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Steven, Lowe's sells a TroyBilt
chipper/shredder lawn vacuum that looks like a lawn mower. I had my doubts about
how well it would work until I brought mine home and used it. I had a larger
chipper/shredder that was hard to use and vibrated so much that it was
constantly working the bolts loose. Finally one of those bolts fell into the
motor and ruined it.
The lawn vacuum has a small
chute for limbs up to 1 1/2" and I have fed whole trees through it by cutting
the limbs into straight morsels. The advantage of the small chute is that it
doesn't kick things back at you so much. For the type of cleanup you mentioned I
think you would be well pleased with this machine. The TroyBilt was about $500.
They might have other brands that are not quite as much but after my experience
with the bigger one, I wanted something more
reliable.
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Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 8:15
AM
Subject: RE: [iris-photos] Spuria
Identification
Thanks for your response, quite frankly, you are way in over my
head, where can I find (purchase) something that won't cost an arm or leg,
which would serve me. I am so new at this, I am not sure where to begin.
From the looks at your garden, I can see the value of recycling the
vegetation. Again thanks.
Steve,
Since you used my photo, I will mention what I do. The city picks
up one 90 gal wheeled garbage dumpster of garden refuse each week during the
growing season. I reserve that for tall bearded foliage, seedy
weeds,
a species of allium I am trying to get rid of, and anything else
that is either not dry enough or too tough to grind in my hammer mill.
I reworked my chipper shredder into a decent hammer mill, by removing the
chipper disc, covering the hole, completely redid the fixed hammer unit by
welding diamond bar (1/2"X3/4" tool steel) to each hammer, replaced both
bearings, bought a new custom 3/8" hole screen and replaced the balky
under powered gas engine with a 6Hp 220 volt electric motor. One
hundred fifty feet of welder extension cord gets me wherever I need to
go. I took the chipper disc out because it only had one knife, was
always dull and thus constantly clogged up. I can usually grind brush
up t 1"in diameter if not long and extra tough in my improved
mill.
Lawrence Lacey
On Mar 8, 2006, at 8:20 AM, Steven Hill wrote:
I'll borrow Mr. Lacey's beautiful picture to illustrate my
question. During the growing season, I have lots of garden
garbage, and can't seem to find a way to dispose of it short of taking it
to the landfill. I have tried composting, but the weekly volume
is too much. Does anyone have great ideas as to how to
recycle iris foliage and return it into the soil. It sounds so
simple, but I can't seem to find ways to "chop or grind" up the
vegetation. I am looking for all ideas, thanks.
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