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When all safeties, guards and protections are on board, you
may start working with your shredder. Dress properly, wear
long pants, non-slip gloves, sturdy work shoes with non-skid
soles and suitable personal protection implements when wor-
king outdoors.
Switch the shredder on.
Feed brush, stalks, tree-bark, leaves, thin branches and garden waste
into the upper hopper to reduce them into fine particle size by means
of special hammers and discharge the compost out of the lower chute.
The machine optimum intake is set by the manufacturer before ship-
ment. However, check for throughout smooth and fast pulling when
feeding long, thin material into the hopper. Thicker branches and sticks
(> 30mm) should be fed slower into the machine.
The machine is equipped with a spring-loaded reducing grate. Should a
stoppage or an overload situation occur, the grate is flapped forwards
so that the crushing rotor can start freely turning around. This system
was conceived and designed to prevent shredder overloads.
Move the shredder away, as soon as an excessive quantity of shredded
material falls down onto the ground under the chute output.
Should the grate open too frequently or too easily, adjust the pre-loa-
ding of the spring by means of the eyebolt. To do so, first adjust the
hex-nut (SW 13) of the eyebolt closer to the spring (see „Figure 6“).
Various kinds of grates are available to adjust the system to the va-
rious kinds of required compost (see “Selecting the best discharge gra-
te”).
The side spout allows chipping thicker tree limbs by means of high-ca-
pacity cutting blades. Before feeding limbs into the side spout, make
sure to clean it and remove all projecting branches. Now, insert your
material into the side spout. As it passes within a heavy steel anvil
(rotor), this blade shears off a chip of wood once for every revoluti-
on. The own-weight of this compact, but powerful chipping action and
the special knife design assure optimized intake and discharge of the
shredded material without further pushing it.
6. USE OF THE SHREDDER
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