shredder:

Use this finely shred leaves after they are mowed once. Does a great job and allowed me to put all of my yards leaves into my compost bin.

Comments about Deluxe Electric Leaf Shredder:

It shreds mounds of leaves for me to use all over the garden and has increased the earthworms & soil texture. It only has small space underneath for shredded leaves so I now have a barrel to put it on (lined with a bag). The stand wraps around the barrel. It's a little awkward to arrange the cord but it cuts down the amount of time to change bags.

Comments about Deluxe Electric Leaf Shredder:

We raked the white ash leaves, Kwanzan cherry leaves, and our neighbors sycamore leaves into piles, and made short work of mincing them down to small pieces that we spread over our veggie garden, rose garden and foundation plants. Only bagged the leaves we could not use any more. It was easy to replace the cutting strings too. We are very happy with the results.

Comments about Deluxe Electric Leaf Shredder:

It takes huge piles of leaves and shreds them into tiny piles. Just what I wanted. The lawn mower wasn't good enough to chop up the leaves for efficient composting. Now the leaf particles are much much smaller and will compost better and I won't have to deal with huge piles of waiting-to-compost leaves in the garden. Easier to till into garden too. My worm factory also appreciates the shredded leaves.

Comments about Deluxe Electric Leaf Shredder:

I put the shredder together yesterday and used it for the first time. I'm very good at assembling things, but this was hard. The instructions were hard to understand. It was impossible to tell which screw was being referred to - who can tell the difference between 1/2 inch and 5/8 inch by sight? I gave up putting in the last two screws because I couldn't figure out how to get them into place. So I held my breath when I started up the motor. Fortunately, it held together and did a good job shredding the leaves. It's a little unwieldy to move around, but I managed. I've only used it one afternoon, so can't comment on the durability. But I like it so far.