All the owners of suburban areas and amateur gardeners once encounter a problem, whose name is the recycling of garden garbage. Some burn waste, others collect in sacks and take them to a landfill. Ordering a special machine for garbage disposal is expensive, it is not affordable for everyone. Therefore, an indispensable and very useful tool for caring for your garden will be a garden chopper of grass and twigs.
It is especially relevant for owners of large garden areas. This device will help you grind the branches and young shoots, recycle plant garbage, chop the weeds and even the roots of trees. As a result of such processing, a small substrate will be obtained, which can be used as a useful and environmentally friendly fertilizer.
All grinders are fundamentally different from each other in different parameters: power, engine type, automation capabilities, etc., but the main difference is in the cutting system: it can be disk and milling. Let's find out how to competently choose a quality and reliable garden chopper branches and grass.
Grass chopper and twigs
A chopper with a disk knife system has two (sometimes more) steel knives that grind the material fed into the funnel. Such a shredder can be used for processing grass, fallen leaves, weeds and small freshly cut branches. You can use it to grind and dry branches, but with the knives will be blunted much faster. Using such a shredder, we reduce the amount of garbage several times, and at the output we get the crushed fraction, from which the fertilizer will be further prepared.
Chopper of large branches
In the adaptation with the milling knife system, a special extra-strong solid-cast gear is used instead of knives. With this shredder, dry branches up to 45 mm thick can be crushed. A distinctive feature of the milling shredder is the presence of the self-stretching function: there is no need to constantly push the branches into the funnel, the mechanism pulls them inward.
Some shredders are equipped with a reverse function, which is activated when loading a large number of branches. There are models in which there is the possibility of adjusting the clearance of the cutter, which makes it possible to reduce the fraction of the resulting material. But the fresh grass, leaves and weeds milling shredder will not be processed as qualitatively as the disk shredder.
On sale there are also universal models of combined grinders, which can be processed as fresh weeds and branches, and dry large residues. Such a grinder of branches and grass has a combined cutting system. However, such mechanisms are quite expensive.
There is one more model of the device with the so-called cutting mechanism, which allows to reduce with the same degree of efficiency dry and fresh branches, garden garbage and fallen foliage.
Distinct garden shredders and the type of engine. You can buy a low-noise shredder for grass and branches with an electric motor, which is convenient to use near residential buildings. It is impossible to grind thick stumps on it, since its power is low, but it is quite possible to process garden garbage into a useful mulch that will protect the soil from drying out and weeds. And at the price of such a chopper is available.
To work away from the power grid is convenient more powerful gasoline shredder. It can be used for work in large orchards, vineyards. In addition, such a shredder can both be stationary, and move around the site.