Agree totally. Had mine the same length of time. Best garden thing I ever bought and it gets a lot of use in sub tropical Australia. And it goes as good as the first day. The only problem i have had is that I thought this was so good that all Bosch garden products were the same. Not so with the battery operated extension pole hedger. But that is another story. Look forward to another 2 years review.
hello, note the machine loose in efficiency when the aluminium counter-blade has sustain a lot of shearing from the blade, the effect is the machine will not grab and suck up as much as with a pristine counter-blade, and you have to push the branche manually, especially with larger one. Don't hesitate to change the counter-blade some time. The blade can be sharpened with a 600 diamond tool sharpener without dismantle by flipping over the machine to have better access to the blade. Overall it's the best and the toughest shredder.
Hello, so you sharpen the "turbine cutter head" or the "pressure plate"? Would you elaborate which face of the part do you sharpen? My understanding is you can only increase pressure on the "pressure plate" and "sharpening" (sort of) happens as a result of the surfaces wearing on each other. Isn't that correct?
Yes the manual says the shearing of the counter-blade result of the "auto-sharpening" of the blade, it's not really the case because the aluminium is way softer than the hardened steel blade (to me it only "un-sharpen" the blade). The blade loose it's charpening if your wood material is soiled with soil/sand/small stones. Like avery cutting tool, it's always better to sharpen from time to time the turbine blades because it will "bite" and suck the material better.@@MarekVacek
Thanks for the video. I've been on the lookout for a new shredder since my cheap Parkside one packed it in after only a year. I was originally aiming for a small scale petrol one as I have alot of woody shrubs and foliage around the garden, but after doing a bit of research on the AXT 25 TC I think I will go for it. It seems well capable and relatively quiet, and the fact that its a Bosch product instead of some generic, rebadged Chinese unit, it means that parts are readily available should anything ever break.
I love mine so much. I got the idea from Charles Dowding, ordered one from the UK and had to have an electrician adapt its plug and set up a special outside 220V outlet for it in Canada. Worth it.
The softer and green er the leaves the less well it does. ie fresh cut grass would be pulped and overwhelm the cutter rather than stop it. Dry autumn leaves would be despatched in seconds. Its certainly optimised to slice and grind wood. but is a decent alrounder
after watching this video, decided to buy one, it's like a furious beaver in a box. love it. freshly cut fir trees swallowed up easily. it's a monster!. not cheap, but you get what you pay for
Very handy Video thank you so much. Ours is 11 years old and we are just going to try adjusting the blade against the aluminium for the first time! Reading manuals was never my strong point! Thanks again.
Ditto again. Yours looks a lot better than mine but we don't have seasons here so it doesn't have much time off. Have now opened it up to give its first "service". Another 2 years?
Good point Leigh. I had not considered that in the UK our Shredders get an enforced holiday, where as the climate elsewhere means they work year round🤔
Thanks for the reviews on this shredder which I am on the verge of buying for myself. Have you had to replace/sharpen the blades or the aluminium plate at all in the time you've had it?
It looks like a great machine but do you have any experience with scredding softer plants? I own a big flower garden with lots of sunflowers, dahlia,s zinnia....enz. It would be great if I could mulch that for compost.
Hi @SuperLittleTyke. Its a consumable part and readily available for about £20 in the UK. And mine is still on the original after 9 years. So not much of an issue.
My humble suggestion is that you put the WD on as you finish using it. Obviously not that serious since you have been using yours happily for over 9 years now. It’s just something I have found really good on other garden tools and equipment with blades. Thanks for sharing.
Hey hey. I wondered if the aluminium plate doesn’t get used up after some years? I mean: you do scratch off little parts of the aluminium plate every year, right?
Yes I also believe I could buy a new plate if required👍
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I've had one for a few years. I took it out yesterday and now I just get this beeping (beep, beep beep, beep) for eight to ten seconds. It never starts. The manual is describing a few different types of beeping, but I cant figure out what they mean by just using the word beeping. So, could you tell me please, if the pickup drawer is not in or not registered in, how EXACTLY does the beeping sound like?
I get the beep. Beep sound ( probably just faster than 1 per second) if the basket is missing or if the top hopper is not correctly located / clamped diwn
My Bosch shredder got clogged with some softer stuff. When I tried to open it up with the red button on the side, the button would not turn enough to let the top go back. I had used the yellow reverse button but it had no effect. Can anyone help me to resolve this or do I need to take it to the agent. I really would be grateful
Interesting how it coped with the greenery as I'd heard others (cheaper ones) clogged easily with leaves etc. On a side note, the wing mirror on my XK8 got hit by another vehicle whilst parked outside my Dad's house earlier in the week and broke the glass and housing. Not a happy bunny!!!
The reason I'm watching this is because I'm thinking of replacing my shredder. 25 years ago I bought the Bosch Silent Shredder, which has a conical screw cutter and is super quiet. But recently it tends to clog up more and more with green foliage from cypress bushes. And it's an absolute pain to unclog. You have to dismantle part of the machine to gain access to the conical screw. Very poor design, in my view. Those Bosch designers didn't seem to realise that the machine can get clogged. Anyway, the Silent Shredder has been out of production for years. But I fear that the replacement AXT 25 TC is very loud.
Well they have certanly dropped the 'Silent' from its monicker😁 Its certainly got plenty of motor noise but nothing like the noise generated by an impact shredder.
@ToTheGarage My brother remarked that as long as one runs the shredder during the day when the local children are at school it shouldn't be too big a problem.
Thanks for your videos on this one. Very useful to have a long term understanding of performance in view of the price. I've just spent the first three hours with mine, and it behaved exactly as you described in all aspects. I note there's a knack to learn to keep things flowing, like keeping some woody stuff back to aid clear out after a bunch of soft stuff has been through it. Mulch builds up on the plate keeping stuff away from the cutting edges. The plate adjustments I'll make when the need shows rather than routinely i think. All the negatives I've watched are real, but I'd like to add that the captive cable storage is as useful as tits on a fish. Sadly we don't seem to get the plug in cable others have which would have been much better. Otherwise, very impressed with it.
Meiner häckselt keine frischen Äste. Getrocknete Äste sind kein Problem, aber frische Äste werden nicht gehäckselt sondern gequetscht und bleiben teilweise am Antriebsrad hängen was sehr schnell zu einer Verstopfung führt der Auffangbehälter ist innerhalb von 5 Minuten dadurch "voll".
Seems like a pretty rubbish design that you have to grind swarf off the aluminium plate to set it up. My Bosch silent shredder is 23 years old and has a conical screw cutting mechanism that requires no adjustment. It still works, but has always had a clogging problem when shredding green leafy brambles and suchlike. So I just leave the cut brambles in the corner of the garden for a few weeks to go brown. Also with my model, Bosch designers were asleep at the switch, because they made it very difficult to unclog the machine. You have to remove about ten Torx screws to remove the top hopper and pull apart the sides. Then you can remove the small inner hopper and gain access to the clogged stuff. Obviously the cable is not connected to a power socket during this work. Over the years I've replaced some of the more inaccessible screws with Philips screws so I can use a normal screwdriver. This design is a kind of nanny-knows-best by Bosch to deter users from disassembling the shredder, which approach gets the middle finger from me every time I have to unclog it.
I dont think I have seen your version in real life🤔. To cut cleanly with a slow moving blade through leafy material you need very low or NO gaps between the blade andits shearing surface. Thats the benefit of the sacrificial aluminium shear plate. That gap is always close to Zero. And to be fair, after 9 years I have still not had to change the block so its a very slow sacrificial process. Thanks for the intel on the screw version👍
@@ToTheGarage Is the shear plate easy to get hold of (replacement part) and easy to replace? I suppose if Bosch *designed* it to be cut into, it must be replaceable. I still think it's a weird design, though. Does it actually say, in the user guide, to adjust the knob till swarf appears?
@@SuperLittleTyke it literally uses almost your exact words. If you search ‘user manual Bosch ax25tc’ you can read a pdf version of the manual. The pressure plate is readily available either direct from Bosch or via eBay for around £38- 42
£400 for essentially a plastic box and blades! 😮. All of of these non-industrial shredders should be less than £200. I can burn out five of the impact shredders before I reach a cost saving on one of these. Simply not worth it. That's why his neighbour buys the cheaper ones. The thing I like about the impact shredders is they shred much faster and much finer which can then be composted much faster.
I just destroyed one of those cheap pieces of junk. Hated it. Noisy, blades needed to be sharpened almost after every time I used it, got obstructed all the time, to small of an opening,... I was considering a PRO-22 S1e, but then I found the Bosch in a handy-store. 30% off, didn't think twice.
Have you got shares in WD40? Complete waste of money! Using it on plastic even dafter... This is like watching paint dry, get on with it man!... Ffs, haven't you read the instructions, the blade is supposed to have 0.5mm clearance not touch the alloy plate. Finally you didn't mention having to keep stopping and level out the chippings to be able to keep going, my solution was to mount mine on top of my brown wheelie bin.....
He said the aluminium was for sharpening. Is that not the case?. I imagine the aluminium will eventually run out so if it's not replaceable then it can't be for that purpose. I like the idea of a wheelie bin. How do you balance it up there?
No. The aluminum does not sharpen the blades. It only needs to slightly shave the ally plate. There’s no need to keep turning the wheel like he did. I’ve used mine for 4 years at home and in my gardening business and absolutely hammered and abused it. It probably got through 100 times the work of most domestic machines. It’s now at Bosch being repaired. That also speaks highly of the after sales. It’s always repairable. Note: with conifers, feed the branches in green end first. It works much more efficiently that way and is less likely to get clogged up. Great bit of kit. Well worth the extra if you’re going to use it a lot. 👍 Makes great mulch.
Agree totally. Had mine the same length of time. Best garden thing I ever bought and it gets a lot of use in sub tropical Australia. And it goes as good as the first day. The only problem i have had is that I thought this was so good that all Bosch garden products were the same. Not so with the battery operated extension pole hedger. But that is another story. Look forward to another 2 years review.
Good to know! I shall not be tempted by the pole hedger👍
Hi John, Don’t know why but there is something satisfying watching the branches being eaten….. 😂
hello, note the machine loose in efficiency when the aluminium counter-blade has sustain a lot of shearing from the blade, the effect is the machine will not grab and suck up as much as with a pristine counter-blade, and you have to push the branche manually, especially with larger one. Don't hesitate to change the counter-blade some time. The blade can be sharpened with a 600 diamond tool sharpener without dismantle by flipping over the machine to have better access to the blade. Overall it's the best and the toughest shredder.
Thanks for the tips @babaal78
Hello, so you sharpen the "turbine cutter head" or the "pressure plate"? Would you elaborate which face of the part do you sharpen?
My understanding is you can only increase pressure on the "pressure plate" and "sharpening" (sort of) happens as a result of the surfaces wearing on each other. Isn't that correct?
Yes the manual says the shearing of the counter-blade result of the "auto-sharpening" of the blade, it's not really the case because the aluminium is way softer than the hardened steel blade (to me it only "un-sharpen" the blade). The blade loose it's charpening if your wood material is soiled with soil/sand/small stones. Like avery cutting tool, it's always better to sharpen from time to time the turbine blades because it will "bite" and suck the material better.@@MarekVacek
Thanks for the video. I've been on the lookout for a new shredder since my cheap Parkside one packed it in after only a year. I was originally aiming for a small scale petrol one as I have alot of woody shrubs and foliage around the garden, but after doing a bit of research on the AXT 25 TC I think I will go for it. It seems well capable and relatively quiet, and the fact that its a Bosch product instead of some generic, rebadged Chinese unit, it means that parts are readily available should anything ever break.
👍
I love mine so much. I got the idea from Charles Dowding, ordered one from the UK and had to have an electrician adapt its plug and set up a special outside 220V outlet for it in Canada. Worth it.
Thats quite a lot of effort. But I agree they are worth it👍
Thank you the video.
How does it do with shredding leaves? I'm looking for a machine that mulches wood and shreds leaves. Thank you
The softer and green er the leaves the less well it does. ie fresh cut grass would be pulped and overwhelm the cutter rather than stop it. Dry autumn leaves would be despatched in seconds. Its certainly optimised to slice and grind wood. but is a decent alrounder
after watching this video, decided to buy one, it's like a furious beaver in a box. love it. freshly cut fir trees swallowed up easily. it's a monster!.
not cheap, but you get what you pay for
Glad you enjoy yours as much as i enjoy mine Graham
Very handy Video thank you so much. Ours is 11 years old and we are just going to try adjusting the blade against the aluminium for the first time! Reading manuals was never my strong point! Thanks again.
No problem Stuart. Happy Shredding👍
That’s a really useful video, thanks!
Thanks for taking the time to comment Combatlon👍
Great demo Jimmy that's top of my list so far for purchasing , hope I can find one at a reasonable price
Good luck!🤞
Ditto again. Yours looks a lot better than mine but we don't have seasons here so it doesn't have much time off. Have now opened it up to give its first "service". Another 2 years?
Good point Leigh. I had not considered that in the UK our Shredders get an enforced holiday, where as the climate elsewhere means they work year round🤔
Thanks for the reviews on this shredder which I am on the verge of buying for myself. Have you had to replace/sharpen the blades or the aluminium plate at all in the time you've had it?
It looks like a great machine but do you have any experience with scredding softer plants? I own a big flower garden with lots of sunflowers, dahlia,s zinnia....enz. It would be great if I could mulch that for compost.
Is that such a good idea to shred slivers off the aluminium plate? How long before the plate needs replacing?
Hi @SuperLittleTyke. Its a consumable part and readily available for about £20 in the UK. And mine is still on the original after 9 years. So not much of an issue.
My humble suggestion is that you put the WD on as you finish using it. Obviously not that serious since you have been using yours happily for over 9 years now. It’s just something I have found really good on other garden tools and equipment with blades.
Thanks for sharing.
A goood Tip
You cant use too much WD40 in my opinion
It's toxic. So there's that.
Brushing out cobwebs with a kitchen brush....for the chute of a wood chipper?
Thank you.
You're welcome!
Good powerful shredder.
👍 Still the best
Hey hey. I wondered if the aluminium plate doesn’t get used up after some years? I mean: you do scratch off little parts of the aluminium plate every year, right?
IT get used up and you can buy spares
I have had to replace 2 in 7 years. Excellent for shredding palm fronds which many other shredders really struggle with
Have you ever tried cutting bamboo with it ⁉️ Enjoyed your review and consider purchasing myself.
Not yet! But Now I feel the need! If only I had some laying around🤔
Have you ever changed the blades ? Just brought the 25 d and it doesn't pull stuff in very well.
The tc-model has a drum , no blades like the d-model.
Very helpful thanks
I got a rapid Axt 200 absolutely loves mine too bits does a great job with new set of blades
I get the blades sharpened for a tenner
Спасибо за видео. Посмотрел и заказал такой же
Can you replace the aluminium pressure plate when its worn? Is it even possible or is that when it becomes scrap
I have axt 23 TC , and have replaced the pressure plate once.
Yes I also believe I could buy a new plate if required👍
I've had one for a few years. I took it out yesterday and now I just get this beeping (beep, beep beep, beep) for eight to ten seconds. It never starts.
The manual is describing a few different types of beeping, but I cant figure out what they mean by just using the word beeping.
So, could you tell me please, if the pickup drawer is not in or not registered in, how EXACTLY does the beeping sound like?
I get the beep. Beep sound ( probably just faster than 1 per second) if the basket is missing or if the top hopper is not correctly located / clamped diwn
My Bosch shredder got clogged with some softer stuff. When I tried to open it up with the red button on the side, the button would not turn enough to let the top go back. I had used the yellow reverse button but it had no effect. Can anyone help me to resolve this or do I need to take it to the agent. I really would be grateful
Evening folks
Hi Matt
Interesting how it coped with the greenery as I'd heard others (cheaper ones) clogged easily with leaves etc.
On a side note, the wing mirror on my XK8 got hit by another vehicle whilst parked outside my Dad's house earlier in the week and broke the glass and housing. Not a happy bunny!!!
The reason I'm watching this is because I'm thinking of replacing my shredder. 25 years ago I bought the Bosch Silent Shredder, which has a conical screw cutter and is super quiet. But recently it tends to clog up more and more with green foliage from cypress bushes. And it's an absolute pain to unclog. You have to dismantle part of the machine to gain access to the conical screw. Very poor design, in my view. Those Bosch designers didn't seem to realise that the machine can get clogged. Anyway, the Silent Shredder has been out of production for years. But I fear that the replacement AXT 25 TC is very loud.
Well they have certanly dropped the 'Silent' from its monicker😁 Its certainly got plenty of motor noise but nothing like the noise generated by an impact shredder.
@ToTheGarage My brother remarked that as long as one runs the shredder during the day when the local children are at school it shouldn't be too big a problem.
Thanks for your videos on this one. Very useful to have a long term understanding of performance in view of the price.
I've just spent the first three hours with mine, and it behaved exactly as you described in all aspects.
I note there's a knack to learn to keep things flowing, like keeping some woody stuff back to aid clear out after a bunch of soft stuff has been through it. Mulch builds up on the plate keeping stuff away from the cutting edges.
The plate adjustments I'll make when the need shows rather than routinely i think.
All the negatives I've watched are real, but I'd like to add that the captive cable storage is as useful as tits on a fish. Sadly we don't seem to get the plug in cable others have which would have been much better.
Otherwise, very impressed with it.
Meiner häckselt keine frischen Äste. Getrocknete Äste sind kein Problem, aber frische Äste werden nicht gehäckselt sondern gequetscht und bleiben teilweise am Antriebsrad hängen was sehr schnell zu einer Verstopfung führt der Auffangbehälter ist innerhalb von 5 Minuten dadurch "voll".
Ok,but why tons of Water Displacement 40 ?
That poor thing must be soaking wet.
Using it for its lubricative and plastic protection qualities on this occassion👍
John Dee...Called : "The professionell Gardener" 😂
TTG - To The Garden perhaps? Just saying.😂
Seems like a pretty rubbish design that you have to grind swarf off the aluminium plate to set it up. My Bosch silent shredder is 23 years old and has a conical screw cutting mechanism that requires no adjustment. It still works, but has always had a clogging problem when shredding green leafy brambles and suchlike. So I just leave the cut brambles in the corner of the garden for a few weeks to go brown. Also with my model, Bosch designers were asleep at the switch, because they made it very difficult to unclog the machine. You have to remove about ten Torx screws to remove the top hopper and pull apart the sides. Then you can remove the small inner hopper and gain access to the clogged stuff. Obviously the cable is not connected to a power socket during this work. Over the years I've replaced some of the more inaccessible screws with Philips screws so I can use a normal screwdriver. This design is a kind of nanny-knows-best by Bosch to deter users from disassembling the shredder, which approach gets the middle finger from me every time I have to unclog it.
I dont think I have seen your version in real life🤔. To cut cleanly with a slow moving blade through leafy material you need very low or NO gaps between the blade andits shearing surface. Thats the benefit of the sacrificial aluminium shear plate. That gap is always close to Zero. And to be fair, after 9 years I have still not had to change the block so its a very slow sacrificial process.
Thanks for the intel on the screw version👍
@@ToTheGarage Is the shear plate easy to get hold of (replacement part) and easy to replace? I suppose if Bosch *designed* it to be cut into, it must be replaceable. I still think it's a weird design, though. Does it actually say, in the user guide, to adjust the knob till swarf appears?
@@SuperLittleTyke it literally uses almost your exact words. If you search ‘user manual Bosch ax25tc’ you can read a pdf version of the manual. The pressure plate is readily available either direct from Bosch or via eBay for around £38- 42
@@ToTheGarage Ok. Thanks for the feedback! 😊
£400 for essentially a plastic box and blades! 😮.
All of of these non-industrial shredders should be less than £200.
I can burn out five of the impact shredders before I reach a cost saving on one of these. Simply not worth it. That's why his neighbour buys the cheaper ones.
The thing I like about the impact shredders is they shred much faster and much finer which can then be composted much faster.
Each to there own👍.
But if this fails tomorrow, which I very much doubt will happen. I would buy another one exactly the same.
I just destroyed one of those cheap pieces of junk. Hated it. Noisy, blades needed to be sharpened almost after every time I used it, got obstructed all the time, to small of an opening,...
I was considering a PRO-22 S1e, but then I found the Bosch in a handy-store. 30% off, didn't think twice.
Have you got shares in WD40? Complete waste of money! Using it on plastic even dafter...
This is like watching paint dry, get on with it man!... Ffs, haven't you read the instructions, the blade is supposed to have 0.5mm clearance not touch the alloy plate.
Finally you didn't mention having to keep stopping and level out the chippings to be able to keep going, my solution was to mount mine on top of my brown wheelie bin.....
He said the aluminium was for sharpening. Is that not the case?. I imagine the aluminium will eventually run out so if it's not replaceable then it can't be for that purpose.
I like the idea of a wheelie bin. How do you balance it up there?
No. The aluminum does not sharpen the blades. It only needs to slightly shave the ally plate. There’s no need to keep turning the wheel like he did.
I’ve used mine for 4 years at home and in my gardening business and absolutely hammered and abused it. It probably got through 100 times the work of most domestic machines. It’s now at Bosch being repaired. That also speaks highly of the after sales. It’s always repairable.
Note: with conifers, feed the branches in green end first. It works much more efficiently that way and is less likely to get clogged up.
Great bit of kit. Well worth the extra if you’re going to use it a lot. 👍 Makes great mulch.