Having even a small garden plot, we are faced with the need for various works to care for it. One of such concerns is the need to harvest garden rubbish. And then modern technicians come to the aid of amateur gardeners - such as chainsaws, garden vacuum cleaners , and also shredders of various types.
Today we will consider grinders operating from electricity - their advantages, disadvantages and features of choice.
Advantages and disadvantages of electric shredder
The advantages of such a device include its low weight, low noise and ease of maintenance. It is also important that the garden shredders with electric motor do not throw into the atmosphere any combustion products, as in the case of gasoline models.
Of the minuses, you need to name the dependence on the outlet and, correspondingly, the length of the cord, and less than the power of gasoline grinders. If there are interruptions in electricity or voltage drops on your site, keep in mind that this can adversely affect this technique.
How to choose a garden chopper?
Before you select a chopper branches, you need to determine what will be the load on the device. By this criterion shredders are divided into amateur, professional and semi-professional. The first are equipped with an engine up to 1600 W inclusive, they are more suitable for small developing economies. The second type of grinders includes more powerful (up to 4000 W) units that will cope with thick branches of 6-7 cm. They are not for nothing called professional, because they have a convenient large diameter funnel, quality milling knives and equipped with a garbage collection system. In addition, with such a shredder it is very easy to prepare mulch, because the device itself presses shredded sawdust.
As for semi-professional devices, they have average power and diameter parameters of processed branches. It is on such models that most buyers often stop their choice.
When buying, you should consider some of the nuances:
- The working cutting part of the chopper is either a milling cutter or disk knives. Instruments equipped with a milling cutter are more expensive, but they are more reliable and durable. If you decide to buy a chopper with knives, then ideally they should be made of hardened steel;
- in more expensive models there are various additional functions that will make life much easier for you. This can be, for example, the pre-cutting mode, holes for weeds or young shoots, reverse rotation of the knives, blocking of self-starting, etc. But do not overpay for functions that you do not need.
As you can see, choosing a garden electric chopper branches is quite simple - you just need to correctly evaluate the purpose of the purchase and competently approach its selection.