California
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- Joined
- Jan 22, 2004
- Messages
- 14,674
- Location
- An hour north of San Francisco
- Tractor
- Yanmar YM240 Yanmar YM186D
Getting back to bad ergonomics this HF shredder clearly wasn't designed by anyone who would have to run it. Long material has to be held tiringly high to push it in (and it feeds slowly), plus the outlet is so close to the ground that I can only accumulate maybe three inches of shredded material on that grain shovel. In fact there isn't enough space below to slide the shovel straight in where it catches everything.I don't like the orientation of the handle on this [chop] saw. If you are using it on a bench then it will be difficult to control. ... One or two cuts a day you wouldn't feel it, but if you were using it all day long you would.
Anything over broomstick size will jam it so that is supposed to go in the shredder's small lower opening, but pushing anything in there hammers your hand so hard you think all your fingers got broken.
Unscrewing eight nuts and washers to clear jams (without losing them!) is a PIA. The shredder has to be perfectly precisely level or the low oil shut off will kill the engine. (while the dipstick shows full). The wheels are too small, you have to rassle it to keep it from tipping over while pulling it over unimproved ground.
On the plus side it starts easily and has plenty of power. In summary I think a used US name brand shredder would have been a better buy but I couldn't find one at the time.