By Mr. Andrew Bickley
It loves hard woody material up to 1 1/2 inches diameter, you'll struggle to get soft or mainly leafy stuff through (which the Rapid doesn't have a problem with), but then soft stuff rots down fast enough anyway so not really a problem. The 22 & 25TC has a new type of cutter that is meant to overcome this, but I decided not to be the Guinea Pig and let someone else try out the new system. Recommended by Fredshed, worth a read before you commit to buying, if you've got time. It's the same toothed gear against a metal plate in a drum, as on it's predecessor the AXT 2200HP Quiet, but with an extra 0.3kW's, which you can see in action on YouTube `Best Electric Garden Shredder for Home use'. That part works well, plenty of torque, and will chew through stuff that cause most/any other electric shredding machine to jam up, the AXT 2200HP Rapid included.
The difference between this one and it's predecessor is the built in collection box, and why I only gave it 4 stars, once the box gets about 1/2 full the mulch builds up under the drum and tends to get drawn back into the machine again, and starts blocking it. It would be better to let the mulch fall on the ground but you can't easily do this as without the box the bottom of the cutter is exposed to children's fingers and dogs noses, and it has a safety transponder in the box that cuts out the motor if it's not in place. Soft stems have a tendency to come out bruised rather than cut, but if woody material is only chewed and still in one length you have to wind in the metal plate against the drum with the drum turning until you can just hear metal against metal. The Hardened steel cutter will actually bed into the softer alloy plate, and the cutter is then set. All garden shredder tend to work better if you put the material through within a week of it being cut, as woody material dries out it gets much harder.
I would say buy the predecessor that doesn't have the collection box if the 2200HP Quiet wasn't more expensive than the newer 25D. Despite this the 25D is a good well made, built to last machine, that would eat my previous £90 1600w Performance Power impact shredder for breakfast, it's not perfect, but one of the best on the market.
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