JCB-GSB 1800 Garden Shredder

JCB, the initials for Mr Joseph Cyril Bamford, famous for founding the company that made the excavator range. Now this Company makes smaller bits of kit, including these shredders. The firm was established in 1945, just after the war. The Company are world famous for manufacturing heavy earth-moving equipment, and among their more recent successes, is this humble garden shredder. This company has established itself all over the world, and are a state of the art, high profile firm, who keep up with the times. Their range of spares readily available at all times, is around 80%, this is pretty good, and is based on the old Scholl belief that most of their ...  Read the complete review

I bought the JCB shredder to shred the heaps of shrub, hedge and rose prunings accumulating at the top of my garden. My plan was firstly to save a trip to the local rubbish tip, and secondly to acquire free bark chippings for mulching, as well as a useful addition to my composting bin. My early impression (I've only just bought it) is that it will indeed get rid of most of my prunings and provide bark chippings and compost, however I am disappointed with its general performance. Its powerful, but quiet, 1800W motor is supposed to have a capacity of 35mm. But my shredder struggled to shred rose stems less than half this diameter with the rotating blades ...  Read the complete review