Powerful Shredde
Compared to my previous shredder emptying the container is a doodle no fiddly latch to undo.
Happy to process green stuff as long as you periodically shred some tree branches to clear the blades

It does the job very efficiently
The shredder is easy to move around, the design is perfect and it does the shredding in no time and we went up to the thickness they advise with no problem, no dislikes from our point of view. It has reduced all the shrub and tree cuttings into tiny pieces that we will use to put on the soil as ground cover to reduce weeds coming through and any spare will go into the compost. We are very happy with the product and although it was not cheap it is a good investment because it will pay for itself in no time going by the quotes we have had for someone to come in and do the job for us.

Great Shredder Bosch AXT 25 TC
This replaced a Bosch shredder that we had for 9 years that was no longer shredding well. We have a large garden so need something that is reliable and efficient and this fits the bill. We are so pleased with this one which has been chomping through pruning and clippings with ease and very quickly over the last few weeks. My husband says its a joy to use. The cutting mechanism is brilliant producing small size compostable matter and so much better than our previous Bosch. Not so many trips to the refuse tip either now! Highly recommended.

Does the job brilliantly
Very capable. Easy to use and safe. The wheels seem to be on the wrong end to me but only a minor niggle, can move it around fine. Shreds anything that fits through the feeding slot. V pleased with this.

Good all round machine
Pros: copes well with a variety of material except really soft clippings. It’s a cut and crush machine and any shredders that crush struggle a bit with soft material. This one is pretty good though. It chews through thick dry branches well and the resulting mulch is quite small pieces.
Cons: It is heavy. It’s fine to move around using the wheels if you are on a flat surface, but I store mine in a shed and need help getting it up over the threshold.

Overall: good machine, very robust and good for most types of garden trimmings. Would recommend.

good bit of ki
ied the smaller ‘spinning plate’ types before, and this is a lot better. It ‘seems’ slower due to the slower (and quieter) cutter – but it actually gets through a lot of stuff very efficiently. done 4 hopper loads so far – and hasn’t jammed up once. would recommend.

Bosch are the bes
I have had a similar product for many years, as I like to make garden compost. Will take stems and shred them up. Blade is easy to replace, with clear instructions and an alum key is provided. Stones and earth will blunt blade. Safety cut out, and good plunger to put down the feeder chute. No collection bag is not a problem for me as many containers will fit underneath. Fruit tree pruning s tend to chip only, so the shredder is best for softer growth.

Shredded ground ivy leaves and small stems soaked in water for at least a week, can then be put on compost heap without regrowth. Compost is made super fast with shredding

Long lead

It can clog with green stuff if you put too much in at a time.
We love this shredder. We had a already got a small one [ a different make ] that worked but took so long to shred all the stuff from our very large garden, we knew we needed to get something more powerful. I think the only drawback was some of the green prunings, tended to clog the blades a bit, but we overcame that by feeding them through with some of the more woody garden refuse.

Brillian Machine
The fact that I have bought four of these, one for myself, one for my daughter, one for my son and one for my girlfriend says a lot!
The AXT 25 TC is a very powerfull quiet (Ear muffs not required) machine easily ably to chomp 40mm green brushwood and softer stuff such as ivy and honeysuckle. However, like most machinery, there is a technique to using it. If you ram softer stuff down too hard the cutter can’t get hold of it and it blocks but if you work with the machine it is remarkable what it will chomp.
I have only given it 4 stars for manoeverability as it is quite top heavy and needs a steadying hand. Also the cable is a bit short for a garden machine necessitating the use of an extension cable. Note that a heavy duty cable is necessary: a 1.5 sq mm is good for 10 m or so but 1.75 sq mm is better for up to 25 m and must be uncoiled.
Bruce

Keep the blade sharp!
Soon after purchasing I thought what a load of rubbish, always clogging up and not shredding, I have since found out that with dry material and a SHARP blade it is great, and will go through garden refuse like a hot knife through butter. The blade comes out easily, useing the allan key with some sort of extension (ring spanner?) supplied, for sharpening. As for shredding 40mm wood, dream on!

Great at shredding
Great at shredding all sorts of vegetation without too much trouble. Powerful. Shredding is also reasonably small.
It folds into a very compact space.
Quite noisy but not unbearable.
Getting the collection bin in and out can be a bit of a struggle if not on very flat ground.
It is very heavy and the centre of gravity is quite high so it tends to fall to the side when being transported over uneven ground.
The cable storage does not work well especially when moving it about. Can be overcome with looping through the handle but not well designed.
Overall happy as it works so welll as a shredder. The turbine blades are an excellent design.

Tree chomping machine
Felled a tree and put most of it (except for the large, fire-log-like lower parts of the main branches) through this. Also put about 10 cubic metres of hedge through it.

It does a great job of chomping through meters of branches, pulling them in and cutting them down to nothing.

It does take a lot of tending. Even the big agricultural chippers take a fair bit of tending. So don’t expect to clear up a felled tree in 20 minutes, or as an aside to whatever else you’re doing, like hedgetrimming. Think more like hours or a day, just for the shredding.

BUT, with some work, it’ll turn a small garden’s worth of branches into a few much smaller piles of woodchips.

It does struggle with wetter stuff, like very leafy upper branches and shrubs. But if you’re a bit strategic, keeping some woodier branches around, you can feed them in after the leafy stuff, and it’ll clear itself.

Almost never jams, unless you’re really pushing what you can fit into it.

The auto-sharpening mechanism (where you just tighten a knob to sharpen it) is pretty cool. Be sure not to tighten the wrong knob when assembling though, or you’ll waste some of the brand new blades as soon as you turn it on.

Bear in mind that buying a trailer and taking the branches to a council dump might be more suitable for you. Depends on what you need, and how you want to work, I guess.

Good quality purchase. Well thought out.
Bought this over a year ago and love it. The chute works well to feed items through it. Love the red plastic tool for poking things down the chute. I like that it can be made smaller for storage. Blades can be altered so good if been cutting thick items and want to change to smaller items or if the blades have just worn. Went for the TC version and glad I did as it shreds well. Easy to undo to unblock the blades from too much in the waste container. Yes noisy but not any where near as noisy as other shredders we’ve had. It is heavy to move even on the castors but that’s because it’s a solid bit of equipment. Not flimsy and wobbly like some. If someone could just make it quieter and find a way to stop the shreddings piling up in the middle of the container then blocking the blades it would be perfect. Also although there is a section that you can wind the cord around, if does keep coming undone. An area to plug the plug into once it’s wound to stop it moving would be very helpful. We have used it a lot. I would recommend this shredder if you want something sturdy that will last.

Great value for a fantastic piece of ki
Great piece of kit. Made mince meat out of an old plumtree and a rambling rose that had been brought down by high winds (apart from the main trunk). However, I would have prefered the chips/waste to come out a bit smaller so that it could have been used in the borders. Never grumbled, very “hungry”, but was easily cleared if anything did get a bit stuck (with a long stick/rod – make sure you unplug the machine, just in case….) Would defintely recommend!

Superb!
I have lived with a shredder I bought from Homebase for about 20 years, bought for 140, just like this one. The old one constantly jammed and was impossible to keep clear, both ends of its gut. It was also slow, let some branches through unscathed, and at best left others cut but still connected.

What a revelation this Bosch shredder is! It is quick, really quick, and pulverised branches down to the consistency of a cross cut paper shredder, something the old one never did.

I have just finished shredding the branches from following:

* A large Buddlea
* A very tall Mahonia, cut right back
* Chamaecyparis cuttings
* Two fruiting trees, a flowering cherry and a crab apple, taking off 2m of growth since their last hard prune at 3m height.
* Yew branches.
* A stagshorn sumach, cut right back.

The shredder coped with all of this, finally jamming on the yew, but that was solved by turning a knob and removing the entire top and front, exposing the jammed up needles, which took a minute to brush out.

After all this, the blade is still cutting keenly. I have heard these blades blunt easily, but there is nothing so far, and that is my largest shred of the year. If the blade blunts, just reverse it, or try sharpening it. A new one costs between 20-30. I think the one shown in the bundle is incorrect, by the way, the correct one is more rectangular with four sharpened edges, so there are two cutting strokes per revolution.

Any niggles? Well, there are some five variants of the 2200, all requiring different blades, on the Bosch site. There seem to be two disjoiht sites to register your warranty. And finally, the on/off mechanism is the most peculiar I have ever seen, and does not always work; if this is a fault, I may need to return it.

But, compare this with the cost of huring someone to fo it, or a skip, and it will more than pay its way.

This is a Which? best buy, by the way.

Excellent produc
I purchased this as it was the most powerful domestic shredder I could find, and it has not disappointed. I have a a lot of bushes and trees which need trimmed back, and this has made that job very easy to have the branches disposed of.
As long as the diameter is not too big, it is possible to feed in a branch (of any length), and walk away. The branch will be chopped up into little pieces, ready for the next one. This will also chop up smaller bits of garden rubbish like twigs and leaves (so long as they are dry).
This is one of the best garden tools I own, and have recommended to a number of neighbours.

A garden essential
Had a petrol shredder previously, very heavy and easily clogged up. This is in a different league. Eats up the cuttings from our large hedges and also deals with the autumn cut back of mature shrubs. No clogging if you feed it steadily and it is extremely quiet – less noise than the mower and a great deal less than a strimmer. Easy to use and empty and move about the garden. Delighted.

A good matching but.
It does the job but it is a bit slow, I would not say it shreds rather chops into small bits .
Hard to pull about. Be nice if it had four wheels instead of two . I had to tie a rope to it.

I think the cheaper one would have been better for my garden tree branches etc

Branch shredde
I read a few reviews to get my choice made. A fair sized garden with quite a bit of shrubbery. Previously had the Bosch stand-up shredder which lasted well but couldn’t cope with anything very thick and was pretty noisy. Have used this several times. A slower turning action so noise problem. Coped with everything I put through it and chopped up well. Does need to be dry materiel as anything damp does look as if it might clog . Pleased with this and hope it lasts as long as the previous model.

Does what it says it will do.
I purchased this as I had to chop down a lot of trees, I ran this machine for a good part of 3 days solid and it never missed a beat. if you can get through the guide at the top it will munch it up. I was even putting 2 or 3 branches of a good thickness it at once and it handled it no issues.
It is pricey but I guess you get what you pay for. It is quite heavy but i guess it needs to be as the branches do move about quite a lot. Please make sure you wear glasses when feeding this as the branches do whip about.

Certainly does the job, but some design faults.
Plus: Does the job / shreds very well – even thick branches / has a quiet motor / a good sized collection box / easy and safe to use / doesn’t jam.

Cons: Difficult to manoeuvre (the wheels are too small and too close together) / very heavy to move / the cable storage system is useless.

Overpriced but effective.
Arrived damaged but got a rebate for all the scratches. Then on sale for much less than paid the week after 🙁
Very effective, but still clogs with smaller twigs etc.
Moving it isn’t as easy as you think even with wheels. It’s very heavy.
Getting the collection box on and off is awkward. The box catches on the floor (design issue)
Effective tool but over priced

Not bad at all
At almost 400 this is not a cheap bit of kit but much cheaper than petrol options. Annoyingly, like many other reviews I read, it came broken. The damage was a piece of plastic snapped off that helps keep the cable tidy but I couldn’t be bothered sending it back as it didn’t affect the workings of the machine. I would blame the manufacturer for this though rather than the seller or courier as it comes in a Bosch cardboard box with no padding at all and it’s a heavy piece of kit…. there should be at least some protection for transit. The machine itself isn’t the easiest to manoeuvre with two small plastic wheels and it’s top heavy. It wobbles from side to side when you try to wheel it. On to the positive bit, it’s excellent at its job. It took about 4 hours to create 4 x tonne bags of wood chippings for mulch. If you want a chipper for branches 1cm upto 4cm then this is for you. If you want a shredder for smaller stuff then forget it, it can’t handle smaller material and certainly not very good with leafy material. Best to use when no leaves on the branches.

Awesome Powe
What a beast! I’ve named mine Audrey, after the voracious plant in “Little Shop of Horrors”.
The Bosch was bought to replace my ailing Al-Ko shredder, and they’re very different. The Al-Ko relied on rapidly spinning blades which often got blunt or jammed. The Bosch has a cog-like toothed wheel that drags the material in and crushes it into small pieces. It runs much more slowly, but relentlessly, dragging branches up to 40-45 mm in without pausing for breath. This afternoon I shredded branches from a fir, enough to fill my estate car three times on a trip to the tip. I’m left with a dustbin full of wooden chips to go on the borders, and another bin full of softer material to rot down.
It’s at its best with woody branches and twigs; soft material won’t get chopped up as small as my old Al-Ko could manage. This doesn’t matter to me, though, as it will still rot down eventually.
I planned at first to buy a cheaper bladed shredder, but I’m very glad now to have paid the 100 or so extra for the Bosch. It feels very solid, as if it will go on for years (it has a 3 year warranty). And it’s very small and neat (though heavy, and a bit awkward to move around as it’s quite low). And feeding in the branches is quite addictive! (Who saw Fargo?)