Reddit reviews CJ601E 14-Amp Electric Wood Chipper/Shredder

Sun Joe CJ601E 14-Amp Electric Wood Chipper/Shredder https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007VX11O8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_r4d8ybMVTEB33

I have had and tried a lot of shredders over the years.

I found Electric shredders to be the best, I have one like this, different brand but same concept. The main two parts being electric and metal blades.

I have .5 acres with lots of trees, my shredders makes mincemeat out of all the leaves and 1/4" branches.

Now it will get stuck everyone once in a while, but I will happily trade that for no oil, no gas, and over all pretty quiet.

I've been looking into this a lot lately, and here are the notes that I have:

• For the actual filament extrusion, the Filastruder can't be beat. The Filawinder also seems like a pretty worthwhile tool to pair it with.
  
• You can also take a look at the Lyman filament extruder on Thingiverse. Depending on what parts you have laying around, you might be able to build yourself an extruder for cheaper than you can buy the Filastruder kit. I know it's cheaper for me to buy the kit, though.
  
• Even if you only buy the Filastruder and don't shred old prints, you can buy ABS and PLA pellets to extrude into filament at roughly half the cost of pre-extruded filament, which is a pretty big selling point in my mind.
  
• If you go the route of buying a shredder so you can recycle old prints, there's a few options to explore:
  
  • There's a commercial shredder sold by Filamaker. It's pretty spendy and only hand-cranked if I recall correctly, but you could probably find an electric motor to slap on there.
    
  • Filabot also has an "industrial reclaimer", but it's very very expensive, and designed for somebody that's operating a plastic recycling shop or something.
    
  • Precious Plastics has an open source shredder design that might be fairly inexpensive. You'll have to find a metal shop that can produce the parts for you, though, and you'll have to source everything (including a motor) yourself.
    
  • A salad shooter might have enough oomph to granulate smaller failed prints, especially incomplete prints that are pretty flimsy.
    
  • For somewhat larger tasks, you might consider an electric wood chipper/shredder like this, but there will be some legwork in terms of making sure your recycled materials will fit in the hopper. Maybe a band saw would help here?
    
  • Most office shredders can handle credit cards. I wouldn't do this with ABS (mostly because of smell), but maybe you could get a cookie sheet and melt PLA into a really thin sheet, and then just run it through a good office shredder to "granulate" it?
    
    Something else of interest to keep an eye on -- an all in one grinder, extruder, and winder appliance: http://www.redetec.com/
    
    Finally, there's the pipe shredder design, which I've heard works reasonably well: http://hackaday.com/2015/06/14/a-different-kind-of-plastic-shredder-for-3d-filament-making/
    
    Big thread of ideas here: http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?1,352813,378280

I have the same issue. I am thinking of buying this: http://www.amazon.com/Joe-Chipper-CJ601E-Electric-Shredder/dp/B007VX11O8/ref=sr_1_2?s=lawn-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1427637317&sr=1-2&keywords=mulcher

Electric wood chipper. [Something like this.] (https://smile.amazon.com/Joe-CJ601E-Electric-Chipper-Shredder/dp/B007VX11O8/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1506517103&sr=8-3&keywords=electric+wood+chipper)

Yeah... They were wanting $280 a day for it, but it was more for 6 inch branches than bushes like I have. I think I'll pick up one of these instead