Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #323 in Home Improvement
• Brand: Bosch
• Model: 600853670

Manufacturer's Description
Powerful 2200W shredder--lighter, faster, and easier to use

The Bosch AXT 2200 Rapid shredder is a fast and powerful shredder perfect for green, soft material. Powered by a high speed 2200 watt Bosch ‘Powerdrive’ motor, it enables high material throughput. With its laser-cut precision blade, made from especially hardened steel, it provides excellent cutting performance.

Features of the Bosch AXT 2200 Rapid

Bosch ‘Powerdrive’: giving you maximum power Running at 3600rpm, the AXT 2200 Rapid is lighter and faster than most other shredders available on the market today. The high speed 2200 watt motor and innovative gear set work together to give torque when needed. When the going gets tough, the torque automatically increases to work powerfully, even under difficult conditions.

Precision blades Double sided, laser-cut precision blades give 7 times more cutting power than conventional blade shredders, thanks to the 2200 watt Powerdrive motor. The blades also deliver a material throughput of up to 90 kg/h with up to 40mm cutting capacity. You can now turn your garden debris in to something useful like mulch or compost faster and easier.

Easy to use The AXT 2200 Rapid shredder is extremely easy to assemble. It has wheels for convenience and, weighing only 12kg, it is easy to move. It comes with a practical plunger for increased material throughput.

Bosch guarantee

The AXT 2200 Rapid shredder comes with a 2 year parts and labour guarantee.

About Bosch lawn and garden products Bosch develop and manufacture a range of innovative powered garden products supplied to world markets. The electric and cordless product range includes: Lawn mowers Hedgecutters Shredders Chainsaws Pressure washers Linetrimmers All products are designed with the consumer in mind to make those gardening tasks easier.

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Customer Reviews

Excellent Shredder
This is an excellent shredder. The machine is so much better than the others I have owned.

I claim to be an experienced shredder user - I have had several machines over a good number of years. For me the problems to overcome are blockages when feeding material through (my last shredder, an Alko New Tec 2500R, was dreadful for this), wear on the blades reducing performance, and noise.

In selecting this shredder I took in to account that it was given the thumbs up by Which? in November 2007, and had a very positive write-up on the "fredshed" website, a first-rate source of independent advice. I must endorse what Fred says about keeping the blade sharp:
"Take care with what you put in the shredder and especially do not get ANY soil in it. With the high speed even a small amount of soil acts like an abrasive and quickly blunts the blade."

The machine is the best one I have had. It is well designed and constructed and also very powerful. The blade wears well (if you follow the advice above and also make sure no stones find their way in to the machine) and is a bit cheaper than most brands to replace. It is the quietest machine I have used.....but probably could still annoy the neighbours if run at unsociable hours. The best thing for me is that it is not prone to blocking. If used sensibly, with the help of the wide prodder, you can easily go whole sessions without a blockage.

The collection bag offered as an accessory is not really necessary. A large plastic crate/storage box does just as well in getting the shreddings to the compost heap.

To appreciate this machine you need to have tried some of the others. I recommend it to anyone considering buying a shredder to help control their garden waste.

Does the job well
We bought this following a Which? review saying it was the most efficient garden shredder they had tested - we have not been disappointed. In use it has shredded everything we put into it. Branches up to 4cm were sliced into 1mm chips; leaves were chopped into small pieces. With some smaller branches, particularly green ones, the shredder removed the leaves and left a few twigs about 10cm long, although most were chopped into tiny pieces.

It's not particularly noisy when switched on, but with harder and bigger pieces of wood it was noisier, especially when a bit of wood would rattle around inside the machine before it could be shredded. I didn't feel it would be necessary to wear ear defenders for temporary usage, nor loud enough to feel that the neighbours would complain about the noise. Given that it's almost half the price of Bosch's quiet shredder the HP, this machine is very good value. I would recommend wearing thick gardening gloves as it could snatch branches.

Assembling it took about 5 minutes. This was a matter of attaching the wheels and their frame and working out where the supplied allen key is supposed to be stored.

We also bought the partnering storage bag from Amazon. It's a bit like the blue storage bags Ikea sell at their checkout desks, except this one's a lot more expensive but of a similar quality and maybe a bit bigger.

Great bit of kit
This is great bit of kit - I'd been meaning to get a garden shredder for years, and after after trolling through various reviews I decided on the Bosch AXT 2200.
Unlike one of the other reviewers, I am not using it to clear a rainforest, just lots of small branches and other cuttings.
What previously would have been a numerous visits to the tip with an estate car filled to the brim with branches, is now reduced to five densly packed rubbish bags.
Why didn't I buy one years ago?
Greatly recommended.