Posted: 18/02/2013 at 22:39
Super Gran, All shredders can get blocked, particularly by putting in too much soft green wet stuff all at once. Over the years, I've learnt to feed it with a balanced diet (bit like myself, really!) I keep two piles of stuff, one 'wet' and one 'dry' and put some 'wet' stuff in, followed by about 4 times as much 'dry'. I find this keeps it from blocking too often, but some stuff (eg pampas grass, sweetcorn leaves) contains long tough fibres and these tend to get wrapped around spinning parts, so I try to avoid putting in stuff like that (I chop it in to small bits with secateurs instead.)
