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  • Hand-powered chipper/shredder?

    From athenamorris@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Roberta Norin on Mon Jun 15 15:29:21 2020
    On Thursday, November 12, 1992 at 5:27:17 PM UTC-5, Roberta Norin wrote:
    psmith@alfred.carleton.ca (Peter Smith) writes:

    In <1992Nov10.183331.19175@edsi.plexus.COM> gcs@edsi.plexus.COM (Greg C. Steiner) writes:


    Is there such a device as a hand-powered chipper/shredder? I
    don't have $200 to spend on a 3hp electrical one. I also prefer
    to use elbow-grease to get my yard work done.
    I'm not looking to chop logs...just leaves, grass and a few
    branches that get trimmed each year.

    Yes!

    I've always thought it would be neat if you could have a garbage
    disposal on your kitchen sink that would save the ground up stuff in a container so you could throw it on the compost.

    Would that be called a "blender"? lol

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  • From David Hill@21:1/5 to athenamorris@gmail.com on Tue Jun 16 00:01:45 2020
    On 15/06/2020 23:29, athenamorris@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, November 12, 1992 at 5:27:17 PM UTC-5, Roberta Norin wrote:
    psmith@alfred.carleton.ca (Peter Smith) writes:

    In <1992Nov10.183331.19175@edsi.plexus.COM> gcs@edsi.plexus.COM (Greg C. Steiner) writes:


    Is there such a device as a hand-powered chipper/shredder? I
    don't have $200 to spend on a 3hp electrical one. I also prefer
    to use elbow-grease to get my yard work done.
    I'm not looking to chop logs...just leaves, grass and a few
    branches that get trimmed each year.

    Yes!

    I've always thought it would be neat if you could have a garbage
    disposal on your kitchen sink that would save the ground up stuff in a
    container so you could throw it on the compost.

    Would that be called a "blender"? lol

    If you have a rotary mower you canrun that over the cut up smaller bits
    and it chops and collects.

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  • From songbird@21:1/5 to David Hill on Tue Jun 16 08:15:07 2020
    David Hill wrote:
    ...
    If you have a rotary mower you canrun that over the cut up smaller bits
    and it chops and collects.

    in almost 30 years it is likely that whatever it was is
    rotted by now no matter what was done to it. :)

    however, in the aims of keeping things simple and having
    me do as little as possible i bury garden scraps at the
    end of the season and let the soil community figure out
    what to do with it.

    indoors i keep a set of buckets with worms in them to
    take care of all kitchen scraps and all paper scraps.
    the most problem i have is any plastic coated items and
    i hope to put those in the recycling or in the trash.
    sometimes package designers put layers of plastic between
    layers of cardstock so i no longer shred cardstock of
    any kind, it all gets sent to the recycling people
    instead.


    songbird

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