Working on your back yard or garden to clear down any non-essential bushes or trees is very hard work! Not only do you need to chop the trees down, you are also required to then get rid of of it too in an environmentally friendly manner also. This is definitely where having a tree chipper or leaf shredder will be ideal.

These small, portable units will break down smaller sticks and branches and plants into smaller pieces so that they can be reused or recycled in a large number of different ways. For example, a branch from your dead tree could be turned into wood chippings and then used as a layer on your flower beds. If you have a large number of trees or branches to shred, they could be used to create an area where young people can play safely. Softer items such as shrubs could be shredded down by a garden shredder into a fine or coarse mulch and that is then brilliant for putting to your plants and used as a natural fertilizer. Just mix up the reduced plant with a bit of water and leave it to compost in a warm storage device and you will produce a great locally made product to assist your replacement trees and plants grow.

Shredders are available in various shapes and sizes, from smaller plastic portable models designed for home users only, which use rigid nylon string to thresh the waste plants you feed into it into smaller pieces, right the way through to large towable electric chippers and model that are built for industrial shredding for landscaping companies and gardening companies. In the middle ground of this range there are many shredders and chippers which are solely designed to break down the waste material that is placed into them. They are made to take branches of no larger diameter than two inches and they will quite quickly process all types of other garden wastage without any issues at all. Products by Bearcat or Craftsman are built for this sort of work and will last you for years and years.

A leaf shredder is a perfect option for people with larger gardens that have trees that shed their leaves. Place the leaves into a shredder and they will be reduced quickly. The processed leaves are great for making compost or adding to a mulch, and the shredded leaves are easily disposed of.

You could make it a group purchase. Get together with your neighbors and buy the chipper shredder between the group and share it around you all. It makes for a perfect idea to jointly own a chipper shredder as they are not needed all year round.