Electric Shredder Mulcher for Wood branches, Plants and Garden Waste (FM4DDE-MUL)
Mulching and composting just got a whole lot easier and more effective with our patented (GB2100107.8) 4HP Electric Shredder Mulcher.
We’re always striving to improve our machines to make them the best they can possibly be and to meet our customer’s high expectations which we’ve built over decades of forestry experience. Our newest update features a newly designed exit chute which combats and prevents blockages when mulching and chipping by allowing you to essentially have the length of the chute.
Compact, Lightweight, Powerful and Robust are the best words to describe our brand-new and innovative machine. The first of its kind, the electric shredder mulcher is capable of intaking any waste you can throw at it and processing it into precious mulch, crucial in creating effective black gold (compost) for your garden. Plants, leaves or any other garden waste can be fed into the machine and the garden mulcher will provide you with invaluable material for your compost bin in an instant. Our mulcher has been stress tested with anything you can think of and it’s yet to meet garden waste it can’t handle. Wood older than three days may produce sawdust.
What gave us the inspiration for the machine? For years we have received customer enquiries asking if we had a suitable machine for such tasks as well-known competitor brands have tried and failed at this attempt, often falling at the first hurdle of being able to process wet green waste such as grass and ivy. Our machine is a tried and tested one-stop shop for all your mulching needs.
Not sure if you require a garden mulcher or a wood chipper? This is a question of the past as the FM4DDE-MUL is perfectly capable of also chipping wood into wood chips that are 10mm and below. If you’re mulching material that is particularly wet or likes to stick to the chute, the machine is designed in such a way that you can simply hose down the chutes to clear out any excess material.
How is the FM4DDE-MUL Electric Garden Shredder, Mulcher and Chipper better than competitors? Well, our machine is designed and produced using a steel design. You’ll find that the majority of garden shredders available on the market feature a plastic design. Why is steel better than plastic in this instance? The steel design is what allows our machine to be robust and powerful. Plastic designs can damage easily and cause issues down the road. Buy a machine – buy it once, is our motto. 95% of our machine is recyclable metals.
Prefer a petrol engine? not a problem! We also have a full range of petrol mulchers on their way – ranging from 6HP right the way up to a massive 18HP.
Want to learn how to put this machine to the best use? Check out our gardening category within our blog and find out everything you need to know about creating compost. We cover every topic from mulching to creating your first compost pile, preparing your garden for the winter, creating leaf mould from scratch and finding the perfect mixture of household waste for your compost. We provide all the information you could ever need, and if that isn’t enough, we’re just a message away to help you understand anything you may need.
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Only tried it once so far. Seems to have a metallic rattle whilst running which I will have to investigate.
Although it chips wood up to 20mm it will not do 50mm as in the literature. Tried to use to process hedge trimmings but repeatedly clogged. Safety guard doesn’t help as restricts. Disappointed.
It is for mulching but it gets clogged too easily to use as a chipper. I literally spend more time take the feed shute off to clean than i did chip – and that was with wood well within its stated capacity
Price vs capability is the big issue. With some sensible design thinking capability could be much improved.
The machine is robust but doesn’t do any more than £100 machine at five times the price.
Assembly:
The assembly manual is more confusing than helpful
The motor is very heavy and it has a plastic box stuck on the top that is vulnerable during assembly.
Design:
the electrics box or at least the emergency off button could be on the side of the input hopper where it would be easier to reach
With the electrics moved it would be easy to increase the IP rating to make the machine rainproof.
As supplied the output hopper is a joke. I guess that’s why the meaningless claim to be able to rotate the drum 40° is included along with half the output hopper being removable? the remaining hopper should be curved to shoot forwards not downwards. in fact why bother with it at all? it’s appears that all that makes this a mulcher is by blocking what would have been the exit port of the chipper and providing a grated opening that nothing can emerge from till it’s been reduced in size?
Some hooks to retain the handles of a builders bag into which the shoot could then discharge would be useful.
The short cable is a joke too. It should be 10 m and there should be some hooks to wind the cable on.
Lack of a handle makes the machine almost impossible to move. Certainly over rough terrain. the tines of a broken fork inserted into the redundant battery retaining box securing holes goes some way to fix but a very simple piece of welding to produce a handlebar to bolt on would be cheap and simple.
The input hopper is not wide nor broad enough and its just the wrong height so make an hours use back braking.
Make the tubular edge of the top be the anchor point for a 3mm wire x 15/20mm mesh table then this would allow easier feeding into the input hopper of general tangled garden weeding and trimmings while allowing earth and stone to be filtered out.
The safety bolt on the input hopper requires a 17 full rotations and is in the most awkward of spots – get rid of it, move the micro switch to be flush with the surface and put two 3£ tension/ toggle clips on the input hopper to snap shut and lock!
Use:
in 4 hours of use I’ve additionaly spent 2 investigating non-starting jamming and replacing fuses. jamming requires removing the input hopper or reaching down inside it. a pivoting claw assembled through the side or top of the hopper with a handle on the outside that allowed material to be ratcheted towards the blades would help.
The drum rotation requires a box banner which should be supplied. It would be sensible to make the drum rotation and the blade replacement bolt heads the same size and then to give an attachment on the outside of the machine to hold it. a spare plastic cap is going to be needed when the current one gets lost which I predict won’t take long. Instead of being wholly detachable secure with a lanyard
I’ve replaced one 13 amp fuse in the house in 20 years and two 13 amp fuses in the extension power lead for this a shredder in 2 days use
conclusion:
Despite excellent build quality for robustness if I’d had an hours use before purchase I wouldn’t not have purchased this level of functionality at this level of price
Simon@logicalmodel.net
The mulcher/chipper works very well. It produces good sized bits suitable for composting or mulch. It is much quieter in operation then I thought it would be. The major niggle is the length of the lead which is about 1.5 m. Far too short.