Sun Joe Electric Leaf Mulcher/Shredder 13-Amp SDJ616

After some online research looking at Flowtron and WORX, I concluded that Flowtron burns out motors too fast, and WORX does not have an adjustment for how finely or coarsely it shreds the leaves, and the gauge of the trimmer line it uses is too small. Since the first problem with the WORX was not that big a problem for me, and there was a simple modification described to retrofit the WORX to use a heaver line, and I have a WORX blower/vac combination that has worked well for several years, I decided to order the WORX. As I was in the process of placing the order, an add for the Snow Joe shredder popped up. I was not previously aware of it’s existence, but I bought a Snow Joe electric chain saw last year and was very impressed with both the quality of the saw and the service from the company. Looking into the Snow Joe, I found that it used the heavier gauge shredding line, and had an adjustment for fine/coarse shredding. I changed my order to the Snow Joe. With Amazon Prime it came in two days. It was well packaged, assembled easily (10 minutes), and ran for about 6 hours over 2 days producing about 10 large trash bags of finely mulched oak leaves. It handled twigs in the leaves up to about a quarter of an inch in diameter with no problem. Adding bigger twigs forces you to change out the shredding lines more frequently. I replaced the mulching lines 3 times during the entire shredding process. Line replacement is simple (5 minutes) and does not require any tools. Overall the shredder worked very well. It shredded levees about as fast as I could bend down and pick them up out of a pile and load them in the shredder. My experience is with dry oak leaves, and for those, the shredder worked great. When I was done, I found that the shredder disassembles easily and packs into a very small volume for storage.

Seller must tell clearly its 110Volt AC, USA supply style, but total Product is Made in China ! Moreover, the Voltage converter provided for 220V AC to 110V AC, is only 100W rating where as if you see 110V x 13 A current, 60Hz, the power drawn is very high. The Converter provided Burnt in 5 min of use.

The assembly was a whiz. Putting in new plastic shredding line is easy and new ones can be easily purchased on- line for relatively cheap. The box comes with a very good supply of them. The shredder operates in a similar manner to a weed whacker, but it is quadruple lined and more powerful. I have run my Sun Joe shredder for several hours this past fall and this winter and it is marvelous. I have shredded perhaps 20 packed garbage cans full of leaves, mostly dry ones, and maybe four cans of plant stems. My wildflower plant stems are pretty hard but the shredder gets through them! I go through more plastic line shredding stems than shredding leaves. With dry leaves, I can shred many garbage cans full of leaves before the line gets worn out. Wet leaves will kind of stick to the inside of the shredder and it is best to clean it out every several minutes, but it will still run. Don’t expect to machine to break any hard sticks, even small ones. Occasional small sticks will generally get through the shredder with minimal damage to the shredding lines. The machine is quite loud and it is wise to have good ear protection. Over all, it is a great investment for what it does. I put all of my shredded leaves and stems on my many flower beds!

El equipo hace el trabajo aceptablemente bien, sin embargo, no es un equipo para uso intensivo por lo que para obtener la mayor efectividad en su desempeño hay que observar constantemente la velocidad con la que se alimenta el embudo de llenado para obtener el mejor corte posible y así prolongar la vida de los plásticos cortadores; de otra forma, si se sobrealimenta por tener mayor rendimiento del equipo, los plásticos cortadores se consumen muy rápidamente y el corte es disparejo. Importante tener en cuenta que lo ideal es alimentar al equipo con hojas únicamente, es decir, es deseable también depurar las varas, por muy delgadas que éstas sean porque también acaban rápidamente con el plástico cortador.

Very easy to assemble. Works great. At first my wife thought i was just buying a yard toy, but after one run she realized this makes fall leaf cleanup easy and will pay for itself. No more buying paper yard waste bags, or at least instead of buying 10 packages of bags, we may only need to buy one, this season. That’s a $40-50 savings right there.

On the finest setting, it threw up a lot more dust than I expected but it also mulched an entire yard waste bag of leaves down to a small amount in the garbage can i had under it. The mulch will go into the garden and spread around the lawn and will easily be dissolved by summer next year. Free fertilizer. Much better than going to the curb instead.