Wow great job! Chipper/mulchers cost hundreds to over a thousand dollars here, even for a very small, very basic, used one. For a yard of my size this is perfect, I can use my old mower and get rid of all the sticks that fall in my yard from the neighbors trees, and put them right into my compost! For someone without a lot of money to spend, this is a total game changer! Too many people on here have large disposable income and assume everyone else does too, but these money saving ways of reusing items is so important! Thank you, thank you, thank you for this one 🙏🙏🙏 a mulcher/shredder is something I've been needing for years but couldn't afford the expensive with all my other bills ...
Your welcome. We were in the same position although we did bite the bullet in the end and bought a bigger chipper as it was so central to what we did and a good investment.
That looks like a good and effective idea. Old petrol mowers are cheap and easy to find here. I could strip the mower down to bare essentials and bolt it to an improvised table (to save bending down with bad back) with a big hole below the mower blades and a big box to catch the output. I would want to use it to shred broken down corrugated cardboard boxes for mulch, firelighters, or to get more cardboard into the collection bin. I wonder if that would work?
To cut efficiently the sharpened bevel edge of the blade has to face opposite the incoming grass, leaves, sticks or whatever you're shredding. Think of how a chisel cuts. Normally a lawn mower cuts grass from the ground and the bevel edge of the blade faces upwards. So if you're shoving in sticks from the top like in his DIU mod, if possible the blade should be mounted on the shaft upside down from its normal position.
It sure would. It was mostly used for large single stem/branch material so a bigger funnel didn’t make any difference but depends what you’ve got to chop.
Hi Maurice. We need woodchips as well and there's plenty to go around, as you may have seen from other videos we have a wood chipper now and we have a hugelkultur bed, with more to follow. By the way woodchips are a premium here so we have to make our own. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Wow you must have a powerful lawnmower! That would absolutely ruin mine, I ran over a big stick like that by accident and it got caught and jammed up my blades pretty bad. Tiny sticks are ok but they fly out and hit my legs so if I mow without raking the sticks first I have to wear thick pants and boots
Using the desk lamp shroud as the intake, best no-weld idea yet. Thanks for posting.
Wow great job! Chipper/mulchers cost hundreds to over a thousand dollars here, even for a very small, very basic, used one.
For a yard of my size this is perfect, I can use my old mower and get rid of all the sticks that fall in my yard from the neighbors trees, and put them right into my compost!
For someone without a lot of money to spend, this is a total game changer! Too many people on here have large disposable income and assume everyone else does too, but these money saving ways of reusing items is so important!
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this one 🙏🙏🙏 a mulcher/shredder is something I've been needing for years but couldn't afford the expensive with all my other bills ...
Your welcome. We were in the same position although we did bite the bullet in the end and bought a bigger chipper as it was so central to what we did and a good investment.
@@BalticHomesteaders Loved your idea and am considering doing it!!! May I ask how small the wood chips that came out were? Easy to compost or too big?
They would be compostable but depends how quick you want results really.
Most simple easy set up ever thanks!!!!
That looks like a good and effective idea. Old petrol mowers are cheap and easy to find here. I could strip the mower down to bare essentials and bolt it to an improvised table (to save bending down with bad back) with a big hole below the mower blades and a big box to catch the output. I would want to use it to shred broken down corrugated cardboard boxes for mulch, firelighters, or to get more cardboard into the collection bin. I wonder if that would work?
wow this was kinda cool. great reuse
Thank you :)
excellent! Thanks so much for the information!
Ironic... I repurposed a desk lamp into a lawn mower.
How is that ironic?
Was it light?
Loved your idea and am considering doing it!!! May I ask how small the wood chips that came out were? Easy to compost or too big?
They were pretty small and yeah they wood compost eventually but not in one year I’d say.
To cut efficiently the sharpened bevel edge of the blade has to face opposite the incoming grass, leaves, sticks or whatever you're shredding. Think of how a chisel cuts. Normally a lawn mower cuts grass from the ground and the bevel edge of the blade faces upwards. So if you're shoving in sticks from the top like in his DIU mod, if possible the blade should be mounted on the shaft upside down from its normal position.
Thanks
Or feed the sticks from the bottom like this guy: ua-cam.com/video/6vxNWsVxWKQ/v-deo.html
Does it make a difference where you cut the hole?
I chose opposite to the exit, seemed to make most sense to me.
Can you shred paper?
I don’t see why not.
Did you try cardboard? Nice job.
I didn’t no, were you thinking for composting?
@@BalticHomesteaders concrete
You put cardboard into concrete? never heard of that, will have to look into it. We bought a big woodchipper in the end (see other videos).
A larger feeder funnel would be more efficient
It sure would. It was mostly used for large single stem/branch material so a bigger funnel didn’t make any difference but depends what you’ve got to chop.
What you gonna do with it now
@@michaelroberts6299 Not much, we went and bought a big chipper not soon after but it still works both as a mulcher and a lawnmower :)
@@BalticHomesteaders What the biggest diameter wood you think this type of mower could handle?
yeah lets shred 1stick at a time that way youll never be done cleaning your yard..... yes it works but not really.
this looks like somebody will get hurt in time
If you were going to put in a Huglekultur planting bed you wouldn't have to spend all that time shredding branches.
Hi Maurice. We need woodchips as well and there's plenty to go around, as you may have seen from other videos we have a wood chipper now and we have a hugelkultur bed, with more to follow. By the way woodchips are a premium here so we have to make our own. Thanks for watching and commenting.
sometimes you want to make compost faster, shredding = more surface area, so faster.
just take the mower and run over that pile of sticks a few times, does the same thing, lol.
Hi, it doesn't work that great to be honest as the sticks lay flat.
@@BalticHomesteaders I've actually done it and yes maybe 10% of the sticks lay flat, but it's faster.
Wow you must have a powerful lawnmower!
That would absolutely ruin mine, I ran over a big stick like that by accident and it got caught and jammed up my blades pretty bad.
Tiny sticks are ok but they fly out and hit my legs so if I mow without raking the sticks first I have to wear thick pants and boots
Muy buena
Admirable but low economy of scale
This is why we went on to buy a full woodchiper :)