Shred's dead, baby

[undyingking]

Bah, my lovely new shredder has jammed at just the second time of using, on a particualrly chewy piece of shrub. Anyone got any tips on unclogging? I've tried running it backwards, but it's jammed that way too. And I can't take it apart, it's fastened with special pecularily-shaped bolts.

Comments

[rotwang.livejournal.com]

Usually the problem is too much soft green stuff. If you have some nice dry sticks (e.g. bamboo canes) to push through, that can clear it.

Having said that, and I don't know what sort you have, we took back the first one we got from Homebase because it was completely hopeless and blocked all the time. It was a rotary disk kind of shredder, as I think most are. We replaced it with a nice Bosch corkscrew type (alas, about three times the price) and that has been excellent.

[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

undyingking bought the same model we have, or potentially the next one up (forget offhand which). Not the crappy rotary type.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

In this case it is one large piece of dry stuff which has caused the clog. It's clogged sufficiently that the corkscrew (which has this chewy bit of stick kind of wound round it) cuts off as soon as you try to turn it on.